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Carphone Warehouse is to seek planning permission to set up a call centre at Tulketh Mill in Preston, which could create dozens of new jobs. 22-Dec-2005 Fujitsu is looking to open up to three 150,000 sq ft data centres in the south-east and Midlands, and also wants to consolidate its four Birmingham offices into one 70,000 sq ft building. 21-Dec-2005 Genuine Games is recruiting 13 extra staff at its computer games development business in Fort William. 16-Dec-2005 Enterprise is to recruit 220 extra staff at its newly-opened £20m business support centre at the Matchworks in Liverpool by the end of next year, due to rising demand for its outsourcing services. 15-Dec-2005 Seagate Technology is to invest £83m in the expansion of its disk drive factories in Londonderry and Limavady, with the creation of 300 new jobs. 14-Dec-2005 ClientLogic is to shed up to 582 jobs at its call centre in Derby and 304 in Bristol, as client BT has decided to outsource the work to HCL. 14-Dec-2005 Zytronic is to set up a new £2.5m factory to manufacture Zypos touchscreens at its Blaydon site on Tyneside. 14-Dec-2005 Northgate Information Solutions is to relocate 450 head office staff from Hemel Hempstead to regional offices, as it is one of about 400 companies affected by the Buncefield oil depot fire. 13-Dec-2005 Iron Mountain has announced the creation of 50 jobs at its newly-opened data storage centre in Warrington. 12-Dec-2005 Ordnance Survey has announced plans to relocate its Southampton headquarters and 1,160 staff to a new £45m building at Adanac Park by 2008. 09-Dec-2005 BHK Circuits has gone into liquidation with the loss of 30 jobs at its electronics business in Galashiels. 09-Dec-2005 Bookham Technology is to shed more than 150 jobs at its fibre-optics factory in Paignton, in order to transfer production to China, leaving about 200 research staff at the site. 07-Dec-2005 Northgate Information Solutions is looking to spend more than £100m acquiring software and IT services companies in continental Europe. 07-Dec-2005 Kuju has transferred its wireless publishing business to Finesse Publishing, in order to focus on its core console development activities. 06-Dec-2005 Mobile Tornado is to list on Aim through the reverse takeover of investment company TMT, in order to fund the expansion of its Push to Talk mobile phone service. 05-Dec-2005 NTL is in discussions to acquire Virgin Mobile for about £817m, in order to create a combined Virgin-branded group offering mobile services, fixed-line telephony, TV and broadband. 05-Dec-2005 Birmingham City Council has awarded a £424m IT outsourcing contract to Capita, which will involve the transfer of up to 450 council staff to a joint venture company. 05-Dec-2005 Sage, the accountancy software company, is to recruit a further 100 customer support staff at its head office in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 02-Dec-2005 University of Wales Swansea is to set up a £30m Institute of Advanced Telecommunications, in partnership with the Welsh Assembly and companies such as IBM and Motorola. 02-Dec-2005 It's Your Group has closed its call centre in Lowestoft with the loss of 70 jobs, and its site in Leeds has also closed. 28-Nov-2005 Careline Services is to move into the Teaninich call centre in Alness, Easter Ross, next month, offering jobs to 50 of the 88 existing staff, having formed a partnership with Manpower after previous client O2 announced plans to move out of the site. 28-Nov-2005 HTC, the Taiwan-based mobile computing company, is setting up a sales and marketing team in Slough, as part of a multi-million pound investment in its European business. 28-Nov-2005 Hewlett-Packard is planning to relocate up to 1,200 jobs from Reading to a new headquarters in Bracknell in mid-2006. 22-Nov-2005 Openwave is to create about 20 jobs at its new software development support centre in Belfast. 21-Nov-2005 The Cabinet Office is to relocate its e-Government unit and 30 jobs from London to Birchwood, Warrington, next year. 21-Nov-2005 Computacenter, the computer hardware company, is considering plans for a £470m management buy-out. 21-Nov-2005 Capgemini is to create 500 new jobs in Telford and 220 in Aston, as part of its ASPIRE contract to provide business and IT services to HM Revenue & Customs. 