The IT and medical technology company, Sectra, has purchased Burnbank Systems to expand its medical systems operations in the UK. Burnbank Systems provides IT services including hardware support for a single user system to design and ...
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Some Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and NatWest Bank customers cannot access online services as the banking group experiences a computer problem. RBS and NatWest are part of the same group and they share many systems. According to Sky ...
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Global smartphone shipments will reach 1.7 billion in 2017, with emerging markets experiencing particularly strong growth, according to Ovum’s ‘Smartphones in Emerging Markets: Shifting Landscape’ report. The analyst ...
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Seven firms have been chosen to provide the Identity Assurance service required for benefit applicants to the new Universal Credit welfare scheme. The Post Office, Cassidian, Digidentity, Experian, Ingeus, Mydex, and Verizon will deliver ...
Finnish retailer S Group has booked higher half-year profits on the back of improved sales. S Group today (16 August) reported a 2.9% increase in first-half profit to EUR80.6m (US$99.6m). Retail sales were up 5.8% to EUR5.84bn. The ...
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Guardian Industries has launched a Spanish version of its global website,www.guardian.com, in addition to enhancing the site's navigational tools and content. According to Guardian officials, the improved navigation allows visitors ...
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Sectra, an IT and medical technology company, has purchased Burnbank Systems, an IT services company, in the UK. With the acquisition, whose financing will be covered by existing funds, Sectra aims to expand its medical systems operations ...
Argo Group International Holdings (AGII) unit Argo Pro has launched a new cyber liability insurance product, information & Professional Risk Playbooksm (iPRP) to address the exposures on information technology for businesses. The firm has ...
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The latest milestone to be reached in Nationwide's GBP1bn five-year IT transformation sees the launch of its mobile banking service as the project moves towards the final straight. The building society launched its mobile banking service ...
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IDG News Service-It already sells phones and tablets,provides a wealth of online services and has been laying high-speed fiber to people's homes.Now Google is apparently considering a wireless network service as well. Google has been in ...
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Dropbox today announced that it has passed 100 million users,and said its customers now save 1 billion files every day. Dropbox,a cloud storage company,also has paying users in more than 200 countries,it said. As of June,about 7%of ...
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Parliament's ICT office is concluding a two-year review of whether its democratic responsibilities and technical ambitions will force it to purge Microsoft's Silverlight multimedia technology from its computer systems. As part of a root ...
Sony said Thursday that the executive in charge of its online products,and linking them up to its broad hardware holdings,will leave the company at the end of the year. The Tokyo-based electronics giant said Tim Schaaff,who it poached ...
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IDG News Service-Google released a Chrome browser update with a video decoding enhancement that the company claims will help users save battery life. The feature,available for Chrome on Windows,cuts power consumption by executing video ...
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Japanese electronics firm Sharp has issued a profit warning,expressing"material doubt"that it will be able to stay in business. Expecting to end the financial year in March 2013 with a net loss of Y450bn(3.5bn euros),Sharp's main problems ...