5 years ago... Small UK firms urged to go back to nature
04.09.03 Small UK multimedia companies are being encouraged to head for the countryside in a drive to boost inward investment in rural areas.
Wiltshire County Council ...
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Microsoft locks down Office
As digital media publishers scramble to devise a foolproof method of copy protection, Microsoft is ready to push digital rights management into a whole new arena - your d...
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No cuts in Microsoft Office volume licence prices
Volume prices for the next version of Microsoft's Office software will remain unchanged, but the introduction of new licensing provisions is intended to placate big custo...
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Police computers brought down by 'good worm
Sussex Police has been hit by a worm that has knocked out its office computers and forced workers to switch to back-up systems. Emergency calls are not being affected.
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Indian call centre agents drilled by former UK teachers
A team of retired teachers from the UK is in India training call centre staff, according to a report in the Hindustan Times.
Led by a retired teacher from Glasgow, Sco...
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5 years ago... Workers waste a quarter of online time
13.08.98 Employees spend 25 per cent of online time accessing sites not related to work, according to a report out today from CheckNet.
The firm's Surfwatch software a...
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Interwoven to buy collaboration company
Content-management software maker Interwoven said Wednesday it would buy iManage, a specialist in collaboration software, in a stock and cash deal valued at $171m.
The...
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Indian outsourcing: forget the politics, where are the workers?
What's on the mind of executives running the booming Indian IT firms kept busy by the shifting of work from the West to India?
Not the political controversy, but wheth...
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StorageNetworks shuts shop
Roughly three years after its initial public stock offering more than tripled in price to $90, StorageNetworks said on Thursday that it plans to liquidate the company.
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IBM inks $1.1bn outsourcing deal
IBM has inked a $1.1bn, 10-year information technology services contract with ABB, a Swiss power and automation technologies company.
IBM Global Services will take res...
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