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HP close to buying EDS for $12bn

News In recent years, HP has also been spending big on corporate infrastructure software companies, including the acquisitions of Mercury Interactive, Opsware, SPI Dynamics, Bristol Technology, and Peregrine.

Tags: hurd, compaq, eds, hp

[13 May 2008]

Cheques go up in smoke but plastic is fantastic

News It found plastic cards accounted for 65 per cent of all UK spending last year, rising by 11 per cent in value in 2007. This will accelerate a change that is well underway, as the last three years have seen debit card spending rise 31 per cent...

Tags: debit cards, cheques, apacs

[12 May 2008]

IT spend in retail slowing down?

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...

Tags: online retail, torex

[07 May 2008]

Whitbread serves up £1m saving on card payments

News Additionally, Whitbread will be able to use centrally stored payments data to track and analyse customer spending behaviours. Hospitality group Whitbread has deployed an end-to-end card payment system that is expected to save it £1m per year in...

Tags: pos, chip and pin, pci

[07 May 2008]

IBM tools to curb data centres' power-hungry appetite?

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.

Tags: data centres, ibm, green

[01 May 2008]

House of Lords backs data loss law change

News Last week a government-sponsored report revealed the number of security breaches had fallen by a third in the past two years but that spending on security defences had tripled over the past six years.

Tags: data breach, full disclosure, data loss

[28 Apr 2008]

Global security spend to hit $10.5bn

News The need for businesses to be compliant with government regulations, such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, remains a significant factor driving security-spending decisions, where investments are justified simply because the damage from breaches is...

Tags: smes, security

[28 Apr 2008]

UK online spend up 50 per cent this year

News She said people may be spending more time at home instead of going out as they watch the pennies and the unseasonably cold weather also contributed to this. UK consumers spent £13bn online in the first three months of this year, the equivalent to...

Tags: consumer electronics, alcohol, online retail

[22 Apr 2008]

Credit crunch prompts the great cash comeback

News The economic downturn is prompting a comeback for cash, as shoppers avoid the temptation of spending money they haven't actually got by paying by credit or debit cards. While total retail spending continues to grow, there is a widening gap between...

Tags: cash, brc, credit card, leisure

[21 Apr 2008]

US no longer king of the PC?

News Spending on IT hardware is being delayed to the second half of this year or early next year, or at least tightened. The US PC market is beginning to have less influence on the global market, according to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker.

Tags: asus, dell, us, pc

[17 Apr 2008]

Beware the insider security threat

Beware the insider security threat

News But spending vast amounts on the latest security technology isn't the way to tackle this threat, according to Steve Clarke, AOL Broadband. Security experts at the RSA security conference in San Francisco last week warned of all manner of threats...

Tags: insider, security

[17 Apr 2008]

Yahoo! ad-share gaining ground on Google?

News outpacing Google in spending on search advertising, ad viewer-ship and click-through rates during the first quarter. s first-quarter share of search spending by selected advertisers rose to 23 per cent of the market, up from historic levels of 18...

Tags: ad, yahoo, google

[17 Apr 2008]

Open source key to SaaS future

News But he warned users should not assume prices will fall as vendors may choose to improve profitability or increase spending on research and development. Open source software will be key to the adoption of software as a service (SaaS) over the next...

Tags: gartner, future, sharing, saas

[16 Apr 2008]

O2 slashes £100 off iPhone price

News O2 maintains the iPhone has been key to attracting new high value customers, with 60 per cent of iPhone customers new to O2 and 30 per cent of iPhone customers spending on average 30 per cent more than others on pay monthly tariffs.

Tags: apple, o2, iphone

[15 Apr 2008]

Tech-savvy workers to make IT decisions in future

News By 2012, at least one-third of spending on business software will go toward subscription-based services instead of a product licence. Within two years, the brand and model of the enterprise laptop could be decided by the user, not the IT department.

Tags: it, laptop, internet, smart phones

[14 Apr 2008]

ID cards fuel £147m consultancy bill

News Despite spending £150m last year on consultants - things are getting worse. Home Office spending on consultants shot up from £7.6m in 1997/98 to £147m in 2006/07, a period described by shadow home secretary David Davis as the "worst period in its...

Tags: home office, biometrics, id cards

[11 Apr 2008]

Who's king of advertising? Web set to overtake TV

News IAB chief executive Guy Phillipson said in a statement: "With broadband speeds on the up and consumers spending more time on more sites, the outlook for online advertising is rosy. The UK has the most developed online-advertising market in the world.

Tags: tv, 4od, online ads

[09 Apr 2008]

'Dull' jobs cuts as companies turn to the cloud

News Most IT departments want to be flexible and responsive to the needs of the business and that is hard to if you are spending 70 per cent of your budget on infrastructure," he said. HP claims IT departments should be prepared for some churn and...

Tags: jobs, it, cloud

[08 Apr 2008]

Workers, wi-fi and coffee shops: The perfect blend

News The survey of 1,000 business people found the main reasons for spending the day hunched over a laptop sipping skinny lattes at the local Starbucks include avoiding interruptions (24 per cent) and having more space to work and meet (18 per cent).

Tags: caffè nero, bt openzone, wi-fi

[07 Apr 2008]

Gov't stung by 'rip-off' outsourcing deals

News Lacklustre controls on spending over the full lifetime of government outsourcing contracts are leading to "poor value for money" because public sector organisations are lured by low upfront costs, claims Compass Management Consulting.

Tags: compass, outsourcing

[04 Apr 2008]

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