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News With Live Search Cashback, Microsoft said it has seen some advertisers boost their Live Search spend.eBay, in particular, is spending 50 per cent more on Live Search thanks to Cashback, which Microsoft... [01 Oct 2008]
Michael Dell talks netbooks, services and green IT
News For every dollar spent on computers, companies then spend $2-3 on infrastructure services and support. Netbooks are unlikely to change the shape of the personal computer market, according to Michael Dell. [24 Sep 2008]
Boris Johnson: 'London must be wi-fi city'
News Johnson's call for greater wi-fi access came in response to Prime Minister Gordon Brown's plan to spend £300m on funding broadband connections, software and PCs for low-income families. London may be one of the most... [24 Sep 2008]
Gov't to spend £300m on free broadband for UK's poor
News Nearly every family in the UK is to have access to broadband at home under plans laid out by Prime Minister Gordon Brown. In his keynote speech at the Labour Party Conference on Tuesday, Brown outlined a £300m programme which will see... [23 Sep 2008]
Ofcom hatches plan to woo telcos to fibre
News Meanwhile, BT recently pledged to spend £1.5bn on next-generation broadband as long as Ofcom changes the regulatory environment to make such investment worthwhile. The regulator is also aiming to raise awareness around... [23 Sep 2008]
Airports spending $3bn to be tech high fliers
News Airport operators are shelling out on technology in an effort to attract more passengers, according to an investment survey which predicts airports will spend around $3bn on IT this year. All the tech at... [23 Sep 2008]
US, Europe tighten IT spend as India, China boom
News Just under half - 43 per cent - of Western companies are cutting back their IT spend and nearly 30 per cent are scrutinising IT projects for better returns, according to a report by... [11 Sep 2008]
Cloud - not ready for mission-critical business
News According to IDC, companies in the Asia-Pacific region are expected to spend $154bn on IT this year. Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is "several years away" from being enterprise-ready but companies should... [03 Sep 2008]
Dell records slide in quarter profits
News Dell has posted a surprisingly steep drop in quarterly earnings and said companies around the world are cutting back on technology spending, sending its shares tumbling and sparking fears of weakness in the whole tech sector. [29 Aug 2008]
IBM sends $300m to the cloud
News Earlier this month, it announced plans to spend around $400m to add cloud computing data centres in North Carolina and Tokyo. IBM is investing $300m in cloud computing. Big Blue is using that money to... [20 Aug 2008]
Tech spend to top $3.4tr
News Despite a shaky global economic market, worldwide IT spending will pass the $3.4tr mark this year, up eight per cent from last year, according to analyst Gartner. The decline of the US dollar is at the heart of this... [19 Aug 2008]
Mobile shoppers hunt high street bargains
News A fifth of consumers also think they now spend less time surfing the internet at work because they can now do it on the move, which is good news for employers at least. In the wake of the credit crunch,... [18 Aug 2008]
Brits spending record time online
News On average, Britons spend a total of seven hours and nine minutes per day surfing the net, using mobile phones, talking on landline telephones, watching TV and listening to the radio, up from an average of just six... [14 Aug 2008]
Femtocells to save mobile operators over $5bn?
News The $5.3bn savings are based on the assumption that without femtocells operators would have to spend some $9bn on beefing up network coverage to take extra traffic - a figure which presupposes a third of this traffic... [13 Aug 2008]
Council mega-project set to double savings
News The council will spend around £595m on the project which was originally intended to achieve savings of around £1bn. Birmingham City Council's ambitious business and technology transformation project is on course to save... [07 Aug 2008]
