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City Firms Warned Of Hackers In Disguise
News Firms were warned by Inspector Norman Russell -- top ranking crime prevention officer with City police -- to be especially vigilant when taking on temporary staff in an interview with the London Evening Standard, published Monday.
[April 11, 2000, 8:04]
Surveillance: Net Surfing Could Get You Sacked
News Many of the firms involved are banks and City firms and they are terribly concerned about their names being associated with porn sites and the like," he said. Firms are still trying to work out how to cope with having the Internet in the office...
[September 27, 1999, 11:25]
Don't Cry For Me New Economy
News Many new firms -- both old economy as well as new -- fail because they are underfunded, or rush to profitability too quickly. The old economy is connected to the new, business to business firms need thriving consumer businesses to buy their...
[May 31, 2000, 7:11]
Lacey's Paper Round
News Spam costs UK firms over £5 billion a year - Independent The FT quotes a Forrester Research report that says "over the next three years, smart (online) retailers will forego current profits and increase spending on promotion, technology...
[June 1, 1998, 11:23]
US Report: Old Cambridge Targets High-tech Success
News The U.S.big five accounting firms now are represented in the city. The number of law firms has mushroomed from 400 to 1,300 since 1995, and the ranks of high-tech consultants, who weren't even here three years ago, stand at 1,350.
[December 1, 1998, 10:18]
City-wide Wireless Broadband Coming To The UK?
News However, phone companies are hitting back at Tropos, with firms such as Verizon, SMB and Qwest pushing for legislation to prevent the rollout of wireless access points. A company that has built a number of city-wide wireless broadband networks in...
[April 21, 2005, 16:10]
Illegal-software Crackdown Targets Glasgow
News But now the BSA is investigating 41 firms after a 20-fold increase in reports of alleged illegal software in the city during the amnesty. A crackdown will be targeted at companies in Glasgow after the city was pinpointed as being a hotspot for...
[February 8, 2008, 8:23]
A Year Ago: Melissa Stalks The City
News Several firms in the City of London including investment bank, Investco and solicitors Travers Smith Braithwaite were hit by the Melissa virus over the weekend according to sources. Robert Turner from the IT department of Travers Smith Braithwaite...
[March 29, 2000, 7:00]
LANsultants Archive One Compliance
White Papers Ronald Szpindor, a consultant with the leading computer service provider to medium-sized firms in Center City, Philadelphia, recently installed C2C's Archive One Compliance for a Philadelphia-based financial institution.
[September 15, 2005, 0:00]
Rome Uses IntraLearn Learning Management System
White Papers Rome's IT consulting firms and Authorized IntraLearn Resellers, the RSO Group and INTES have standardized on the IntraLearn software platform for delivering e-Learning solutions to their clients. IntraLearn Software Corporation, a leading supplier...
[July 21, 2004, 0:00]
Remote Server Management Supports Arch Insurance Growth, Continuity
White Papers Nearly four years later, the New York City-based provider of property, casualty and specialty insurance for corporations, professional firms and financial institutions worldwide has an infrastructure more advanced and flexible than it otherwise...
[June 22, 2005, 0:00]
Strohl Systems Group Case Study: Baker Botts
White Papers For Strohl client, Houston-based Baker Botts, one of America's oldest law firms, the Tropical Storm Allison provided an all-too-real opportunity to test its continuity plan. And with 17 people drowned in the Houston area alone and busy city streets...
[August 23, 2006, 0:00]
Email Embarrassment For City Lawyer
News After about a week the message had been distributed to over a million people, passing through many of London's blue chip firms. The dangers of sending email from work were brought vividly home to a lawyer at a City firm this week who sent out a...
[December 14, 2000, 10:55]
German City Reveals Linux Migration Tactics
News He said that with big IT firms such as IBM backing Linux, the operating system shouldn't be seen as a tool only for geeks, and that the technical challenge posed in migrating to and supporting Linux shouldn't be beyond an IT professional.
[February 11, 2004, 12:00]
News Roundup: How Real Is The May Day Hack Threat?
News Last May Day, police warned businesses that anarchist groups had planted temporary staff in City firms to coordinate an online attack -- a threat that never materialised. The UK's National High Tech Crime Unit has said it is not planning any action...
[May 1, 2001, 9:42]
TFT Market Boom Despite Glass Shortage
News The traditional buyers of flat panel screens are City firms but now Samsung has seen a lot of interest in other sectors. We have moved our business up market and we are getting a lot of interest for flat panels outside of the traditional City...
[February 19, 1999, 10:19]
Shanghai Targets Internet-based Economy By 2010
News One-third of foreign investment into the city was for IT and local IT firms contributed one-fifth of the city's export revenues last year, said the Xinhua report. Shanghai is to become a key Asia-Pacific telecom hub with an Internet-based economy...
[August 4, 2003, 9:25]
Lacey's Paper Round
News The city can be unforgiving when technolgy firms don't meet forecast profits, as Sage found out last week, reports The Daily Telegraph. Sage results disapoint the city -- The Daily Telegraph The millennium bug is in the news again, with the...
[December 14, 1998, 10:24]
Unions Protest Against BT's Wireless Sell-off
News The CWU has been attempting to persuade these firms that they should tell BT to stop the split. Many of BT's shares are owned by city institutions. American city firm Goldman Sachs predicts that mmO2 will float on the stock market at around 70p...
[October 23, 2001, 13:10]
LookBack '98: A Year In The Life Of The Bug
News In a last ditch attempt to persuade firms to act, Action 2000 launched the world's first bug park in Welwyn Garden City in November. A national poster campaign, press adverts in national and local papers urged firms to recognise the bug as a...
[December 24, 1998, 6:11]
