The UK Trade Union Congress (TUC) has voted to call for an end to private finance initiatives (PFI) and public-private partnerships (PPP). The TUC General Council's statement on the subject was carried following a debate yesterday afternoon.
Sun Microsystems will today announce a series of new initiatives to keep itself at the centre of ecommerce. Chief executive Scott McNealy is expected to announce measures including discounted hardware bundles for service providers and the 'Suntone...
The offshore tax haven of Guernsey has hired a law firm to help it draft ecommerce legislation. City firm, Bird & Bird, will be advising the Working Group on Information Technology in Society about issues ranging from the use of electronic...
According to a Compaq-sponsored survey by Mori, two-thirds of SMEs (small to medium-sized enterprises) do not know how to hire the employees they need, while almost half rely on word of mouth to gain critical business advice.
According to a survey released today by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), most high-tech SMEs are concentrated in the South East. The report added that Scotland and Wales had a surprisingly low concentration of firms describing their...
Steve Dusi, director of marketing for the laptop business unit at Lenovo, said: "There will be a whole set of big initiatives at the Olympics. Lenovo is to unveil a slew of products at the Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, starting next month.