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RSS expansion in newsWhitbread offshores finance and accounts
News Whitbread has committed itself to a massive expansion of the business. Hospitality company Whitbread has offshored its finance and accounting processes to India through a multimillion, five-year deal to... [28 Oct 2008]
P2P explodes by 400 per cent - and it's not all illegal
News MultiMedia Intelligence puts the predicted expansion in legitimate traffic down to a rise in the number of entertainment companies using P2P to distribute content. Peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic is set to skyrocket over the... [21 Oct 2008]
Queen Mary Uni ditches Excel, makes student plans with IBM
News Burt said: "With the rapid expansion on students, the old system had become too slow and unwieldy to use. Queen Mary University of London has bought a resource planning tool from IBM Cognos to help it predict the effect... [16 Oct 2008]
Specsavers takes IT service model to pastures new
News High street optician chain Specsavers has extended a service agreement with Fujitsu Siemens Computer Services (FSC) to support its expansion overseas.silicon.com Retail & Leisure To adopt another model of... [15 Oct 2008]
BlackBerry Storms the touchscreen market
News There's 128MB of flash memory and 1GB of onboard memory, which is all supplemented by the microSD/SDHC expansion slot. On Tuesday night, RIM officially introduced the first touchscreen BlackBerry to the world: the RIM... [08 Oct 2008]
Symantec to take Europe into the cloud
News Speaking at the Symantec Vision + ManageFusion EMEA 08 conference in The Hague today, the Symantec CEO said it will kick off its cloud expansion plans with the worldwide rollout of the online disaster recovery and backup... [07 Oct 2008]
Agenda Setters: Where are they now... Mark Zuckerberg
News And in March the 24-year-old recruited ex-Google big cheese, Sheryl Sandberg, as chief operating officer to help the company cope with its speedy expansion. As the countdown begins to silicon.com's ninth annual Agenda... [26 Sep 2008]
EU: IT goods trade pact needs a refresh
News On Monday, the Commission proposed to the WTO a revision and expansion of the ITA, which the Commission claims would see the terms of the agreement become less product-specific and more in tune with current technological... [17 Sep 2008]
Cloud - not ready for mission-critical business
News Comparatively, the traditional processes of procuring hardware and building a data centre expansion are far slower, said Duursma. Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is "several years away" from being enterprise-ready but... [03 Sep 2008]
Indian outsourcing giant builds £154m site
News The expansion follows sluggish growth in the Indian outsourcing market, with Infosys reporting revenue of $1.16bn in its first quarter - up 24.5 per cent on the same period last year but falling short of the 40.6 per... [11 Aug 2008]
Credit crunch prompts open source adoption
News As in Forrester's research, the OSA found new patterns in IT were a major source of expansion for the open-source economy. The sluggish economy is contributing to commercial open-source sales, but customers still rank... [29 Jul 2008]
Highways Agency drives on with traffic tech
News The Highways Agency has awarded a £96m contract for the expansion of its active traffic management technology to Carillion. The scheme has been trialled on the M42 south of Birmingham, with the hard shoulder of the... [28 Jul 2008]
Flight booking checks into mobiles
News It is a market that is growing rapidly and we are echoing this currently with our expansion into new ebusiness sectors. Justtheflight.co.uk, a flight booking website based in the Isle of Man, claims to be the first to... [23 Jul 2008]
Dunelm Mill signs Epos maintenance deal
News Value home furnishings retailer Dunelm Mill has signed an electronic point of sale maintenance contract to support its store portfolio expansion and drive sales. The retailer has signed up Vista Retail Support to... [16 Jul 2008]
Privacy chief fights UK-wide database
News Thomas said privacy was already being quietly eroded, citing examples of the expansion of the DNA database and the centralised collection and retention of data from automatic number plate recognition cameras. [15 Jul 2008]
