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Android is now open: So where next?
News It was built with intention of open-sourcing it," Miner said, pointing specifically to project details such as its architecture, comments in the code, and the code's structure. Photos - see the OS... [22 Oct 2008]
Schools get new route to cheaper software shopping
News As well as software, schools will also be able to get services including purchasing advice, software sourcing, technical support, training and licence management through the site. The agreement will mean schools can... [13 Oct 2008]
UK climbs IT competitiveness rankings
News One of the biggest challenges facing the developed IT industries, such as the US and UK, is sourcing talent, the authors said. The US remains the most competitive IT industry in the world for incubating... [17 Sep 2008]
Defra to ditch desktops and PDAs
News She said the department was also looking at sourcing machines through sustainable supply chains and achieving CO2 savings by measures such as turning off over-complicated screensavers and introducing automatic standby on... [16 Jul 2008]
Universities blamed for games industry skills crisis
News Difficulty sourcing talent is a regular complaint of the UK tech industry - just last week a leading academic warned the IT industry is 'going to hell' as computing student numbers continue to drop year-on-year and the... [19 Jun 2008]
"Boring" school IT curriculum slammed
News Companies already have difficulty sourcing skilled IT staff - and government and industry bodies have warned thousands more skilled staff will be needed over the coming years to power the so called 'knowledge economy'. [17 Jun 2008]
"Mega" outsourcing deals decline
News Analyst Gartner say the figures reflect a shift towards multi-sourcing, where companies look to several providers to deliver business and IT services. Companies are shying away from outsourcing "megadeals"... [11 Jun 2008]
Cloud computing: Ready to experiment with
News Speaking at the 21st annual CIO Workshop this week, Kishore Swaminathan, the IT consulting firm's chief scientist, defined the "cloud" as "the sourcing of capability up there, from a place you don't know or need to know". [23 May 2008]
Outsourcing: Not just about cutting costs?
News Campbell said that despite a trend to spread risk and expertise between many different providers that large companies were trying to simplify the complexities of multi-sourcing contracts. In return,... [12 May 2008]
Java - 100 per cent open source by end of this year
News Sun started open-sourcing Java at the end of 2006 but only 96 per cent of Java was able to be made available to the Open Java Development Kit (OpenJDK) project at the time. Because these could not be offered under the... [28 Apr 2008]
'Counsellors' to keep vendor-client marriages sweet
News John C McCarthy, principal analyst with Forrester Research, said in a statement: "These efforts represent a key part of firms' strategy to bring more maturity and process discipline to IT and take an 'activist... [27 Mar 2008]
Mothercare buggy about new financials software
News Alongside accounts, ecommerce, supply chain, sourcing and ranging facilities have also been consolidated to support the new group. He told silicon.com: "The system will also give us a bit more gloss in... [27 Mar 2008]
Tough bargaining forces outsourcing price cuts
News In a statement Geraldine Fox, director of sourcing services at Compass, said: "We are seeing aggressive, high-level targets plucked from the air in contract negotiations which bear... [11 Mar 2008]
Reuters to save £1.2m with print system revamp
News Reuters facilities management sourcing manager, Nigel Smith, said in a statement: "All our systems work, availability is at an all-time high and everything is taken care of for us. Financial news agency... [04 Mar 2008]
India losing status as offshore king?
News China's emergence as a global sourcing hub has traditionally been slow but the report found that BT Global Services, EDS, IBM and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) have all opened sourcing facilities... [03 Mar 2008]
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