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News Burst: Northern Rock moves online, sheds jobs

...street bank makes the transition to the Net Tuesday as Newcastle-based Northern Rock shuts 29 branches and axes 250 jobs. Northern Bank intends to... Read more

16 November, 1999 by Jane Wakefield

Smaller outsourcers turning to cloud, virtualisation

...the Carphone Warehouse, CSC and Virgin Atlantic, and Xerox with nationalised bank Northern Rock, as "encouraging signs of such activity coming to market". Deals are... Read more

15 July, 2009 by Steve Ranger

Confidence 101

...affected by it – some of you must have been queuing outside of Northern Rock last year! As the doom-mongers predict an eternity in the... Read more

26 January, 2009

Plea to bring British Broadband out of the Dark Ages

...in 2000 and more recently quick off the blocks to prop up Northern Rock with a cool £25bn. In comparison £15bn to help secure the... Read more

15 January, 2008

Launch of faster bank-payments system delayed

...HSBC, Lloyds TSB, National Australia Bank Group, Nationwide Building Society, Northern Bank, Northern Rock and Royal Bank of Scotland Group Read more

16 August, 2007 by Tim Ferguson

Dear silicon.com...Illegal file-sharing, biometrics flying high, ID fines?

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28 February, 2008 by silicon.com staff

Dear silicon.com... MS vs open source, wi-fi risks, being green...

...Graham Linehan, writer and director of The IT Crowd ♦ Avoiding the next Northern Rock Carbon footprintsThe carbon budget is coming... But what effective will it... Read more

18 October, 2007 by silicon.com staff

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