Brown’s Chicken comes back to downtown Chicago
— Brown’s Chicken is returning to downtown after a 15-year absence. The fried-chicken chain plans to open a franchise inside Millennium Station in August. Underneath Prudential Plaza, the station is part of the Metra rail depot at Randolph Street and Michigan Avenue. It is the first store opening for Brown’s since the company was [...]
How reliable is the cloud?
Datacentres go down. It doesn’t matter who runs them, nor how much redundancy you build into them, eventually something happens that takes them down. It could be an earthquake. It could be a flood. It could be (most often is) human error. You may be able to mitigate such things, but you can’t prevent them entirely. [...]
Boeing’s price to keep from losing American aircraft order to Airbus
— Boeing Co. opted to put a new engine on its 737 and put on its game face to keep from losing a big customer, American Airlines. In holding onto at least part of airline’s order, though, Boeing had to give significantly on price. Boeing will build 200 of the 460-planes that Fort Worth, [...]
DfT shared services contract to cost up to £750m
The Department for Transport will spend up to £750 million on a contract for the management of it’s Shared Services Centre (SSC) lasting up to ten years, according to a tender notice published on Thursday. The notice updates the cost of the contract from the department’s prior announcement in March, which capped the price at [...]