18-Nov-2005 Sega is to invest up to £30m in the expansion of its games development centre at the Blythe Valley Business Park in Solihull over the next three years, and 80 new jobs will be created over the next 12 months. 18-Nov-2005 BT is to recruit up to 1,400 service engineers and other staff across the country to install and maintain telephone and internet services for its Openreach business. 17-Nov-2005 Dell is to recruit a further 75 staff at its recently-opened computer sales and technical support centre in Glasgow over the next few months. 17-Nov-2005 Cyan is to raise £6m in a flotation on Aim to fund the expansion of its semiconductor business. 14-Nov-2005 BNS Telecom, the telecoms services company, is planning to float on Aim with a valuation of about £26m. 14-Nov-2005 Hewlett-Packard is to shed up to 200 jobs at its factory in Erskine, Renfrewshire, in order to transfer work to the Czech Republic. 10-Nov-2005 Dell, the computer company, is said to be planning to shed up to 230 jobs at its two offices in Bracknell. 07-Nov-2005 South West Regional Development Agency is assisting DbsXmedia, the telecom services provider, with plans to set up a 3,000 sq ft headquarters at the Tamar Science Park in Plymouth, and some staff will relocate from London. 07-Nov-2005 Carphone Warehouse is to move into the broadband market with a £60m investment in the installation of its own equipment in up to 1,000 BT exchanges over the next three years. 07-Nov-2005 Google, the US-based internet search company, is opening its first UK regional office in Manchester, with a small staff to deal with advertisers and other clients. 03-Nov-2005 Sheffield City Council has approved plans from BT to build a new warehouse and data centre at the former Avesta rolling mill site in Tinsley, which could create up to 200 jobs. 03-Nov-2005 Vertex has won a £26m customer service outsourcing contract from Hertfordshire County Council, which will involve the transfer of about 100 Stevenage-based staff. 02-Nov-2005 OnLine Telephone Fundraising (OLTF) is to create 49 jobs at a new marketing centre in Dunfermline, having secured a share of Regional Selective Assistance grants totalling £15m along with 34 Scottish companies. 01-Nov-2005 In Practice Systems is to create 25 new jobs at its Dundee-based healthcare software development business. 31-Oct-2005 SCi Entertainment, the computer games developer, is in preliminary takeover talks which could lead to a £500m offer being made for the company. 25-Oct-2005 Real Time Worlds is planning to create 30 new jobs at its Dundee-based computer games development business. 24-Oct-2005 Carphone Warehouse and Virgin Mobile are forming a joint venture to launch a mobile phone service in France, which will involve Virgin phones being sold in more than 300 Carphone stores. 24-Oct-2005 Electronic Arts, the computer games company, is in negotiations to move into the 90,000 sq ft Onslow House scheme in Guildford. 17-Oct-2005 Carter & Carter is looking to expand its adult vocational training business by spending up to £20m on acquisitions. 17-Oct-2005 Scotland Online is planning to expand its Dundee-based internet services business, with the creation of 18 jobs. 13-Oct-2005 Selex Communications is to relocate 390 jobs from Chelmsford to the site of its sister company in Basildon in 2007. 13-Oct-2005 ICM Computer Group has acquired a 73,000 sq ft business continuity centre in Romford, in order to offer data recovery services to companies from early 2006. 12-Oct-2005 Software Radio Technology, the wireless company, is looking to raise £5m in a flotation on Aim. 10-Oct-2005 IT3 is relocating its search engine optimisation and content management business from Newport to the Welsh Development Agency's digital media initiative in Cardiff Bay. 06-Oct-2005 Garlands is to create up to 90 new jobs at its call centre in Hartlepool by mid-2006, having won a contract to provide customer services for the Dot student mobile phone service. 05-Oct-2005 Ashton Penney, the London-based interim management provider, is planning to set up regional offices in Leeds, Manchester and the Thames Valley next year, having just opened one in Birmingham. 03-Oct-2005 InBiz, the Teesside-based business support agency, has cut its workforce from almost 300 to 200, following a reduction in government funding, and six of its nationwide network of offices have closed. 