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IT demand is weakening, warns Dell
News When you see these failures on Wall Street and the concerns that people have about banks, I think it does cause people to pull back a little on their spending. While neither company mentioned the financial sector... [17 Sep 2008]
Google bigs up 'white space' wireless plans
News Executive vice president Dennis Wharton said in a statement: "Given the numerous device failures that have resulted during FCC testing, it seems a little disingenuous for Mr Page to simply dismiss the interference concerns. [23 May 2008]
Spiralling costs derail £500m offender-tracking system
News Socitm VP Steve Hopson told silicon.com: "I would describe it as embarrassing, it is not good for the image of the profession which is unfairly criticised because of a few high profile failures. Prisons minister, David... [09 Jan 2008]
Why UK must pass data leak law now
News But the lords said the position of the UK government towards such legislation was lukewarm and said: "We believe that the UK is now ideally placed to learn from the successes and failures of the many state laws in force... [10 Aug 2007]
Call for e-voting to be scrapped amid security fears
News Privacy campaigners have called for any further e-voting trials to be scrapped after uncovering evidence of poor security, inadequate audit trails, equipment failures and an over-dependence on technology... [25 Jun 2007]
Failed: Seven out of 10 gov IT projects
News Speaking at the Government IT Summit this week, Joe Harley called for projects to be completed at a lower cost to the taxpayer and said the government's aim is to reduce the number of project failures to just one in 10. [18 May 2007]
Boo! Look who's back...
News One of the most high-profile failures of the dot-com crash has been relaunched.boo.com, which was originally an online fashion retailer when it fell into liquidation in 2000, has been relaunched as a social networking... [03 May 2007]
Data centres struggle to keep their cool
News Given the increasing use of high density hardware such as multi-core processors and blade servers, excessive power and cooling demands could lead to a rise in server failures, according to Aperture Research Institute... [12 Apr 2007]
Treasury IT projects '17 years late'
News All that hype about Gershon and efficiency rings hollow when the real facts come out about dismal IT failures like this. The spokesman added: "Like other areas of the public services the Treasury group believes that... [13 Oct 2006]
Tories pledge to abolish ID cards
News Cameron also hit out at the delayed NHS IT "shambles" and listed a litany of high-profile government IT failures during Blair's time in power - "a story of wasted billions - and disappointed millions" - including the... [03 Oct 2006]
CIO Forum: 'Young people will kill off the IT department'
News Cochrane blamed recent IT project failures on the derision of the technologist, or 'nerds' over the last 30 years. Making his keynote at today's silicon.com CIO Forum, he said: "Young people are pulling... [26 Sep 2006]
Topping the hype curve - mobile TV and IPTV
News Mobile TV, IPTV and broadband video phones are all at what the analysts have labelled the 'peak of inflated expectations', a phase of over-enthusiasm and unrealistic projections, which tends to lead to some successes but more... [27 Jul 2006]
'Geeks' and offshore fears threaten software industry
News Sparrow also stressed the need to publicise IT project successes, as currently the industry has a bad reputation from over-emphasis on project failures. Efforts are being made to unite academia and business, such as a... [05 Jul 2006]
BBC online revamp embraces mobiles, podcasts and user content
News While details of the form the user-generated content will take have not been made clear yet, the BBC may be able to learn lessons from the successes and failures of other web 2.0 companies. Announcing the strategy,... [26 Apr 2006]
VoIP providers grapple with emergency calls
News Faced with reports of VoIP emergency call failures that resulted in tragedy, the FCC announced last June that all net phone providers must equip their networks with E911 call-routing prowess by the autumn - or cut off... [08 Mar 2006]
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