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RSS packaged in newsSteve Jobs: No Apple netbook, no touchscreen laptop
News Apple is in the middle stages of building a video download business, and it's clear that the company wants its customers to use iTunes to watch high-definition videos, not revert to packaged media, where it can't get a... [15 Oct 2008]
Infosys launches radical retail tech services
News The retail offering, called ShoppingTrip360, focuses on a wireless infrastructure of sensors and mobile data links that give retailers and packaged goods suppliers highly detailed information about customer behaviours. [01 Aug 2008]
Procter & Gamble in $650m network deal with BT
News Consumer packaged goods manufacturer Procter and Gamble (P&G) has signed a $650m deal for BT to manage its global communications network. The five-year contract will see BT provide and manage P&G's local and wide area... [10 Jun 2008]
Cloud computing - the data centre of the future?
News It also has all the earmarks of a disruptive innovation: It is enterprise technology packaged to best fit the needs of small businesses and start-ups--not the enterprise," he wrote. Cloud computing, the notion of... [11 Mar 2008]
Nielsen to outsource IT in $1.2bn deal
News Nielsen provides TV and internet audience measurement and analysis of consumer behaviour for the packaged goods and retail industries, as well as business publications and trade shows. Media and information company... [19 Oct 2007]
Unilever CIO: Gender balance challenges in IT
News The consumer packaged goods giant could typify many UK companies finding it difficult to maintain the gender balance in its IT department. Retaining female IT staff is a greater challenge than keeping male team members... [15 Oct 2007]
Serena launches business mash-up exchange
News Serena says it will provide an online marketplace where "mashers" can exchange pre-packaged mash-ups, web services and professional services. Serena Software has kicked off its Chicago developer conference by making... [11 Sep 2007]
Vista: Can Service Pack 1 spur adoption?
News Companies have to test it against their custom and packaged software, do security reviews, make sure they have enough machines capable of running the new operating system, and then budget for the hardware, software... [04 Sep 2007]
Five skills you need to be CIO
News Inside too many enterprises there are too many people waiting - waiting to be spoon-fed a pre-packaged solution for how to apply technology to their specific problem. But, as businesses increasingly look towards... [06 Aug 2007]
CIOs 'lack vision and fail to innovate'
News Inside too many enterprises there are too many people waiting - waiting to be spoon-fed a pre-packaged solution for how to apply technology to their specific problem. CIOs and the IT department are in danger of being... [26 Apr 2007]
No more big buys, says CA
News Bob Davis, senior vice president of CA's mid-market and storage business unit, said different sized businesses have different needs: "More is needed in terms of how the products are built and priced and packaged. [24 Apr 2007]
Morrisons plans £110m IT revamp
News As part of the £110m investment, Morrisons will move from bespoke to packaged software and shift its trading, store, warehousing, distribution, payroll and financial systems on to new platforms. Morrisons is to invest... [16 Mar 2007]
Europe to splurge $400bn on tech
News Hardware will account for 34 per cent of the £374bn spend, with packaged software only getting 20.9 per cent. Western Europe's vertical markets - such as retail and manufacturing - will be spending $406.5bn on IT by... [26 Feb 2007]
Microsoft welcomes 'pardners' onto SaaS bandwagon
News With its 'Partnering for the Future' initiative, Microsoft is looking to increase the skill sets of its extended family in order to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing software market which has moved well beyond Microsoft's... [21 Feb 2007]
Banks top CRM software spending
News Resellers and direct sales are still the primary sources for packaged software purchases across most verticals. Manufacturing and financial services companies will be the big spenders on enterprise resource planning... [19 Feb 2007]
