Towers Watson has appointed Keith Harrison as head of (re)insurance brokerage business in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. Based in London, Harrison joined Towers Watson with the 2002 acquisition of Denis M. Clayton & ...
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Retail chip and PIN devices can be attacked easily,exposing banks,retailers and customers to fraud. Researchers from Basingstoke-based MWR InfoSecurity demonstrated at the 2012 Black Hat conference in Las Vegas that it is possible to ...
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The end of July will see Human Solutions and its subsidiary in Italy, Sistemi Assyst, start a representative serial measurement survey, "SizeITALY". During the course of the survey, around 6,000 men, women and children will be measured by ...
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Gallagher Benefit Services (GBS), employee benefit consulting operation of Arthur J. Gallagher has introduced a private insurance exchange platform to offer employers a new way to budget and manage employee benefits. Offered through ...
China Life Pension Company (CLPC), a JV of China Life Insurance (Group), China Life Insurance and China Life Insurance Asset Management, has implemented Charles River Investment Management Solution. The new platform will enable CLPC to ...
HCL said its European sales have increased as a result of businesses focusing on efficiency while attempting to reduce the number of suppliers they use for specific service lines. Despite the Euro crisis, the Indian service provider's ...
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Virgin Media, Vodafone and Everything Everywhere are refusing to sign up to a new code of conduct for internet service providers (ISPs) aimed at guaranteeing full and open access to the internet. Ten ISPs, including BT, O2 and Talk Talk, ...
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Universal Insurance, a Puerto Rico-based provider of insurance and financial services, is planning to upgrade to Cover-All's new policy administration platform and its commercial lines products. The products include commercial auto, ...
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Government-sponsored cybercriminals are using hacking techniques to steal commercial secrets from businesses,KPMG has warned. Confidential information,including product designs and bid documents,are at risk from states seeking to win ...
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EngagePoint has been selected by MAXIMUS (MMS) as the systems integrator to support the design and develop Minnesota health insurance exchange. EngagePoint CEO Pradeep Goel said, "We are pleased to be part of the MAXIMUS team to design ...
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Fraudsters exchanged 12 million pieces of personal information online in the first quarter of 2012, an increase of 300% since 2010, according to credit-checking firm Experian. The company said many people were unaware their identity had ...
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Financial services and the public sector remain the biggest clients of IT consultancies but the availability of new technologies such as cloud computing and continued austerity have meant increasing take-up in other sectors. While the ...
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Sprint has become the first U.S. wireless carrier to offer an ultrabook, which is being sold with a 3G/4G mobile hotspot device at no added cost. Sprint and Lenovo announced the 13.3-in. IdeaPad U310 ultrabook with a hotspot device for ...
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Computerworld-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today unveiled the next version of Office as the company launched previews of the suite for consumers and businesses. "This is designed from the get-go for Office as a service,"said Ballmer as he ...
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UK-Last month inspHire demonstrated market leading hire software solutions,tailored to meet the specific needs of the Lifting and Access Hire Industry,at Vertikal Days 2012. Over the course of the two days,inspHire exhibited key features ...
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