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Comment Early on in her career after joining what was then Lloyds bank she initiated and ran the bank's Y2K programme - a mammoth 800 man year project covering 29 UK and 21 international subsidiaries. Whether at work or play Claire Hamon, CIO of...
[13 May 2008]
News The insurance company, which was formed from Norwich Union and GNU (itself the union of Commercial Union and General Accident) in 2002, will be using C&W for 72 separate services including telephony, data and IPVPN and MPLS wide area networking to...
[13 May 2008]
News Gartner analyst Carolina Milanesi told silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk that the BlackBerry Bold's range of connectivity options will fill "all the tick boxes that operators would want now". RIM has launched the first of its BlackBerry smart...
[13 May 2008]
News Most UK companies are losing data every month a survey has found. The majority of UK businesses, 79 per cent, are losing data at least once per month, according to the survey of 250 senior IT staff at businesses larger than 1,000 staff.
[12 May 2008]
News Apple's UK and US online shops both say the 8Gb and 16Gb versions of the iPhone are "currently unavailable" while in the UK, Carphone Warehouse has also sold out of both versions. O2, the sole mobile network currently offering the iPhone in the UK...
[12 May 2008]
Comment Last month's High Court ruling on overdraft charges sparked widespread media speculation about the future of the free banking services that UK customers have enjoyed since the 1980s. UK banks generally do not directly charge consumers for account...
[12 May 2008]
News Cheque payments continue to decline in the UK as card transactions increase, according to UK payments association Apacs. It found plastic cards accounted for 65 per cent of all UK spending last year, rising by 11 per cent in value in 2007.
[12 May 2008]
whitepaper As a result without investing large sums of money for in-house software and hardware, Affinity was among the first to market co-branded pre-paid (debit) cards in the UK and Europe. Affinity Cards, a start-up, had to quickly build an IT...
[11 May 2008]
whitepaper Burns e-Commerce Solutions, headquartered in Altrincham, a suburb of Manchester, UK, serves clients in the UK and throughout Europe. Banks' systems and ERP systems developed by manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers have grown up independent of...
[11 May 2008]
News But now Virgin Media, which already offers the fastest broadband speeds in the UK with its 20Mbps service and has a 50Mbps rollout planned for this year, has completed a trial of bandwidth-boosting kit which increased capacity on its long-haul 10G...
[09 May 2008]
Round-Up A lie detector test that has slashed benefit fraud by more than £330,000 is being rolled out in the UK. Benefit fraudsters beware. If you're trying to pull a swift one on the authorities you may find their "liar, liar, pants on fire" accusations...
[09 May 2008]
Case Study Thomson relaunched its thomson.co.uk website about a year ago, with a new search engine capable of navigating customers to the most appropriate holiday packages at the centre of the new design. Usability testing software has helped a holiday...
[09 May 2008]
News The processors within the NEC supercomputer work in parallel, allowing it to simultaneously link and process climate data from 4km parcels of the UK, giving it the ability to forecast weather at a county level.
[09 May 2008]
News Music blaring out of mobiles and conversations so loud that everyone in the train carriage is forced to listen are just two of the mobile habits that are getting on the UK's wick. A survey of more than 2,000 UK adults found the top five pet hates...
[09 May 2008]
News Carphone Warehouse, which operates the 'free' broadband brand TalkTalk in the UK, will keep a half-stake in the retail business, which will see Best Buy-branded stores arriving in Europe, but plans to hold onto all of its UK fixed-line telecoms...
[09 May 2008]
News Another department airing its green credentials was the Highways Agency (HA), which manages 4,696 miles of trunk roads and motorway carrying one third of all traffic in the UK. Government IT is undergoing a major shift as Whitehall attempts to...
[09 May 2008]
Photo All entrants must be aged 18 or over and resident in the UK. The winner will win one bottle of bubbly to be sent out upon receipt of a valid UK postal address. This work of art was on show at the Maker Faire event in San Mateo, a celebration of do...
[09 May 2008]
News There will be WiMax coverage across the UK within the next two years, the managing director of Intel Capital EMEA has claimed. WiMax is currently only available in very limited deployments in the UK and only in its "fixed" variant, with the...
[09 May 2008]
Comment Karen Challinor, UK John H Woods, UK And are you suffering from password overload? The results of our latest poll attracted some interesting comments… Outsourcing vs insourcing? Job boom: Indian outsourcing braced for eight million more
[08 May 2008]
News Suffolk stressed the importance of the role IT has to play in helping reduce the UK's CO2 emissions, saying IT plays a role in 5.5 million public services and government spends approximately £14bn on technology each year.
[08 May 2008]
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