UK government warned to steer clear of key escrow
The UK's consultation paper on electronic commerce - due to be released tomorrow morning - will force London's information systems offshore if it supports key escrow. Tha...
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Orange surges into profit and creates 2,000 jobs
Orange went into operating profit last year, it has revealed in its annual results.
The news comes as the company announced the creation of 2,000 jobs to cope with the...
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ICL lands £50m UK census deal
UK services company ICL has snatched part of a £50m contract from the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS), after it was rejected by EDS.
The project involves digit...
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M&S axes IT director in night of the long knives
Marks and Spencer (M&S) IT and Logistics director, John Sacher CBE has been sacked in a radical reshuffling of the retailer's top jobs. He is one of 31 out of 125 top...
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UK job centres go online
The UK's Employment Service will enter the information age this year with the creation of national virtual job centre schemes across the country.
The move is part of a...
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Reuters blames losses on Y2K and euro
Reuters Group has reported a 7.3 per cent drop in operating profits for 1998. The media company - which as part of its core business provides financial research to the Ci...
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Marconi creates 300 jobs
Marconi Communications is searching for graduate trainees to fill 300 vacancies in England and Italy. The posts have been created to help the company expand its communica...
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Apple plant crosses Irish sea
Apple is shifting production of its iMac computer from Cork, Ireland to the LG plant in South Wales at the cost of 450 jobs.
The job losses are a mixture of full-time ...
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Cbot shies away from Eurex alliance
Members of the Chicago Board of Trade (Cbot) yesterday voted to ditch plans to form an alliance with Eurex, the Swiss-German derivatives exchange based in Frankfurt.
I...
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China Telecom named as Siemens chip plant saviour
A leading union official has named China Telecom as the backer of an attempted management buyout of Siemens' Tyneside chip plant.
Roger Lyons, Director General of the ...
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