e-payments could kill off the cheque by 2025
Cheques could soon be the financial world's equivalent of the penny-farthing, as debit cards, internet and phone banking continue to wipe out the need for paper money.
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CSC to retrain up to 10,000 workers after offshoring
US IT firm Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) has promised private sector union Amicus it will retrain up to 10,000 UK staff when it moves work offshore.
The agreemen...
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UK the poor cousin of Europe's business travel
UK business people have firmer ties to their desks than their European counterparts, a new survey has found - but a little extra Wi-Fi would help get them out of the actu...
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US fires up RFID immigration border trial
The US Department of Homeland Security has begun testing immigration documents embedded with RFID tags at five spots on the Mexican and Canadian borders.
The goal of t...
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O2 workers reject "insulting" pay offer
UK mobile operator O2 is facing the threat of strike action after workers voted overwhelmingly to reject the company's "insulting" pay offer.
Nearly 4,000 call centre ...
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New Year payroll crisis warning to UK employers
Thousands of UK workers could face delays in getting paid in the New Year if employers fail to meet a December deadline for switching to a new secure payroll system that ...
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Microsoft may cull half of Sybari staff
A month after closing its acquisition of Sybari Software, Microsoft is weighing the fate of roughly half of the security software maker's work force.
Sybari, which emp...
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VoIP will be worth €12bn in Europe by 2010
As many as 32 million workers in Europe will be using voice over IP (VoIP) within five years, according to a report from analyst firm Analysys.
In that same time perio...
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Is training the answer to IT skills shortage?
Training has been offered up as a remedy to the UK's impending IT skills shortage - but getting it right won't be easy.
Right now the practice is not particularly wide...
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M&S signs Microsoft for smart phone trial
Marks and Spencer has chosen Microsoft as its partner in a pilot of wireless email to its executives.
The trial will initially see some 20 execs from across business f...
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