Businesses are increasingly taking advantage of the economic and political benefits of setting up operations in Malaysia, whether to gain access to a highly skilled but lower-cost workforce to support global operations, or as a stepping ...
Tags: Malaysia, BP, IT Initiative, Multimedia Super Corridor
Outsourcing services giant Accenture has launched an apprenticeship programme in Newcastle, offering 40 places on the three-year programme over the next 12 months. The first 20 apprentices will start in February 2013, with another 20 ...
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A team of students at the Fontys Hogeschool in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, has won a challenge set by Atos to create smart mobile applications. The team beat off competition from a team at Warwick University in the UK and one from a ...
Tags: smart mobile application, smart phone, computing, IT industry
And now, the end is near. On 23 November 2012, Gerry Pennell will leave the job of a lifetime. Four years after signing up as CIO for the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, his IT team has won every technology gold medal going after ...
Tags: Gerry Pennell, CIO, London 2012 Olympic Games, IT systems
Atos has a two-week window to switch its technology over for the Paralympics, with the outsourcer saying the tight timescale is the biggest challenge. The Paralympics has 21 sporting disciplines compared to 36 for the Olympics. For each ...
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IT services company Atos has launched its annual IT Challenge competition which asks students to design applications. For 2013 the company has partnered with car manufacturer Renault, to challenge students with the task of designing an ...
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The International Cyber Security Protection Alliance (ICSPA) has launched an initiative to pool cyber crime intelligence from business, government, law enforcement, security agencies and IT security professionals. Called Project 2020, the ...
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A team of IT undergraduates from the University of Warwickhave told Computer Weekly about a smart mobile application they developed as part of a competition between IT students at universities in Europe and India. The team of Computer and ...
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The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has stuck with old ways of working and will contract a single outsourcing giant for its desktop management services contract. DCLG has been given the go-ahead to refresh its IT ...
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The Welsh government has signed a pound 70m five-year extension to its IT services contract with Atos. Atos currently manages the entire core IT infrastructure for government in Wales, which includes more than 600 servers and 7,000 ...
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French outsourcer Steria has posted steady growth in the UK for its second quarter, driven by an improvement in public sector sales. For the three months to June the company saw sales in the UK increase by 3.4% to euro 190m (pound 148m). ...
Tags: UK, Public Sector, Steria, Growth
It is all done and dusted.The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games(Locog)has passed the baton to its Rio 2016 successor after a debriefing event to provide the Brazilian Games hosts with the lessons learned from the London ...
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IT services provider Civica has secured multiple contracts with 22 UK schools to provide digital learning services. Implemented by Civica's education division, the learning environments use Civica's CloudBase learning platform and Virtual ...
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Outsourcing firm Capgemini is on the hunt for more UK apprentices after raising its planned intake figure for 2012 from 98 to 200. After reporting a surge in applications,mostly from school leavers looking for an alternative to ...
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A number of large public sector contracts buoyed IT services company Atos Origin in the third quarter, with the outsourcer reporting double-digit growth. Atos Origin grew its UK market 10% to €426m, compared with the same quarter the ...
Tags: public sector, IT services, Atos Origin, revenues increased