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Digital Britain recommends 'G Cloud' for gov't IT
News It also says there is a need for a more competitive market in public sector IT, with incumbent bidders often at a strong advantage, and that there is a need to break down the barriers to entry for new suppliers, especially companies.
[June 17, 2009, 8:37]
UK government scoops 'Internet Villain' nominations
News And finally, the hapless RadioCommunications Agency is the body responsible for selling off radio spectrum in the UK; both the 3G spectrum which precipitated the collapse of telecoms shares when the successful bidders found themselves in massive...
[January 17, 2002, 16:58]
Ebone network shutdown strands customers
News According to sources, the Oakley bidders went to a meeting expecting to seal a deal, but were told to raise the price by 20m euros. Several bidders want a part of Ebone, including the network operations centre, and don't care if the network is...
[July 3, 2002, 9:34]
UK faces 3G failure
News The government rejects suggestions that it made a mistake by auctioning off the 3G spectrum to the highest bidders, rather than holding a "beauty contest" that would have awarded licences to the companies it believed would make the best use of a...
[May 8, 2001, 11:09]
Barclays trials 'wave and pay' debit cards
News In 2005, TfL announced a shortlist of bidders for an e-money project that would allow Londoners to make small purchases with their transport cards. Earlier this year, the plan was ditched, with TfL saying that none of the bidders had matched their...
[December 14, 2006, 8:02]
Wireless broadband auction kicks off amid cherry-picking fears
News This led to criticism of the government for not imposing any rollout obligations on successful bidders. If PCCW really wants all the regions in the UK as part of a bigger strategic play, I doubt if any of the current bidders could stand in its way...
[June 6, 2003, 12:09]
Mystery surrounds Web patents acquisition
News Van Pelt, who did not represent any of the bidders, had predicted the patents would sell for at least $10m. JGR beat out seven other bidders, including two companies connected to Nathan Myhrvold, a former Microsoft executive who now runs...
[December 7, 2004, 10:00]
Sanyo begins chip sale
Blog According to the Financial Times, Sanyo has started the sale of its semiconductor operations, with bidders expected to express interest before the Golden Week holidays starting at the end of the month in Japan.
[April 17, 2007, 16:22]
eNotifier
Downloads eNotifier is a utility that helps to make the process of sending eBay end of auction invoices to your winning bidders faster and easier.eNotifier automatically collates invoices so that each bidder will receive only one email message, regardless...
[January 24, 2003, 7:00]
Kazaa plans defensive ad campaign
Talkback "Hey come on ,kazaa now know they can make millions of dollars/ quid/yen,shekels by selling to the highest bidders, why else all the litigation,this is not just because someone took of the spyware and rehashed the programme they are in it for the...
[September 5, 2004, 16:44]
Microsoft controlling Australian Gov't 2.0 funds
News On Wednesday, Australia's Government 2.0 Taskforce released a draft contract for those receiving money from its Project Fund, which revealed that any funding contracts will be between successful bidders and Microsoft — not the commonwealth.
[October 1, 2009, 13:33]
MikeRoweSoft bids fail to make the grade
News But shortly after noon (PST), Rowe restricted the auction to pre-approved bidders only. In order to help filter those out, eBay encourages people who conduct high-profile auctions to vet bidders. Rowe at first followed that recommendation by...
[February 3, 2004, 7:30]
ID cards scheme: Potential suppliers named
News The original procurement notice was posted on the European OJEU (Official Journal of the European Union) website in August and a bidders conference was held in September where interested parties could find out more about the procurement process.
[October 23, 2007, 10:00]
UK operators miss out in wireless broadband auction
News Hong Kong-based Pacific Century Cyberworks (PCCW) has seen off almost all its fellow bidders in the 3.4GHz wireless broadband auction, which kicked off on 6 June. By Monday afternoon, when round 35 of the auction had been reached, nine of the...
[June 16, 2003, 17:15]
Developers 'should be accountable' for security holes
Talkback If this idiocy became law (so that ALL potential bidders, including offshorers, on a project were under the same level of litigation risk) my developers and I would make out like bandits! I love this idea!
[October 12, 2005, 18:20]
AnswerTool
Downloads This is a great tool for customer support, investor relations, interacting with bidders in auctions, and other email-intensive jobs. Turn email answers into assets! Save your answers with AnswerTool, then reuse them again and again; You will never...
[January 4, 2005, 7:00]
Case Study - Preparing for Hurricane Charley
White Papers Other necessary departments such as legal and purchasing helped to finalize the document and in early April the company's purchasing agent sent the RFP out to three prospective bidders: IBM, HP and Sungard.
[August 29, 2006, 0:00]
French 3G woe could impact on UK
News As one of the four bidders withdraws from the French 3G mobile phone auction blaming high prices, experts warn that the even higher prices paid in the UK could do serious damage to the economy and the UK's place in Europe.
[January 25, 2001, 16:15]
EBay fake painting seller pleads guilty
News One of the defendants in a case involving the sale of a fake Richard Diebenkorn painting on eBay pleaded guilty on Tuesday to defrauding bidders. The guilty plea was part of an agreement federal prosecutors made with defendant Kenneth Walton, a...
[April 18, 2001, 9:43]
News Burst: Cracker holds bank to ransom
News A cracker is holding Czechoslovakia's largest bank, Ceska Sporitelna, to ransom after breaking into its computer system and threatening to sell customer details to the highest bidders. To prove his (or her) point the cracker sent personal...
[September 23, 1999, 11:14]