29-Sep-2005 Vodafone is to close a customer services call centre in Birmingham in February, with 500 of the 650 jobs being transferred to sites in Warrington and Stoke. 28-Sep-2005 Circle is planning to raise up to £4m in a flotation on Aim next month to fund the expansion of its DVD games development business. 26-Sep-2005 SPI Lasers is planning to raise £12m in a flotation on Aim to fund the expansion of its Southampton-based fibre-optic lasers business. 20-Sep-2005 Spirent, the telecoms equipment testing company, is looking to sell its network products division for about £260m. 20-Sep-2005 The Learning & Skills Council is to shed 1,300 jobs across the country, including an estimated 500 at its Coventry headquarters, as part of a £40m cost-cutting programme. 19-Sep-2005 Celoxica, the Abingdon-based developer of software to speed up semiconductors, is planning to raise £10m in a flotation on Aim. 19-Sep-2005 Xaar is planning to build a £7m ink-jet printing heads factory near Cambridge by the end of next year, with the creation of an initial 30 jobs. 15-Sep-2005 Hewlett-Packard is to shed 968 jobs in the UK over the next year, which could affect sites in Bracknell, Bristol, London, Reading, Birmingham, Glasgow and Warrington. 14-Sep-2005 The Scottish Executive has announced plans for the development of a £42m computer science centre at Edinburgh University by 2007, under the name of the Informatics Forum. 12-Sep-2005 Centrica is said to be considering plans to sell off its OneTel telecoms business, having received a number of potential takeover approaches. 12-Sep-2005 Premier Farnell is planning to shed 130 jobs, in order to improve the profitability of its electronic components distribution business. 12-Sep-2005 Pelikon, the developer of inorganic electroluminescent displays, has announced a £5m funding round to help expand the company and prepare for an initial public offering of shares. 09-Sep-2005 A-NOVO UK is looking to create up to 100 new jobs at its mobile phone repair operation in Norwich, having won a number of new contracts from manufacturers, network providers and retailers. 09-Sep-2005 EDS is to create 300 jobs in the Lancashire area, having won a new contract to support government department computer systems over the next five years. 07-Sep-2005 HCL Technologies, the Indian IT company, is to create 600 new back-office and help-desk jobs in Belfast and London. 07-Sep-2005 Alito has secured a £0.7m funding package to expand its Bridgend-based procurement software business, and the 12-strong workforce will rise to 23 over the next two years. 02-Sep-2005 Thus is to shed up to 60 of the 152 jobs at its telecoms call centre in Southend, in order to transfer the work to India. 01-Sep-2005 Marconi is setting up a £2m telecoms equipment distribution centre at Chase Point 1 on the outskirts of Coventry. 31-Aug-2005 Commsworld has raised £0.7m to fund the expansion of its telecoms operations in Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow, and 15 new sales, engineering and administration jobs will be created over the next year. 30-Aug-2005 VanCo, the network solutions company, is considering plans to set up a 50,000 sq ft office at Great West Plaza in Brentford, west London. 29-Aug-2005 Rentokil Initial is looking to sell Initial Style Conferences, the provider of training and conferencing venues. 26-Aug-2005 Telabria has secured £1m from private and institutional sources to expand its wireless broadband network, and additional funding will be raised in the coming months. 26-Aug-2005 Climax Racing is looking to expand the workforce at its Brighton-based computer games development studio from 70 to 135, having won a number of new contracts from Nintendo and Sony. 25-Aug-2005 ProTech Computer Systems of Birmingham is looking to expand its workforce from 32 to more than 40 over the next six months, due to rising demand for its database management system. 25-Aug-2005 Azzurri Communications is to invest £1m in the creation of a national centre for educational software development in Hull, with the creation of up to 20 new jobs over the next 15 months. 24-Aug-2005 RS Components, the supplier of electronic components, is to shed 39 jobs at its telesales operations in Corby, Birmingham and Manchester. 22-Aug-2005 Caudwell, the mobile phone group valued at £800m, has appointed NM Rothschild to consider plans for the sale of the business. 