May 2008 News
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Employees fired for e-mail abuse
Nearly half of all UK companies have fired workers in the past year because of e-mail abuses. And over half of UK firms regularly audit employees'...30 May 2008
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EDS shareholder sues over Hewlett Packard acquisition
An EDS shareholder is taking legal action to prevent Hewlett...30 May 2008
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Yahoo's Jerry Yang open to Microsoft deal
Yahoo chief executive Jerry Yang said his company remained open to a potential deal...30 May 2008
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Tesco’s IT strategy to support international expansion
Tesco plans to centralise IT applications across its stores worldwide, after signing a £100m network and voice contract to support its overseas expansion programme.30 May 2008
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Environment Agency signs Fujitsu for flood warnings
The Environment Agency has awarded Fujitsu...30 May 2008
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NHS IT procurement produces 320,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide a year
IT procurement in the NHS in England...30 May 2008
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London Stock Exchange hosts investment firms' infrastructure
The London Stock Exchange...30 May 2008
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European Commission plans to put criminal records on shared database
The European Commission...30 May 2008
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Faster Payments System processes £200m of payments in three days
The Faster Payments System (FPS) introduced this week has processed a transaction every second in three...30 May 2008
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French arrest 22 alleged hackers
French authorities have arrested 22 suspected corporate...30 May 2008
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Lambeth council cuts benefit fraud with lie-detection system
The London Borough of Lambeth council has prevented £450,000 worth of benefit fraud with lie-detecting...30 May 2008
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Improve business understanding to climb IT ladder, says Tesco IT boss
Aspiring IT managers should demonstrate a broad understanding of industry specific issues that affect their companies to...30 May 2008
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NHS trusts may miss referral to treatment requirement as Fujitsu's exits
The termination of Fujitsu's...30 May 2008
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Mobile banking users to soar
Mobile banking users will reach almost a billion within four years and will complete 62 billion transactions in 2012, according to a survey...30 May 2008
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Password sharing leaves NHS audit trail in tatters
Investigators have been unable to trace a doctor involved a medical blunder that ended in a patient's death because staff in a Devon hospital had been30 May 2008
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SMEs will suffer poor broadband services and will not switch
SMEs reliant on broadband...30 May 2008
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Société Générale outlines plans to improve IT security
French bank Société Générale (SocGen) has outlined plans to improve IT security following the...30 May 2008
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The unseen threat: insider attacks and how to stop them
The opportunity for internal fraud springs from firms' lack of ability to see all and know all under their own roofs. When a star performer suddenly becomes...30 May 2008
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Where now for NHS National Programme after Fujitsu exits?
Termination of local service provider's contract follows wider concerns among some officials that the NPfIT is dated in concept as well as practice29 May 2008
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Cambridgeshire County Council deploys electronic document management system for social care
Cambridgeshire County Council has awarded a document...29 May 2008
