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Rss Directory > Computer > News > The Register - Management: IT Director


The Register
Biting the hand that feeds IT
Copyright: Copyright 2008, Situation Publishing
  Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:02:06 +0200

Large suppliers make hay from greater pricing pressure

Big IT firms are likely to do better from the credit crunch than smaller suppliers, as greater economies of scale allow them to offer cheaper prices.…

  Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:14:02 +0200

The password? Can't say? Won't say?

The sysadmin accused of locking the San Francisco city council out of its computer network was back in jail yesterday after pleading not guilty to four counts of computer tampering.…

  Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:22:49 +0200

US call centre workers can team up

Dell is facing a class action case from 5,000 call centre staff in the US who claim the computer giant has underpaid them since 2004.…

Mayor says bricked IT system won't affect ability to govern

San Francisco’s officials were squirming with embarrassment today as it emerged that they are still paying the salary of the banged-up sysadmin accused of locking down the city’s IT network and refusing to divulge the password.…

City 'doing everything necessary'

Hapless municipal bosses in San Francisco have been locked out of their network by a disgruntled sysadmin charged with computer sabotage.…

  Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:41:09 +0200

Follows the money offshore

Barclays is to axe 1,800 IT jobs in the UK as part of a major business overhaul to set up technology centres in key offshore locations around the world, with 700 workers being forced out by September.…

  Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:20:54 +0200

A header to save the internet

Updated As the AVG LinkScanner continues to spew fake traffic across the internet, web masters say they've uncovered a reliable means of filtering these rogue hits from their log files.…

  Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:28:53 +0200

OMG!

Social networking site Facebook is mainly unavailable this afternoon.…

Web 2.0-up your regs

Dealing with staff who misbehave on the web may be hampered by office policies written without Web 2.0 sites in mind, an employment expert has said. The warning follows disciplinary action against 18 police officers who boasted about crashes on Facebook.…

  Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:38:01 +0200

'Bang, bang, click, click, click'

Exclusive Budget airline easyJet.co.uk has warned Expedia.co.uk to stop selling its flights via its website or face the possibility of legal action.…

'Nobody expects thieves to break into locked drawers'

Providing proof, if it were needed, that every single piece of personal data in the UK has now been lost - probably several times over, by multiple corporations and government offices - news has just broken of another theft of laptops crammed with easily accessed info. This time the there-but-for-the-grace-of-god bonehead users were hospital staff at St George's hospital in Tooting.…

  Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:01:13 +0200

Whoops, there go my trousers customers

Edinburgh Fringe festival organisers admitted yesterday that their box office system is still out of action more than 48 hours after tickets went on sale.…

  Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:09:28 +0200

No laughing matter

Comedy lovers hoping to get their hands on tickets to this year’s Edinburgh Fringe festival have lost their sense of humour after discovering the company’s box office system went titsup on Monday.…

  Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:46:30 +0200

Agency staff granted more equal rights

The British government today secured landmark European Union agreements that will allow UK citizens to work more than 48 hours a week, and bring temp workers into line with permanent staff.…

  Fri, 30 May 2008 15:54:57 +0200

We draw up a handy list of excuses for civil servants

This week Fujitsu pulled out of the £12.7bn National Programme for IT - the government's enormous project to introduce national patient records for NHS patients leaving BT, CSC and iSoft still involved.…

  Fri, 23 May 2008 15:42:55 +0200

(Office)spy versus spy

The UK may have more CCTV cameras than anywhere else in the world but US workers are kept under even closer tabs over internet use at work, according to a new survey.…

  Mon, 12 May 2008 14:53:15 +0200

Primed for business

Reg Research The Register’s Technology Primer series of white papers provide a basic grounding in some of the hottest topics in tech today. They’re all freely available, and some of the latest and greatest are listed below for your downloading pleasure.…

IT workers get credit crunched

Barclays Capital is forcing its IT contractors to choose between a 10 per cent pay cut or a quick exit from the company.…

  Thu, 08 May 2008 01:25:18 +0200

Must! Love! The! Reg!

Sue Decker wants you to know that Yahoo! is the only Fortune 500 company with an exclamation point in its name.…

  Fri, 02 May 2008 23:38:51 +0200

Small fine, humiliation by press release

A Pittsburgh computer consultancy is paying $45,000 in civil penalties over claims it discriminated against legal US residents by advertising only for developers on H-1B visas.…

Service-oriented mammalians to survive IT recession

Interop 2008 Day two of Interop Las Vegas 2008 opened with a modest IT proposal from Mark Templeton, President and CEO of Citrix.…

Worse than dotcom losses

The City of London could lose 20,000 jobs in the next two years as the credit crunch starts to bite.…

But not with you in them - yet

Iconic clothing store American Apparel is to start putting radio tags into every item of clothing, tracking it from factory to stockroom to store shelf and possibly beyond.…

  Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:50:57 +0200

Exclusive rights to pandemics

IBM wants to patent a means of responding to hurricanes, earthquakes, tidal waves, solar flares, flooding, terrorism, war, pandemics, and other situations where you would hope companies aren't worried about patents.…

  Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:49:25 +0200

Mystery database glitch blamed for extended outage

HSBC UK managed to get its beleaguered e-payments system back online yesterday evening after the second extended outage in less than a fortnight.…

  Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:09:53 +0200

Calls for compensation from bungling bank

Merchants are furious at HSBC UK after the bank's e-payments system fell over for an extended period for the second time in less than a fortnight.…

  Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:02:02 +0200

Will customers get soaked on transformation journeys?

