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Information technology (IT) in Poland

• April 11, 2007 11 Apr'07

  UK outside spammers' 'dirty dozen'

  Sophos has published its latest survey of the top 12 spam-relaying countries in the first quarter of 2007, and the UK falls outside the chart.

• February 21, 2007 21 Feb'07

  Kingfisher migrates to Red Hat Linux

  Kingfisher Group has migrated its 240 Castorama and Brico Dépôt stores on the continent to Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Oracle databases.

• November 14, 2006 14 Nov'06

  UK lags in use of internet

  New figures from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European communities, have shown that broadband use is rising in businesses across Europe.

• November 08, 2006 08 Nov'06

  US still spams the most by far

  The US is still by far the worst country when it comes to hosting and spewing out spam over the internet.

• November 03, 2006 03 Nov'06

  FBI anti-phishing operation leads to Polish and US arrests

  An FBI investigation has led to 17 alleged members of an international phishing gang being arrested in Poland and the US.

• October 16, 2006 16 Oct'06

  Tetley has a nice cuppa SAP savings

  How tea company Tetley avoided a potential multimillion-pound consultancy fee by keeping project management in-house when standardising its global ERP.

• September 22, 2006 22 Sep'06

  Dell goes east for more efficient manufacturing in new Polish plant

  Dell is expanding its manufacturing operations in Europe by building a $200m (£108m) facility in Poland, which will initially employ 1,000 people.

• August 15, 2006 15 Aug'06

  Survey snapshot: SMBs shift their advertising money online

  As SMBs recognize the value of targeted, local online advertising, they are shifting their advertising budgets from traditional media to the Web.

• July 13, 2006 13 Jul'06

  Google Video goes international

  Google has launched international versions of its Google Video site, and has signed up a number of large content providers to provide video clips to users.

• January 09, 2006 09 Jan'06

  Unilever outsources transactions to IBM

  Unilever has signed a contract to outsource some of its financial transactional services to IBM, in a deal covering more than 20 European countries.

• December 16, 2005 16 Dec'05

  Government delays WEEE recycling directive again

  The government has admitted that it is unable to make the European Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment directive (WEEE) law.

• December 15, 2004 15 Dec'04

  Software patents one step closer

  The EU has moved a step closer to allowing software patents. Diplomats from the Permanent Representatives Committee (Coreper) are...

• December 10, 2004 10 Dec'04

  EU software patent directive stalls

  The controversial EU software patent directive has stalled this year after the Council of Ministers decided to postpone its vote...

• December 07, 2004 07 Dec'04

  EU threatens legal action over IT regulation

  The European Commission is to warn eight European Union (EU) member states to bring their regulatory regimes for electronic...

• November 24, 2004 24 Nov'04

  Torvalds denounces EU patent law

  Three prominent open-source software developers have urged the EU to reject a law that would codify the practice of granting...

• November 01, 2004 01 Nov'04

  Global online organised crime ring broken

  In what it called an "Information Age undercover investigation", the US Secret Service announced that it has arrested 28 people...

• October 11, 2004 11 Oct'04

  The secret life of companies exposed

  The court battles between PeopleSoft and Oracle are bringing to light reams of internal documents and discussions usually kept...

• September 07, 2004 07 Sep'04

  Cisco offers rebate incentives for European channel

  Hoping to boost its sales to smaller businesses in Europe and the surrounding region, Cisco Systems will launch a new incentive...

• September 07, 2004 07 Sep'04

  Broadband to boom in new EU countries

  The 10 new countries which joined the European Union in May are poised for rapid growth in high-speed internet use, thanks to...

• September 06, 2004 06 Sep'04

  EU gives open-source software a boost

  The European Union is hoping to give the European open-source software industry a competitive boost through a €1.5m (£1m)...

• July 16, 2004 16 Jul'04

  EU confusion over 'mistaken' EU software directive votes

  Feverish efforts are being made to rescue the European Union's Software Patent Directive after a number of member states said...

