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RSS spending in newsIndian outsource giants feeling the pinch
News India's outsourcing giants are suffering sluggish growth in contrast to record-breaking spending on global services in 2008. The results fly in the face of figures in the quarterly index by outsourcing adviser TPI, which shows global spending on... [18 Jul 2008]
Online retail takes 20p of the shopper's pound
News Based on the current growth trends online-shopper spend will peak at up to 50 per cent of all consumer spending within five years.silicon.com Retail & Leisure Online shopping is poised to take 20p out of every UK consumer pound by the end of the... [18 Jul 2008]
Courts to save millions with streamlined tech
News Lewis said previously it could have taken six months for problems to emerge, citing examples of wasted spending and manpower where defendants were sent back to custody without being properly dealt with in court. [17 Jul 2008]
Security heading for the cloud
News Security software will jump off PCs and into 'the cloud', with spending on online security services forecast to triple by 2013. Cloud-based malware and spam detection in email and instant messaging will grow from 20 per cent of messaging security... [17 Jul 2008]
BlackBerry ready to burst into new pastures
News The company's growth strategy will also focus on introducing new phones and applications, and an increase in research and development spending, Balsillie said at the meeting. BlackBerry maker RIM is charging ahead with international expansion plans... [16 Jul 2008]
Berners-Lee and friends promote web science study
News Shadbolt said: "We've been patiently spending the last 18 months evangelising the idea. The study of web science is being promoted by a group of top academics to lay the foundations for the future development of the world wide web. [14 Jul 2008]
Aviva strikes $1bn BPO deal
News Aviva will withdraw from running the centres offshore after spending five years building them up. Insurance giant Aviva is to sell off its offshore operations and outsource $1bn worth of back-office work. [11 Jul 2008]
City slickers addicted to email
News In addition, 83 per cent of those surveyed said they take their mobile phone or BlackBerry with them when they're spending time away from work. Workers in the City just can't resist checking in at work while on holiday with almost two-thirds... [07 Jul 2008]
MoD IT - late and over budget
News Expenditure has been inflated by continuing spending on older systems and the delaying of benefits that would have brought savings, such as improved ways of working using the DII, the report finds. A Ministry of Defence (MoD) programme to replace... [04 Jul 2008]
Hardware defies economic gloom
News He said: "At the high end and the very low end, we have two very large groups who are spending. 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... [02 Jul 2008]
CIOs not taking security breaches seriously
News Separate research found that despite the economic downturn, IT security spending should not suffer. Just 17 per cent of security professionals surveyed said they expect cuts to IT security spending in the next 12 months. [27 Jun 2008]
Google: Server efficiency needs different approach
News That lets processors and other electronics save power by spending most of the time in low-power sleep modes, snapping awake for peak-power, high-performance modes when necessary. Chipmakers have been applying lessons learned in mobile computing to... [25 Jun 2008]
Treasury turns to tech guru to slash IT costs
News The Treasury has brought Read on board as part of a review of public sector spending that will produce an interim report for this Autumn's pre-Budget report. The government has drafted in a former blue chip CEO to help slash the £13bn spent on... [23 Jun 2008]
Euro 2008 blues dents online booze and TV sales
News In a statement, Capgemini VP UK consumer products and retail team said: "The premiere of Sex and the City provided an excellent platform for e-retailers to capitalise on consumer spending but elsewhere the lack of any of the big four clubs in the... [20 Jun 2008]
Google: It pays to make ads work
News As advertisers figure out how to target ads better, though, they'll curtail spending on general ads, Schmidt predicted. Media companies should see Google not as an enemy but as an ally trying to make advertising work on the internet, chief... [12 Jun 2008]
