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Business unit star performer for Virgin Media
Virgin Media Business (VMB)has been hailed as the star performer in comms provider Virgin Media's latest quarter, with 7.1% growth in unit salesto £170.4m contributingclose to50% of the group's overall growth. Total Virgin Mediasales grew 2.4% ... News | 25 Apr 2012
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Carbon rising up the channel agenda
It's looking like June will be the first opportunity companies will have to buy carbon tax credits under the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC), writes David Galton-Fenzi. Any company that uses more than 6,000MWh per year of electricity (equivalent to... News | 25 Apr 2012
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Apple sour on PC tablet convergence
Tim Cook has dismissed the idea thatApple may look to converge its iPad and MacBook lines in the future,and said that while other endpoint hardware vendors may try to go down that route, it would likely be "from a defensive point of view." ... News | 25 Apr 2012
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Column: The poaching clause that sounds like a closed shop
So it looks as if Apple, Google, Intel, Adobe, Walt Disney and Pixar are going to have to face the prospect of a trial in a class action lawsuit claiming they conspired not to poach each other's staff, writes Billy MacInnes. According to Reuters, a ... News | 23 Apr 2012
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OpenStack not yet a mature competitor, says VMware CEO
VMware CEO Paul Maritz has dismissed Rackspace's OpenStack cloud computing project as "relatively immature" and not yet a competitive threat to the vSphere environment, saying that VMware's greater, nearer-term challenge will come from Micr... News | 20 Apr 2012
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In-depth: HMRC goes real time
Soon to be compulsory, employers need to know about Real Time Information (RTI), a project launched by the government some 18 months ago to overhaul the way PAYE is run in the UK, writes Jason Piper. The PAYE system has been with us since 1944 havin... News | 20 Apr 2012
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Customer experience marketing is in the cloud of confusion
Customers. Let's be honest, they're an expensive pain in the assets. You can never do enough for them so who'd blame you if you took a leaf out of one famous telco's book and didn't bother? News | 20 Apr 2012
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Mid-sized firms losing out on talent to competition
Mid-sized firms are struggling to secure the top talent as they miss out on some of the most attractive staff to start-ups or larger rivals prepared to give bigger salaries. There has been plenty of noise made about the attempts to rival Silicon Val... News | 17 Apr 2012
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Industry job applications hit new high
Specialist IT recruitment agency CV Screen has reported a surge in applicants for IT jobs, with an average of 194 applications per advertised vacany during the last 12 months, suggesting that confidence in the sector was bouncing back. CV Screen mana... News | 17 Apr 2012
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Notion to back cloud firms with $150m investment fund
Investment specialist Notion Capital has unveiled plans to invest up to $150m in cloud computing and Software as a service (SaaS) companies in the UK and Europe. The venture capitalist has already invested $50m in 10 firms so far, including Brightpe... News | 17 Apr 2012