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Carphone Warehouse plans broadband boost

News Mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse is to sell 50 per cent of its retail business to US retail giant Best Buy for £1.1bn - and plans to use the cash to grow its broadband business. But keeping up with other UK broadband players such as O2...

Tags: talktalk, broadband, carphone warehouse

[09 May 2008]

Tech-savvy workers to make IT decisions in future

News End users' preferences will account for up to 50 per cent of all purchasing decisions relating to hardware, software and services within the enterprise, Martin Gutberlet, research vice president at Gartner, said last week.

Tags: it, laptop, internet, smart phones

[14 Apr 2008]

Is your network performance getting you down?

News Meanwhile the rate of VoIP implementations has increased five per cent on last year, with 66 per cent of organisations having implemented or looking to implement VoIP in the next 12 months. In 2007, just 13 per cent said they were completely...

Tags: voip, security, network

[01 Apr 2008]

Women told: Tech isn't 'boring'

News Women are especially under-represented at senior decision-making level in IT - EC analysis conducted in October last year of 150 European companies in the telecoms sector found the average percentage of women on boards of directors was just six...

Tags: skills, geek, women, decision making

[07 Mar 2008]

LinkedIn gets a facelift and goes mobile

News There are also plans to develop the site for languages other than English to cater for LinkedIn's growing number of users outside the US, which currently stands at around 50 per cent. You're not alone… ¦ Health warning to overweight IT...

Tags: linkedin, apps, network, mobile

[25 Feb 2008]

Ericsson CEO hails mobile broadband 'breakthrough'

News He added: "We see that in the 3G networks that we monitor in Europe data traffic now exceeds voice and accelerates quickly, from between 50 to 1,500 per cent depending on the operator's strategy. Ericsson has partnered with Telstra to roll out a...

Tags: telstra, mobile broadband, ericsson, society

[11 Feb 2008]

Thousands of tech newbies needed to plug skills gap

News More on the UK's IT & telecoms sector…   Around one in 20 of the UK's workforce is employed in IT & telecoms   40 per cent of the sector's staff have managerial/strategy roles   Staff earn 61 per cent more than the UK...

Tags: jobs, telecoms, skills, industries

[29 Jan 2008]

Stress at work is a killer

News This accounted for around 32 per cent of the effect of work stress on CHD, said Chandola. He said in a statement: "During 12 years of follow-up, we found that chronic work stress was associated with CHD and this association was stronger among both...

Tags: stress, work, job, london

[23 Jan 2008]

Aerospace IT Company Improves Flexibility, Enhances Support Services With New System

whitepaper Farley estimates his team will be resolving around 50 per cent more support queries with the same head count in the same amount of time. The Umeco Supply Chain IT team of six must work very hard to ensure the company's workforce can access IT...

Tags: supply chain management

[17 Jan 2008]

Leading Digital Music Company Standardises Infrastructure and Extends Global Reach

whitepaper As much as 50 per cent more tracks are stored in a new digital library. Today, the company is better placed to adapt to customer demand, offering more flexible music delivery. The solution is based on the Microsoft .NET Framework, Microsoft Windows...

Tags: application servers

[10 Jan 2008]

Outsourcing growth expected in 2008

News Spending on offshore services is three times higher in North America than in Western Europe but the gap is closing, with Indian providers becoming more popular in 2007, growing 40 per cent in the US and 60 per cent in Europe.

Tags: outsourcing, ito, gartner, bpo

[10 Jan 2008]

Top 10 skills stories of the year

News With a reminder that just 16 per cent of the tech workforce is female, the question of why women are abandoning IT careers got silicon.com's readership fired up back in the first days of 2007. Meanwhile silicon.com's ninth Skills Survey took the...

Tags: skills, flexible working, wfh, techies

[17 Dec 2007]

Bank IT spend to rise despite credit crunch crisis

News Software and services spend in the sector should rise by 7.7 per cent between 2007 and 2011, according to Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC). In a statement, the research house said: "As a result of market pressures banks will be seeking to do more...

Tags: bank, infosys, tcs, bpo

[11 Dec 2007]

How Topshop.com survives the Kate Moss effect

News Arcadia's web brands see a lot of traffic - Topshop.com alone gets 500,000 visits a week, with 30 per cent of visitors returning on a daily basis. And across the board, sales volumes have risen by 80 per cent, year-on-year.

Tags: kate moss, arcadia, topshop, retailer

[22 Nov 2007]

How to stop "runaway" ERP projects

Comment We know the choices customers have made and also the best practices for what you should do and that way we can save 30-50 per cent of the traditional implementation cost," he says. We've found that the number of lines of code it generates as well...

Tags: project, erp, lawson

[01 Oct 2007]

The greening of IT: Cooling costs

Comment This target has been achieved and a new goal has been set of cutting the carbon footprint by a further 50 per cent by 2016. It's not often you can say BT displayed considerable foresight but, according to Steve O'Donnell, head of its entire global...

Tags: green, data centre, virtualisation, energy

[21 Sep 2007]

'DIY' offshoring on the increase

News Offshore IT outsourcing is also still on the increase and the TPI figures show 59 per cent of deals in the first half of the year had at least partial offshore delivery. But the overall global market slowdown is not reflected in Europe where the...

Tags: tpi, outsourcing

[12 Jul 2007]

Betfair taps Romania for offshore software skills

News Although the cost of the staff is around 25 to 30 per cent cheaper than in London, Betfair said the main reason for setting up in Romania was to tap into extra skills and resources. Betfair said it will continue to expand the Romanian facility in...

Tags: romania, betfair

[28 Jun 2007]

Data centres struggle to keep their cool

News According to analyst house Gartner, 50 per cent of data centres will have insufficient power or cooling capacity to meet demand by 2008. New research from ARI found 38 per cent of data centres are already running at dangerous levels of power...

Tags: energy crisis, data centre

[12 Apr 2007]

Photos: Outsourcing to Russia

Photos: Outsourcing to Russia

Photo We are confident we will experience 60 per cent plus growth again this year," he said. Boris Berezin, professor and vice-dean of the faculty at Moscow State University, said: "We cannot prepare enough students to meet the demand of companies.

Tags: luxoft, moscow, russia, offshore outsourcing

[15 Feb 2007]

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