Technology companies are surprisingly positive about their expansion opportunities in the near future, despite wider economic concerns, a survey has found. read more »
The new Coventry University College has partnered with HP to launch a range of courses to provide students with "business-ready" IT skills. read more »
Google has launched a tool to enable businesses to check multiple sources to see if their ‘innovative product’ is actually new. read more »
The number of students taking science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) subjects at A-level has continued to increase, figures from the Joint Council for Qualifications has shown. read more »
Financial services provider Standard Life has cited technology as a vital part of its ability to reduce its operational unit costs in its latest results. read more »
Staff working at Capita IT Services have voted for strike action over a compulsory redundancy plan and work being sent to India. read more »
The owner of Surfthechannel.com, a website hosting links to pirated films and TV shows, has been sentenced to four years in prison at Newcastle Crown Court. read more »
A shared service agreement between Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire County Councils is forecast to save nearly £5 million in annual ICT costs, a report has revealed. read more »
London 2012 Olympic Games sponsor Atos has made a new pay offer to its IT services and healthcare staff, which has prevented strike action that was due to start today. read more »
A petition has been launched to try and get Google to ‘pay its fair share’ of tax following the recent revelation that the search giant paid just £6 million, or 1.5 percent, of tax on turnover of £395 million last year. read more »
Joe Harley, former UK government CIO, has joined Amor Group as its strategic advisor. read more »
John Schappert, chief operating officer (COO) and director of online social gaming company Zynga, has resigned. read more »
The London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority (LFEPA) has awarded a £19.6 million contract for control room services and mobilisation and communications technologies to Capita. read more »
The jury in a Financial Services Authority (FSA) case against three former iSoft directors has failed to return a verdict after a four-month long trial. read more »
CSC has announced in its latest results that it is making “good progressâ€� with the NHS, but there was no mention of an agreement being made over the failed National Programme for IT (NPfIT). read more »
Credit card company American Express has appointed Marc Gordon as chief information officer (CIO) and executive VP at the company. read more »
A former head of fraud and security for digital banking at Lloyds Bank has admitted to committing £2.5 million fraud. read more »
Retailer Tesco has announced the opening of an interactive virtual grocery store at Gatwick Airport. read more »
Wikipedia, the free online encyclopaedia, experienced an outage on Monday after a fibre cable between its two data centres was cut. read more »
Barclays is opening a centre dedicated to entrepreneurs next to the Google Campus in East London’s Tech City, chancellor George Osborne has announced. read more »