In Depth
In Depth
IT strategy
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Standard Life keeps IT fresh with enthusiasm and experience
Sandy Crombie joined Standard Life 40 years ago in the IT department. Some of the code he helped to developed back then is still in use today. He is now... Continue Reading
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Competition: Top Web 2.0 woes and social media mistakes
Competition now closed - you told us your stories of Web 2.0 woes for a chance to win the latest MacBook White 2 or an iPod Nano. Sponsored by Blue Coat Systems. Continue Reading
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Remote Working: Your Office Anywhere
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Flesh out the skeleton with the number seven
The first thing to realise is that the four-digit number to be divided cannot possibly start with 2 or higher. Continue Reading
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Plus ça change, plus c’est la même alphametic
Solution to Plus ça change, plus c’est la même alphametic Continue Reading
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Case Study: How Wow saved money by switching to hosting
Accountancy services firm The Wow Company has saved money and improved its operations with a hosted file management platform and an improved messaging system. The... Continue Reading
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Features list: July 2009 - SMEs
Features list: July 2009 - SMEs Continue Reading
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Place the values to unlock the secret of the pyramid
It is essential the eight selected numbers sum to exactly 45 in this case. This is because here, each number contributes twice, to two vertices, and there... Continue Reading
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Getting finance in a recession
Despite the recession firms still need to invest in IT, but gaining finance is harder than ever. In the first part of an exclusive round-up, Joe O’Halloran reports from a roundtable debate hosted by Computer Weekly and Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets ... Continue Reading
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The Puzzler: 34 is the key to the magic square
Each of the four columns, each of the four rows, and each of the two long diagonals sums to a constant of 34. Continue Reading
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HCL takes on the world
Raja Sawhney, European president of outsourcing giant HCL, tells Stuart Lauchlan about the firm's global ambitions Continue Reading
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Best Places to Work in IT 2009: the winners
The Best Places to Work in IT Awards 2009 were celebrated in London on 22 May. Here we profile the winning workplaces. Continue Reading
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Never the twain sums’ digits’ values shall meet
Tom Marlow will receive £20 for this highly original contribution. Try more puzzlers >> Continue Reading
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Conundrums pay tribute to a singular digit – number 7
The required series of six primes in arithmetical progression is 7, 37, 67, 97, 127 and 157. In the second problem, the skeletal sum reconstructs to... Continue Reading
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Leave the calculator alone to deduce the missing digit
The key to a speedy solution is to realise that all factorials greater than 5! must be divisible by 9 (because 3 and 6 are factors of 6! and 3x6=18, which...
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