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Now in its second year, our sister publication PCR has expanded its Woman of the Year awards show to include three new categories. With the event taking place on Friday October 16th at Sway Bar in London, PCR’s aim is to shine the spotlight on some of the most inspirational …

The BRC says median wages for hourly paid workers is already above the new Living Wage rate

The lay offs will apparently affect employees in the hardware group

SolarWinds’s virtual IT conference, thwackCamp, is back for its fourth year, this time focusing on day-to-day challenges as well as broader IT industry issues. The virtual learning event will provide IT pros with intermediate to advanced educational content. It also allows attendees and SolarWinds technical experts to interact with each …

Celebrate an outstanding colleague, friend or mentor and put them forward for an award

Secrets kept by cloud providers are restricting the growth of businesses, according to new research from iland. The cloud hosting provider found that 100 per cent of the companies surveyed suffered financial or operational impacts due to missing or hidden metadata. The findings are published in a study entitled “Is …

Budget outlines plans to increase store opening times

NEC Display Solutions Europe has created a new strategic and global sales division, which will be lead by Simon Jackson. Headed up by Jackson as senior director, the department will create a centre of excellence to reinforce NEC’s global proposition in delivering strategic customer projects, showcasing NEC’s scale and ability …

Distributor will offer the firm’s Trooper smartphones

The main topics George Osborne is likely to discuss during today’s budget include child tax credit cuts, lowered benefit caps, devolution of shop opening powers to local authorities, and free TV licenses for the over 75s. But how will the budget affect IT and tech businesses? With the budget announcement …

Find out all you need to know from Microsoft’s Patrik Bihammar

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