• June 10, 2004 10 Jun'04

  Outsourcing association to help UK members find work overseas

  The UK's National Outsourcing Association has launched a European arm to help UK members find work overseas and share research...

• May 05, 2004 05 May'04

  Countries must do more to stop piracy, says report

  Many US trading partners are taking significant steps to improve protection of intellectual property, including software, but...

• March 17, 2004 17 Mar'04

  Staffware releases preliminary results

  Business process management supplier Staffware has announced its preliminary results for the 12 months ending 31 December 2003.

• March 04, 2004 04 Mar'04

  New EU states could be offshore destinations

  Businesses interested in outsourcing IT services to offshore destinations should consider the 10 countries joining the European...

• February 23, 2004 23 Feb'04

  Patch provided for Linux kernel flaw

  A security vulnerability in the Linux kernel that could have allowed a hacker to gain control of the operating system on user...

• July 14, 2003 14 Jul'03

  Pilkington embarks on £10m IT consolidation

  Glass manufacturer Pilkington has embarked on a £10m global server consolidation programme that it expects will create savings of...

• June 12, 2003 12 Jun'03

  PwC sells business process outsourcing unit

  PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has sold its international business process outsourcing (BPO) operations to Exult, a company which...

• May 07, 2003 07 May'03

  Russian government pledges piracy crackdown

  The Russian government pledged to take tougher action to protect intellectual property rights as it faced increasing pressure to...

• March 19, 2003 19 Mar'03

  Tesco goes 3D with first global software roll-out

  Tesco is planning its first ever company-wide, global software roll-out in an attempt to increase productivity and maximise...

• February 25, 2003 25 Feb'03

  Alstom drops EDS from giant outsourcing contract

  Alstom, the French power engineering giant, has dropped plans to outsource its IT infrastructure and applications to EDS.

• December 18, 2002 18 Dec'02

  Deutsche Bank signs up IBM for on-demand deal worth £1.6bn

  Deutsche Bank has signed a 10-year £1.61bn IT outsourcing deal with IBM and expects to save almost £64m a year by shifting to...

• December 05, 2002 05 Dec'02

  Oracle unveils apps and hardware bundle for European midmarket

  Oracle yesterday unveiled its E-Business Suite Special Edition, a package of enterprise applications targeting mid-sized European...

• September 24, 2002 24 Sep'02

  Europe is key to Microsoft and HP .net initiative

  Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer formally launched a $50m (£32m) alliance between Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft in...

• September 18, 2002 18 Sep'02

  Sun targets Microsoft users with StarOffice push

  Sun Microsystems plans to give away its StarOffice 6.0 product to schools around the world and increase the number of languages...

• September 06, 2002 06 Sep'02

  Road congestion charge chief to run NHS IT

  The man responsible for implementing London's congestion charging systems has been appointed the head of National Health Service...

• July 19, 2002 19 Jul'02

  Yahoo! re-evaluates its mail filters

  Yahoo! has cleaned up filters used to protect users of its Web-based e-mail service from malicious scripts embedded in...

• June 27, 2002 27 Jun'02

  Deutsche Bank narrows list of IT service providers

  Deutsche Bank has narrowed the list of companies for its IT outsourcing contract to IBM and CSC Ploenzke, the German subsidiary...

• January 04, 2002 04 Jan'02

  US loosens computer export restrictions

  The US government is easing export restrictions on powerful computer hardware saying it needs to balance national security...

• September 18, 2001 18 Sep'01

  New virus unleashes massive Web server attack

  A new virus, which causes denial of service attacks on Web servers, is spreading rapidly on the Internet through e-mail.

• June 14, 2000 14 Jun'00

  Skills shortage hits e-commerce take-up

  
  
  Bill Goodwin

  Labour shortages are threatening or delaying e-commerce projects as demand for staff with Internet skills in Europe...