Profile of Gary Flood
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Articles by Gary Flood
posted in June 2013
6/28/2013
Plans for the facility, located adjacent to King's Cross railway station, include a roof garden and space for an interior campus.
6/28/2013
Government commits £160 million to replacing paperwork bottlenecks in British courtrooms with Wi-Fi, screens and video.
6/28/2013
British-born philanthropist and author of more than 100 books on computers, technology and society was a visionary who some say predicted the Internet.
6/27/2013
Cortexica's Find Similar for Fashion analyzes images to help consumers find clothing and accessories with similar characteristics.
6/25/2013
New research suggests service provider market is tightening, advises outsourcing customers to consider renegotiating current contracts.
6/25/2013
IT salaries are up 5% and job openings up 500,000 over the past six months, finds Adzuna survey.
6/25/2013
Germany's largest cable operator will help Vodafone expand from its core cellphone business to establish a "quad-play" future.
6/21/2013
ATIS4all portal compiles information about technology that helps people with disabilities and the elderly participate more fully in life.
6/20/2013
Royal Berkshire Foundation Trust's implementation of Cerner Millennium electronic health record system is costly to maintain and hard to use, causing patient backlogs.
6/20/2013
Tech companies pledge 1 million pounds, sign zero-tolerance pledge and promise to help fight child abuse.
6/20/2013
Ian Livingston will join the House of Lords and help grow the country's international investment and trade.
6/19/2013
Corporate IT Forum singles out members' best tech projects in annual "Real Tech" awards ceremony. Other winning projects: London's subway Wi-Fi and a plumber's app.
6/19/2013
Communication Workers Union says threat of mass walkouts forced O2 and outsourcer Capita to sign a better deal for call center staff.
6/18/2013
The U.K.'s recently launched Information Economy Strategy could take off, but it will require a skilled workforce and a strong infrastructure.
6/17/2013
Microsoft links its Kudo game developers' site to U.K. IT educational initiative Make Things Do Stuff; meanwhile Virgin Media, others help create weekly online sessions to challenge young developers.
6/17/2013
In Britain, terminating a multi-billion NHS project in 2011 hasn't stopped more money from being poured into the ill-fated program, say critics.
6/14/2013
Working with industry and academia, the plan sets out objectives designed to nurture small enterprises and prepare students for IT careers.
6/13/2013
Forrester Research predicts IT will be embedded in various customer-facing teams.
6/13/2013
Scotland turned to small businesses and new technologies to improve access to data about its crofts -- the country's extensive network of tiny agricultural holdings.
6/12/2013
As Liberty Global completes its purchase of Virgin Media, London-based Vodafone considers swoop on Germany's biggest cable provider.
6/11/2013
BT is taking advantage of taxpayers, charging a high premium for the £530 million project to bring high-speed networks to rural areas, claims leaked government report.
6/10/2013
Whitehall unexpectedly puts £300m IT contract covering extensive user network on hold. Some speculators say it's because too few SMBs were in the running.
6/10/2013
Ultra-low-cost broadband and refurbished desktops and laptops is digital access nonprofit's latest bid to get underprivileged online.
6/6/2013
U.K. plan to encourage public sector to purchase cheaper IT via the cloud won't work unless government explains it better, says new research.
6/6/2013
Stop trying to make the wave roll back, cautions analyst group, and instead focus on securing your employees' BYOD smartphones and tablets.
6/5/2013
To keep up with the fast pace of business, CIOs must shift their budget strategy to bolster employee productivity.
6/4/2013
British state-owned rail infrastructure manager Network Rail aims to improve efficiency, cut costs by culling unwieldy list of 270 IT vendors to only five.
6/4/2013
Telecom will double its infrastructure spending to £900 million over the fiscal year to expand its 4G footprint.
6/3/2013
Company may hire up to 1,600 to staff new site, which will serve as base for new business ventures in areas including TV production and book publishing.
6/3/2013
Tighter procurement rules have saved the British government £10 billion in the last three years through savvy purchasing of everything from IT to cellphone services.