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Derek Gannon stepped from IT to COO of newspaper company Guardian News & Media and now moves the company into new horizons. Kevin O'Brien, head of IS at Comet sees networking as the key to the future of the electronics retail giant.
INDUSTRY > Leisure and Entertainment > NEWS
04/07/2008
IT staffing issues remain a major concern, say execs
Finding the right IT staff remains a challenge for large companies, according to a roundtable of executives.
26/06/2008
Betfair builds in-house platform for faster transactions
Betfair has built an in-house transaction processing and event platform, which it says has the capability of processing up to one million transactions per second, a 100-fold increase on previous rates.
CIO News View: Paul Collingwood, Paul Coby and the art of the mea culpa
Sorry seems to be the hardest word
11/06/2008
Lottery operator outsources communications datacentre
Camelot, the operator of the National Lottery, has signed a 10-year deal to outsource its datacentre to Equinix.
23/05/2008
Lottery fund to spend up to £5m on fund management system
The Big Lottery Fund, which distributes revenues from the National Lottery to good causes, is looking for supplier to build a funding management system.
20/05/2008
Betfair and Rorie Devine part company
CTO leaves after four year career, two as CTO
15/05/2008
Comcast buys social networking firm Plaxo
Comcast will acquire social-networking company Plaxo to power upcoming community features on its TV, broadband data and phone services.
01/05/2008
Sky raises EDS legal costs to £21m
BSkyB has increased its budget for its lawsuit against EDS over a large CRM system implementation, as the parties argue in court over increasingly fine details of the case.
10/04/2008
Time Warner 'wants Yahoo/AOL merger'
Time Warner could provide Yahoo an alternative to a hostile Microsoft takeover, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), although News Corp also remains in the running for the online giant.
08/04/2008
Offering its tech helps 888 numbers
Open strategy and development helps gambling company get over US ban
04/04/2008
Google CIO Heads for EMI Music
CIO Douglas Merrill is leaving Google to join EMI Music as president of its digital business division
01/04/2008
Database and web investment offer Bloomsbury magic future
Book publisher looks towards digital future with Microsoft, OUP and not Harry Potter
13/03/2008
Data creation outstrips storage for first time
For the first time, the amount of digital information created each year has exceeded the world's available storage space, according to a new IDC report.
11/03/2008
News Corp says 'no' to Yahoo deal
Rupert Murdoch has ruled out a potential bid by News Corp for Yahoo, according to a report from Reuters.
27/02/2008
William Hill loses millions on in-house platform
Betting shop William Hill has scrapped an 'inflexible' in-house technology platform, and taken a £21m charge in its 2007 results.
05/02/2008
Flybe jets in analytics tool to meet PCI requirements
European regional airline Flybe has deployed a real-time analytics tool to fulful its compliance obligations under the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) for storing and accessing customers’ credit card data.
04/02/2008
Thomas Cook standardises on single platform ahead of IT transformation
Tour operator Thomas Cook has successfully moved MyTravel, which it bought in June, onto its core reservations platform, its chief information officer has told CIO.
01/02/2008
Microsoft offers £22bn for Yahoo - update
Microsoft has offered to buy Yahoo for around £22bn in cash and shares, to better compete with Google in the market for online services.
25/01/2008
Ladbrokes joins information-sharing anti-fraud community
Bookmaker Ladbrokes has boosted it anti-fraud capabilities by joining Ethoca’s colloborative fraud management community for access to a shared pool of sector-specific data.
22/01/2008
