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CIO Essentials: Virtual worlds, biometrics and green IT
News The biggest issue however is nothing to do with IT; companies just need to do the maths on demand versus resourcing and not rely on technology to solve what is inherently an age-old challenge. If you are a UK-based IT director or CIO and would like... [16 Oct 2007]
UK tech skills crisis 'exaggerated'
News With IT no longer on the 'in high demand' band for non-nationals, recruiting staff from overseas is going to become more difficult. If you are a CIO, CTO, IT director or equivalent at a large or small company in the private or public sector and you... [11 Oct 2007]
Microsoft extends Windows XP's lifeline
News Microsoft, for its part, sought to downplay the impact of the move, disagreeing with the notion that there is still strong demand for XP. Kutz said Microsoft had seen similar demand patterns with past releases and noted that in the past, old... [28 Sep 2007]
Psst! Don't want Vista? You're not alone...
News While there is always resistance by some to move to a new operating system, there appears to be particularly strong demand, especially from businesses, to stick with XP. However, demand for XP has remained. [24 Sep 2007]
CIOs face tough on-demand choices
News Interest in software as a service (SaaS), or on-demand computing as it is often called, is growing but many businesses are still wary and face difficult decisions about what applications to use it for and which suppliers to choose. [20 Sep 2007]
Intel eyeing up the mobile space
News Having tried and failed to get its chips inside mobile phones, Intel's now trying to drum up demand for MIDs as 'a smart phone alternative to getting the internet in your pocket'. That will come with a Penryn processor, a new chipset, and an... [20 Sep 2007]
Businesses cool on software as a service
News SaaS is again in the headlines this week with an SAP on-demand software launch and the usual anti-software messages coming out of Salesforce.com's annual customer conference in San Francisco. But half of silicon.com's 12-strong CIO Jury IT user... [18 Sep 2007]
Michael Dell speaks out on accounting scandal
News Turns out the company just didn't plan properly, and when Dell projected demand for their new laptops six months ago, they miscalculated. At the Citigroup Technology Conference in New York City, Dell said he had no part in the fudged numbers and... [06 Sep 2007]
Small firms snub videoconferencing
News There is still little demand for videoconferencing technology among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), according to a senior BT executive. He said that despite the fact BT does offer videoconferencing applications, demand remains low for now. [05 Sep 2007]
Reuters inks £500m outsourcing deal
News This allows us to move onto a single, standardised, virtualised on-demand platform. Around 300 IT staff will transfer across to Fujitsu as part of the 10-year deal, leaving an in-house service delivery team of 25. [16 Aug 2007]
BBC iPlayer sparks broadband row
News A BBC statement said the corporation is in regular discussions with the ISPs and is monitoring the costs of providing on-demand video. Tiscali has expressed concern about the impact of the BBC's iPlayer on the level of demand for bandwidth on its... [14 Aug 2007]
Mobile broadband to be an HSPA affair
News Juniper Research said demand for mobile broadband will primarily be driven by North America and Western Europe, with China and the Far East also playing a part. HSPA - high speed packet access - delivers mobile broadband speeds in excess of 500Kbps... [08 Aug 2007]
Olympic demand for IT contractors
News With around five years to go to the 2012 Olympic Games in London, demand for IT contractors for the event is accelerating. Software engineers will build computer models and run simulations to stress-test every structural part before construction... [26 Jul 2007]
CIO Essentials: Vista, BBC iPlayer, BlackBerrys and spam
News The BBC is the latest in a long line of broadcasters internationally to have announced a Microsoft-centric on-demand service. If you are a UK-based IT director or CIO and would like to take part in the CIO Essentials series by choosing your top... [24 Jul 2007]
'DIY' offshoring on the increase
News Much of this demand is coming from the banking sector. This demand for network outsourcing has pushed some of the telecoms providers such as BT up the overall global outsourcing rankings. Duncan Aitchison, MD at TPI, said in the quarterly update... [12 Jul 2007]
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