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Axe falls on IT as Norwich Union targets £350m saving

Plans by Norwich Union's parent company Aviva to trim £350m from its costs will result in major cuts to Norwich Union's IT operations, including the loss of 385 IT jobs.

Businesses ‘undervalue project skills’

IT project management skills are undervalued by many businesses, a survey of 300 firms has revealed.

Fibre Channel over Ethernet takes its next step

At Storage Networking World, QLogic, NetApp and startup Nuova demo Fibre Channel over Ethernet, but the race to 10 Gigabit Ethernet is far from over.

The government is searching for its next generation of IT leaders

The government is using its new Civil Service Technology in Business Fast Stream scheme to capture the best IT talent to help run its major technology projects.

Harnessing generation Y

Cynics might see Second Life as just an opportunity for cross-dressing in cyberspace. But the parallel world of which it is both exemplar and metaphor is being harnessed by serious businesses.

Employers could lose £260m a week from online Christmas shopping

UK employers stand to lose £260m a week in lost productivity from office online Christmas shopping.

IT must do more to become a profession, says BCS

The IT industry needs to work together more if it is to be recognised as an established profession, according to the British Computer Society (BCS).

Are Lufthansa recruits heading for a boob?

Jobs in IT are not what they once were. Long gone are the dotcom days when a Java developer could be seen cruising around Canary Wharf while chucking empty bottles of Cristal though his side window. These days, you take jobs where you can get them and no matter how painful they sound, as reader Pete Kostiuk points out.

Keep friends close and your enemies on Hatebook

You could bury IT managers under the mountain of surveys that say that Facebook is the fourth horseman of the employee productivity apocalypse. But this is not a one-horse race to consume network bandwidth, as horseman number five enters the race in the form of Hatebook.com.

Microsoft technology helps create 42% of the world’s IT jobs

Microsoft says its global business ecosystem has created 14.7 million jobs, and that firms that use its technology make more than £3.50 for every 50p that Microsoft earns from it.
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