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RSS gloomIT skills shortage squashed by recession?
News The icy winds of economic gloom have put paid to talk of a tech skills shortage - at least for now, the exclusive 2009 silicon.com Skills Survey can reveal. While the proportion of respondents reporting empty IT seats... [25 Nov 2009]
How to grow tech businesses during a recession
Comment Recessions don't need to be a time of doom and gloom. Entrepreneur and Dragons' Den judge James Caan explains how to shape up your business through the downturn. IT is more fundamental to businesses today than in any... [06 Oct 2009]
The perfect storm: Why now is the time for open source
White Paper But there's a bright spot amidst the general gloom. These are unprecedented times. The global economy is in free fall, with no geographic region or industry unaffected by the scarcity of capital, market volatility, and... [17 Sep 2009]
Microsoft: 'Cloud shift not doom and gloom for Exchange'
News The fact that many customers are shifting from running their own email servers to getting mail as a hosted service doesn't have to spell doom for Microsoft, according to the head of the company's Exchange business. [18 Aug 2009]
Minority Report: iPhone puts the 'smart' in smartphone
Comment However, as has been the case in recent quarters, it's been the iPhone that has turned Apple into Wall Street's darling, outperforming the company's own traditionally conservative estimates and beating a path through the pervasive... [27 Jul 2009]
PC sales on the upturn amid economic green shoots?
News After more than a year of doom-and-gloom PC market forecasts, things are looking up. Market research analyst firm Gartner predicts that the fourth quarter of this year will bring the beginning of a rebound that will gain... [26 Jun 2009]
When IT security becomes a gothic horror story
Comment Beyond the link with cryptography, Poe is, of course, best known for his stories of threatening Gothic gloom and madness. Still, despite all of this, it's worth remembering that as well as all the gloom,... [21 Apr 2009]
Virtualisation to boom in recession gloom
News The EMEA market for virtualisation software is likely to be very robust in 2009, with the market for hosted virtual desktops leading the field, according to analyst company Gartner. However, the company warned that the global recession... [14 Apr 2009]
Wikia Search killed off in economic gloom
News Wikia is announcing on Tuesday that it is closing the Wikia Search product. The service was intended to be a user-generated search engine, through which users could influence the rankings of results for all other users. [01 Apr 2009]
Lenovo latest: Don't mix Think and Ideas
News Lenovo announced an internal overhaul Wednesday, reorganising both its regional and product groups. Think products, like the iconic ThinkPad and the desktop ThinkStation, will be separated from the Idea group, which makes the IdeaPad and... [26 Mar 2009]
E-tailers: Be choosy overseas
Comment Last year I wrote a column saying that for some retailers international expansion is a welcome diversion from domestic gloom, given the fall of sterling against the dollar and consumer desire in developing markets for... [24 Mar 2009]
IT job seekers going nowhere
News The economic gloom has well and truly hit the IT job market, with fewer ICT jobs advertised, fewer job seekers and a lack of interest in training, according to new research. During the third quarter of last year, overall... [16 Mar 2009]
Google CEO: 'We're not immune to economic gloom'
News Google CEO Eric Schmidt expects 2009 to be a "tough, tough" year and he warned the search giant is "not immune" from the worsening economy. The search giant's chief touched on a wide variety of topics and, specifically, how they affect... [04 Mar 2009]
37 million Brit shoppers doing it online by 2014
News Brits' love affair with online shopping is set to continue despite the economic gloom. The UK's ecommerce market is the largest and most mature in Europe, according to a new report by Forrester Research, which says more... [02 Mar 2009]
Netbooks a nail in Microsoft's coffin?
Comment Microsoft's 22 January announcement of relatively poor financial performance, together with news of the first job cuts in its 34-year history has added to the gloom already felt on Wall Street. What's behind Microsoft's... [29 Jan 2009]
