IT jobs and recruitment

FDM seek 1000 graduates for training scheme

IT services provider FDM is recruiting 1000 graduates for its training scheme in 2011. Continue Reading

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• Jenny Williams, University of Gloucestershire

BCS CEO David Clarke talks about the future of the IT industry

David Clarke, CEO of the chartered institute of computing the BCS, talks to Computer Weekly about being awarded an MBE, the future of the IT profession and tackling a membership revolt against his leadership last year. Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

2010 review: Top 10 IT skills and careers stories

In Computer Weekly's review of the best of the IT year in 2010, here we look back on the top 10 IT skills stories of the year. Continue Reading

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• Computer Weekly Staff

BCS’ CEO David Clarke awarded an MBE

David Clarke, CEO of BCS, the chartered institute for IT, has been awarded an MBE in the Queen's New Year's Honours list for services to the industry. Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

FireControl project could be axed before Christmas

The government's controversial FireControl project could be flagged for review today. The Fire Brigade's Union (FBU) said it was expecting an announcement from fire minister Bob Neil later today, in which it hopes the project designed to reduce the number of fire service control rooms from 46 to nine will be shelved. Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

UKtech50: The most influential people in UK IT - numbers 11-20

Computer Weekly presents the first ever list of the most influential people in UK IT Continue Reading

UKtech50: The most influential people in UK IT - the top 10

Computer Weekly presents the first ever list of the most influential people in UK IT Continue Reading

This year's Byte Night raises £425,000 so far

More than 600 people took part in the IT industry's annual open air sleep-out to raise funds for underprivileged children Continue Reading

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• Computer Weekly Staff

Photos: Great female technology entrepreneurs

While the arguments over how to get a better gender balance in tech fly back and forth, we’ve highlighted just a few female entrepreneurs working in the UK who founded their own IT companies, or use technology to provide a product or service. Continue Reading

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• Rebecca Thomson, Computer Weekly

Photos: Ten top tips for getting an IT job

A recession is never a good time to be graduating but those with IT qualifications can boost their chances by following ten steps as recommended by a massive recruiter of IT graduates. Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Flipbook: Top Ten Funny Tech support nightmares

Ever had a call you wish you didn't take? This flipbook looks at some of the funniest tech support queries we've heard of. Continue Reading

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• Faisal Alani, UK at eBay

Information Commissioner raids anti-union blacklisting firm

The Office of the Information Commissioner's made an unprecedented raid on The Consulting Association, which ran an illegal blacklisting database. Construction workers suspected of union activites were barred from work. Continue Reading

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• Phil Chamberlain

Photos: Best Places to Work 2009 winners

The awards was held at the exclusive London Royal Lancaster Hotel, on the 22nd May 2009. IT departments enjoyed a superb lunch and stimulating guest speaker - Tim Fitzhigham - author of "In The Bath". Continue Reading

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• Faisal Alani, UK at eBay

Bankruptcy, prosecution and disrupted livelihoods - Postmasters tell their story

Rebecca Thomson reports on claims that the Post Office has failed to recognise a potential IT problem. Continue Reading

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• Rebecca Thomson, Computer Weekly

UBS to cut thousands of jobs

Swiss bank UBS will cut about 10,000 jobs to save up to £2.3bn by the end of next year with more highly skilled IT workers to flood onto a finance sector...

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Tens of thousands of IT jobs at risk in global finance sector

The investment banking industry will see thousands of job cuts as mergers are completed and companies prepare for a slowdown in business. Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Photos: BCS IT Industry Awards 2008 part 3

The BCS IT Industry Awards presentation ceremony took place at the Marriott Grosvenor House Hotel in London on Thursday 4 December 2008. Here you can see some of merriment at the awards dinner. Continue Reading

Photos: BCS IT Industry Awards 2008 part 2

The BCS IT Industry Awards presentation ceremony took place at the Marriott Grosvenor House Hotel in London on Thursday 4 December 2008. Continue Reading

Photos: BCS IT Industry Awards 2008 part 1

The BCS IT Industry Awards presentation ceremony took place at the Marriott Grosvenor House Hotel in London on Thursday 4 December 2008. Here you can see some of the winners collecting their awards. Continue Reading

Photos: Chic geek gifts for her

Check out our selection of chic geek gifts for her this Christmas - stylish tech-themed presents for the style-conscious IT professional who's proud of her vocation. Continue Reading

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• Rebecca Froley

Photos: Chic geek gifts for him

Check out our selection of chic geek gifts for him - stylish IT and technology themed presents for the style-conscious IT professional who's proud of his vocation. Continue Reading

