Guinness Peat Group plc (GPG) announces update on value realisation programme and proposed structure On 11 February 2011, the GPG Board outlined a revised strategy for the GPG Group that focused on the following key principles: - GPG to ...
Tags: GPG, investment, capital notes, wind-down plan
The cloud played a pivotal role in separating insurance group Direct Line from parent company the Royal Bank of Scotland(RBS)to launch on the stock market. Direct Line had less than 6 months to re-engineer its HR process to prepare for an ...
Tags: Cloud HR, share offering, RBS, Peoplesoft system
Congress programme now online and registration commences in mid-October 2012 Wasser Berlin International,an international trade fair and congress on water and wastewater will be held from 23–26 April on the exhibition grounds of the ...
Tags: wastewater, Berlin, water industry
The UK's Draft Data Communications Bill–aimed at making it easier for authorities to spy on electronic communications–will be useless and quite dangerous if enacted,says Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. "It will force many ...
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True Religion Apparel Inc.announced that after receiving indications of interest from third parties regarding a potential transaction with the Company,the Board of Directors has formed a Special Committee comprised of its non-management ...
Tags: True Religion Apparel, transaction, jeans, Special Committee
Mozilla last week released the first public preview of a Firefox browser that runs in Windows 8's touch-first"Modern"or"Metro"user interface(UI). The Firefox app for Modern--the UI dubbed"Metro"until Microsoft ditched the term over ...
It was looking like it would be this time next year before mobile operators other than EE – formerly Everything Everywhere – were able to offer 4G. The merger between T-Mobile and Orange was the only brand to receive a ...
Tags: mobile operators, mobile industry, DCMS, EE
Samsung will announce a 5-in.Galaxy S4 at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next February,according to company officials and executives at parts suppliers quoted in The Korea Times. While an S4 announcement early next year was long ...
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China plans to issue 4G licenses for LTE TDD networks within around one year, according to a top government official, speeding up the original timetable for deployment of the high-speed networks in the country. Miao Wei, the head of ...
Tags: China, 4G licenses, LTE TDD networks, govenment regulation
The Department of Health's (DoH) financial exposure to its toxic contracts with troubled NHS supplier CSC has decreased by £100m in just three months. In CSC's latest quarterly results, the outsourcer estimated that if the NHS were ...
Tags: DoH, CSC, CSC Contracts, the NHS contract
Computerworld-Microsoft last week warned IT administrators that critical vulnerabilities in code licensed from Oracle could give attackers access to Exchange Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2010 systems. Oracle patched the vulnerabilities ...
Tags: Oracle code, critical vulnerabilities in code, Oracle patched, Exchange
Everything Everywhere is the UK's largest mobile network and, with 27 million customers on its books, it competes in size with some of its larger European counterparts. The joint venture between Orange and T-Mobile is approaching its ...
The Scottish government has unveiled a five-point action plan aimed at tackling pricing issues in the dairy industry. The plan was announced by Rural Affairs Secretary Richard Lochhead yesterday (12 July) following a meeting with NFU ...
Tags: milk, dairy, dairy processors, five-point action plan, dairy farmers
Online shopping giant Shop Direct has deployed software to automate business processes without eating into the IT department's busy timetable. The online retailer, which has over 10 million registered customers and sales worth ...
Tags: Shop Direct, automate business processes, IT department, Blue Prism
If you want to stir up some sawdust when you’re with a group of woodworking hobbyists, just bring up the topic of whether electric table saws should have an automatic shutoff. The divide between those who shout “Yes!” and ...
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