Ovum warns regulators 'Get your hands off our mobiles or else
Regulators have been warned that too much interference in the mobile industry could cost the UK in lost revenue and jobs.
Analyst Ovum estimates that the mobile indust...
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Bureaucrats rubber stamp EU software patent law
The European Parliament has voted to approve a highly controversial directive governing the patentability of computer-implemented inventions - including software - but wi...
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Torvalds and Cox make patent protest
Two of the most prominent figures in the open source community, Linus Torvalds and Alan Cox, are urging the European Parliament to reject a proposed directive on software...
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Sun slashes jobs
Sun Microsystems is cutting about 1,000 more jobs to try to return to profitability - the third round of layoffs in the company's effort to recover from the high-tech dow...
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Silicon Valley hit by outsourcing protests
A two-day conference instructing companies on moving technology jobs and other work overseas drew picketers, in one of the first San Francisco Bay Area protests over a gr...
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BT and Connect have outsourcing love-in
BT and communications trade union Connect have today announced an agreement to safeguard all jobs if the telco decides to undertake any more outsourcing.
The agreement...
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3Com to close Dublin plant
3Com will outsource its product manufacturing and eliminate about 1,000 jobs in an effort to cut costs.
The network gear maker said it will hand over all of its manufa...
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Hard-up IT departments fight for cash
IT chiefs are still having to fight for every penny of IT funding, and are planning to focus their spending on badly-needed infrastructure upgrades for the near term, acc...
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Ellison still 'determined' to acquire PeopleSoft
Oracle Chief Executive Larry Ellison has repeated his determination to acquire rival PeopleSoft, but was cagey about whether he would raise the offer price of his hostile...
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11 88 88 axes directory enquiries staff
One of the new 118 directory enquiries companies has laid off 250 temporary staff, just two weeks after launching.
Conduit, which runs the 11 88 88 service, has axed t...
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