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BBC to take better care of web budget
News The BBC's independent regulator, the BBC Trust, has approved the corporation's plans to manage its website budget more effectively - but has not approved a request for an additional £39m of new investment over the next year. [22 Jul 2008]
Travelodge revamps website with £1m
News The move is designed to differentiate the chain from other budget hotel rivals. Alongside information about Travelodge hotels, the site provides surfers with information about attractions and events within the area they are researching and the... [28 May 2008]
£81m cost of botched gov't shared services
News As a result the programme is set to go £65m over budget and projected savings have been slashed by nearly two-thirds. The NAO report points to inadequate contract management and poor initial implementation within the department and says the DfT was... [23 May 2008]
Budget 2008: Tech companies fight for contract windfall
News A £10m boost to the science and innovation teaching budget over the next five years. The technology industry has pledged to fight for a share of a public sector contract windfall the Chancellor of the Exchequer promised to SMEs in his 2008 Budget. [12 Mar 2008]
William Hill profits hit by online problems
News It is estimated the budget for NextGen was £26m. Finance director Simon Lane told silicon.com: "Within the last few months we have appointed a new head of ecommerce and we are anticipating strengthening the team by bringing in further talent. [27 Feb 2008]
Apple, open source and SaaS tipped to be tech future
News On the software-as-a-service front, Gartner estimates by 2012, businesses will be spending a third of their application budget on subscription products, as opposed to product licences. Gartner's five-year forecasts are out and there are plenty of... [01 Feb 2008]
Tech key to vital healthcare savings
News Forecasting budget-breaking growth in EU health costs, from nine per cent of GDP (gross domestic product) today rising to 16 per cent by 2020 - fuelled by an ageing population - the EC's Lead Market Initiative report says savings delivered by e... [09 Jan 2008]
Gartner: CIOs - develop business analytics or IT loses out
News By collecting and analysing that point of sale data, the IT department aligns itself with the organisation's marketing and product teams - one less reason for the CFO to cut down their budget. He added: "But if, on the other hand, you link projects... [21 Nov 2007]
Europe cracks down on airline ticket websites
News The sites include those of leading airlines, as well as budget carriers and general flight ticket sales sites. In an EU-wide investigation - involving 15 national authorities - more than half of websites showed 'irregularities' relating to pricing... [15 Nov 2007]
The carbon budget is coming...
News Every UK business must carbon budget when the Climate Change Bill comes before parliament over the next year. It has been proposed that each carbon budget period should be five years long - starting from the beginning of 2008. [12 Oct 2007]
UK passports face massive price hike
News But the introduction of ePassports is also praised as a model government IT project, delivered on time and within its budget of £62m. The cost of a passport is set to increase "substantially" over the next five years to cover the cost of larger... [10 Oct 2007]
Green IT - do companies really care?
News And earlier this year silicon.com's CIO Jury confirmed that the proportion of budget taken up by energy and electricity costs is rising rapidly. A further nine per cent don't know, and of those that do monitor it a quarter have seen their energy... [27 Sep 2007]
UK 'a closed shop for open source'
News The shadow chancellor, George Osborne, has estimated open source could save five per cent of the government's IT budget, which Gauke said would amount to £620m per year. Linux kernel developer and Red Hat fellow Alan Cox told delegates at the... [13 Sep 2007]
One in three tech projects runs over budget
News One in three projects implemented each year ends up with an overspend of between 10 and 20 per cent on the original budget. It said this isn't helped by the lack of visibility and control CIOs have over their project portfolios - 39 per cent of IT... [12 Sep 2007]
Huawei's $1bn R&D pot 'matches Western rivals'
News One billion dollars worth of R&D spend is a sizeable sum but it pales into insignificance beside the comparative investment of its Western rivals - Cisco racked up an R&D budget of more than $4bn in the last fiscal year and Nortel spent almost... [06 Sep 2007]
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