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HP seals $13.9bn deal for EDS

News  Productivity gains driving IT outsourcing  Tax payer still owed millions by EDS  Cheat Sheet: Offshoring  Special Report: Inside India HP has completed a $13.9bn deal to create one of the world's largest service...

Tags: saas, hp, eds

[13 May 2008]

Sales of Mac Office rocket, says Microsoft

News While Apple's market share gains are cause for consternation for many in Redmond, one unit is clearly benefiting. Microsoft's Mac unit is set to disclose that copies of the new Office for Mac 2008 are flying off the shelves at three times the rate...

Tags: mac, apple, office, microsoft

[13 May 2008]

Outsourcing: Not just about cutting costs?

News  Productivity gains driving IT outsourcing  Tax payer still owed millions by EDS  Cheat Sheet: Offshoring  Special Report: Inside India Global outsourcing has moved past corporate penny pinching according to industry...

Tags: ito, offshoring, outsourcing

[12 May 2008]

India edgy about outsourcing newbies?

News  Productivity gains driving IT outsourcing  Tax payer still owed millions by EDS  Cheat Sheet: Offshoring  Special Report: Inside India India's fears that other countries are undercutting its dominance of the global...

Tags: india, offshoring, outsourcing

[06 May 2008]

Tech to tackle India's poverty

News  Productivity gains driving IT outsourcing  Tax payer still owed millions by EDS  Cheat Sheet: Offshoring  Special Report: Inside India Villagers in India are turning to technology to lift them out of the deprivation that...

Tags: csr, india, outsourcing

[23 Apr 2008]

China key to Indian IT growth

News  Productivity gains driving IT outsourcing  Tax payer still owed millions by EDS  Cheat Sheet: Offshoring  Special Report: Inside India China will be a key part of Indian outsourcing giant Satyam's plans to create 15,000...

Tags: satyam, offshore, outsource, centres

[21 Apr 2008]

Mobile big guns back LTE as next-gen network

News These five are only the latest to join as the emerging LTE technology gains momentum. Several companies yesterday agreed to sign their names to the Long Term Evolution (LTE) framework for the next generation of wireless technology.

Tags: lte, 4g, 3g, mobile

[15 Apr 2008]

Banking slowdown will bite IT spending

News However, building societies and general insurance companies saw business gains recently and expect to invest more in IT in reaction to regulatory changes and multichannel expansion, respectively. As the hope of an uplift in economic fortunes...

Tags: insurance, banks, it spending

[31 Mar 2008]

Productivity gains driving IT outsourcing

News Businesses are increasingly outsourcing to improve performance - although cutting costs is still the number one reason for most. Special Report: Inside India In February 2007 silicon.com's Steve Ranger visited the Indian tech hotspots of Bangalore...

Tags: outsourcing, ito, offshoring, india

[03 Mar 2008]

Open source <strong>gains</strong> business credibility

Open source gains business credibility

News The use of open source is on the rise in the corporate IT environment as organisations look to cut the cost of developing and using software. Three-quarters of silicon.com's 12-strong CIO Jury IT user panel said they are using more open source...

Tags: cio jury, microsoft, linux, open source

[22 Feb 2008]

Techies - clueless on climate change?

News Environmental performance of equipment is also not a top concern for CIOs with only eight per cent of those surveyed purchasing products purely on their green credentials and more than a third do not even consider the green gains when purchasing...

Tags: green it, cio, carbon, purchasing

[04 Dec 2007]

Vista: Piracy rates half the level of XP, says Microsoft

News For Microsoft, the gains have been significant. In its last profits call, Microsoft said five percentage points of Windows growth could be attributed to gains in piracy. Microsoft said it's seeing piracy rates for Windows Vista that are half those...

Tags: microsoft, pirate, xp, vista

[04 Dec 2007]

Cost still main reason for outsourcing

News But companies lured into outsourcing by promises of cost savings are letting themselves in for long-term problems that outweigh any short-term gains, according to analyst Gartner. Cutting costs remains the primary reason for most organisations...

Tags: outsourcing, gartner, savings, cash

[21 Nov 2007]

Mozilla releases Firefox 3 beta

News Those changes "put foundations in place for major performance tuning which have resulted in speed increases in beta 1 and will show further gains in future beta releases". A few months later than planned, Mozilla has released the first beta version...

Tags: firefox, beta, microsoft, mozilla

[21 Nov 2007]

Microsoft's coffers swell on Vista, Halo 3

News That was aided by overall strong PC sales as well as gains the company made in reducing piracy rates. Microsoft reported a strong jump in first quarter revenue and profits, as the company benefited from Windows Vista and the launch of Halo 3.

Tags: windows, halo 3, microsoft, vista

[26 Oct 2007]

Tech pros up in arms over tax change

News The changes, announced last week, will penalise people who start technology companies, by abolishing so-called "taper relief" on capital gains tax. Darling is to abolish the taper relief scheme, under which company investors have paid as little as...

Tags: tax, chancellor, start-up

[15 Oct 2007]

Doubts over £13.3bn government efficiency savings

News MPs claim the £13.3bn efficiency gains claimed by the government do no stand up to scrutiny because of unreliable and inconsistent figures. The government's efficiency programme is aiming to achieve ongoing efficiency gains across the public sector...

Tags: efficiency, government

[11 Oct 2007]

Wanless calls for NHS IT review

News The new report claims that despite the increased level of investment in IT in the health service, the problems and delays with the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) in the NHS have the potential to seriously undermine the productivity gains...

Tags: connecting for health, npfit, wanless, nhs

[12 Sep 2007]

Serena launches business mash-up exchange

News Also referred to as "custom applications", business mash-ups are sometimes lauded as being capable of bringing gains in productivity and creativity without burdening the IT department. Serena Software has kicked off its Chicago developer conference...

Tags: web 2.0, mash-up

[11 Sep 2007]

Web 2.0 driving second internet boom

News Consumer-led web 2.0 and collaboration technologies will drive massive productivity gains for businesses over the next decade and radically transform people's everyday lives forever. In the business environment the biggest gains will be in...

Tags: john chambers, cisco, web 2.0

[25 Jul 2007]

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