22-Aug-2005 Invensys is to close its electronics factory in Bodmin with the loss of about 90 jobs, in order to transfer production to its site in Plymouth. 19-Aug-2005 Agilent Technologies, the telecoms test equipment manufacturer, is to shed up to 90 jobs in Scotland by January, including 60 manufacturing jobs and 30 support jobs. 19-Aug-2005 Cambridgeshire County Council is to open a new call centre in St Ives by the end of the year, which could lead to the creation of up to 70 jobs. 16-Aug-2005 Patsystems, the supplier of electronic trading technology, is to raise up to £1.5m in a share placing. 15-Aug-2005 BTR UK is planning to expand the workforce at its Warrington-based electronics recycling business from 25 to 40. 11-Aug-2005 InTechnology is expected to shed some of the 500 jobs at its data storage and IT services operations in Harrogate, Reading and London, due to price pressure in the distribution side of the business. 10-Aug-2005 Hewlett-Packard is to shed 14,500 jobs around the world, which could impact a small number of administrative jobs in London but is unlikely to affect its larger sites in Bristol and Bracknell. 20-Jul-2005 Level Four Software, the supplier of ATM test and development systems with offices in London and Dunfermline, has secured a £2m venture capital investment from Quester. 15-Jul-2005 Plastic Logic has won planning permission to build a £20m open-access plastic electronics technology centre in Sedgefield, Co Durham, by 2007, in partnership with One NorthEast. 13-Jul-2005 Anite is seeking acquisitions to expand its computer services business, and is particularly interested in the public sector software market. 13-Jul-2005 Vodafone is to create 100 jobs at the former Singlepoint customer service call centre in Chesterton, North Staffordshire. 08-Jul-2005 Sharp UK, the consumer electronics company, is to close its Manchester headquarters early next year with the loss of up to 100 jobs. 07-Jul-2005 Icom4 is planning to create scores of new jobs in Coventry, having won a contract to promote TalkTalk Business services in the Midlands and the north. 07-Jul-2005 Cyberview Technology is to raise £22m in a flotation on Aim to fund the expansion of its gaming software business. 06-Jul-2005 Strategic Thought is planning to raise £3m in a flotation on Aim to fund the development of its software and services business. 04-Jul-2005 Portrait Software has raised £5m in a share placing to fund the development of its customer management software business. 01-Jul-2005 Sensor Technology & Devices has secured a £1.7m investment from Enterprise Equity and others to fund the expansion of its Belfast-based electronic medical devices business. 30-Jun-2005 Spirent is planning to shed a further 180 jobs in its services assurance division, which monitors the performance of telecoms networks. 30-Jun-2005 Business Liverpool is looking to set up a call centre to provide assistance to local companies, which would combine the support services of Liverpool City Council, Liverpool Chamber of Commerce and Business Link Merseyside. 28-Jun-2005 Monstermob is planning to raise £20m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its mobile entertainment business. 28-Jun-2005 EDS, the computer services company, is to occupy the whole of the 100,000 sq ft Cobalt 2 at the Cobalt business park in North Tyneside. 27-Jun-2005 BT is to set up a new division to manage the copper wires between its telephone exchanges and consumers, and the 30,000 staff will have a separate brand and uniform from BT. 27-Jun-2005 Wombat Financial Software of the US is planning to set up a software development and customer support centre in Belfast, with the creation of 45 jobs. 23-Jun-2005 PicoChip has secured a £11m investment from Intel and others to fund the expansion of its Bath-based chip design business. 22-Jun-2005 Fujitsu is looking to relocate its London headquarters, and sites of up to 40,000 sq ft are being considered. 20-Jun-2005 Coventry City Council is to set up a government-funded Consumer Direct call centre to provide consumer advice to people across the West Midlands, with the creation of 34 jobs. 17-Jun-2005 ScanSoft has closed its Rhetorical Systems language technology office in Edinburgh with the loss of 20 jobs. 16-Jun-2005 Scottish Enterprise is assisting Vortis Technologies, the US developer of a new antenna for mobile phones, with plans to set up a new headquarters for about 40 staff in Glasgow. 