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Half of employees actively jobhunting

​The UK’s only recruitment review site, www.HireScores.com commissioned research to look at the number of Brits looking for new jobs. The site polled 1,987 people, 1,567 of which were currently emp...

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Microsoft planning major security update

​Microsoft is planning a major Patch Tuesday release next week, with 13 updates for a total of 26 vulnerabilities.The company said in its Security Bulletin Advance Notification that it will issue f...

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Women in IT Jobs

​Technical analyst, IT support analyst, SharePoint architect, applications developer, software developer, Unix engineer/programmer... this is a random list of IT vacancies that were recently regist...

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Motorola to split in two

​US comms vendor Motorola has announced it is to split into two independent publicly traded companies in early 2011. One is to formed around its mobile handset and home businesses, while the other ...

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Orange and T-Mobile merger set to receive regulatory approval

​Despite the fact there are worldwide concerns about the merger of Orange and T-Mobile in the UK it is believed that European regulators will this week wave through a deal between the two companies...

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Oracle sheds light on its Sun plans

​Earlier this month the European Commission anti-trust investigation came down in favour of Oracle, rejecting claims that the database giant’s acquisition of Sun, and thereby the open source MySQL ...

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Cloud looms large over government and business alike, says Microsoft

​Everyone seems to be talking about cloud computing at the moment. Why the sudden spike in interest?It gives institutions more flexibility. They can easily call on IT capacity, add IT capacity, pay...

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Business culture hinders remote working

​A recent survey suggests that business culture is the main obstacle to reaping the benefits offered by remote working.This is despite the fact that 73 per cent of workers believe they are more pro...

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AP Group’s Investors in People (IIP) is Renewed

​AP Group has recently had its Investors in People accreditation renewed. Investors in People (IIP) is an award that companies measures its success not just in terms of sales and profits, but in a ...

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Recruitment and Retention Remain Key Challenges for IT Sector

​Recruitment and retention within the IT sector is a key challenge for over half of employers according to a new report by Modis International. Around a third (31%) reported that recruiting the rig...

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IT attention going to upgrades, not overhauls

​IT budgets are being focused on maintaining old systems, rather than implementing new ones, according to a new report from Forrester.The analyst firm found that companies in North America and Euro...

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IT skills shortage in Channel Islands

​Demand for specialist IT personnel is exceeding supply and threatening to hamper the development of new and existing systems at some of the |Channel Islands’ leading financial institutions.While i...