Apple's iPhone 5 appears to have cleared the last hurdle in a series of Chinese regulatory checks,opening the way for the device to finally be sold in one of the company's largest markets. On Thursday,two iPhone models received the ...
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The Institute for Supply Management’s (ISM) non-monthly Non-Manufacturing Report on Business for October was down slightly from October but remained firmly in growth territory. The index ISM uses to measure non-manufacturing ...
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A new video series from ElectricTV.net focuses on what electrical contractors need to know about LED lighting. LED lighting will soon have a strong impact on the industry and the series was developed to help electrical industry stakeholders ...
Tony Prestedge is COO at Nationwide.He joined the building society halfway through a GBP1bn IT transformation which he then took charge of.He talks to Computer Weekly about the progress being made,the benefits already being seen and what ...
Tags: ageing IT systems, up to date, virtualise desktops, data warehouses
Author(s): Rob Mosher Author(s): Nicole Steele Transportation Reauthorization Approved After months of intense negotiations, on June 29th Congress cleared a bill (H.R. 4348) that will ensure funding for highway and mass transit projects ...
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Tom Baker, head of ICT at Sunderland City Council, has an office in the council's datacentre. It is not a bad place to have an office because the datacentre has been somewhat rejuvenated, thanks in part to modern IT that takes up far less ...
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HM Revenue & Customs' Phil Pavitt will step down from his role as CIO in January to take up a new role at insurance group Aviva. Deputy CIO Mark Hall has taken on the CIO role at HMRC, but Pavitt will remain with the department until ...
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Computer Weekly has announced the third UKtech50, our annual definitive list of the real movers and shakers in UK IT - the CIOs, industry executives, public servants and business leaders driving the role of technology in the UK economy. ...
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To increase its capabilities for medical device manufacturing, custom injection molder Plastikos Inc. is in the process of adding a third press for its Class 10,000 clean room at its headquarters plant in Erie. "There is no firm date by ...
Nationwide Insurance talked up its enterprise collaboration systems at last week's SharePoint Conference,offering a glimpse into a best-of-breed strategy that is becoming everbmore popular. Nationwide,which uses IBM's Lotus Notes for ...
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Mike Gibbons,CIO of building materials company Aggregate Industries,talks to Computer Weekly about why regulatory intervention made the company realise the importance of its data assets,and the reason investment in IT is more important now ...
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Microsoft's decision to put two user interfaces (UIs) inside Windows 8 was a strategic mistake that fails novice and experienced computer users alike on both tablets and traditional PCs, a usability expert said Monday. "That was the true ...
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The number of global IT services deals with a cloud computing element have tripled since 2010,according to research from IT outsourcing consultancy Information Services Group(ISG). ISG used its TPI index to analyse IT outsourcing deals ...
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Cisco futurist Dave Evans has predicted that the technology to "print" food will be available in the relatively near future. Answering questions in a Twitter interview this afternoon under the hastag '#AskFuturist', Evans provided a ...
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Automotive thermoformer Corvac Composites LLC has bought an injection molding and thermoforming plant from D.A. Inc. of Charlestown, Ind., but will use the plant exclusively for thermoforming work. No purchase price was disclosed. D.A. ...