Barclays to axe 1,200 back-office jobs
Barclays is to axe 1,200 back-office and call centre jobs as part of a major shake-up aimed at turning around the fortunes of its UK retail banking business.
Most of t...
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Controversial telecoms overhaul: Watchdogs defanged?
Brussels is threatening a complete overhaul of the way the telecoms sector is controlled.
Viviane Reding, information society commissioner for the EC, announced in a s...
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Apple to show off next-gen big cat this summer
Apple CEO Steve Jobs, plus a team of executives, will open this year's Worldwide Developers Conference with a demonstration of Leopard, Apple's next-generation release of...
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Campaign on for training tax-breaks
IT training company The Training Camp has launched a campaign to increase government support for corporate training.
The 'Time to Train' campaign will lobby government...
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A third of CIOs want to change jobs
More than a third of IT directors are looking to change their job within the next 12 months, according to an exclusivesurvey.
The poll of 267 IT chiefs was conducted o...
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Nokia and Siemens merge units to fight Ericsson
Nokia and Siemens are to merge some operations to create a joint venture capable of taking on the likes of Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson.
The union is aimed at making bo...
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Powergen ditches offshore Indian call centres
Powergen is bringing its offshore call centre work back to the UK from India in an attempt to improve customer service and reduce the level of complaints.
The energy c...
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Creative opens new front in iPod patent war
The legal sparring between Apple and Creative has become even more heated, as the Zen maker announced it has lodged a complaint about the iPod-maker with the US Internati...
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The IT system to help the world love the UK
The British Council is replacing a "plethora" of systems as part of a £27m IT infrastructure rollout in 110 countries.
The organisation, which aims to promote the UK a...
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Indian outsourcer brings jobs to Northern Ireland
In a twist on the usual story of UK jobs being sent overseas, Indian business process outsourcing (BPO) company ICICI OneSource is creating around 1,000 jobs over the nex...
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