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Shared services spend to reach £4bn by 2012
News By 2012, the UK public sector will be spending £729m on shared services, analysts predicts, as shared service expenditure enjoys a compound annual rate of eight per cent. Shared services, where government department... [17 Nov 2008]
Nokia lowers handset sales predictions
News Nokia has downgraded its outlook for the fourth quarter of the year, blaming a "sharp pull-back in global consumer spending". As a result of the rapid change in global consumer spending, which has... [17 Nov 2008]
PC vendors under the microscope
News Commercial and consumer spending on technology is expected to fall off in the next year, and the PC industry is bracing for the impact. IDC is predicting a significant slowdown in IT... [17 Nov 2008]
UK kids shopping online behind parents' backs
News According to a survey of 500 adults and 500 children by insurance services company CPP, 15-year-olds are the worst offenders with most kids spending £25 per illicit purchase. Children in Cardiff appear to be the most... [14 Nov 2008]
World IT spending still to grow next year
News Because of the worldwide financial crisis, the firm expects spending on technology by enterprise companies to grow by just 2.6 per cent next year compared with 2008. Before the late-September Wall Street meltdown, IDC... [14 Nov 2008]
Britain's £28m Xmas shopping lunchtime
News While high street shoppers are looking to trim back their Christmas shopping, retailers will at least get some cheer from a moderate rise in web spending as Britons flock online to spend millions in their... [12 Nov 2008]
'Downturn? What downturn?' say SMEs
News According to a survey of SMEs across the UK, US and Canada by skills body CompTIA, over half of UK small businesses expect they will increase their spending on technology and telecoms over the next 12 months - a two per... [11 Nov 2008]
Nortel to slash 1,300 jobs
News Nortel's Zafirovski also noted its customers had scaled back spending significantly toward the end of the quarter. Telecoms equipment maker Nortel Networks has flagged plans to cut 1,300 staff as it... [11 Nov 2008]
Highfield ditches Project Kangaroo for Microsoft
News The project had been set for launch later this year and the broadcasters are hoping it will reach younger people spending more time on the Internet. Ashley Highfield has stepped down as chief executive... [10 Nov 2008]
The 10 projects at the heart of NHS IT
News Richard Bacon, a member of the parliamentary spending watchdog the Public Accounts Committee, said of the project's missed deadlines and immature systems: "The programme is a reflection of the poor project management as... [10 Nov 2008]
Open source, Facebook smuggled into work by Generation Y
News The days of a heavy reliance on email may also be coming to an end, with students spending less than two hours per week emailing, instead preferring text and instant messaging and communicating on social networking sites. [06 Nov 2008]
BBC puts software licensing in the spotlight
News The Beeb has said it has removed 780 licences, costing £150 each, from staff using its SAP electronic purchasing system, after it faced criticism from the National Audit Office for... [31 Oct 2008]
Motorola delays split into two
News Not only is it facing stiff competition from handset market newcomers such as Apple with its iPhone, but the company is trying to stage a turnaround just as consumer spending worldwide is expected to... [31 Oct 2008]
London Olympics fibre hub 'template for UK broadband'
News The contribution that this will make to our national economy far outweighs what we are spending now. The London 2012 Olympic Games is set to turn the capital into a high-speed fibre network hub. The Olympic Park network... [23 Oct 2008]
Has tech got the power to punch through the crunch?
News By comparison, in the late 1990s, tech executives were spending like drunken sailors. The bad news is starting to pile up: eBay recently decided to lay off 1,000 workers, a long list of smaller internet outfits have... [21 Oct 2008]
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