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Taxpayer "lost" £90m on QinetiQ sell-off
News Minister for defence equipment and support, Baroness Taylor, said: "This is pure speculation, and fails to take into account the realities of what could be achieved in negotiation. Senior managers at QinetiQ, previously the Defence Evaluation and... [10 Jun 2008]
Tech-savvy workers to make IT decisions in future
News End users' preferences will account for up to 50 per cent of all purchasing decisions relating to hardware, software and services within the enterprise, Martin Gutberlet, research vice president at Gartner, said last week. [14 Apr 2008]
'Counsellors' to keep vendor-client marriages sweet
News The report says the VMOs can also help focus spending by assessing the account's importance to the supplier and drive supplier accountability by scoring vendor performance. You're not alone… Health warning to overweight IT managers... [27 Mar 2008]
India's Wipro to create hundreds of UK tech jobs
News Those higher-end consulting services today account for just under five per cent of Wipro's $3.4bn annual revenue and the company is aiming to increase that to between 12.5 per cent and 15 per cent of revenue over five years. [20 Mar 2008]
Doubts over £13.3bn government efficiency savings
News The cost of achieving them must be taken into account. One of the causes of discrepancies is departments not taking into account expenditure incurred in achieving savings. For example the Department for Work and Pensions claimed £300m of savings... [11 Oct 2007]
Beware IT risks - or watch your rivals get ahead
News Analyst Richard Hunter said failure to properly take account of - and plan for - IT risks can affect business agility. He said businesses that tailor business processes to take account of IT risks find they are better able to integrate systems, for... [18 Sep 2007]
Switch to Vista? It's a headache, say IT chiefs
News New research has found nearly half of IT managers (49 per cent) will take more than 12 months to fully migrate their organisation onto Vista - once preparation, testing, rollout and post-migration issues have all been taken into account. [05 Jun 2007]
Old malware can affect Vista, admits Microsoft
News Microsoft stopped short of blaming third-party email clients for the problem but said that User Account Control (UAC) - which limits users' ability to install applications unless they have administrator privileges - can "help to provide better... [05 Dec 2006]
$10bn Vista launch is Microsoft's biggest ever
News The LSE is using Office 2007 to help its primary account managers (Pams) to gather information more quickly by creating a 'Pam Dashboard' to collate client information from a number of sources, leaving them more time to do the analysis. [30 Nov 2006]
Energy crisis looming for UK data centres
News According to Breed, energy costs now account for near 30 per cent of a data centre's operating costs. The mainframe is one part of the wider problem facing data centre managers, as they are bulky and demand plenty of cooling and air-conditioning. [26 Oct 2006]
Council websites see traffic hike
News Local residents account for 42 per cent of visitors to council sites and job vacancies remain the most popular reason for visiting council websites (at 14 per cent of enquiries). Visitors to council websites increased by 40 per cent last year... [10 Apr 2006]
Digital sales not saving faltering music industry
News The organisation claims downloads now account for six per cent of all global music sales. The IFPI figures take into account music downloads, tracks bought over mobile networks and real music ringtones. [04 Oct 2005]
Frontline workers ignored in government IT reform
News The study, sponsored by Adobe, says the government needs to engage and consult with frontline staff to ensure their feeling about IT change can be taken into account and that they should be involved in discussions about the design of the... [27 Sep 2005]
Female IT managers topple men in pay league
News There is also evidence that women are increasingly making their presence felt in the boardroom: the number at senior executive level has trebled over the past 10 years, and women now account for 14.4 per cent of directors. [19 Sep 2005]
Linux still not cracked the desktop
News In some cases, Linux is working to the advantage of corporate buyers who, according to White, are not shy about having employees working on Linux-based operating systems when the Microsoft account managers pay a visit. [10 Aug 2005]
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