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The Weekly Round-Up: 06.11.09
Round-Up Coming soon: cold-calling IT managers offering bespoke network virtualisation solutions and social media consultants on street corners holding up cardboard signs stating: "Will tweet for money. Almost half of survey... [06 Nov 2009]
Why are Indian outsourcing companies such bashful suitors?
Comment There is a clear feeling that it's cheaper for firms to grow organically than to spend their money on expensive buys - since acquisition targets can command a hefty premium. Indian outsourcers certainly have the cash -... [06 Nov 2009]
Techies and hairdressers united in the moonlight
News Almost half of survey respondents said they had done work for customers they had met through their day jobs, while one-third said they had worked cash in hand because they needed the money. What do Blighty's hairdressers... [04 Nov 2009]
Phishers set their sights on corporate accounts
News Fraudsters have attempted to steal an estimated $100m from corporate bank accounts using malware and money mules, the FBI said yesterday. The FBI is seeing several new victim complaints and cases every week, according to... [04 Nov 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Uneconomics
Comment Short-termism - The focus is on the immediate and making money now. Compiled at the IoD, Pall Mall, London, and dispatched to silicon.com via a free wi-fi connection. For more than a year now I have been in a state of... [29 Oct 2009]
Why CIOs are saying yes to open source software
News While some CIOs are enthusiastic about the potential savings that can be made, others still warn of the hidden costs that can lie in wait for the unwary.silicon.com's latest CIO Jury came down strongly against the uptake of open source... [28 Oct 2009]
Amazon's Kindle ignites legal upheaval
Comment There is serious money at stake in this area. Amazon's Kindle e-book and Google's Book Search will change the way we read books forever. And that will keep the lawyers plenty busy, says Callum Sinclair. [27 Oct 2009]
How Google Apps helped Jaguar Land Rover keep motoring after Ford sale
News The work - which followed its sale to Indian car manufacturer Tata Motors - has ended up "costing an awful lot of money and not adding any business value overall", according to JLR CIO Jeremy Vincent. [26 Oct 2009]
Keeping IT green in tough times
News The government's deputy green IT champion, Catalina McGregor, told silicon.com: "Both industry and government are on a clear path to reduce, reuse and see where green ICT can help save money - they go hand in hand. [22 Oct 2009]
Twelve Ways to Reduce Costs with Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008
White Paper This white paper describes many ways in which organizations can use Microsoft SQL Server 2008 to save time and money. Many organizations are finding themselves having to deal with difficult challenges in a tough economic... [21 Oct 2009]
Collaborate and communicate with customers and colleagues in real time
White Paper You'll learn how to help teams create, share and edit documents in real time, with real savings in time and money -- and to communicate with each other more effectively, improving productivity. To keep your business... [21 Oct 2009]
Blocked: BBC plan to share iPlayer with rivals
News If the BBC invested a lot of money in it and then it was found to have competition issues, then it wouldn't really be a good thing for the licence-fee payers," a BBC Trust spokesman told silicon.com. The BBC Trust has... [21 Oct 2009]
2010: When IT budgets start to grow again
News If you haven't guessed already: 2009 was a bad year for IT spending, analysts have found. But fear not - things are looking brighter for the coming years. According to research from Gartner, enterprise tech spending is down 5.2 per cent... [20 Oct 2009]
IT Professional's Guide to Budgeting and Cost Control
White Paper Though not everyone is born a financial whiz, you can learn to stretch your dollars and find out how other IT pros have saved money for their organizations without sacrificing quality and security. Are you facing the... [19 Oct 2009]
CIOs waste energy and budget as one in six servers go unused
News IT departments around the world are wasting money supporting millions of servers that are not doing any useful work, and could make significant savings by decommissioning the hardware instead, it has been claimed. [19 Oct 2009]
