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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 > Communications > NEWS
30/06/2008
Nationwide outsources networks to BT
Nationwide Building Society has handed its networks over to BT in a £160 million seven-year managed services agreement.
26/06/2008
Sainsbury's implements IP videoconferencing for easier meetings
Sainsbury’s is implementing an IP-based videoconferencing suite from BCS Global, to facilitate meetings without travel.
24/06/2008
CIO News View: Symbian: (Lack of) business as usual
The smartphone OS is now owned by Nokia but it never made business phones a priority anyhow
10/06/2008
Network Rail lines up £30m BT IP deal
Network Rail has signed a £30 million, three year deal for BT to install a new IP network, and provide voice and data services.
29/05/2008
Tesco inks £100m network deal with Cable & Wireless
Tesco has signed a £100 million, five year deal for Cable & Wireless to run its next generation telecoms network.
27/05/2008
Indian firm buys British network operator
Indian telecoms company Reliance Communications has bought Vanco, a British managed network services provider. It made the acquisition through its subsidiary Reliance Globalcom, which also runs and operates the Flag undersea cable system.
Vodafone CEO steps down
Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin will resign in July and be replaced by Vittorio Colao, deputy CEO of the company.
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.
30/04/2008
Green IT will increase budgets available
Survey finds UK CIOs and IT leaders confident of budget surge to keep energy costs down
10/04/2008
Pharmaceuticals firm Nycomed outsources infrastructure to BT and HP
Pharmaceuticals company Nycomed has signed a contract for BT and HP to manage its infrastructure over the next five years.
31/03/2008
Shell signs £2bn multi-supplier outsourcing deal
Royal Dutch Shell has signed a five year, $4.0 billion (£2.04 billion) outsourcing deal with three global IT and telecommunications suppliers
26/03/2008
BT sets up global operations center in India
BT Group has opened a global operations center in India. The new center in Gurgaon, near Delhi, will employ up to 300 staff to run systems and processes for various lines of BT business worldwide.
25/03/2008
Yorkshire Water blocks off network downtime
Yorkshire Water has switched on a data and voice virtual private network, in order to prevent individual site outages from bringing down networks at other locations.
07/03/2008
Apple targets Blackberry with enterprise iPhone plans
Apple has finally indicated that it is ready to turn the iPhone into a business tool by announcing that it has licensed protocols from Microsoft that would allow the device to support Exchange. In addition, Apple has said that it had made a software developer kit (SDK) available for third party developers.
06/03/2008
BT connects London 2012
The London 2012 Olympics and Paralympic Games has chosen BT as its communications services provider, to support a £2bn event fit for the digital age.
05/03/2008
John Lewis workers get remote access through mobiles
John Lewis will replace decade old two-factor authentication systems, with a new remote secure authentication system that uses employees' mobile phones.
13/02/2008
BP warning to staff on e-chat 'could ease IT burden'- analyst
An analyst has said that BP's reported issuing of advice to staff not to communicate electronically on a business-sensitive subject could be a move to ease pressure on the group's IT department and head off future problems around access to and storage of sensitive electronic documents.
30/01/2008
Forrester: IT leaders set to embrace Web 2.0 in 2008
IT managers and CIOs in large companies who have actively resisted embracing Web 2.0 technologies like wikis, RSS, blogs and social networks will likely begin adding them to their priority lists in 2008, according to a report by Forrester Research.
23/01/2008
IBM and SAP collaborate on software
IBM and SAP are aiming at making it easier for customers to bring their SAP data into Lotus Notes.
16/01/2008
