Spanish bank Banco Santander has pulled out of its multi billion pound agreement to take over 316 Royal Bank of Scotland(RBS)branches,and the customers associated with them,because of IT integration problems. But sources say that IT ...
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The Open University (OU) has launched a new company to increase UK students' access to some of the country's top universities. Futurelearn, an independent company but majority owned by the OU, will offer free, online courses from UK ...
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The Royal Bank of Scotland(RBS)Group has teamed up with Visa Europe to bring mobile payments to customers through its TouchPay scheme. The banking group–which includes RBS and NatWest–has introduced TouchPay cases for Apple ...
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Three has announced it will be recruiting almost 800 new staff by the end of 2014. The majority of the roles will be based at its Glasgow offices with the addition 380 telesales staff, making the total employees close to 1,000. However, ...
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The main thrust in enterprise systems this year has been the introduction of Windows 8 as the new Windows client OS. Windows 8 introduces WinRT, a new programming model for Windows software development, as well as a new way of thinking ...
Research into the UK outsourcing sector in 2010 found that 7.4% of the UK’s total production came from outsourcing, and about a third of that – some 38.7bn – was IT outsourcing. It is a sector that adapts to market ...
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The Saudi Gazette reported that UAE energy giant TAQA's billion dollar vote of confidence in Scottish oil and gas has been further strengthened by a new report which says some USD 70 billion of investment in the sector is expected by 2016. ...
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Local Authority integration made simple and affordable with the Symphony Blackbox from Aligned Assets SURREY, ENGLAND, September 20, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Gazetteer specialists Aligned Assets can today announce the release of its ...
For those who thought that 2012 was getting slightly too London-centric, I have some good news. Put down your javelin, dust off your sleeping bag and get ready for Belfast 2012. Byte Night is this year launching a Belfast sleep-out in ...
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The industry that you expect to hit the IT headlines on a regular basis has not let us down in the last 12 months,despite continued tough market conditions. With customer demands changing,banks have to innovate around things like mobile ...
Tags: Financial Services, IT, bank, mobile banking, Barclays, RBS
The winners of a free software app created at the first NHS Hack Day claim their product could save the NHS £3m per year in lost time. The browser-based Patient List system is intended to reduce the number of mistakes made in care ...
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Remote areas of Scotland are now able to access superfast broadband, thanks to a research project by two of the country's universities. The University of Edinburgh and the University of the Highlands and Islands have been working together ...
Tags: Scottish Universities, Rural Broadband, Tegola project, academic network
Data specialists can earn 20% more than other IT professionals and there has been an increase in data roles of 43% in the past year. Research from e-skills UK, sponsored by SAS, suggests demand for big data analysts will double over the ...
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“There was a moment at the end of the closing ceremony where we breathed a sigh of relief,” says BBC CTO John Linwood. It’s not surprising given the scale of Linwood’s task, having delivered 2.8 petabytes of data ...
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The Royal Institute of British architects(RIBA)has today released the results of its Future Trends Survey results for May 2012. The upward trend for architect's workloads,which started at the beginning of the year,continues to grow.The ...
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