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• Rebecca Froley

Three Peaks Challenge 2009

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• James Garner

Flipbook: Credit Crunch jokes

In the Computer Weekly office, we get a lot of credit crunch jokes sent to us so we decided to put them up on the website as a way of lifting the gloom of the 'recession depression'. Continue Reading

Photo story: Meet the Computer Weekly team

Meet the team of reporters and editors behind Computer Weekly and ComputerWeekly.com. Continue Reading

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• Rebecca Froley

Redundancy tracker

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Managed VoIP keeps regatta's communications afloat

The world's largest rowing regatta utilises managed VoIP to ease its year-round communications needs -- and for a temporary system during its celebrated two-day event. Continue Reading

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• Kate Dostart, Associate Editor

VMware takes on data migration

VMware supports migrating data between disc arrays with Storage VMotion, changing the equation between server and storage virtualisation devices. Continue Reading

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• Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer

Unified communications slow to change U.S. work culture

Unified communications implementation is still high, but many enterprises have yet to allow users all its advantages. Continue Reading

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• Kate Dostart, Associate Editor

NetApp revenues fall $61M short of forecast

NetApp announces that its revenues are down 15% from last quarter, blaming a continued decline in data storage spending. Continue Reading

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• Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer

Videoconferencing tool gives Uno an edge

Videoconferencing has given Pizzeria Uno the ability to bring together more than 200 people and has enabled more efficient and cost-effective communication. Continue Reading

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• Andrew R. Hickey, Senior News Writer

Unified messaging system updates company's voicemail

Installing a new unified messaging system helped one company in its daily struggles with an outdated voicemail system. Continue Reading

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• Kate Dostart, Associate Editor

Unified communication case studies: What you need to know

Learn how others overcame the expected and the unexpected challenges of a UC deployment in our case studies. Continue Reading

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• SearchVoIP.com editors

Action is the deal on Naked Leader's blog

The Deal is the latest blog to launch on ComputerWeekly.com - and one with a twist. David Taylor, author of The Naked Leader, said, "My blog won't be about discussion and debate, but about action." Continue Reading

Skype to the desk phone saves company a bundle

Skype on the desk phone has helped a Chicago-based furniture maker save a considerable amount of money on long-distance voice charges. Continue Reading

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• Andrew R. Hickey, Senior News Writer

What are some of the hidden costs of managing unstructured data?

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Outsourced VoIP helps devastated company recover

Outsourced VoIP helped a Berkeley company keep up business as usual after a fire destroyed its offices. Continue Reading

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• Andrew R. Hickey, Senior News Writer

Colonial Williamsburg virtualizes with Acopia

The living history museum is designed to show customers the 18th century, but behind the scenes, the business is implementing tiered storage using 21st-century file virtualization. Continue Reading

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• Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer

Big pay for storage jobs, page 6

Find out what other storage professionals are being paid in this year's salary survey. Continue Reading

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Find out what other storage professionals are being paid in this year's salary survey. Continue Reading

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Find out what other storage professionals are being paid in this year's salary survey. Continue Reading

Big pay for storage jobs

Find out what other storage professionals are being paid in this year's salary survey. Continue Reading

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Find out what other storage professionals are being paid in this year's salary survey. Continue Reading

Big pay for storage jobs, page 5

Find out what other storage professionals are being paid in this year's salary survey. Continue Reading

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Find out what other storage professionals are being paid in this year's salary survey. Continue Reading

VoIP convergence: Managing staffing issues

Companies making the transition to IP telephony must find a way to converge their voice and data networks -- and the employees who work on them. Continue Reading

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• Amy Kucharik, TechTarget

EMC shuffles channel deck

EMC announced on its earnings call earlier this month that it would be cutting management jobs as part of a round of 1,250 layoffs, and it looks like at least a couple of those positions have already gone from the channel group. Continue Reading

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• Jo Maitland, TechTarget

Alliance and Leicester to overhaul core systems

Alliance & Leicester has announced plans replace many of its core banking systems with Accenture’s Alnova Financial Solutions banking platform under a three-year IT-led business transformation programme. Continue Reading

Alliance and Leicester to overhaul core systems

Alliance & Leicester has announced plans replace many of its core banking systems with Accenture’s Alnova Financial Solutions banking platform under a three-year IT-led business transformation programme. Continue Reading

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• Christian Annesley

VoIP outsourcing: Save money and gain flexibility

VoIP outsourcing is the way to go for organisations looking to deploy voice services quickly and flexibly without a major investment in skills and upkeep. Continue Reading

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• Amanda Mitchell, News Editor

VoIP outsourcing: Save money while gaining flexibility

VoIP outsourcing is the way to go for firms looking to deploy voice services quickly and flexibly without a major investment in skills and upkeep. Continue Reading

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• Amanda Mitchell, News Editor