16-Jun-2005 Imagination Technologies is to raise £9.5m in a share placing to fund the development of its mobile phone chip business. 16-Jun-2005 Nanotech Semiconductor, the Surrey-based developer of integrated circuits for communications applications, has completed a £3.3m second-round funding. 15-Jun-2005 Axeon Holdings is raising £1.6m in a share placing to fund the commercial development of the Vindax electronic system that improves fuel consumption in cars. 13-Jun-2005 AT Communications is to raise £3m in a flotation on Aim to fund acquisitions and boost working capital for its corporate telecoms services business. 13-Jun-2005 Fujitsu is seeking an office of at least 40,000 sq ft in Bracknell, having recently been reoccupying buildings it put on the market in 2002. 13-Jun-2005 Manpower is to recruit a further 50 staff at the BT directory inquiries call centre in Barrow by August. 09-Jun-2005 Business Serve is to change its name to Legend Communications, and has also announced plans to move into the market for cheap telephone calls over the internet. 08-Jun-2005 NewLogic is to create more than 100 new jobs at its business outsourcing centre at the Boldon Business Park in South Tyneside. 06-Jun-2005 Newell & Budge is to set up a new £6m software development centre in Belfast, with the creation of 30 jobs. 03-Jun-2005 ITI Techmedia has announced a £6.7m investment in the development of ultra-wideband communications, in partnership with TES Electronic Solutions, Elonics and Cambridge Consultants. 02-Jun-2005 Marconi is said to be planning to relocate 355 of the 655 workers from its telecoms equipment factory in Liverpool to its Chorley site. 02-Jun-2005 Inmarsat is planning to raise £379m in a flotation, in order to reduce debt and fund the expansion of its mobile satellites business. 02-Jun-2005 ClientLogic is to expand the 400-strong workforce at its call centre in Derby, having secured a five-year extension to its contract with BT. 31-May-2005 SatCom is planning a flotation on Aim, with a valuation of about £15m, in order to fund the expansion of its Salisbury-based satellite communications equipment business. 30-May-2005 Bango is planning to raise about £5m in a flotation on Aim to fund the expansion of its Cambridge-based mobile phone services business. 30-May-2005 Telecom Service Centres is planning to expand the workforce at its call centre in the Dearne Valley from 400 to 500 by the end of the year. 26-May-2005 Phones4U is to recruit a further 100 customer service staff at sites in Newcastle-under-Lyme and Stoke. 26-May-2005 Leeds City Council is to set up a new £2.8m call centre in Grace Street next year, in order to make it easier for people to contact the council. 25-May-2005 Darwin Rhodes has secured £1.2m to fund the expansion of its recruitment consultancy and to fund a partial management buy-out. 23-May-2005 Siemens is to create 70 new jobs at its customer service centre in Durham, to add to the existing 600 working on contracts for National Savings, the BBC and the Vehicle Operator Services Agency. 23-May-2005 Plasmon, the developer of data storage systems, is to raise £12m in a share placing. 23-May-2005 Learning & Teaching Scotland and the Scottish Qualifications Authority are planning to set up an 87,000 sq ft office at the Optima scheme in Glasgow. 23-May-2005 Research In Motion, the technology company, is seeking a suitable site in the south-west M25 region for a new headquarters of up to 70,000 sq ft. 23-May-2005 The Office for National Statistics is to shed about 300 of the 1,000 jobs at its storage facility for birth, death and marriage certificates in Southport by 2007, as records will be transferred from microfiche to a computer database. 18-May-2005 Carphone Warehouse is planning to create 125 new jobs at its recently-acquired OneStop mobile phones business in Crewe, including sales and customer service staff. 17-May-2005 Zoo Digital is to raise £3m in a share placing to fund the development of its Sheffield-based DVD and digital games business. 