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RSS dealeBay's Skype sale gets green light
News The settlement restructures the deal with an investor group led by Silver Lake and puts an end to a dispute with software maker Joltid over the licensing of software that underlies Skype's internet telephony service. [06 Nov 2009]
Why are Indian outsourcing companies such bashful suitors?
Comment Despite the heightened anticipation caused by the cash on their balance sheets - Infosys for instance has $2.8bn on hand - not a single blockbuster, billion-dollar deal has gone through so far. Indian outsourcers... [06 Nov 2009]
Telegraph CIO on the rocky road to going Google
News TMG has also recently struck a new deal with another cloud computing firm, Salesforce.com, to carry out payment processing for its online sales operation on Coda software on Salesforce's Force.com platform. [04 Nov 2009]
£39m boost for London Olympics' emergency comms
News The Home Office has announced a £39m deal to help emergency services comms cope during the London 2012 Olympic Games. The National Police Improvement Agency has signed the £39m contract with Airwave, the company that... [03 Nov 2009]
Windows 7: Not perfect - but ready for prime time
Comment Another deal-breaker: the need to upgrade around 30 per cent of the hardware assets to be able to cope with Vista's bloated resource requirements. While Windows 7 solves most of the qualms about Vista, the new OS still... [28 Oct 2009]
Twitter puts real-time tweets in Google search
News The news follows an earlier announcement by Microsoft of a deal to index tweets in its own search engine Bing. For more on Google's intergration of Twitter see Google strikes a Twitter search deal, too... [22 Oct 2009]
Twelve Ways to Reduce Costs with Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008
White Paper Many organizations are finding themselves having to deal with difficult challenges in a tough economic climate. A key factor in addressing these challenges is to reduce costs and drive efficiencies, and Information... [21 Oct 2009]
YouTube presses play on Channel 4 top shows
News Channel 4 has signed a deal with YouTube to bring its flagship shows to the video-sharing site. Under the terms of the deal, Channel 4 will have a branded presence on YouTube and will be able to sell... [16 Oct 2009]
Oracle IT Modernization: The Path to SOA
White Paper If I use it, how is it going to help my organization eliminate cost, increase agility, deal with dwindling legacy skill sets, and address compliance? More and more organizations are looking to service-oriented... [15 Oct 2009]
iPhone: Coming to Phones 4u for the first time
News The deal puts an end to Carphone Warehouse's hold on the device - since the launch of the iPhone in 2007, Carphone Warehouse was the only independent mobile retailer to carry the Apple handset. The news follows Apple's... [14 Oct 2009]
NHS bodies outsource payroll in £12m deals
News The deal, worth £12m, covers payroll services for 25,000 NHS staff. A further eight NHS bodies have signed on with NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS), an outsourcing joint venture between the Department of Health and... [13 Oct 2009]
Home Office inks £430m deals with Atos Origin, Fujitsu
News The extensions, a £330m agreement with Fujitsu and a £100m deal with Atos, cover services - including applications hosting, desktop services, networks and supporting infrastructure - for around 24,000 staff across the... [12 Oct 2009]
Sainsbury's tech shopping spree revealed
News This savings drive began when Sainsbury's ditched a 10-year IT outsourcing contract with Accenture in 2005, half way through the deal, and brought the services back in-house. Technology has helped Sainsbury's keep the... [09 Oct 2009]
Cheat Sheet: The Kindle, Amazon's e-book reader
Cheat Sheet The retailer has struck a global deal with a US mobile operator, AT&T, to be its mobile network of choice. That's exactly what it is.e-book readers are typically small, thin devices - about the size of a paperback novel... [07 Oct 2009]
Achieving Flexible Storage Scalability:The Case for Enterprise Modular Storage Arrays
White Paper Partner with NEC to deal with this challenge. Achieving flexible storage scalability: The Case for Enterprise Modular Storage Arrays For Business on a data growth path, the management of storage creates numerous... [06 Oct 2009]
