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National Semiconductor to cut jobs, close plants
News Faced with a steep decline in sales, chipmaker National Semiconductor said on Thursday that it plans to lay off more than 25 percent of its workforce, or 1,725 jobs. The cuts come after National recorded a 71 percent decline in its third-quarter...
[March 13, 2009, 8:18]
National Intelligence IT system hit by delays
News Sir Michael Bichard, who led the official inquiry following the Soham murders, is concerned that delays are already hampering efforts to set up a national police intelligence computer system. Bichard had advised the government to set up a national...
[March 15, 2005, 11:50]
Nuggets: National Geographic gets CD treatment
News Fans of the National Geographic will be familiar with its fantastic foldout maps -- ace for Geography O'Levels! They are now available as National Geographic Maps, an eight CD-ROM collection distributed by Mindscape.
[March 15, 1999, 13:43]
National Gallery delivers Van Gogh on demand
News Van Gogh may have suffered for his art, but thanks to a self-service printing kiosk, visitors to London's National Gallery can now get instant gratification. Claire Gough, head of media for the National Gallery, said that not only can the gallery...
[July 29, 2003, 15:15]
National Archives tackles Microsoft legacy
News The National Archives has teamed up with Microsoft to solve the problem of reading, managing and making accessible data in legacy Microsoft formats that can no longer be read by recent versions of the company's software.
[July 4, 2007, 7:40]
National Curriculum switching girls off IT
News The National Curriculum is preventing girls from succeeding in IT, education experts argued at a conference organised by the government on Wednesday. The National Curriculum doesn't work," she said. Anne Cantelo, project director at e-skills NTO...
[January 17, 2002, 10:31]
National open source centre comes to Birmingham
News The National Open Centre (NOC) will aim to help set national policy on use of open source software. Founding partners of the NOC include the National Computing Centre, Birmingham City Council and the council-led Digital Birmingham initiative, which...
[October 25, 2006, 16:00]
National Archives puts Cabinet Office papers online
News The National Archives has placed 500,000 pages of government papers online, accessible free of charge. According to the National Archives, the project, launched on 4 December, 2008, will make these documents more accessible and open a vast amount...
[December 4, 2008, 10:51]
National Archives completes gov't e-records system
News The National Archives has completed its Seamless Flow Programme to automate the preservation of electronic government records. The programme has developed tools and processes so that information created by government can be gathered by the National...
[August 18, 2008, 8:25]
National chief executive predicts date of tech upturn
News The upturn in the technology industry will be in full swing seven months and two days from now, according to Brian Halla, chief executive officer at National Semiconductor. History has also not always been kind to National.
[November 20, 2002, 7:41]
National IT and telecoms academy seeks sponsors
News Employers in the IT and telecommunications sectors have less than a month to get involved in the formation of a new National Skills Academy. A National Skills Academy NSA network is being established by the Learning and Skills Council, the...
[February 7, 2007, 7:24]
National Archives considers shared data service
News The National Archives is to look at the possibility of a shared service for government departments to take, migrate and preserve digital data. Without active preservation, those e-documents which do survive become obsolete, on average, within seven...
[June 15, 2007, 16:30]
National Semi revamps Net appliance chip
News Despite consumers' tepid response to Internet appliances so far, National Semiconductor is still forging ahead in the market. It does make sense (for National Semi) to go after set-top boxes because the volumes are there," said Brian Ma, an analyst...
[June 15, 2001, 8:39]
National Semi hits Q4 targets
News First Call consensus expected National Semi to lose 24 cents a share in the quarter. For the year, National Semi lost $220.6m, or $1.32 a share, on sales of $2bn, a far cry from the previous year when it earned $72.7m, or 44 cents a share, on sales...
[June 11, 1999, 8:25]
National Archives buys petabyte of digital storage
News The National Archives said the new one petabyte capacity — just over one million gigabytes — is equivalent to 20 million four-drawer filing cabinets. David Thomas, director of technology at the National Archives, said: "This is a fantastic step...
[November 12, 2009, 10:37]
National Savings eyes e-services
News The UK's state banking service, National Savings and Investments, has agreed on a contract extension with its IT supplier said to be worth £400m, it confirmed on 17 August, 2004. National Savings has not yet signed a contract with Siemens Business...
[August 17, 2004, 14:50]
National Semi chips in to develop IBM thin client
News IBM claimed a first on Wednesday with the launch of the Network Station Series 2200 thin client, using a highly integrated network-on-a-chip processor supplied by National Semiconductor. The Geode processor is the really clever bit, integrating on...
[September 9, 1999, 16:54]
National anti-fraud centre due next year
News A national centre to co-ordinate strategy for combating fraud in England and Wales should be in place by next year. The Attorney General's Office for England and Wales (AGO) wants a National Fraud Reporting Centre to collate reports of all types of...
[April 29, 2008, 9:22]
National Semi closes phone-chip plant, sheds 340 jobs
News National Semiconductor said on Wednesday it is immediately closing a cell-phone chip unit that it earlier put up for sale, cutting the division's 340 positions. National Semi said it was still in talks with several prospective buyers for its...
[May 21, 2003, 14:02]
A Year Ago: Demand pummels National Geographic
News Just 24 hours after National Geographic.com launched its new "Map Machine" feature, the site is still scrambling to handle the demand. It's really been surprising how quickly the word got out," said Mark Holmes, vice president of programming and...
[October 29, 2000, 6:02]
