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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.
TECHNOLOGY > Business Applications > NEWS
04/07/2008
DHL CIO joins Ernst & Young
Eccleston becomes partner and consultant after successful career in logistics
UK IT chief takes axe to budgets
Newly appointed UK government IT chief Martin Read is to implement a wide-reaching programme to slash government spending over the next 12 months.
03/07/2008
DWP restructures £3bn IT services contract
Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is seeking suppliers for £3 billion worth of technology deals to run from 2010 to 2015.
NHS CTO:"Standards bodies need to stop arguing"
The chief technology officer on the £12.7 billion NHS National Programme for IT has told CIO sister title Computerworld UK that standards bodies must ‘stop arguing’ and work together, so that the NHS can deliver highly interoperable software in hospitals across the country.
02/07/2008
HMV saves £6m as IT restructure progresses
HMV has saved £6 million in the first of a three year programme to combine IT and back office functions, and centralise procurement of non-sale goods.
01/07/2008
Darzi NHS review promises patients online access to care records
Patients will have online access to their electronic health records within the next year, according to yesterday'’s review of the NHS by Lord Darzi.
30/06/2008
CIO News View: Don’t believe the Windows 7 hype
Five reasons not to get too excited by version 7
Nationwide outsources networks to BT
Nationwide Building Society has handed its networks over to BT in a £160 million seven-year managed services agreement.
27/06/2008
London Stock Exchange and Lehmans to launch fast algorithm exchange
The London Stock Exchange and investment bank Lehman Brothers are to launch a high speed exchange platform as competition heats up from super-low latency rivals.
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.
B&Q owner Kingfisher to create central ITSM centre
Kingfisher, the home improvement group, is setting up a central IT service management centre based on Axios software, in order to consolidate its helpdesks into one centre.
25/06/2008
Businesses struggle with unstructured data: Butler report
Businesses are failing to properly manage their unstructured data, leaving them open to extra scrutiny from regulators over disclosure, and higher IT costs.
23/06/2008
CIO News View: Is tech M&A frenzy good for business?
Deal-making has a downside for customers
11/06/2008
Lloyds CIO on re-organisation and board level mash ups
One year in Peter Hambling’s team are having fun and achieving status at insurance group
CEOs will disrupt companies to challenge them
Forrester warn CIOs that modern CEOs want more than running services and that technology poses a threat to role
House of Fraser moves to standardise supplier data
House of Fraser will link into a data synchronisation service from Inovis to standardise the information it receives from suppliers.
10/06/2008
Cultural Revolution underway, warns British Airways CIO
How customers use the web to interact with businesses is underrated
BA CIO Coby apologises for T5 in Keynote speech
Frank and honest British Airways CIO refuses to hide from mistakes the airline made in T5 move
06/06/2008
Halfords completes five year IT overhaul
Halfords has completed a five-year IT overhaul of in-store, back office and financial systems.
05/06/2008
