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RSS gloomCredit crunch turns techies to second jobs
News Economic gloom and the rising cost of living in the UK is making IT workers in full time employment take on extra work outside office hours. Freelance services website PeoplePerHour.com says it currently has 3,500 people offering work in at least... [22 Jul 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Video Blog: For whom the bell tolls
Video In his latest video blog, Peter Cochrane reports from the gloom of the former servants' quarters of a stately home just to the west of London. There he finds and tests out the cutting-edge communications technology of three generations ago. [17 Jul 2008]
Woolly risk analysis is hastening a housing crash
Comment With all this doom and gloom, a housing market slump seems inevitable and a crash even possible. Borrowers have moved from a mortgage feast to a famine so bad that the government has stepped in with a £50bn support package. [03 Jul 2008]
Hardware defies economic gloom
News Forecasts of economic gloom do not apply to the hardware market just yet, according to analyst firm Gartner, which has predicted that the market for both PCs and servers will remain in growth this year, and at least for the start of next year. [02 Jul 2008]
IT salaries defy economic gloom
News Demand for tech skills has helped keep pay buoyant, despite wider economic gloom, the salary survey claims, suggesting employers are still struggling to find and keep skilled IT staff. IT pay is rising faster than at any time in the past three... [10 Jun 2008]
IT contractors upbeat about work
News IT contractors are upbeat about job prospects despite talk of a recession in the UK. Just nine per cent of contractors said they are very concerned about finding work in the current economic climate, according to research from IT recruitment... [20 Feb 2008]
Five mobile trends to watch in 2008
News The January gloom has descended but mobile operators have less to look forward to than most as they face another year of declining ARPU (average revenue per user) in the more developed markets. How is 2008 shaping up in the mobile and wireless... [09 Jan 2008]
Leader: Missing Xmas parcels highlight online fulfilment dangers
Leader It appears that the economic doom and gloom of the past few months was forgotten, for a while at least, with retailers such as Marks & Spencer launching their latest sales on midnight Christmas Day, ensuring consumers would not stop shopping even... [02 Jan 2008]
Top 10 retail IT stories of the year
News In the face of all that economic gloom however, many retail and leisure organisations lit the green light on innovative technology programmes. It hasn't exactly been a bumper year for conventional retail - soaring debt, an increasingly depressed... [19 Dec 2007]
UK digital divide to deepen?
News But it's not all doom and gloom - many of those with computers seem to be embracing technology. The digital divide in Blighty could be set to deepen further as offline individuals are left behind their more tech-savvy neighbours. [19 Mar 2007]
BBC told to rethink web TV plan
News But it's not all doom and gloom. Media watchdog Ofcom has demanded a rethink of the BBC's plans for an on-demand IPTV service, saying the launch could hurt rival commercial services. The IPTV service, which could see BBC programmes airing... [24 Jan 2007]
iTunes sales row data over-hyped
News He added that while sales are levelling, the news doesn't spell doom and gloom for Apple. Following an outcry from Apple, analyst house Forrester Research has claimed its recent report, which found an iTunes sales slump in the first half of this... [14 Dec 2006]
UK vs the developing world
Comment Well, it will if the picture of doom and gloom that the UK populace is envisaging comes to fruition, a perception outlined in research from Deloitte and YouGov, which was released at the CBI conference this week. [29 Nov 2006]
Photos: Quotes of the day - CIO Forum
Photo He further added to the gloom hanging over the server room, stating: "The IT department is like a leper colony. 'Reasons to be cheerful': Conference chairman René Carayol began on an upbeat note for the CIO delegates. [26 Sep 2006]
Lehman Brothers Reveals Its Strategies for Bringing a Complex Project in on Time and Under-Budget
White Paper IT projects, however, are not all doom and gloom - if managed correctly they can deliver both financial and efficiency gains. According to Computer Weekly's Project Management Survey, only 16% of IT projects hit all their targets, with just 41... [10 Aug 2006]
