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News Commissioner for information society and media, Viviane Reding, said the move to a high growth, low carbon economy is essential to achieve European efficiency goals by 2020. The European Commission (EC) is backing the use of technology to cut...
[15 May 2008]
News This capacity, together with the advantage of low-cost locations, supports the establishment and growth of global operating centres. Barclays is increasingly confident in its use of business process outsourcing (BPO) which it says has improved time...
[15 May 2008]
News It predicted growth in the technology industry at one to three per cent above UK GDP saying that a slowdown was expected in consumer electronics and telecoms but there was a more positive outlook in the electronics sector.
[14 May 2008]
News He said: "The UK software industry has seen steady growth over the last few years and is in good shape. UK software sales are on course to lag almost $60bn behind China this year fuelling high-level calls for Britain to abandon the low-cost end of...
[14 May 2008]
News They are looking for growth opportunities that come from having access to critical skills and a highly motivated workforce. Global outsourcing has moved past corporate penny pinching according to industry experts.
[12 May 2008]
News The biggest growth is in debit cards, which have steadily increased in terms of value by £26bn in the last four years. Cheque payments continue to decline in the UK as card transactions increase, according to UK payments association Apacs.
[12 May 2008]
News Our strategic suppliers have demonstrated very clearly how existing network assets can be scaled to meet the growth in demand associated with evolving customer behaviour and step changes in the products provided as part of our high-speed broadband...
[09 May 2008]
News It said it will use the £1.1bn "to pay down debt, invest in broadband customer growth and infrastructure and invest in new areas of growth presented by the transaction". Mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse is to sell 50 per cent of its retail...
[09 May 2008]
News Facebook, founded in 2004 by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg, has become one of the hottest properties on the internet because of its rapid growth and the loyalty of its users. Microsoft gauged Facebook's interest in a possible acquisition after...
[08 May 2008]
News The devices are completely flat to avoid collecting debris that often harbour infections and are covered with a hypoallergenic material which is resistant to bug growth. The NHS is introducing 7,500 infection-resistant keyboards in hospitals across...
[07 May 2008]
News IT spending growth in the retail sector appears to have faltered, with many retailers trying to do more with the same money, according to the latest IT in Retail report. The report, now in its sixth year, is published by Martec International in...
[07 May 2008]
News But it says the government needs to begin building infrastructure and education facilities in the smaller cities to underpin this future growth. India will gain about eight million outsourcing jobs over the next decade as the industry booms in...
[06 May 2008]
News But the consultancy says India must be prepared to let go of the exemption and accept the short term growth shrinkage as the country's outsourcing market matures. Mayes said that margins and growth rates, while reduced, will continue to far...
[06 May 2008]
News More than half (53 per cent) of SMEs surveyed by tech trade body Intellect, forecast double-digit growth this year. Confidence seems to be high in the UK tech industry that it can avoid the pitfalls of the credit crunch during 2008.
[02 May 2008]
News Vodafone said it has seen growth in consumers' appetite for email, IM and social networking via mobile broadband, along with the likes of Google search and user-generated video site YouTube. The social networking craze is helping to drive mobile...
[01 May 2008]
News IBM is expanding in so-called green data centres as it looks for new growth areas in developed regions such as Western Europe, as well as in developing countries that are spending heavily on new technology infrastructure.
[01 May 2008]
News Increasing competition in certain segments, such as antivirus and email security, from large market entrants, such as Microsoft and Google, will also force prices down and impact overall revenue growth over the next few years, Gartner said.
[28 Apr 2008]
News In six months we have built up a deep knowledge of our member base which now exceeds many established youth media players and with over seven million 16- to 24-year-old phone owners in the UK there is huge potential for growth.
[25 Apr 2008]
News shareholders or to withdraw our proposal and focus on other opportunities," either from internally generated growth or growth through acquisitions. no hope of a higher takeover price, and said it is ready to go hostile or even call off its bid if...
[25 Apr 2008]
News This is due to three main factors: global growth in the number of mobile subscribers - predicted to hit 4.4 billion in three years' time; the proliferation of broadband - itself driven by the popularity of apps such as social networking, online...
[23 Apr 2008]
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