Only 18% of UK IT spending is devoted to innovation. Research from CA Technologies suggests that businesses in the UK must embrace new technologies in order to stay globally competitive. According to the study, the country with the ...
Government CIO Andy Nelson has been appointed as CIO at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Nelson was appointed government CIO in April 2012 to add to his role as CIO of the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), which he started in ...
Nestle has launched labels in the UK it claims will give consumers instant access to information about the nutritional profile and environmental and social impacts of its products. The labels, which will be used worldwide, will allow ...
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Seven bidders are now competing to acquire new airwaves for 4G mobile broadband services. The bid will allow firms to have the ability to launch 4G mobile broadband services across the this year. The new spectrum is expected to boost the ...
Meiji's microscopes and cameras are housed on the second floor of the new Laboratory complex and function as the Environmental Sciences teaching laboratory. The laboratory has 170 individual workstations, each backed with video and online ...
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The Government announced last month that The Centre for Process innovation (CPI) will establish and manage a new £38 million centre to encourage innovative solutions in the UK healthcare market. The National Biologics Industrial ...
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A survey reveals that 90% of people said they wouldn’t change their current mobile provider to have access to 4G. According to Virgin Media Business the top reason consumers will not change providers for 4G access is to save money. ...
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The UK's Food Standards Agency has said it will consider taking legal action over the discovery of horse DNA in some beef burgers on sale in several retailers in the UK and Ireland. The UK's food safety watchdog is urgently investigating ...
CBR rounds up expert comments on Gartner's new prediction that Worldwide IT spending will reach EURO2.28tn this year. Evanna Kearins, director of Jaspersoft, told CBR "Even though we still find ourselves in a hugely volatile economy ...
The Aston Martin Rapide is one of seven fast four-doors available for buyers with about $380,000 crammed in their back pocket, so it’s fair to say that it needs to make a convincing case for itself beyond being a sex synonym and ...
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The challenge of attracting more women in to the technology sector has been an issue for some time now, but 2012 saw some interesting steps forward in the gender equality debate. Below are some the biggest and most interesting women in IT ...
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Who: Aimia Foods Aim: The family-owned business needed to invest in its three sites in Haydock, North West England, and maintain its high standard of manufacturing products in the dry powder sector Spend: Undisclosed What: A new ...
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Technology visionaries Ian Livingstone and Martha Lane Fox have been recognised in the New Year Honours List this year. Livingstone,author of the'Fighting Fantasy'series of books,and also chairman of video games company Eidos,will be made ...
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Near field communications (NFC) technology has brought a new wave of techniques to the retail industry, enabling bricks and mortar stores to attract and interact with customers in innovative ways. Analysts see these tools as a money maker ...
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In 2008 London accounted for 33.8%of new UK IT jobs.Most other regions recorded a reducing share of new jobs. A large proportion of London-based IT jobs are in the financial services sector which was hit hardest by the economic slowdown ...
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