Hewlett-Packard has claimed the current financial storm blowing out of the financial sector and into the wider economy doesn't make it a really bad time to launch its cloud computing strategy into Europe.…

Guess what happened next?

HSBC has admitted that it has misplaced 370,000 customer details, which were put in the post a month ago on an unencrypted disc.…

  Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:06:52 +0200

Someone's going to get the sack

Royal Mail’s three main websites have been unavailable since last night, forcing millions of customers to get used to the taste of glue while guessing where their registered post might be.…

Slickly does it

Royal Dutch Shell has claimed that no more than 30 jobs will be axed following the firm’s decision to outsource more than 3,000 worldwide IT staff.…

We're in the money. Not really

The SIIA (Software & Information Industry Association) calls it "whistleblowing." And we call it "disgruntled peons ratting on their bosses." But whatever label you use, dobbing on your own company for cutting corners on software licenses can be a lucrative sport.…

Oil-y company

Royal Dutch Shell today inked three outsourcing deals – worth $4.2bn over five years – to spin out IT and telecoms operations.…

  Sat, 29 Mar 2008 03:01:36 +0100

Web programmers meet web jobs market

Call it compassionate capitalism or a desire to do good in these darkening times, but one US manager has placed a "for hire" ad online touting his developers' skills just one day after being forced to axe them.…

  Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:15:40 +0100

Easier to manage? And the three bears...

Here's a nightmare vision of a technology-driven future:…

  Sun, 16 Mar 2008 09:02:02 +0100

A hard charge to make stick...

Are computers bad for the planet? As a consumer of power, IT equipment is certainly all too visible, and is shaping up to become a prime whipping boy for governments striving to get a lid on their CO2 emissions. After anything that burns petrol, PCs, chargers and that arch eco-criminal, standby mode, now come pretty close to the centre of the crosshairs.…

Reg prepping Moon on a stick campaign

Number crunchers at Gartner have decided that businesses should allow their workers to access Facebook and all manner of web guff "securely", via the company network.…

  Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:10:27 +0100

More like an upgrade?

Freeform Dynamics

  Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:25:22 +0100

'Unexpected technical issues'

Five of 15 IT projects run by the Department of Health and its agencies are costing £247,000 more than expected.…

Flying today? Not with those cases you're not

Heathrow's Terminal 4 was yesterday hit by a software glitch which affected its baggage-handling capacity, the knock-on effect of which means that some passengers travelling have been told to leave any hold baggage at home.…

  Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:16:53 +0100

Young man, there's no need to download

The Village People have joined forces with pint-sized popster Prince in an effort to slap The Pirate Bay with yet another copyright infringement lawsuit.…

  Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:19:17 +0100

Website blackout 'nothing to do with credit card cull'

Egg has returned its website to normal operation after a "serious network outage" forced it to temporarily suspend services on Tuesday.…

  Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:02:03 +0100

Avoiding the false economy trap

Reg Tech Panel Freeform Dynamics

SocGen: it could've happened anywhere - and still might

Special report As I swept through Kent and Calais on a Eurostar last week, the financial markets again threw some entertainment my way in the shape of the SocGen debacle.…

And that's a successful one...

The Liberal Democrats have got their calculator out again and added up all the cost over-runs and delays at the myriad IT projects at the Department for Transport.…

  Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:56:51 +0100

This is not just security...

Marks and Spencers has been told it must encrypt all company laptops containing personal information by April 2008.…

Civil servant finally leaks data correctly - to us...

The Register has received the email sent out to all staff at the Medical Research Council passing on instructions from the Cabinet Office that the ban on taking laptops out of the office could apply to mobile phones too.…

  Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:06:15 +0100

Reverse into parking space, leave laptop on back seat

Column Indignation is the immediate response if you suggest to any computer user that they should be given a licence to use their PC only if they pass a test. Why is this?…

  Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:20:12 +0100

Line up for the sub-contracts race

The organisers of London's Olympic Games have launched an online "business dating agency" to attract bids for sub-contracts.…

  Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:00:32 +0100

Replaces one Scott with another

Microsoft said yesterday that it has hired Disney man Tony Scott, who will replace sacked chief information officer Stuart Scott.…

New trust to divvy up domain sales surplus

Nominet, the not-for-profit in charge of the .uk domain registry, has approved a plan to distribute its multimillion-pound surplus among "education, research and development initiatives" to benefit the UK internet community.…


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