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O2 offers business tariffs for 3G iPhone
News O2 has finally opened its arms to UK businesses large and small wanting to use the Apple iPhone. The operator said the 3G iPhone, which was announced yesterday by Apple CEO Steve Jobs at the company's World-Wide... [10 Jun 2008]
IBM sings a Symphony to rival Office
News IBM also launched a small-business package called Lotus Foundations, which is intended to compete with Microsoft's Small Business Server. IBM has launched a commercially... [09 Jun 2008]
When is a supplier gift/junket inappropriate?
News Free junkets, gifts, trips to big sporting events and free gifts are all still tools of the trade used by tech suppliers to try and get business out of CIOs and IT buyers - or 'building relationships' as it's more... [06 Jun 2008]
Northern Ireland builds high tech credentials
News And Conor Quinn, business development executive at Queens University's Institute of Electronics, Communication and Information technology (ECIT), said: "We have a very strong economic remit. Northern Ireland's... [02 Jun 2008]
Qwerty vs touch, WFH, iPhone 2.0, Segway madness
News And just to complicate things, a survey of US smart phone owners out this month found many BlackBerry owners moan about the keypad because its fiddly small keys apparently cause typos, and a substantial chunk of iPhone... [30 May 2008]
Dell's smiling after quarter profits
News In the profits announcement, Dell acknowledged "conservatism in IT spending in the US particularly with its global and large customers as well as public, small and medium business accounts". He pointed... [30 May 2008]
Royal Mail on target to save £300m with SAP
News Cameron's group put together the business case for the project around two years ago with the aim of making the Royal Mail's procurement department one of the top three in Western Europe. The rollout of the e-procurement... [22 May 2008]
M&S grows online business
News This expansion includes made-to-measure shirts, extra-large and extra-small clothing sizes, flowers, wine and electricals.silicon.com Retail & Leisure As well as growth in sales, M&S online business... [20 May 2008]
The future, in 3D
News But even as the number of mobiles grows, the devices themselves will shrink in size, according to the futurist: "As influential and powerful as information technology is already, we'll see a billion-fold increase in the next quarter... [19 May 2008]
Barclays banks on offshore
News Barclays is increasingly confident in its use of business process outsourcing (BPO) which it says has improved time to market and is now looking to increase the complexity of the services it offshores. [15 May 2008]
HP seals $13.9bn deal for EDS
News The two companies collective services businesses, as of the end of each company's 2007 fiscal year, had annual revenues of more than $38bn and 210,000 employees, doing business in more than 80 countries. [13 May 2008]
India edgy about outsourcing newbies?
News He said: "This is particularly beneficial for BPO [business process outsourcing] companies and the small and medium segment, who have been greatly impacted by the rupee appreciation, inflation and signs... [06 May 2008]
CIOs are driving the green agenda
News CIOs are increasingly becoming "green ambassadors" - taking responsibility for driving the adoption of sustainable business practices in their own organisations and encouraging their suppliers to think green too,... [01 May 2008]
iPhone vs BlackBerry: What the users love...
News While the BlackBerry has traditionally focused on the enterprise market and the iPhone was initially marketed as a consumer device - analyst Gartner recently dubbed the latter 'ready for business', following moves by... [30 Apr 2008]
Dell and HP find ways to keep Windows XP alive
News Kutz said in a statement: "While [computer makers] continue to see large numbers of customers making the transition to Windows Vista, there are some pockets - like small business - that need a little... [28 Apr 2008]
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