12-May-2005 Agilent Technologies is to close its fibre optics operation at Whitehouse Road in Ipswich over the next three months, with the loss of 35 jobs. 10-May-2005 O2 is planning to set up a 100,000 sq ft telecoms call centre at the Skypark site in Glasgow, with the creation of 1,500 jobs. 10-May-2005 SCC, the Birmingham-based technology group, is creating 50 jobs at its new logistics base at the Tyseley Industrial Park, with the transfer of work from sites in Langley and Welwyn. 09-May-2005 Ant Marketing is planning to expand its call centre operations in Chesterfield with the creation of up to 300 jobs, having won a telemarketing contract from a residential telecoms provider. 09-May-2005 Centrom is planning to raise £2m in a flotation on Aim to fund the expansion of its IT services business, and will seek acquisitions in the UK and abroad. 09-May-2005 IncaGold is to raise £1.5m in a flotation on Aim to fund the expansion of its computer games business. 09-May-2005 Alphyra, the provider of mobile phone payment services, is planning to return to the stock market with a flotation that values the business at £400m. 09-May-2005 Edenbrook has secured a £1m investment from venture capital firm Elderstreet, to fund the expansion of its technology consultancy and the acquisition of Manchester-based Moliere. 06-May-2005 IBM has announced plans to shed 13,000 jobs across Europe, which could affect some of the 2,800 staff at its site in Greenock and 22,200 at other sites throughout the UK. 06-May-2005 Jersey Telecom is to shed up to 45 of its 455 staff, as part of a cost-cutting programme. 05-May-2005 Ubiquity Software is planning to raise £20m in a flotation on Aim to fund the expansion of its Cardiff-based telecoms software business. 03-May-2005 Marconi is to shed about 300 of the 700 jobs at its telecoms equipment factory in Liverpool, and up to a third of its total 4,500 UK staff are said to be facing redundancy. 02-May-2005 Agilisys is to set up a consumer advice call centre for the DTI in Barrow in March 2006, with the creation of more than 50 jobs. 02-May-2005 BT Group has confirmed plans to proceed with a £10bn investment in its telecoms network, and eight equipment manufacturers have been shortlisted. 02-May-2005 Orange is in the process of recruiting 700 staff for its mobile phone call centres, including 250 in the south-west and 450 in the north-east. 28-Apr-2005 Red-M is planning to raise up to £15m in a flotation on Aim to fund the expansion of its Buckinghamshire-based IT security business. 28-Apr-2005 Ricoh, the IT company, is to set up an office at the new football and entertainments arena being built in Coventry, with the creation of about 100 jobs. 27-Apr-2005 Hamsard is planning to raise £3m in a flotation on Aim to fund the expansion of its IT software and services business. 25-Apr-2005 Amino Technologies has raised £15m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its broadband network services business. 25-Apr-2005 BT has confirmed plans to close a call centre in Aberystwyth at the end of October, with the loss of 40 jobs. 22-Apr-2005 Technology Services Group has agreed a £25m facility with Lloyds TSB Corporate to fund the expansion of its Gosforth-based IT services business, including acquisitions in the Midlands and the South-East. 22-Apr-2005 Jade Communications, the IT equipment installation company, is to relocate its 100 staff from Warrington to St Helens in the next few months, with the Merseyside Special Investment Fund contributing £1m to the £4m cost. 21-Apr-2005 Cadence is planning to close its electronics design services unit in Livingston, with the loss of most of the 90 jobs. 20-Apr-2005 Superscape has raised £19m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its 3D mobile games business. 18-Apr-2005 PacketExchange, the internet network service provider, has raised £3m from Cazenove Private Equity to fund expansion in Europe and the US. 15-Apr-2005 Bridge2thinK, the e-learning company, is setting up a Scottish headquarters with eight staff at the Hillington Park Innovation Centre in Renfrewshire. 11-Apr-2005 Sage is to recruit a further 100 staff at its new headquarters in Newcastle Great Park over the next six months, with vacancies in customer service, technical support, telesales and marketing. 07-Apr-2005 Panasonic is to shed up to 60 of the 500 jobs at its telecoms equipment factory in Newport by July. 04-Apr-2005 Telspec is to close its telecoms manufacturing plant in Perth in May, with the loss of 60 jobs. 30-Mar-2005 Liberty Information Technology is investing a further £1.5m at its software development centre in Belfast, with the creation of 25 jobs for software engineers. 