Richard Plant
Richard is Computerworld’s Junior Content Manager and occasional reporter and blogger, responsible for making sure the site is full of the latest and greatest technology news from around the world. Richard joined Computerworld from the world of PR, which he likes to think of as like leaving the Empire to join the Rebel Alliance.
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Game Group, the UK's largest specialist video game retail chain was one of the great success stories of the growing digital economy of the past two decades. The story of the company's rise from a minority player in an overlooked market to a behemoth turning over nearly £2 billion at its peak in 2009 is only topped by the meteoric rate at which it fell into financial non-viability. read more »
Beleaguered high street video game retailer GAME Group has been sold to OpCapita for a nominal £1 fee, taking the company out of administration. read more »
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The executive board of UK specialist video game retailer GAME Group have announced their intention to appoint an administrator to oversee drastic measures designed to cover the company’s liabilities to lenders and creditors. read more »
UK mobile network 3 has launched a campaign to lower mobile roaming charges in Europe with an open letter to the government minister responsible for telecoms regulation, Ed Vaizey MP. read more »
Specialist video games retailer Game Group, which owns the high street chains Game and Gamestation, has seen shares tumble after announcing dire financial results today. It warned that continued poor results could mean it breaches its loan covenants. read more »
Leo King talks to IDC's associate vice president of telecommunications and networking, Chris Barnard, about the challenges businesses face when re-orienting their IT structure to cope with new social and communication opportunities. read more »
A Swedish man who kept a blog chronicling his attempts to build a homemade nuclear reactor in his apartment has shut down the project after being arrested by police and held under suspicion of breaching radioactive material safety laws. If convicted of an offence, he faces heavy fines or up to two years in jail. read more »
Experts from virtual infrastructure specialists VMWare and Dell are set to share their knowledge on how to successfully pilot a virtualisation project from inception to completion, while maximising the return on investment and innovation in service delivery and application agility. read more »
With the publication of the National Audit Office report into the performance of the national IT modernisation programme undertaken by senior health service officials and contractors CSC and BT, it has become clear that the project's goal of instituting a single electronic health record for every NHS patient in Britain is not going to be achieved, at least without some extraoridinary measures. read more »
Officials for the Crown Prosecution Service have dropped all conspiracy to infringe copyright charges against two administrators of the FileSoup BitTorrent tracker. read more »
The developers of the popular web-based service Readability have hit back at Apple in a blog post after their application was rejected by the firm’s iOS App Store. read more »
A group of shareholders who pledged to stand for election to the company’s board of directors in an attempt to reverse the phone maker’s recent shift in strategy have admitted defeat after failing to attract enough institutional support. read more »
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