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Web 2.0 prompts love for open source
News The study found the market is led by MySQL - bought by Sun in February for $1bn, more than the total size of the market - with other popular choices including Ingres, Oracle-owned BerkeleyDB, PostgreSQL, which forms the basis for commercial... [24 Jul 2008]
‚¬100bn of consumer cash wasted on mobile termination fees
News Our estimate is that over the last 10 years, across the 27 EU countries, this amounts to a total in excess of €100bn of consumers' money. He added: "ECTA's position is that all termination rates should be based on cost and currently they quite... [26 Jun 2008]
IT swallows a quarter of NHS cash budget
News The cost of upgrading NHS IT systems is now gobbling up a quarter of the health service's budget for major projects. NHS spending on IT has shot up from nine per cent of total annual capital expenditure in 2003/04 to 25 per cent in 2006/07. [09 Jun 2008]
Dell's smiling after quarter profits
News Cost reduction was one of the company's main goals in the past year. Dell reduced its headcount by 3,700 people during the quarter, many in its consumer products divisions and in international sales, for a total of 7,000 in the past year, according... [30 May 2008]
Lloyds TSB offshores 450 tech jobs to India
News The majority of affected staff are likely to be based in London and Wythenshawe, near Manchester, where Lloyds TSB has a total of 1,760 staff, although 11 offices around the UK could be affected. A Lloyds TSB spokesman said: "This is not done for... [19 May 2008]
Aviva signs £300m comms deal
News Find out what's hot on the top tech execs' agendas for 2008… Video: CIO Agenda 2008 Naked CIO: The true cost of IT Why IT must escape the belt-tightening Cost-cutting tops CIO priorities diams... [13 May 2008]
BT adds smart phone to home broadband package
News The new service - BT Total Broadband Anywhere - furnishes customers with one of a choice of two HTC smart phones, along with 50 any-network minutes, 50 texts and 10MB of data on the basic package - which will cost £29.99 per month after an initial... [08 May 2008]
Credit crunch prompts the great cash comeback
News While total retail spending continues to grow, there is a widening gap between the amount spent in cash and the amount spent using cards. The consortium puts the cost to retailers of processing a credit card transaction at up to 17 times higher... [21 Apr 2008]
US no longer king of the PC?
News In good news for buyers, the average selling price of PCs is continuing to drop, due to the new market of low-cost PCs, like the Asus Eee PC and Everex Cloudbook. The volume of low-cost PCs shipping is still minimal but it's growing. [17 Apr 2008]
ID cards fuel £147m consultancy bill
News The UK's ID card scheme has helped fuel a 2,000 per cent hike in the cost of Home Office consultants - taking the bill up to £147m last year. But a Home Office spokesman said this represents less than seven per cent of the department's total... [11 Apr 2008]
UK a hotbed for cyber crime
News The report reveals a $40m jump in the cost of international e-crime over 2006, stemming from a total of 206,884 complaints to IC3. The cost of global e-crime surged to a record $240m last year, with the UK ranking number two in the world for cyber... [08 Apr 2008]
Open source to go mainstream, says Gartner
News However, Gartner argues that at the operating-system level, Linux deployments are showing smaller benefits in total cost of ownership as it is applied to more demanding projects, because of the technical skills required to use it: "Much of the... [07 Apr 2008]
India's Wipro to create hundreds of UK tech jobs
News Indian IT giant Wipro is set to create hundreds of new jobs in the UK by taking advantage of government tax breaks and opening a low-cost regional software development facility outside of London and the South East. [20 Mar 2008]
NHS IT savings predicted to hit £1.14bn
News By 2012, the project will cost £12.4bn in total. The £12.4bn national NHS IT project will save the health service £1.14bn by 2014, a government report claims. The first annual Benefits Statement published by the government estimates the National... [13 Mar 2008]
EC monopoly warning after record Microsoft fine
News And it will cost you dearly. And while Kroes characterised the fine as "substantial", she noted it represented 60 per cent of the total assessment the Commission could have levied on Microsoft. Competition commissioner for the EC, Neelie Kroes, has... [28 Feb 2008]
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