30-Mar-2005 FDM, the IT recruitment company, is to raise £3m in a flotation to fund training and the expansion of its roster of contractors. 30-Mar-2005 Udex has secured a further £2.7m investment from 3i and others to expand its Newport-based product data quality management software business. 29-Mar-2005 Motorola is planning to set up a 108,000 sq ft office at the Chineham Business Park in Basingstoke. 29-Mar-2005 Oracle, the US-based software group, is to set up a £1.1m customer service centre with 17 staff in Belfast. 24-Mar-2005 O2 is to recruit 2,000 extra staff and open a fourth call centre for its mobile phone business over the next two years, but 500 back office jobs will be lost, mainly at its Slough head office. 24-Mar-2005 Eidos, the computer games company, has received takeover offers worth more than £70m from Elevation Partners and SCi Entertainment. 22-Mar-2005 Devon County Council is considering plans to set up a £3m call centre with up to 60 staff to handle enquiries from the public, which is likely to involve the refurbishment of one of its existing buildings. 21-Mar-2005 Careline Services is creating 75 new jobs at its call centre in Selkirk, having won a contract to provide billing and customer care services to internet provider Tiscali. 15-Mar-2005 The National Assembly for Wales is providing financial assistance to Communications Direct for the creation of 120 jobs at new mobile telecoms sales operations in Cardiff and Swansea. 15-Mar-2005 APW is to shed up to 30 of the 285 jobs at its electronic equipment factory in Chandler's Ford, Hampshire. 15-Mar-2005 Convergys is to set up a new outsourcing call centre at Central Square in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, with the creation of 400 customer service and technical helpdesk jobs over the next 18 months. 14-Mar-2005 Cable & Wireless is to shed a further 480 sales and marketing jobs in its UK telecoms business over the next year. 10-Mar-2005 Zeus Technology has raised £3m from Scottish Equity Partners and Cazenove Private Equity to fund sales and marketing activities for its internet software business. 09-Mar-2005 Aepona has secured a £10m venture capital investment to fund the expansion of its Belfast-based telecoms software business. 07-Mar-2005 Datanomic has secured £2.5m from 3i Group to fund the development of its data quality software business. 04-Mar-2005 Actix, the London-based developer of network optimization software, has secured a £40m private equity investment from Summit Partners. 04-Mar-2005 The Ministry of Defence is to award a £4bn contract to a consortium led by EDS to revamp its computer infrastructure, which will involve linking about 200 separate systems. 03-Mar-2005 The AA has announced a £50m IT outsourcing deal with IBM, which will involve setting up new help desks, transferring up to 60 staff and moving 200 servers into IBM data centres. 02-Mar-2005 Hays is planning to open a further 15 recruitment offices and create 400 jobs over the coming months. 02-Mar-2005 Phones4U has put 20 of its mobile phone stores up for sale, in order to find better locations nearby. 28-Feb-2005 Calyx is planning to raise £7m in a share placing on Aim to fund the expansion of its voice and data communications business. 28-Feb-2005 BT is considering plans to relocate its 300,000 sq ft Newgate Street headquarters to a 200,000 sq ft site elsewhere in London. 28-Feb-2005 Frontier Silicon has raised £16m from investors to fund the commercial development of semiconductors for mobile digital television. 28-Feb-2005 Scottish Enterprise is said to be planning to reorganise its e-business support unit with the loss of up to ten jobs. 25-Feb-2005 Yes Telecom is planning to create up to 350 jobs at its Manchester-based telecoms business, and is currently seeking new premises. 24-Feb-2005 Accenture, the management consulting and outsourcing company, is planning to set up an office in Belfast. 21-Feb-2005 Automatic Data Processing is to set up a 50,000 sq ft headquarters for its employer services division at Syward Place in Chertsey. 21-Feb-2005 Surrey Satellite Technology is to set up a 60,000 sq ft headquarters at the Sunny Research Park in Guildford. 