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Intellect implores tech sector to go green by 2020
News The IT and consumer electronics sector needs to act now by keeping tabs on its CO2 emissions, pushing customers towards greener behaviour and accelerating the implementation of low-carbon technology and practices, according to the report by...
[February 13, 2008, 9:07]
Intellect: European software industry booming
News The European software industry is booming at the moment, according to IT trade association Intellect. At an awards ceremony in Brussels on Monday, Intellect announced the top European IT companies for 2007 — the "Truffle 100".
[November 21, 2007, 11:12]
Intellect launches ICT networking group
News Intellect, the trade association for the IT and telecoms industries, has launched a social network for young people. The Young Professionals' Network will "look to engage young professionals with the wider aspects of the ICT industry and offer an...
[April 26, 2007, 15:47]
Government 'hindering knowledge economy'
News John Woodget, president of Intellect and managing director of Intel UK, has accused the government of failing to support the UK's knowledge economy. Speaking at the launch of an Intellect report, Navigating the New Economy, on Wednesday, Woodget...
[May 10, 2006, 16:30]
Unix users up in arms at Bill Gates' knighthood
Talkback What about the intellect that is being poached out of Africa - enourmous "brain drain" comparatively speaking. And how does the absorbtion of such intellect aid with the accelerated growth of the US? Smithy, one smiles when you praise Gates for the...
[February 2, 2004, 13:14]
Green Party urges EU to go open-source
Talkback What a rediculous comment from Intellect: "According to the group, increasing use of open source software development by governments could have a negative impact on competition for contracts, the quality of the resulting software and even the...
[September 17, 2003, 4:40]
'Securipedia' wiki launched
News A wiki aimed at the UK IT security community has been launched by industry association Intellect. Organisations and individuals can use Securipedia to pool information on policy, research or projects," said Intellect programme manager Joel Grundy...
[September 30, 2008, 15:43]
Industry body demands broader R&D tax credit
News Intellect, a trade group representing IT businesses such as Microsoft and Intel in the UK, has criticised the way the government is handling its tax credit for research and development. Intellect says that the government's current consultation on...
[July 14, 2003, 12:48]
IT employers warned against ageism
News Companies continuing to discriminate against older staff will put themselves at a competitive disadvantage in the future, according to IT industry body Intellect. Beatrice Rogers, senior programme manager for the knowledge economy at Intellect...
[September 12, 2006, 16:35]
IT industry's 'macho culture' drives women away
News Long hours and a macho culture are driving women out of the IT profession, according to research from the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and IT trade body Intellect. The UK IT industry is world leading but it won't stay that way for long if...
[September 12, 2005, 9:15]
IT group pushes for results-based contracts
News Organisations should look to get their technology suppliers more directly committed to their business needs as a way of cutting costs in a tough economy, according to UK IT industry body Intellect. Such contracts are the way of the future for...
[May 13, 2009, 14:42]
UK 'needs' a minister for IT and innovation
News Intellect, which represents a range of IT suppliers to government, wants a "clear vision" from the next prime minister on developing the UK's knowledge economy. According to Intellect, the minister would coordinate work across four pillars:
[May 3, 2005, 16:50]
Firms without broadband 'stuck in ignorance'
News These are the key conclusions of research published last week by Intellect, the IT and telecommunications trade union, which suggests that lack of awareness, not price or availability, is the key handicap to increased broadband uptake by small and...
[November 27, 2002, 12:52]
Industry group urges government to think twice on open source
News Intellect, which was formed from the merger of the Computer Services and Software Association and the Federation of the Electronics Industry last year, and represents about 1,000 UK IT companies, said that the requirement of open-source licences...
[June 19, 2003, 13:52]
Government backs grid computing with £1m
News IECnet - the Inter-Enterprise Computing Knowledge Transfer Network - is a collaborative project between IT industry body Intellect and the National e-Science Centre. The development of the project is being overseen by Ian Osborne, who moved to...
[August 10, 2005, 15:35]
Female IT workers face pay gap of one-fifth
News More than half (53 percent) of respondents to the third annual Perceptions of Equal Pay survey, conducted by IT trade association Intellect, either believe their salary is not comparable to male colleagues who perform a similar role, or else do...
[October 31, 2008, 11:25]
Broadband auction result could be an own goal
News Intellect, a trade body that represents Britain's IT, telecoms and electronics industry, fears that the auction will fail to give a boost to Broadband Britain, at a time when the crisis over broadband availability in rural areas is reaching a...
[June 23, 2003, 15:16]
Campaigners celebrate patent directive defeat
News Although pro-patent campaign groups such as CompTIA, EICTA and Intellect had lobbied for the directive to be passed by parliament, they claim to welcome the European Parliament's decision. John Higgins, the director general of Intellect, said that...
[July 7, 2005, 16:45]
Female IT workforce shrinks again
News The continuing drop in the number of women in the IT industry continues to have serious and far-reaching implications for the UK economy," said Carrie Hartnell, private sector programme manager for Intellect, the trade association.
[November 24, 2006, 13:23]
UK urged to give up low-cost software market
News Sean Finnan, president of the UK trade association for technology Intellect and UK country manager for EDS, said it is time for Britain to forget any hopes of matching China and India in the low-cost software market.
[May 14, 2008, 8:10]
