contracts for difference
Home Office CIO on taming tech and why ID cards are good news
Comment We are going through all of those [contracts] and systematically assessing the risk and looking at their approaches. The Home Office CIO speaks to silicon.com's Nick Heath on ID cards, protecting data, and how tech can... [10 Jul 2009]
Microsoft's Hohm wants to help you cut your gas bill
News The big industrial guys have already entered into special contracts," Mundie said, noting that businesses often have done energy audits and agreed to cut their use in exchange for lower rates. The big... [25 Jun 2009]
Soca socking it to the cyber criminals
News Soca's wider IT was also being overhauled with the integration of two legacy IT networks, the replacement of Soca's inherited major IT and logistics service contracts. The report praises Soca's achievements over the... [14 May 2009]
Minority Report: iPhone 3.0 promises geek nirvana
Comment Both Apple and AT&T will be keen to re-sign customers coming to the end of their contracts who chose not to upgrade to the 3G iPhone last July. The June release, if it arrives then, would coincide with the end of the... [17 Mar 2009]
Naked CIO: The difference between vision and panic
Comment When the market contracts, innovation almost always proves successful in not only helping you persevere through the hard times but also helping companies to quickly turn around when times get better. It is the... [09 Mar 2009]
Irish Trader puts a Coda on financials software
News The implementation will allow Delta Index's in-house developed trading platform to get a more accurate idea of performance across broker management systems as well as various finance and accounting functions as the company, which... [20 Jan 2009]
Betfair spins into financial trading
News It encompasses two products: spread betting and instruments called CFDs (contracts for difference). Online betting exchange Betfair has spun off a new venture called Tradefair which it... [10 Nov 2008]
LSE opens up clearing
News According to an LSE spokeswoman, the opening up of this stage of the trade process is instrumental in the introduction of Contracts for Difference (CFDs) in the early part of 2009. The... [30 Sep 2008]
10 ways the credit crunch will hit IT
News With more closures like the Lehman Brothers and acquisitions like Merrill Lynch [by] Bank of America, there is going to be a lot of consolidation of outsourcing contracts. Outsourcers can expect to feel the... [16 Sep 2008]
HP close to buying EDS for $12bn
News Thanks to IBM's Global Services arm, Big Blue can offer back-end hardware such as servers along with long term service contracts. But there's one difference: HP still has its PC business, and has spent... [13 May 2008]
Outsourcing: Not just about cutting costs?
News Campbell said that despite a trend to spread risk and expertise between many different providers that large companies were trying to simplify the complexities of multi-sourcing contracts. And Peter Brudenall, partner at... [12 May 2008]
Offshoring - culture lessons are crucial
News Richard Herbert, CIO of global markets and European IT at ABN Amro, said the failure of outsourcing contracts should not be blamed on overseas service suppliers. Rob Fraser, ex-CIO of Boots, said cultural... [16 Oct 2007]
£7bn outsourcing "turmoil" ahead
News Big outsourcing firms could be in for a rocky time as increasingly savvy customers look to slice up contracts and hand out work to smaller specialist firms. The consultancy predicts the big outsourcing... [14 Dec 2006]
Re:Viewing 2006: The year in outsourcing
News The 'big three' Indian IT giants - Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Wipro - posted another phenomenal year of bumper double-digit profit growth, bagging more lucrative high-profile contracts along the way. [11 Dec 2006]
Leader: Videoconferencing stepping up a gear
Leader though it will undoubtedly look for revenue from support contracts too and upgrades. Cisco's leading man behind the project says his company will give you "five times the quality at half the... [24 Oct 2006]
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