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The Weekly Round-Up: 06.11.09
Round-Up A recent report from analyst firm TechMarketView found that the UK software industry is in fine fettle, although much more needs to be done to support the growth of small tech firms. Question: What do Britain's... [06 Nov 2009]
Why are Indian outsourcing companies such bashful suitors?
Comment The collective behaviour of Indian outsourcing firms has leaned towards short-term investor focus as opposed to long-term growth strategies, says Avinash Vashistha, global managing partner of consultancy firm Tholons. [06 Nov 2009]
Techies and hairdressers united in the moonlight
News A report by the Recruitment & Employment Confederation and KPMG published today shows a third consecutive month of growth in both permanent and temporary jobs during October - with permanent placements rising at their... [04 Nov 2009]
Whose IT budget has been hit the hardest?
News According to Gartner, spending growth will return next year with a bump in IT budgets of 2.3 per cent year-on-year with "sustained, positive growth" on the cards for 2011. While the... [04 Nov 2009]
Why the UK will never create a Google, Microsoft or Oracle
News The UK does not have the right economic or educational environment to support the growth of this type of skill. The UK will never create a software giant to rival the likes of Microsoft, Google or Oracle. [03 Nov 2009]
Maemo and Android: Symbian's open source rivals up the pressure
News According to the analysts, while the number of Symbian phones sold will continue to increase over the coming years, its years of growth will eventually come to an end with a fall in device shipments in 2014. [02 Nov 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Uneconomics
Comment Continuous growth - This is, and was never, possible. Compiled at the IoD, Pall Mall, London, and dispatched to silicon.com via a free wi-fi connection. For more than a year now I have been in a state of mild... [29 Oct 2009]
Amazon's Kindle ignites legal upheaval
Comment Forecast growth curves begin to steepen rapidly after 2010. Amazon's Kindle e-book and Google's Book Search will change the way we read books forever. And that will keep the lawyers plenty busy, says Callum Sinclair. [27 Oct 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Augmented reality
Cheat Sheet While analyst house ABI Research notes that AR technology has been with us for more than 15 years, the company is predicting dramatic growth in the take-up of the tech over the next five years - driven by mobile... [27 Oct 2009]
The top 10 technologies you need to plan for next year
News Rather than building a datacentre designed to cope with a business' growth in 20 years, enterprises would be better off adopting a pod-based approach - design the site to support what will be needed over its lifetime,... [22 Oct 2009]
Don't make do, do more with IT optimization.
White Paper IT optimization strategies such as consolidation and virtualization help reduce complexity, free up resources and support growth. Small to medium-sized businesses often find themselves forced to do more... [21 Oct 2009]
Video Whitepaper: Enhance Your Business with Fast, Efficient Middleware
White Paper As a business changes through growth, contraction, or seasonal variation, its middleware must be flexible, cost-efficient, and easily modified to accommodate this fluctuation. Watch the free, on-demand video whitepaper... [21 Oct 2009]
The Compelling Case for Conferencing
White Paper It provides market data on the growth of unified communications (UC) and collaboration systems as well as end user feedback. Organizations of all types and sizes are looking for ways to improve business... [21 Oct 2009]
Optimization: Creating the dynamic infrastructure today's economy demands
White Paper Issues like increasing interconnectivity, explosive growth of data, and the mounting costs of data center operations make IT optimization a very hot topic. Find out how initiatives such as virtualization... [21 Oct 2009]
2010: When IT budgets start to grow again
News By next year, however, the analyst predicts spending will see year-on-year growth of 3.3 per cent. If you haven't guessed already: 2009 was a bad year for IT spending, analysts have found. But fear not -... [20 Oct 2009]
