Careless staff leaking company secrets by email
Email may be one of business' favourite ways to shift information between colleagues and customers but apparently a large number of companies are sending confidential con...
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iTunes finally arrives in the UK
Apple's worst-kept secret - the imminent arrival of iTunes in Europe - was finally confirmed to the public at large today.
Prefaced by honky-tonk numbers and old-time ...
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Napster and NTL get into a bundle
With the biggest name in legal music downloading – Apple's iTunes – rumoured to be announcing its European launch date on Tuesday, rival service Napster ha...
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Torvalds leaves Silicon Valley
Linux leader and founder Linus Torvalds is moving with his family to Portland, Oregon, farther from hectic Silicon Valley and closer to his employer, the Open Source Deve...
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Just two per cent of job losses down to offshoring
Only a tiny fraction of workers hit by mass layoffs earlier this year lost their jobs because of offshoring, according to research released by the US government.
The D...
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Apple ramps up Power Mac speeds
Apple may have not hit the magic 3GHz mark, but moving to dual processors has given the lower-end Power Macs a serious speed boost.
The computer maker has updated its ...
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Norwich Union cuts 700 IT jobs
UK insurance firm Norwich Union is to axe 700 staff and 250 contractors from its Life unit in a cost-cutting restructure that will see some of the work outsourced offshor...
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Public sector hoovers up contractors
For the first time, the public sector has overtaken finance as the UK's biggest employer of contractors.
The figures for the two sectors are close - 20.5 per cent...
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IT salaries vary greatly by country
The salaries of IT professionals vary greatly depending on where they live, according to a research report from Mercer Human Resource Consulting.
Annual pay ranges fro...
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Seagate axes 2,900 staff
In another sign of trouble in the disk drive industry, Seagate Technology plans to cut its annual operating costs by about $150m and axe 2,900 jobs.
The drive maker sa...
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