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BT puts Phorm plans on hold
News As of Monday afternoon, shares had lost 43 percent of their market value on the FTSE by mid-afternoon on Monday, falling from £4.55 to £2.05 per share. In a statement issued on Monday, the telecommunications giant said it would be suspending its...
[July 6, 2009, 16:09]
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[June 29, 2009, 21:21]
HMRC seeks CIO to help overhaul IT dept
News The site says the ideal candidate should have "management experience" within a FTSE 100 or a large public-sector organisation. The taxman is looking for a chief information officer to complete the transformation of its IT department.
[January 14, 2009, 8:39]
Tech-job demand bucks economic trend
News Typically a FTSE 250 organisation implementing a new system will take several years to do so and you don't stop implementing a system at the drop of a hat. Tech jobs appear to be suffering less during the economic downturn than those in other sectors.
[January 9, 2009, 9:36]
IT sector sees increased profit warnings
News Research by Ernst & Young shows profit warnings in the software and computer services sector of the FTSE share index rose by 44 percent in the first quarter of 2008. Across all sectors of the FTSE index, 114 profit warnings were issued by UK quoted...
[April 15, 2008, 9:56]
AppLabs Case Study: Provident Financial
White Papers Provident Financial is a UK FTSE 250 global lending company. Due to its agent workforce and regional branches, Provident Financial's account management systems were heavily reliant on manual processing.
[January 12, 2008, 0:01]
CIOs last three years in their posts
News The survey of chief information officers at FTSE 350 companies also found the majority (41 out of 50) have a technology background and most (38 out of 50) are recruited from outside the business. Chief information officers stay in their job for...
[August 28, 2007, 8:53]
UK's leading CIO announced
News Their outstanding leadership is driving real business value across a wide range of organisations, from the biggest FTSE 100 players to high-growth innovators to the public sector. British Airways' Paul Coby has been voted the UK's top CIO for the...
[June 7, 2007, 10:27]
Internet downtime still up there
Blog Broadhead said that sites such as those operated by the FTSE top 20 showed 43 percent of companies with significant downtime. The fabled five nines of Internet uptime is just that according to Steve Broadhead, director of testing lab Broadband...
[February 23, 2007, 13:35]
Sir Michael's five-point plan for BT's future
Leader From the student in the bedsit to the FTSE 100 boardroom, they have to know that if they pick up the phone to BT with a problem in the morning, the answer will be in place by the afternoon. When Bland came in five years ago, he famously had a 10...
[February 20, 2007, 12:32]
The CIO 'born and bred' in the IT department
News This makes me unique among my peer group of FTSE 100 company CIOs," says Dew. This makes me unique among my peer group of FTSE 100 company CIOs," says Dew. It has been a publicly listed company since 1981 and is listed in the FTSE 100 index
[August 18, 2005, 15:50]
Security bosses want encryption bans overturned
News The Jericho Forum, whose membership includes many chief security officers from FTSE 100 companies, will push for the removal of encryption restrictions within the next three-to-five years. An international security consortium is set to lobby...
[April 27, 2005, 16:35]
FTSE 100 losing the search battle
News Research by search marketing company The Search Works has found that 64 percent of FTSE 100 companies' Web sites don't rank in the first page of search results for keywords, which could see them losing the 90 percent of would-be buyers who never...
[February 22, 2005, 15:20]
Deperimeterisation celebrates first birthday
News The group was formed by a group of FTSE 1,000 chief security officers (CSOs) who wanted to take the lead in thinking of ways to develop IT security, especially the concept of deperimeterisation -- making data secure at every level, rather than...
[January 14, 2005, 16:20]
Jericho Forum tears down walls to outsiders
News The forum, made up of FTSE 100 members such as BP, ICI and Reuters, met on Friday to discuss the group's future. Security organisation the Jericho Forum has decided to open its doors to vendors and other companies after merging with Californian...
[November 15, 2004, 17:10]
Cyberterrorism a reality 'in two years'
News Lacey, who helped to found the Jericho Forum -- a group of FTSE 100 firms that are pushing for 'perimeterless' security -- added that terrorists are currently not using the Internet for their work. Cyberterrorism could become a reality in 2006, a...
[October 21, 2004, 13:45]
Vote for your UK tech titans
News His warmth, enthusiasm and business nous took the company to the FTSE 100. The accountant who took an accounting software outfit into the FTSE 100, after a decade as the UK's best performing stock and year-on-year profits growth.
[September 8, 2004, 17:45]
IT departments being passed the security buck
News A massive 86 percent of the FTSE 350 companies researched said negative publicity for their company would be the key impact and a similar number (84 percent) said their brand would be damaged by a security breach.
[September 7, 2004, 10:10]
Top firms fail the Internet challenge
News This report, called The Third Annual Report on The Home Pages of the UK's Top 100 Companies' Corporate Web Sites, studied the Web sites of the members of the FTSE 100 -- the 100 biggest companies listed on the London stock market.
[January 9, 2004, 16:30]
Virus damage costs increase fourfold
News The Forum surveyed its members, which include more than half of the FTSE 100 and 250 companies, after the MSBlast worm this August. It costs four times more to clean up after a virus than previously thought, according to a survey of large...
[December 2, 2003, 14:30]
