capital
RSS capitaleBay's Skype sale gets green light
News Zennström and Friis will take a 14 per cent stake in Skype, in return for contributing Joltid software and "significant capital investment". eBay has announced today that the sale of its controlling stake in VoIP service... [06 Nov 2009]
UK software industry - alive and kicking
News While the US has ready-made communities of developers working together with leading universities to secure investment, British software developers often struggle much more to gain access to venture capital funding. [23 Oct 2009]
Keeping IT green in tough times
News Green IT projects that require a significant capital expenditure are the ones that have been hardest hit by the recession. Building greener datacentres may be worthwhile in terms of sustainability but it requires... [22 Oct 2009]
Next-Generation, Low-Latency Front-Office Computing for Capital Markets
White Paper Capital markets have complex, data-intensive front-office environments that change in milliseconds. To survive and differentiate themselves, companies need predictable, high-performance technical solutions. [15 Oct 2009]
Agile Foundation for Competitive Advantage: Oracle Tuxedo Enables Speed, Innovation, and Efficiency in Financial Services
White Paper As financial institutions seek new ways to foster customer responsiveness, operational efficiency, and business agility, Oracle Tuxedo is ready to answer the call in banking, insurance, and capital markets. [15 Oct 2009]
Why CIOs are saying no to Macs
News Alastair Behenna, CIO at recruitment company Harvey Nash, said: "Unfortunately, the issue wouldn't be one of acceptance by IT but merely a reflection of the cost of implementation and the 'shock and awe' impact on my board when I... [02 Oct 2009]
'New tech? Not for me': CIOs running scared in the recession
News CIOs' reluctance to invest in new technology is unsurprising given the ongoing downturn, however - with European enterprises decreasing their 2009 IT operating budgets by two per cent and IT capital budgets by one per... [02 Oct 2009]
The HR Imperative for Predictive Modeling: Elevate Recruitment and Retention to Strategic Status With Advanced Analytics
White Paper Contemporary HR executives require new ways of understanding the dynamic factors that affect their organization's human capital investments. They require a new class of analytics and predictive modeling to help them... [02 Oct 2009]
Boom in Mobile Data Creates Backhaul Urgency
White Paper Unfortunately, the average revenue per user (ARPU) from new services does not offset the rising capital and operating expense (CAPEX/OPEX) of meeting increased capacity requirements. In their bid to improve their... [02 Oct 2009]
Reducing Power Consumption: Improving the Heat and Power Efficiency of Switching and Telephony Equipment
White Paper Reducing power consumption ranks high on the list of companies' environmental priorities - especially given its attendant benefits of bringing down operating and capital expenses. Enterprises around the world are seeking... [02 Oct 2009]
"SmartGridNet" Architecture for Utilities
White Paper This paper describes an evolutionary approach to an intelligent communications network ("SmartGridNet"), maximizing leverage of the existing asset base and minimizing capital and operations expenses. Market forces are... [02 Oct 2009]
Packet Transport Solutions for Transportation Network Evolution: Increase Flexibility and Reliability While Optimizing the Convergence of New Ethernet/IP Services
White Paper But Ethernet/IP-based applications are integrated to support advanced operations and business communications requirements, transportation operators have to transform their networks to support real-time rich content, taking advantage of... [02 Oct 2009]
The Early Warning Project on Predictive Maintenance: Advance Warning and Problem Avoidance in Complex Industrial Processe
White Paper Complex, capital-intensive industries (such as oil and gas, chemical, steel, paper, aerospace, the military) as well as high-value, long service-life product manufacturers face a pressing demand to minimize unplanned... [02 Oct 2009]
ITIC Research Paper: VIPRE Takes Bite out of Bloatware
White Paper The remedy to bloatware is a better, more efficient product that is specifically engineered to scan, detect and remove myriad security threats without impacting performance and taking a big bite out of the IT capital... [01 Oct 2009]
Former MySQL boss joins Benchmark Capital
News Marten Mickos, the one-time chief executive of MySQL who left about a year after Sun Microsystems acquired the open source database company, has joined Benchmark Capital as an entrepreneur in residence. [01 Oct 2009]
