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ICL reorganises services divisions
News ICL has rejigged its services divisions and formed one services umbrella under which services division CFM, ICL Network Services and ICL Education and Consultancy have been put under the charge of network services MD Nigel Hartnell.
[January 21, 1997, 12:42]
ICL brings Net shopping to high streets
News ICL expects to see interest in areas such as ticketing, retail and banking, and says the kiosks will begin appearing in the UK soon. ICL piloted the Internet kiosk at July's Gothenburg Festival where users could access information and images on...
[October 15, 1996, 16:44]
ICL sheds manufacturing arm D2D
News ICL has off-loaded its contract manufacturing arm Design 2 Distribution (D2D), confirming its days as a major hardware manufacturer are numbered. The sale is in keeping with ICL's plans to transform itself into a systems and services company, as...
[January 21, 1997, 10:27]
ICL wins BT millennium bug contract
News BT has announced it's joining forces with ICL in on-going plans to ensure millennium compliance. ICL has been contracted by BT to audit 80,000 desktop computers and correct them where necessary. According to Alan Rowley, director of ICL's Year 2000...
[November 16, 1998, 12:50]
Historic ICL name to go in April
News The British IT industry will wave goodbye to ICL on 2 April, when the Fujitsu subsidiary changes its name to Fujitsu Services. Fujitsu announced last summer that the ICL brand would be dropped, but the new name has been a mystery, with "Fujitsu...
[February 6, 2002, 15:23]
Fujitsu ICL moves closer to NT
News The report states that ICL will retrain about 200 VME software engineers in NT. Also a new line of workstations will work under NT as well as VME.
[December 11, 1996, 9:45]
Former ICL chief to lead broadband advisory group
News The Broadband Stakeholder Group (BSG), the industry body that advises the government on its broadband strategy, has a new chairman -- former ICL chief executive Keith Todd. Todd resigned as ICL chief executive in August 2000 after parent company...
[February 11, 2002, 15:45]
Fujitsu ICL first to bundle MS Word 97
News The deal is the first of its kind in Europe and Fujitsu ICL is hoping to win over any wavering PC buyers with the promise of free software and a reduced-price upgrade to the full Office 97 suite. The Microsoft bundling deal coincides with the...
[December 5, 1997, 13:32]
A Year Ago: Microsoft and ICL team up on 'global alliance'
News ICL and Microsoft have announced a joint "global alliance" that will see the creation of 1,000 new jobs in Europe and a new focus on four key sectors -- retail, education, government, and enterprise infrastructure.
[May 27, 1999, 6:37]
Where is ICL when you need it!
Talkback If the UK government had got behind ICL like the US government did IBM, then the situation would not have occured as the non US would have gone for the better UK systems. Don't confuse Fujitsu with the old ICL as they would not have been involved...
[January 23, 2009, 10:45]
News Burst: ICL and Microsoft in global alliance
News ICL will undertake the largest commercial IT training programme in Europe, training and certifying 4,000 ICL staff to become Microsoft Certified Solution Developers. The duo plan to train more than 4,000 staff, open dedicated solution centres...
[May 26, 1998, 12:22]
Fujitsu-ICL will badge Wyse thin client
News Fujitsu-ICL were looking for solid thin clients and we've been producing Winterm since November 1995," said John Cummins, Wyse director of marketing. The Japanese giant will re-badge Wyse's Winterm thin client, calling it the ErgoWin, in a deal...
[December 6, 1996, 10:41]
Five years ago: Fujitsu smashes dual-CPU server record
News Fujitsu ICL outpaced its competitors and achieved the fastest result ever achieved by a dual-Pentium Pro server running Windows NT Server 4.0, according to TPC Benchmark C results published by the Japanese giant.
[January 2, 2002, 6:31]
Fujitsu 50-50 on Compaq 8-way server deal
News Rival Fujitsu-ICL Computers delivered a thumbs sideways verdict on the Compaq-Corollary alliance today, saying that Compaq would reap benefits from the deal but indicting its in-house research and development.
[October 14, 1997, 15:12]
Public in the dark about Y2K
News The survey, commissioned by IT giant ICL, showed one in three of the general public believe the millennium bug is a threat to their personal safety. In fact all may be affected, according to ICL. Commenting on the survey, Jane Burns, marketing...
[February 2, 1999, 15:16]
Beeb springs Web service surprise
News The service will be based on ICL hardware and software. An ICL-hosted Internet access service will follow, with a 'jargon-free' front-end and firewall to prevent access to adult material from the rest of the Internet.
[September 23, 1996, 16:07]
Tech firms named in apartheid lawsuit
News Fujitsu is facing the lawsuit because of alleged actions by two of its subsidiaries: the Amdahl mainframe business and the Fujitsu Services business, previously better known as ICL. At one time ICL was the UK's largest computing company before...
[August 19, 2002, 12:33]
CCIA vs Microsoft - the core issues
Talkback My brother woirked in an ICL shop on a 1905. I certainlywould not have liked to see ICL artificially suppoorted by court cases, legislation or other pressure, and I don't think it would have done any good anyway.
[October 14, 2003, 11:53]
Veitch Speaks: Return of the dinosaurs
News Come back, all is forgiven Unisys, ICL, Wang and Digital. The new datacentre heartbeat is in systems like ICL's Trimetra and Unisys' ClearPath that combine the ability to run partitioned legacy and Unix applications alongside NT applications.
[October 17, 1998, 12:19]
Government as Role Model?
Blog When I was working at ICL (now Fujitsu Services), I was the government designated ITSO (IT Security Officer) responsible for ensuring that any classified information that ICL had access to as a “List-X” company was properly protected.
[February 4, 2009, 12:55]
