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Security heading for the cloud
News Security software will jump off PCs and into 'the cloud', with spending on online security services forecast to triple by 2013. Security company Symantec is also forecasting a shift from home users and... [17 Jul 2008]
Met Office forecasts blue skies for green IT
News The processors within the NEC supercomputer work in parallel, allowing it to simultaneously link and process climate data from 4km parcels of the UK, giving it the ability to forecast weather at a county level. [09 May 2008]
Airlines defrost planes with Met Office tech
News Just British Airways (BA) and bmi are currently using the Airline De-icing Forecast Service, which has cut the airlines' ice-related delays by 85 per cent and reduced de-icing costs by 30 per cent. A new ice... [08 Jan 2008]
BBC's £1.5bn outsourcing costs under fire
News SBS' forecast profit margins for the contract are 12.25 per cent for commodity work and 23 per cent for special projects. The BBC claims the contract will still hit the projected cost savings target over 10 years and is... [28 Jun 2007]
Fighting against the data deluge
News We like to include the ability to forecast the future and build complex models. Supermarket chain Waitrose is using SAS technology to improve its forecasting so it can better predict demand for products. [24 May 2007]
Waitrose puts new forecast system in its basket
News Waitrose is rolling out a forecasting system to help it better predict demand for goods from customers. The retailer - which has 184 stores that carry up to 25,000 different product lines each - decided it had to improve... [24 May 2007]
Yahoo! Q4 profits fatter than expected
News s own forecast was for revenue between $1.145bn and $1.265bn for the fourth quarter. Before the call, analysts were forecasting first-quarter revenue of $1.26bn and 2007 revenue of $5.47bn. posted... [24 Jan 2007]
More than a million Zunes to be sold by summer?
News Reindorp said sales have been going "pretty well" and are "pretty much on track" with the company's initial forecast. Jason Reindorp, marketing director for Zune at Microsoft, said: "We're forecasting... [07 Dec 2006]
After the mega-merger: Siebel staff face post-Oracle cuts
News That forecast is based on an assumption that the Siebel merger will add 2 to 3 cents to Oracle's profits within the next 12 months, she noted. With the mega-merger between Oracle and Siebel Systems closed, Wall Street... [09 Feb 2006]
Microsoft profits pip estimates
News Microsoft on Thursday reported first quarter profits just ahead of Wall Street estimates, though the company's sales and current quarter forecast fell short of expectations. In July, Microsoft had... [28 Oct 2005]
Supercomputers still too slow to forecast storm surges
News The National Hurricane Center delivered an accurate forecast "56 hours before the storm came ashore, and that is astounding", said Senator David Vitter, a Louisiana Republican, at a hearing convened by the US Senate... [21 Sep 2005]
Supercomputer tackles severe weather warnings
News The new supercomputer has the performance of around 8,000 home PCs, with a theoretical peak power of 16 billion calculations per second per processor, and it will allow the Met Office to put more data into higher resolution weather... [13 Apr 2005]
Identified viruses and malware nears the 100,000 mark
News The forecast for the rest of 2004 and beyond is not heartening. An average of 50 new pieces of malware have been released on the internet each day this year, according to the company, and McAfee is... [27 Jul 2004]
Public sector going mad for outsourced IT spend
News This is forecast to continue for the next few years. Karen Swinden, Kable's head of forecasting, said: "There seems to be a general consensus that BPO is fuelling the outsourcing market, but Kable's... [29 Jun 2004]
Met Office unveils new supercomputers
News It has high hopes that the new machines will halve the number of 'busts' - when forecasters fail to warn of a storm, as Michael Fish MBE did in 1987, or forecast a wet weekend which turns out to be sunny. [21 Jun 2004]
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