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Logica says sales are up as it continues offshore drive

Friday, November 14th, 2008

IT outsourcing supplier Logica says sales were up 7% for the...

Thousands of women go missing from IT

Friday, November 14th, 2008

About 37,000 women have gone missing...

Dell CTO leaves company as firm struggles to maintain market position

Friday, November 14th, 2008

Dell chief technology officer Kevin Kettler is leaving the company in January. Dell, now the world's number three PC firm by shipments, says Kettler's...

IT salary survey: optimism in declining IT job market

Friday, November 14th, 2008

The effects of the economic downturn are clearly visible in the IT industry as job...

Video: Google Earth allows users to revisit the splendour of ancient Rome

Friday, November 14th, 2008

The Google Earth mapping service is allowing users to revive the splendour of ancient Rome.

Spam levels drop after US ‘botnet host’ closed down by authorities

Friday, November 14th, 2008

Volumes of spam email sent across the web are said to have dived this week after a US company allegedly hosting spam botnets was taken offline by the authorities.

Unions appeal to government to curb banks’ offshoring

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Trade unions are putting banks under pressure to reduce the use of offshore IT services following the government's banking bail-out and the onset of recession. The...

Stock Exchange lacks business justification for sub-millisecond trading

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

The London Stock Exchange said it would wait for business justification before committing resources to introduce sub-millisecond tradingto...

IT directors fear hackers more than recession

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

IT directors are increasingly concerned about financially motivated hackers and data leakage from employee error, as well as IT investment being affected...

CWU will not oppose BT job cuts

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

The main union at BT, the CWU, says it will go along with the 10,000 job cuts announced by the firm, providing there are no compulsory redundancies.

Will VMWare cut it on a mobile?

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

VMware's...

Take ‘golden hour’ break before attempting data recovery

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Firms are being advised to take a "golden hour" before deciding what to do when recovering data from computer hardware.

BT extends broadband base to hold 27% market share

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

BT grew its slice of the broadband market by a net 258,000 extra connections, taking 27% of the available market, according to BT's results...

Ministry of Justice fails to find provider for prison mobile phone detection system

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

The Ministry of Justice has...

Monmouthshire council launches ‘customer driven’ website

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Monmouthshire County Council has launched a new website to provide "customer driven" online services. The council said its previous website did not...