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Here Are Are Top Ten Stories for IT in Retail in 2012
Jan 5, 2013Retailers have had another rocky year with more high street closures piling up, while online spend continued to enjoy double digit growth. As consumer spending remained stagnant, companies looked to their digital channels to bolster sales. ...
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Below Are Some The Biggest and Most Interesting Women in IT Stories to Come out of 2012
Jan 5, 2013The challenge of attracting more women in to the technology sector has been an issue for some time now, but 2012 saw some interesting steps forward in the gender equality debate. Below are some the biggest and most interesting women in IT ...
Tags: women, IT stories, technology sector, 2012, Top 10
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Martha Lane Fox Are Included in This Year's New Year Honours List
Jan 5, 2013Olympic CIO Gerry Pennell and Lastminute.com co-founder Martha Lane Fox are included in this year’s New Year honours list Martha Lane Fox, who advises government on digital strategies, including the move to a single domain for ...
Tags: Martha Lane Fox, New Year list, honours, IT
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Enterprises Have Long Lived in a World Where Storage Meant Buying in Bulk
Dec 31, 2012Enterprises have long lived in a world where storage meant buying in bulk,preparing for possible influxes of data and signing cheques to make even the wealthiest of businesses wince. However,with the growth of cloud computing,a shift has ...
Tags: Box, growth of cloud computing
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Class Action Is Filed Against HP After Investors Claim Firm Violated Securities Law
Dec 31, 2012A class action has been filed against HP after investors claim the firm violated federal securities law,following its acquisitions of Autonomy and EDS. The case put forward at the Court for the Northern District of California in San ...
Tags: class action, against HP
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Government to Move Away From Large IT Service Management Contracts Handled
Dec 31, 2012Whitehall departments spearheading moves to break up large system integrator contracts into separate'towers'have seen a dramatic drop off in suppliers bidding to co-ordinate the multiple providers. Under the tower model the government ...
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Internet Offload Service Is Touted by Orange Business Services
Dec 31, 2012Multinational companies are spending large sums on corporate virtual private networks(VPNs)to make their business-critical applications secure and available,but still using them for more mundane tasks,such as browsing the web or checking ...
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For Jagdeep Singh,Head of Software Development at The Financial Times
Dec 31, 2012For Jagdeep Singh,head of software development at the Financial Times,agile programming is less about formal development techniques and more a way of modern business life. In the fast-moving world of the media,development teams have to ...
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This Special Seven-Page Report From Computer Weekly Analyses The Challenges Facing Cisco
Dec 31, 2012This special seven-page report from Computer Weekly analyses the challenges facing Cisco,its financial performance,the services it offers,its place in the IT market and its future strategy. John Chambers,CEO of Cisco since 1995,has his ...
Tags: Cisco, computer weekly analyses, IT market
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David Henderson Says The Publisher's Websites Attract 100 Million Monthly Users
Dec 31, 2012The internet is revolutionising the newspaper industry, and for the publisher of the Daily Mail and Metro, it is having the same effect on IT strategy. David Henderson, CIO at A&N Media, says the publisher’s websites attract 100 ...
Tags: newspaper industry, internet, publisher website, IT
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Anyfi Networks Claims Its Software Is The Best Option to Take Your Home Wi-Fi with You
Dec 28, 2012Anyfi Networks claims its software is the best option to take your home Wi-Fi with you on the go. The Swedish firm formed in 2006 with the goal of using existing Wi-Fi networks for public use,instead of investing more money into building ...
Tags: Anyfi Networks, Wi-Fi
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NFC Technology Has Brought a New Wave of Techniques to The Retail Industry
Dec 28, 2012Near field communications (NFC) technology has brought a new wave of techniques to the retail industry, enabling bricks and mortar stores to attract and interact with customers in innovative ways. Analysts see these tools as a money maker ...
Tags: NFC, UK, payments, mobile technologies
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Microsoft Has Amended The Price Hike Planned for July
Dec 28, 2012Microsoft has amended the price hike planned for July, but businesses still face paying up to 25.5% more for their software. The supplier had previously said it would increase its licensing fees by a third, but with just a month to go, the ...
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How Dell IT Has Changed Internships and Reverse Mentoring Women in IT
Dec 28, 2012How Dell IT has changed Internships and reverse mentoring Women in IT It is one thing being CEO of a company with best-in-class supply chain.But what happens when the business refocuses? Adriana Karaboutis has been global CIO at Dell ...
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Roll-out of The Cloud and Virtualisation Across The BBC Is an Urgent Priority to Cut Costs
Dec 28, 2012The roll-out of the cloud and virtualisation across the BBC is an urgent priority to cut costs and maintain daily technology operations, a BBC technology head has said. Roger Crothers, head of technology at BBC Wales, said his ...
Tags: BBC, the cloud, virtualisation, maintenance
