The latest news from Here Is The City News - The Fastest Growing Business & Financial Services News Service For London http://news.hereisthecity.com en-gb Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:22:03 +0000 http://news.hereisthecity.com/media/rss_logo.gif http://news.hereisthecity.com Fortune magazine has just come up with its latest list of the 25 most powerful people in business. Here's the top 12: http://news.hereisthecity.com/news/it_news/7307.cntns IT News Thu, 29 Nov 2007 06:57:53 +0000 As the book cover states: "A revolution is a foot in the IT industry; there is no denying the fact. IT professionals that are forward-thinking are embracing this revolution; they realise that business knowledge is the lifeblood of a successful and fulfilling career in IT." http://news.hereisthecity.com/news/it_news/7065.cntns IT News Tue, 11 Sep 2007 09:33:01 +0000 Here Is The City gets pretty well flooded with spam, as we publish some email links on the site, and it's always interesting to see the spammers in action as they attempt to beat the spam catchers while ensnaring potential victims. Which is why a report of Pfizer computers being used to send out millions (billions?) of spam messages caught our eye. http://news.hereisthecity.com/news/it_news/7063.cntns IT News Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:23:24 +0000 Google is scheduled to present at the Citigroup Technology Conference in New York on September 6th 2007. http://news.hereisthecity.com/news/it_news/7044.cntns IT News Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:51:02 +0000 An update to the European Convention on Human Rights, brought about by a Welsh college worker, adds the right to keep your personal e-mail messages and web surfing private, even when at the office. http://news.hereisthecity.com/news/it_news/6713.cntns IT News Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:39:36 +0000 US interdealer broker Cantor Fitzgerald has rejected an offer from Tullet Prebon, a London-based brokerage, for its electronic bond trading network eSpeed, reports Finextra. http://news.hereisthecity.com/news/it_news/6716.cntns IT News Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:20:37 +0000 US BlackBerry users were left twiddling their scroll thumbs overnight Tuesday as a technical problem on RIM's network floored the mobile email devices for 10 hours straight. http://news.hereisthecity.com/news/it_news/6711.cntns IT News Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:59:14 +0000 IT professionals need business knowledge in today's fast-paced financial landscape to deploy and maintain business-critical systems. This book gives the IT professional an insight into the business world of investment banking. http://news.hereisthecity.com/news/it_news/6373.cntns IT News Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:45:44 +0000 In a month when both HD-DVD and BluRay claimed initial victory in the format war, the first HD-DVD was cracked and the Apple TV was announced is the death knell sounding for video and media distribution on 12cm plastic discs? http://news.hereisthecity.com/news/it_news/6363.cntns IT News Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:39:22 +0000 At the annual Macworld conference Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, announced the much anticipated iPhone. As shares in Apple rocketed 8% to a new record high shares in new competitor Research In Motion, makers of the Blackberry, slipped by a similar amount. http://news.hereisthecity.com/news/it_news/6362.cntns IT News Wed, 10 Jan 2007 13:19:18 +0000 A Brazilian court has ordered YouTube to be closed down after the popular video sharing site failed to uphold a previous ruling to remove videos of Brazilian soccer ace Ronaldo's ex-wife, Daniela Cicarelli, and banker Renato Malzoni Filho, engaging in a bit of overly heavy petting on a beach, reports Reuters. http://news.hereisthecity.com/news/it_news/6347.cntns IT News Thu, 04 Jan 2007 20:30:49 +0000 Google buys YouTube for $1.65bn! These things take time to sink in......... but $1.65bn for a 20 month old company, which hasn't posted a profit yet, seems a tad expensive, no? http://news.hereisthecity.com/news/it_news/6083.cntns IT News Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:53:56 +0000 Last month Spamhaus, a leading anti-spam company based in the UK, chose not to defend itself when e360 Insight, a US email marketing firm, took them to court claiming damages for illegally blocking their emails. Spamhaus could now be counting the cost in a development that may throw the net neutrality debate wide open. http://news.hereisthecity.com/news/it_news/6082.cntns IT News Thu, 12 Oct 2006 08:55:04 +0000 Hourly wages for highly-skilled technology professionals continued to climb in the third quarter of 2006, when compared to the same period in 2005, according to the latest Yoh Index of Technology Wages. http://news.hereisthecity.com/news/it_news/6084.cntns IT News Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:52:04 +0000 A judge has dismissed MySpace founder Brad Greenspan's claims that the social networking site was undervalued when it was sold to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. http://news.hereisthecity.com/news/it_news/6085.cntns IT News Thu, 12 Oct 2006 13:52:04 +0000 On October 1st the UK introduced new age discrimination legislation but research suggests that IT companies are struggling to understand, implement or pay heed to it. This begs the question, is IT inherently ageist? http://news.hereisthecity.com/news/it_news/6047.cntns IT News Tue, 03 Oct 2006 15:12:08 +0000 The recall of Sony laptop batteries continues to grow and get worse for the electronics giant, as their reputation and cash takes a big hit. http://news.hereisthecity.com/news/it_news/6056.cntns IT News Wed, 04 Oct 2006 15:15:20 +0000 Google has a secondary search site that all in all is pretty slick, and some enterprising Brits have launched a poetry download site. http://news.hereisthecity.com/news/it_news/6053.cntns IT News Wed, 04 Oct 2006 09:29:39 +0000 Not content with raking in £1.1bn in profits for the first half of the year Tesco is expanding in to Microsoft's patch. http://news.hereisthecity.com/news/it_news/6057.cntns IT News Wed, 04 Oct 2006 15:47:50 +0000 Screams are apparently all the rage, so much so that they are being introduced in to technology products as a saleable feature. http://news.hereisthecity.com/news/it_news/6048.cntns IT News Tue, 03 Oct 2006 16:23:37 +0000