Law firm Addleshaw Goddard is using an IT service management (ITSM) service in the cloud as part of a programme to improve IT for the business that has 1,250 IT users in the UK and Singapore. After analysing the market and putting out a ...
Tags: IT, service management, UK, niche players
Former RBS payment processing division WorldPay will reach a major IT milestone this month on its journey to stand on its own after it was sold in 2010. In December 2010, Advent International and Bain Capital acquired WorldPay for over ...
Tags: WorldPay, IT, Computer Products, RBS split
Businesses must make availability of IT services a boardroom issue because there is growing evidence of employee frustration and resentment when systems are unavailable, according to research from Imperial College. Many staff now expect ...
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Every August, swathes of tourists head north of the border to check out the sights and sounds of Edinburgh, with some claiming the population of the Scottish capital doubles for the month. Visitors see numerous cultural activities taking ...
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Customers of British internet service provider (ISP) UK2 have been unable to receive emails from any Yahoo/BT Internet accounts for the past week, due to the two firms blocking their IP addresses. Computer Weekly has seen an email from ...
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Financial services firm Old Mutual has been able to improve the service it gets from its IT suppliers, increase IT effectiveness and at the same time lower costs through the creation of an outsourcing strategy that is mutually beneficial to ...
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A team of students at the Fontys Hogeschool in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, has won a challenge set by Atos to create smart mobile applications. The team beat off competition from a team at Warwick University in the UK and one from a ...
Tags: smart mobile application, smart phone, computing, IT industry
BP is to establish a $100 million international research center known as the BP International Centre for Advanced Materials, or BP-ICAM. This center will lead research aimed at advancing the fundamental understanding and use of materials ...
Tags: BP, international research center, energy, University of Manchester
Loughborough University has developed technologies to track and report on swimming performance to help Team GB train for the Olympic Games. A box measuring just 80mm by 50mm and only 12mm thick is attached to the back of a swimmer’s ...
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The University of Cambridge and Imperial College are pooling their resources to create a high-performance computing (HPC) service that will offer some of the UK’s fastest computer resources to industry through the cloud. The ...
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How quickly your skin will age? A British firm is ready to answer this question by launching the reportedly first in-store DNA tests. These tests will allow London shoppers to choose the cream and serum genetically suited to their skin ...
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Mars Inc has extended its Uncle Ben's rice offering in the UK with the launch of a 'Twice the Fibre' line. The food giant is hoping to target parents looking to get more fibre into their family meals with the range, which offers "a blend ...
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UK based Prosonix has signed a collaborative research agreement with Imperial College London to accelerate the development of engineered multi-component particles (MCPs) as respiratory medicines. As part of the collaboration, Prosonix ...
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A cyber security research centre focused on biometrics is to be launched at the University of Southampton. It will be one of eight UK universities awarded government funding for cyber security research. Government has prioritised ...
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Johnston Press has mobilised its field sales team using Salesforce.com running on iPads to reduce the need for staff to come into the office. The regional newspaper company, which publishes across the UK and in the republic of Ireland, is ...
Tags: iPads, office, newspaper company, digital media company