IT jobs and recruitment

Demand for development skills soars as firms seek business edge

Computer Weekly salary survey shows IT departments eager to secure skills for the future. Continue Reading

HP sales boost as restructuring costs

HP reported a 10% increase in sales for the third quarter, and said it would spend $900m (£530m) on redundancy costs in the final quarter. Continue Reading

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• Antony Savvas

Combining technology and social engineering: Hacking behind bars

In this excerpt from Chapter 11 of "The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security," authors Kevin Mitnick and William L. Simon begin a story that shows how social engineering can be used with technology. Continue Reading

HP attempts to reassures anxious customers on impact of job losses

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Riding the wave of change

CIOs can thrive as pace of change quickens, argues Des Lee Continue Reading

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• Des Lee

How to win the jobs game

Many readers have been disappointed by recruitment agents. All the more reason to develop the relationship Continue Reading

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• Colin Christie

Atos wins DWP deal extension

The Department for Work and Pensions has renewed a contract with IT services company Atos Origin to deliver medical advice and... Continue Reading

Demand more from agencies: fine tune the recruitment process and reap the rewards

Users must be proactive in ensuring that recommended candidates are suitable Continue Reading

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• Jerry Cave, director of PLan-Net

First integrated children's system goes live

The first web-based system to help councils meet new legal requirements for information sharing among teachers, social workers... Continue Reading

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• Lindsay Clark

Ex-helicopter chief says pilot verdict is 'ridiculous'

A former director of helicopter procurement at the Ministry of Defence has described the blaming of the pilots for the crash on... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Achieving the goal of CIO

What exactly does a chief information officer do?Paul Burfitt, global CIO at AstraZeneca, analysed the various aspects of his job... Continue Reading

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• Julia Vowler

IT staff predict e-government success despite councillors’ doubts

Tony Blair has failed to convince councillors in almost half of the UK’s local authorities of the value of e-government. Continue Reading

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• James Rogers

What's in an IT name?

What exactly does a chief information officer do?Paul Burfitt, global CIO at AstraZeneca, analysed the various aspects of his job... Continue Reading

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• Nick Huber

Industry recruits wrong people

UK industry could be recruiting candidates with the wrong personality type to be a success in IT. Continue Reading

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• Nathalie Towner & John Riley

Scale 21 conference will reveal key to IT success

The results of the largest ever survey of IT professionals and entrepreneurs are to be announced at the Building Britain's... Continue Reading

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• Nathalie Towner

Infineon claims cost-cutting success

Semiconductor maker Infineon Technologies is claiming progress in its plan to cut costs by £630m over the next year, but... Continue Reading

Mitsubishi Electric looks to earnings revision

Mitsubishi Electric has described as "speculative" reports in a Japanese newspaper that the company is intending to reduce its... Continue Reading

IT spending will rise faster than inflation

Although suppliers may be shedding IT jobs, corporate users still plan to spend an extra 11% on permanent staff this year - five... Continue Reading

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• John Riley

Government to train unemployed in IT

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• Arlene Martin

Firms warned to monitor service as Cisco cuts staff

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Feeling the pinch

The Internet age is not over just because a few dotcoms have run into difficulty, says Martin Butler, who believes that the... Continue Reading

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• Martin Butler

Window of the world

Going online means going global. So why do so many companies give their website less consideration than other areas of the... Continue Reading

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• Rod Tyler

Silicon Valley looks East

"Cross border sourcing" is gaining in popularity in the US where an expanding skills vacuum has led Silicon Valley businesses to... Continue Reading

The world is enough

As a global business, IT offers managers and directors many opportunities to work abroad and, as Julia Vowler finds out, these... Continue Reading

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• Julia Vowler

Delivering digital streaming in the Real world

While the fortunes of streaming media firm Real Networks have been in decline, the company is not taking it lying down, writes... Continue Reading

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• Danny Bradbury

Armed forces morale hit by Chinook say MPs

MPs said yesterday that the Government's refusal to move on the Public Accounts Committee report on the 1994 Chinook crash was hitting armed forces morale.... Continue Reading

A thoroughly modern e-apprenticeship

Jane Dudman explains how young people in Newham have the chance to be apprentices in a scheme to lessen the blow of the IT skills... Continue Reading

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• Jane Dudman

IT man on the 5am ferry as Horizon reaches Orkney

James Rogers

Post Offices in two of the most isolated parts of the UK are the latest to go live as part of the Horizon counter...

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• James Rogers

Report reveals trend to more women in IT

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