BA to offer transatlantic text and mobile services
British Airways plans to launch text and mobile services for customers on its new all business class route from London City Airport to New York JFK later this year.
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Orange first to offer BlackBerry service on pay as you go
Orange is the first operator in the UK to offer the BlackBerry mobile data service on a pay-as-you-go basis - for آ£5 a month.
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Unite protests against HP job cuts
Hewlett-Packard staff have held a protest outside the company's City of London headquarters in Wood Street today. Organised by the Unite union, the demonstration follows HP's decision to cull 3,400 jobs.
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Competition Commission gives SMEs mobile phone charges boost
SMEs and other companies increasingly dependant on mobile networks will be pleased with a ruling by the Competition Commission (CC) on mobile phone charges.
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SMEs not blown along by Storm BlackBerry hype
SME and SoHo users wanting to run their offices whilst on the road are not as positive as they could be about the new BlackBerry Storm smartphone, a so-called "iPhone killer".
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ntl:Telewest secures staff mobile access for firms
Firms of all sizes are being offered a new way of securing staff mobile access to applications by ntl:Telewest Business, part of the Virgin Media Group.
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SMEs bulk at FMC services
Only 5% of phone subscribers are expected to be using Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) services by 2013, says a report from research firm Informa.
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Carter Report: Broadband alone won't support Digital Britain
Industry commentators have said the Carter Review represents a step in the right direction for Digital Britain, but broadband speeds may not be enough to support the government's grand vision.
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Aztrazenica doubles job cuts
Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca is cutting a further 6,000 jobs, taking the total planned job losses to 15,000 by 2013. The cost...
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Fujitsu leads MoD logistics contract consortium
A consortium headed by Fujitsu...
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Recession means businesses face greater security threat, says McAffee
The economic downturn means businesses are most vulnerable to serious data security breaches at a time they can afford it least, according to...
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Twitter users targeted by spammers and malware spreaders
Twitter mobile blogging users are being tracked by spammers and malware spreaders. IT security firm Sophos said the "spitters" were using suspicious...
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Teen murders hours after 'I feel like killin' Facebook posting
A teenager murdered a man just hours after posting on his Facebook page "I feel like killin some1". Leon Crain Ramsden, 19, wrote on his Facebook wall...
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Government promises broadband for every UK home by 2012
The government will ensure that 2mbps broadband is delivered to every home in Britain by 2012, communications minister Lord Carter confirmed today.
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Carter calls for 2mbps universal broadband obligation
The government set out 22 recommendations to create Digital Britain.
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Three-quarters of European firms to expand CRM projects this year, says Gartner
More than three quarters of European customer relationship management (CRM) users are planning to enhance their investments this year despite the recession,...
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Brown calls for private-public partnerships to build digital infrastructure
Digital networks are "as essential to our future prosperity in the 21st century as roads, bridges, trains and electricity were in the 20th century," said...
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Ministers go online to communicate with students
Government ministers are going online in an attempt to communicate directly with university students,...
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Private UK tech firms aim to grow through recession
UK tech firms are more worried about sales growth than the credit crunch, says accountant and consultant BDO Stoy Hayward. A BDO...
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AOL cuts another 700 jobs
Time Warner is cutting another 700 jobs at its AOL web portal subsidiary in response to a downturn in advertising revenue. Time Warner has been touting...
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Lord Carter's Digital Britian report expected at lunchtime
Communications minister Lord Carter will release his interim report into Digital...
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Landrush starts for .Tel registrations
Companies that want to register their contact details on the .Tel internet domain, a specialist domain just for such information, have just six weeks left...
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Boozy workers watch porn in the office
More than half of workers get drunk at work, and a third look at porn during work time. Drunken staff are causing problems for employees through inappropriate...
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Largest European chipmaker to cut 4,500 jobs
European chipmaker STMicroelectronics is to cut up to 4,500 jobs around the world as part of a cost cutting plan to save over آ£490m in 2009.
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Data breaches cost business آ£700bn in 2008
Data breaches cost the world's companies an estimated آ£700bn in 2008, according to a study on information economies by security firm McAfee.
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Avg tops Which? list of PC security freeware
It can cost nothing to protect personal computers against viruses, spam, spyware and other malware, says consumer activist group Which?
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Monster could face compensation claims from UK users
Online recruitment site Monster.com could face legal action from 4.5m UK job seekers after hackers stole personal details from users around the world.
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Investment banks' IT recruitment falls less than the rest
Investment banks account for more than a third of new IT job vacancies in the financial services sector despite...
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Information Commissioner calls for public commitment to data protection
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is marking European Data Protection Day today with a campaign aimed at getting UK organisations to commit to better protection of personal data.
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Virus attack at London hospitals was “entirely avoidableâ€
The spread of the Mytob computer virus at three hospitals run by Barts and The London NHS Trust was entirely avoidable and caused by a substantive failure of internal processes, Computer Weekly has learned.
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Dell and Cisco collaborate on next generation datacentres
Cisco and Dell are collaborating to deliver next-generation IT systems in the data centre...
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Gary McKinnon wins Boris Johnson's support
Self-confessed...
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Barbour weathers supply chain demands with Lawson
Clothing firm J Barbour & Sons is deploying a new ERP and supply chain system from Lawson Software to improve its operations.
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Logicalis backs Tories over آ£100m IT contract cap
IT services firm Logicalis has said it supports the Tories' call for a آ£100m cap on government IT contracts.
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Firms offered free enterprise security model
Security standards body ISACA has developed the new business model for information security.
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Google offers offline Gmail system
Google is now offering its offline Gmail system to enable email users to carry on working on their webmail even when they don't have an internet connection.
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SAP cuts 3,000 jobs
The mixed results from SAP, and poor outlook for 2009 has prompted the enterprise resource planning (ERP) company to cut 3000 jobs and freeze salaries.
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New Yahoo chief says company should not be broken up
Yahoo's new CEO says the search portal will be better served by being kept whole rather than sold off in chunks to appease shareholders. d
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Tories consider آ£100m government IT contract cap
The Tories are considering proposals to limit the value of government IT contracts to آ£100m and promote the wider use of cheaper open source software.
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UK businesses lose 5% of revenue through online fraud
One in eight online businesses had 5% of revenues stolen by fraudsters last year, according to research from security supplier Cybersource. More...
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SAP financial results: sales down, income up
SAP had a year of two halves, said CEO Henning Kagermann, as he reported the software company’s fourth quarter and full year financial results for 2008.
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Yahoo posts a loss on back of restructuring charges
Yahoo has reported a net loss for the fourth quarter of 2008 of $303m, despite only slight falls in revenue on the same period in 2007, when the company made a net income of $206m
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