Skills fears as number of IT students plummets

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Outsourced way to hire contract staff

IT services company FDM has launched a "straight through" recruitment service to help IT departments in the finance sector recruit contract staff. Continue Reading

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• Tash Shifrin

Demand for development skills soars as firms seek business edge

Computer Weekly salary survey shows IT departments eager to secure skills for the future. Continue Reading

HP sales boost as restructuring costs

HP reported a 10% increase in sales for the third quarter, and said it would spend $900m (£530m) on redundancy costs in the final quarter. Continue Reading

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• Antony Savvas

Combining technology and social engineering: Hacking behind bars

In this excerpt from Chapter 11 of "The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security," authors Kevin Mitnick and William L. Simon begin a story that shows how social engineering can be used with technology. Continue Reading

HP attempts to reassures anxious customers on impact of job losses

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Riding the wave of change

CIOs can thrive as pace of change quickens, argues Des Lee Continue Reading

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• Des Lee

How to win the jobs game

Many readers have been disappointed by recruitment agents. All the more reason to develop the relationship Continue Reading

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• Colin Christie

Atos wins DWP deal extension

The Department for Work and Pensions has renewed a contract with IT services company Atos Origin to deliver medical advice and... Continue Reading

Demand more from agencies: fine tune the recruitment process and reap the rewards

Users must be proactive in ensuring that recommended candidates are suitable Continue Reading

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• Jerry Cave, director of PLan-Net

First integrated children's system goes live

The first web-based system to help councils meet new legal requirements for information sharing among teachers, social workers... Continue Reading

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• Lindsay Clark

Ex-helicopter chief says pilot verdict is 'ridiculous'

A former director of helicopter procurement at the Ministry of Defence has described the blaming of the pilots for the crash on... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Achieving the goal of CIO

What exactly does a chief information officer do?Paul Burfitt, global CIO at AstraZeneca, analysed the various aspects of his job... Continue Reading

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• Julia Vowler

IT staff predict e-government success despite councillors’ doubts

Tony Blair has failed to convince councillors in almost half of the UK’s local authorities of the value of e-government. Continue Reading

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• James Rogers

What's in an IT name?

What exactly does a chief information officer do?Paul Burfitt, global CIO at AstraZeneca, analysed the various aspects of his job... Continue Reading

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• Nick Huber

Industry recruits wrong people

UK industry could be recruiting candidates with the wrong personality type to be a success in IT. Continue Reading

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• Nathalie Towner & John Riley

Scale 21 conference will reveal key to IT success

The results of the largest ever survey of IT professionals and entrepreneurs are to be announced at the Building Britain's... Continue Reading

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• Nathalie Towner

Infineon claims cost-cutting success

Semiconductor maker Infineon Technologies is claiming progress in its plan to cut costs by £630m over the next year, but... Continue Reading

Mitsubishi Electric looks to earnings revision

Mitsubishi Electric has described as "speculative" reports in a Japanese newspaper that the company is intending to reduce its... Continue Reading

IT spending will rise faster than inflation

Although suppliers may be shedding IT jobs, corporate users still plan to spend an extra 11% on permanent staff this year - five... Continue Reading

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• John Riley

Government to train unemployed in IT

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• Arlene Martin

Firms warned to monitor service as Cisco cuts staff

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Feeling the pinch

The Internet age is not over just because a few dotcoms have run into difficulty, says Martin Butler, who believes that the... Continue Reading

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• Martin Butler

Window of the world

Going online means going global. So why do so many companies give their website less consideration than other areas of the... Continue Reading

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• Rod Tyler

Silicon Valley looks East

"Cross border sourcing" is gaining in popularity in the US where an expanding skills vacuum has led Silicon Valley businesses to... Continue Reading

The world is enough

As a global business, IT offers managers and directors many opportunities to work abroad and, as Julia Vowler finds out, these... Continue Reading

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• Julia Vowler

Delivering digital streaming in the Real world

While the fortunes of streaming media firm Real Networks have been in decline, the company is not taking it lying down, writes... Continue Reading

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• Danny Bradbury

Armed forces morale hit by Chinook say MPs

MPs said yesterday that the Government's refusal to move on the Public Accounts Committee report on the 1994 Chinook crash was hitting armed forces morale.... Continue Reading

A thoroughly modern e-apprenticeship

Jane Dudman explains how young people in Newham have the chance to be apprentices in a scheme to lessen the blow of the IT skills... Continue Reading

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• Jane Dudman

IT man on the 5am ferry as Horizon reaches Orkney

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Post Offices in two of the most isolated parts of the UK are the latest to go live as part of the Horizon counter...

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• James Rogers

Report reveals trend to more women in IT

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