All Legislation and Regulation News - December 2007

Marks and Spencer signs £19m deal with Computacenter

Marks & Spencer has signed a five-year £19m IT managed services contract with Computacenter.

Virgin Media signs £98m voice network management contract with BT

Virgin Media has signed a £98m fixed-line voice network management contract with BT to cut its overall communications costs to supply customers.

Ofcom to force BT to up broadband service to rivals

BT has made progress in creating a fair playing field for rival operators in the broadband market, but it must do more, says regulator Ofcom.

Green strategies not a priority for European IT departments

Datacentre managers are being driven to adopt green policies to meet operational as opposed to altruistic goals.

UK businesses failing to respond to e-mails

UK consumers are being forced to use the telephone to get good customer service as businesses fail to respond to online inquiries, according to research from e-service provider Transversal.

Socitm Insight assesses the future of transformational government

Socitm Insight will hold a conference on the future of local government transformation in January.

ICT-based carbon emissions fly past aviation industry

IT and communications (ITC) sector in the UK currently has a carbon footprint similar to the aviation industry but will rapidly cruise past poster child for climate change.

Business backing is vital to realise green IT savings

Although IT directors may be getting sick of all the noise around green IT, it is clear that the hype is way ahead of the reality for most ­organisations.

Big business backs greener IT body

  • News
  • Author: Ian Grant
  • Date: 03 December 2007
Big business is lining up behind a new lobby group that will call on the government to resolve the environmental impact contradictions between reducing their carbon footprint by 60% and processing and storing more data digitally.
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