21-Feb-2005 Phonebox Telecom is to create 30 jobs at a new call centre for its mobile phone distribution business in Hampton-in-Arden, and is also looking to open shops in Coventry, Telford, Leamington Spa and Worcester. 17-Feb-2005 ClientLogic is to create 70 customer service jobs at its call centre at Alness in the Highlands. 17-Feb-2005 MI5, the intelligence agency, is said to be planning to recruit 1,000 new staff and establish regional offices in Manchester and Glasgow. 16-Feb-2005 Scottish Enterprise is said to be in negotiations with O2 about plans to set up a mobile phone call centre in Scotland. 15-Feb-2005 Alternative Networks, the telecoms reseller, is planning to raise £10m in a share placing on Aim to fund acquisitions and the expansion of its network of regional offices. 15-Feb-2005 Qonnectis, the developer of systems for the remote reading of meters, is to raise up to £1.5m in a share placing on Aim this month. 14-Feb-2005 Dell, the computer supplier, is planning to set up a call centre in Glasgow, with the creation of up to 850 jobs over the next two years. 11-Feb-2005 Ventura is considering potential sites in Cardiff and Bolton for a new 90,000 sq ft call centre operation. 10-Feb-2005 Nisai Group is to invest £2m in the setting up of an educational technology business in Middlesbrough, with the creation of up to 120 jobs over the next three years. 10-Feb-2005 Elite Internet Services and three other Manchester-based internet companies - ISPISP, Freedom Names and VISPWEB - have been acquired by 186k, and 186k expects to create 100 jobs with the relocation of a data centre from London to Leeds. 10-Feb-2005 TradingPartners has secured a £4.6m equity investment from Kennet Venture Partners and Silicon Valley Bank to fund the expansion of its e-sourcing business. 09-Feb-2005 Sarantel is to expand the manufacturing capacity for miniature antenna at its factory in Wellingborough, funded by a £15m share placing. 08-Feb-2005 Pi Group is to shed 40 of the 243 jobs at its electronics operations in Cambridgeshire. 08-Feb-2005 Nestle is to shed 35 IT jobs at sites in York and Croydon this year, following the implementation of a business process reengineering programme. 08-Feb-2005 E2save is to create 160 sales and customer service jobs at its mobile phone call centre in Loughborough. 07-Feb-2005 BT is to recruit 500 apprentices this year, with training provided in engineering, technology, business management and fleet services. 01-Feb-2005 Humax Electronics is considering plans to shed 81 of the 93 jobs at its electronics factory in Newtownards, County Down, in order to transfer production to Poland. 31-Jan-2005 Plastic Logic has raised a further £4.2m of private funding to expand its Cambridge-based plastic electronics technology business. 31-Jan-2005 Filtronic Comtek is to shed up to 270 jobs at its electronic components plant in Bradford, in order to transfer some production to China. 26-Jan-2005 John Moores University is to relocate its International Centre of Digital Content to the new Liverpool Digital site on Edge Lane, with the Northwest Regional Development Agency providing £3.9m of funding. 25-Jan-2005 Infoteam International Services is to relocate its Sony PlayStation game console repair business from Uxbridge to St Columb Major, near Newquay, with the creation of up to 185 jobs. 21-Jan-2005 T-Mobile is said to be planning to shed up to 650 jobs in its mobile phone business in the UK, which employs 3,500 at its Hatfield headquarters and 3,000 in call centres. 21-Jan-2005 BNS Telecom is to build a new £1.5m headquarters at Prudhoe in Northumberland by 2006, with the creation of 130 jobs. 19-Jan-2005 Inkfish is to create 40 new jobs at its call centre in Brighton, having won a contract to launch the Post Office's new phone service. 19-Jan-2005 Sophos is creating 70 new jobs at its anti-virus software business in Abingdon over the next few months. 14-Jan-2005 Fighting Bull Broadcast Technologies of the US is to set up a software development centre in Belfast, with the creation of 15 jobs. 13-Jan-2005 Vodafone is to shed 195 finance and IT jobs at its Singlepoint mobile phone business in Stoke-on-Trent by April. 13-Jan-2005 Equation, the Alfreton-based computer training company, has ceased trading with the loss of at least 15 jobs. 13-Jan-2005 The information below comes from the UK Activity Report. 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