Using Visa or MasterCard for donations to WikiLeaks was made possible again Wednesday when the French organization Defense Fund Net Neutrality (FDNN) started accepting payments via those credit card providers through the French Carte Bleue ...
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Over the past few years much has been said about the amazing economic and industrial growth achieved by China.Let's be honest,China's growth has been absolutely remarkable and is the envy of the world.In 2010 China became the world's ...
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Tony Prestedge is COO at Nationwide.He joined the building society halfway through a GBP1bn IT transformation which he then took charge of.He talks to Computer Weekly about the progress being made,the benefits already being seen and what ...
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The government needs to stimulate the economy to help improve prospects for the manufacturing sector,writes Martin Ford,managing director of Cheshire-based independent franchised distributor,Gateway Electronic Components. British ...
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Dr. A Sakthivel Chairman Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC), reacting to the RBI mid quarterly review of its monetary policy stated that, “We are not happy with the non reduction of repo rate in quarterly review. “The ...
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Supermarket chain Tesco is investing £65m in a state-of-the-art datacentre as it gears up to expand its web operations outside the UK. The retailer has signed a 15-year contract with datacentre operator Sentrum, to host the ...
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The global financial services sector still faces upheaval, five years after the credit crunch decimated its ranks. But how have IT strategies changed in the years since the UK government was forced to nationalise Northern Rock? Five years ...
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Nationwide uses a virtualised environment to test its new internet banking system to cut costs and development time for new online services. The bank is using CA's Lisa Virtualise software to create copies of its 36 back-end systems to ...
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