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Taxman to save £110m by taking an axe to its IT estate
News The HMRC's contract with Capgemini, and subcontractors Fujitsu and Accenture, is one of the UK's largest outsourcing deals and accounts for £750m of the department's annual IT budget. The taxman will cut £110m from its... [30 Oct 2009]
Home Office inks £430m deals with Atos Origin, Fujitsu
News The Home Office has announced it's extending IT contracts with suppliers Atos Origin and Fujitsu, under new deals worth £430m. The extensions, a £330m agreement with Fujitsu and a £100m deal with Atos,... [12 Oct 2009]
'New tech? Not for me': CIOs running scared in the recession
News Only one in 10 CIOs would describe themselves as "early adopters", the report by Fujitsu Technology Services found, while more than half would rather wait to adopt technology once it has been shown to work successfully... [02 Oct 2009]
HM Treasury strikes five-year IT services deal
News HM Treasury has struck a five-year deal with Fujitsu to provide a range of IT services. Some staff will transfer across from the Treasury to Fujitsu under the Transfer of Undertakings arrangement. Under... [25 Sep 2009]
1,200 UK jobs to go at Fujitsu
News Up to 1,200 UK employees are to lose their jobs to redundancy at tech company Fujitsu by the end of the year. Fujitsu said it was making the UK job cuts due to "lower than anticipated revenues". ZDNet UK... [27 Aug 2009]
Target Apple's weak spots, mobile's old boys warned
News For the second quarter of this year, Nokia's market share was 59.7 per cent, with Sharp at 9.4 per cent and Fujitsu at 9.2 per cent. The numerous players in the smartphone market are quickly gaining ground in innovation... [20 Aug 2009]
Apple tablet or no Apple tablet, business is the device's natural home
News This Stylistic tablet by Fujitsu is just one such PC already on the market (Photo credit: Fujitsu) In tech terms, the tablet is nothing new: Microsoft first announced tablet PC software back in 2001,... [13 Aug 2009]
Green shoots? What green shoots? No let up in IT spending freeze
News Separate research by IT services provider Fujitsu found that many retailers are freezing their IT spend. The Fujitsu research found some signs of encouragement, with the majority of retailers questioned... [11 Aug 2009]
Fujitsu techies may strike over pensions and pay
News IT workers at Fujitsu Services are being sounded out about a strike over pay and pensions, the UK's largest union said on Monday. At the heart of the potential strike action is Fujitsu Services' decision... [04 Aug 2009]
How the £12.7bn NHS IT revamp came off the rails
News The unrealistic demands put on suppliers coupled with trusts demanding last minute changes to systems to make them work locally saw both Accenture and Fujitsu walk away from the programme and BT Global Services write... [19 Jun 2009]
NHS e-records given six-month deadline
News Connelly also gave hope to health trusts in South England that have been waiting for new PAS since a DoH deal with supplier Fujitsu fell apart last year. BT also recently took over responsibility for some of the trusts... [28 Apr 2009]
Health trust dodges NPfIT with £2.4m iSoft deal
News The rollout of PASes to health trusts has been beset by delays and the NPfIT contract with Fujitsu to install the systems for the southern cluster fell apart last year. Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS... [23 Apr 2009]
Did IBM make a huge mistake?
News Likely purchasers of Sun's hardware business include Fujitsu, EMC, Dell and HP. The mega-deal, which comes soon after IBM's bid for Sun fell apart, strengthens Oracle's hand in the software market and gives Oracle... [22 Apr 2009]
BT deal 'has killed risk of NHS IT walkout'
News Such rumours have effectively been put to bed with the news last week of a new deal that will see BT Global Services support patient administration systems at eight health trusts within the south of England, previously looked after by... [06 Apr 2009]
Will Sun set IBM up for some rainy days?
News But the fact that Sun hasn't done so on its own doesn't bode well for Fujitsu's enthusiasm for the idea, and buying Sun just to sell off one of its mainstay businesses erodes the market-share-grab rationale for the... [19 Mar 2009]
