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RSS 118Oracle's Ellison to take $1 salary this year
News Oracle CEO Larry Ellison will receive a base salary of $1 for fiscal 2010, according to a regulatory document filed on Friday. That's a decrease of $999,999 from last year. But Ellison won't exactly be starving. [24 Aug 2009]
Mobile directory - invasion of privacy or invaluable service?
Comment Does the UK's new mobile phone directory go far enough to protect your privacy? Lawyer Ruth Hoy weighs in. Last week's launch of the UK's first mobile phone directory, which claims to be able to connect anyone to more than 16 million... [25 Jun 2009]
The Forrester Wave: eProcurement Solutions, Q2 2007
White Paper eProcurement solutions play a key role in improving purchasing processes in enterprises through automating requisitions and purchase orders for goods and services, decentralizing buying, connecting to suppliers directly, and improving... [31 Jan 2009]
Free delivery helps ASOS to bumper Christmas
News It was a very merry Christmas this year for online clothing retailer ASOS. Sales for the nine weeks to 16 January 2009 increased by 118 per cent year-on-year, while sales for the 42 weeks to 16 January 2009 have doubled... [19 Jan 2009]
Red Hat Drives Desktop Cost Savings for Europcar
White Paper As one of the world's leading car rental companies, Europcar has a network of over 2,600 branches across 118 countries, including 110 offices around Australia. Europcar faced the challenge of discovering a cost-... [11 Sep 2008]
Edinburgh Council signs multimillion BT deal
News The City of Edinburgh Council has signed a three-year, £3.2m deal with BT for a fixed rate telephone network. The network will run on the BT Hosted Voice platform providing a virtual private telephone network to all of the council's... [27 Aug 2008]
Google sites pick up popularity points
News For the internet, the summer months seem to be a boon for Google and Yahoo! but not Microsoft. The latest figures from research firm Nielsen Online show a slight lift to Google's audience from June to July, up by about one million... [13 Aug 2008]
Contactless payments speeds up coffee drinkers
News Coffee chain Coffee Republic is rolling out contactless payment technology after a trial of Barclaycard Business's OneTouch system saw up to one in five credit card transactions being waved through this way. [23 Jul 2008]
London still wi-fi king of the world
News London has shored up its status as wi-fi capital of the world with usage soaring 156 per cent and the average session time lasting 72 minutes. But the world is in the grip of wi-fi fever, according to the latest data from iPass' 'Wi-Fi... [14 Mar 2008]
The Promise of the Virtual Oil Company
White Paper World demand for oil and gas is at an all-time high as emerging economies demand increasing amounts to fuel their growth. The Energy Information Administration predicts that world oil demand will grow from 80 million barrels per day (at... [29 Feb 2008]
Apple's iPhone motors past Motorola and sets sights on RIM
News It may be shiny and new in the smart phone club but Apple has already grabbed enough market share to overtake Motorola on the handset leaderboard. Latest stats from analyst house Canalys show Apple cut itself a 6.5 per cent chunk of the... [05 Feb 2008]
Serbian Credit System Reduces National Loan-Debt From 3.5 Per Cent to 1.18 Per Cent
White Paper The Association of Serbian Banks (ASB) wanted to improve the control and monitoring of credit ratings in Serbian financial markets. Investigations into credit ratings took days, and results were often inaccurate. [19 Dec 2007]
The Business Impact of Outsourcing
White Paper A new study from IBM shows that companies engaged in IT outsourcing experienced significant gains, compared to their competition. This includes 11.8% higher growth in earnings, 9.9% lower expenses and 8.6% higher return... [13 Dec 2007]
Caption competition 13: Unlucky for some
Photo This competition is now closed, the winning entry was: didn't feel threatened by their new competitor's advert, as the number was less memorable. Jon Morton Picture credit: 192.com [26 Jan 2007]
Office 2007 a slow burner for businesses
News Three-quarters of businesses plan to wait at least three years before upgrading to the newly launched Microsoft Office 2007, according to new research from Forrester. The report, Office Productivity Software Trends: 2007 And Beyond,... [24 Jan 2007]
