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LogicaCMG squeezed by graduate shortage
Talkback What companies want is the right skills and cheap IT labour . How about retraining their existing staff or hire in Uk people with similar skills and train them up. Paying IT people decent pay would also help.pay levels for average IT professional...
[September 1, 2006, 22:23]
Oracle: UK plc 'needs grid to compete'
News Now that the economy has achieved more stability, there is a continuing drumbeat of change, as foreign economies and labour markets have emerged ready to take on the world," Smith said in the event's opening keynote presentation.
[December 8, 2003, 14:40]
Recycling directive leads to price hikes
News In some instances hundreds of Euros were added to the cost of large electrical goods, such as plasma televisions, as retailers saw an open opportunity to exploit the consumer," said Labour Party spokesperson Kathleen Lynch in a statement on Monday.
[August 15, 2005, 17:25]
Data centres to get smart
News So little, in fact, that the only time manual labour will be needed is when new servers are installed, he added. The next-generation data centre is likely to be one that is able to support automation and provide high efficiencies, describes an...
[November 16, 2007, 14:28]
Home Office faces criticism over FoI failures
News Other departments received one or none, according to a written parliamentary answer from justice minister Michael Wills to Labour backbencher Gordon Prentice. Three government departments have each had six Freedom of Information notices served on...
[December 2, 2009, 10:30]
IBM sets up courses in China
News The massive training contract is a further testament to the explosive demand for skilled labour following China's accession into the World Trade Organization in 2001, the company added. IBM has sealed a deal to provide software development...
[September 6, 2004, 11:55]
UK to probe 'patent thickets'
News This featured in the Labour Party manifesto in the last election, which included a commitment to "modernise copyright and other forms of intellectual property so that they are appropriate for the digital age".
[March 2, 2006, 11:45]
Longhorn's longer odds
Talkback I just want a nice simple, fast environment that doesn't labour under roll out menus and pretty effects. When I first read about WinFS in the early 90's, and to be released around 1995, it sounded really exciting.
[September 3, 2004, 11:13]
Europe and the US philosophically divided on open source?
News Experts claim that proprietary software fees are relatively low compared with the potential labour costs associated with migrating to open source software. Tony] Blair's Labour has dragged us away from it — there was more support for open source...
[November 8, 2005, 10:15]
Ford may find that porn sticks around
News This would be a highly labour-intensive exercise. Internet filtering experts have criticised Ford's plan to remove pornography from its workers' computers. On 4 March, Ford issued a two-week amnesty to its 20,000 UK workers to remove any offensive...
[March 7, 2002, 14:15]
Is the UK really short of IT skills?
News But some industry analysts claim that there are more than enough local skills and that BT's real motivation was to cut costs by using cheaper Indian labour. The company's chief procurement officer Meryl Bushell said the company has been unable to...
[November 3, 2005, 12:10]
IT players to join PM's electronic government dream team
News At the Labour Party Conference last year, Tony Blair said the government aimed to deliver 25% of all public services electronically by 2002. The Electronic Government Partners Forum was announced on Monday by Public Service Minister Peter Kilfoyle...
[November 4, 1998, 16:23]
JD Edwards models the supply chain
News Companies spend up to $7 on labour and services to stitch together incompatible systems for every $1 they spend on software, according to a JD Edwards representative. JD Edwards has released a new software program designed to help manufacturers and...
[April 24, 2003, 9:37]
Union hails Government efforts to save mobile jobs
News We are grateful for the efforts that Stephen Byers and the Labour Government has made to help resolve the difficulties in the mobile industry, and we will obviously welcome any deal which will save jobs," a AEEU spokesman said on Wednesday morning.
[May 23, 2001, 12:01]
Index ranks most-competitive IT countries
News All but four out of the top 22 countries in the competitiveness index are also among the world's top countries in terms of IT labour productivity. A recent IT industry competitiveness index has found that the UK has the fourth most competitive IT...
[July 12, 2007, 9:31]
Tech execs: Green datacentres are crucial
News Energy costs rank right after labour costs for our customers who run large datacentres," Nikhil Jayaram, Cisco's director of engineering in the mid-range router group, said while speaking on a panel about green IT.
[September 10, 2008, 8:28]
NEC's Scotland pullout threatens 450 jobs
News Bristow Muldoon, the Labour MEP for Livingston, said he was very concerned by this latest economic blow to the region, but added that he was hopeful that new employment could be found for anyone affected by the move.
[May 27, 2002, 11:44]
BlackBerry fumbles lead to red faces
News The remarks were made after Campbell was linked with pro-Labour Internet posters, in which Conservative leader Michael Howard was depicted as a flying pig, and, also as the Dickensian character Fagin, which have been accused of being anti-semitic.
[February 9, 2005, 11:15]
Government witholds ID card legal advice
News Up to 30 Labour MPs could oppose the scheme during the Commons debate on Monday. The government has refused to release legal advice given to cabinet ministers on whether the bill to introduce ID cards contravenes human rights legislation, it...
[December 20, 2004, 14:40]
Gov't: Most biometric checks will bypass ID database
News Hillier was responding to questions from Labour MP Lynne Jones about the use of biometrics in the scheme. Identity checks will normally rely on the biometric data held on ID cards and passports rather than the National Identity Register, according...
[November 19, 2008, 15:41]
