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The carbon budget is coming...
News Every UK business must carbon budget when the Climate Change Bill comes before parliament over the next year. It has been proposed that each carbon budget period should be five years long - starting from the beginning of 2008. [12 Oct 2007]
Huawei's $1bn R&D pot 'matches Western rivals'
News One billion dollars worth of R&D spend is a sizeable sum but it pales into insignificance beside the comparative investment of its Western rivals - Cisco racked up an R&D budget of more than $4bn in the last fiscal year and Nortel spent almost... [06 Sep 2007]
In brief: Open Group calls for middleware standards
News Allen Brown, vice president of the Open Group, claimed: "Too much of the IT budget is consumed on integration and the need for multiple skills within the enterprise. Too much time and money is wasted on integrating middleware solutions because of a... [04 Aug 1998]
One in three tech projects runs over budget
News One in three projects implemented each year ends up with an overspend of between 10 and 20 per cent on the original budget. It said this isn't helped by the lack of visibility and control CIOs have over their project portfolios - 39 per cent of IT... [12 Sep 2007]
Row erupts over outsourcing tax
News The reforms - the VAT Finance Order 1999 - were introduced in this year's budget and are part of the government's drive to create a fairer tax system. Ernst & Young is waiting to hear if Customs & Excise will appeal against the decision and... [30 Apr 1999]
Tories hit out at '£2bn government IT overspend'
News Projects said to be over budget are the courts computer, which was originally due to cost £146m but is now at £400m, the GCHQ IT upgrade which rose to £450m, and the new national insurance payments system which ended up at £90m over projected costs. [09 Jun 2005]
Budget 2008: Tech companies fight for contract windfall
News A £10m boost to the science and innovation teaching budget over the next five years. The technology industry has pledged to fight for a share of a public sector contract windfall the Chancellor of the Exchequer promised to SMEs in his 2008 Budget. [12 Mar 2008]
Home Office reconsiders Sema over IT2000
News ICL is currently in a contract for the Home Office that is running 16 months late and £7m over budget. The project was to provide procurement and support for IT within the Home Office over the next 10 years. [14 Nov 1999]
CIO Jury: IT chiefs not yet planning for Windows Vista
News Perhaps we will within the 2007 budget cycle although it will be an interesting debate agreeing business benefit and ROI. But only two out of silicon.com's 12-man CIO Jury user panel said they have started any planning for Windows Vista, in terms... [03 Aug 2005]
Power-hungry IT industry is "unsustainable"
News Large organisations spend between four and eight per cent - and sometimes as much as 10 per cent - of their IT budget on energy and Gartner predicts this will rise by up to four times within the next five years. [07 Nov 2006]
Tech sparks rapid rise in electricity bills
News Two-thirds of silicon.com's 12-strong CIO Jury IT user panel said the proportion of budget taken up by energy and electricity costs is rising rapidly. The issue is not so much that electricity costs are rising - which they are - but the rate at... [15 Aug 2007]
No Vista plans for more than half of European businesses
News The State of Enterprise Infrastructure 2006 study said that while the overall outlook for IT spending in 2006 remains "austere", enterprises are making significant new investments in hardware, with servers and PCs taking up around one-sixth of the... [14 Nov 2006]
'Go green or face financial doom'
News This will have a major impact on IT budgets in future, said Gartner, with energy costs rising from less than 10 per cent of the budget to more than half within the next few years. With server rooms growing and electricity costs rising, IT... [28 Sep 2006]
Gartner: CIOs - develop business analytics or IT loses out
News By collecting and analysing that point of sale data, the IT department aligns itself with the organisation's marketing and product teams - one less reason for the CFO to cut down their budget. He added: "But if, on the other hand, you link projects... [21 Nov 2007]
CIOs left out in the cold by business
News Nearly two-thirds (59 per cent) of CIOs said an "increased interest and involvement of the business in IT strategy and planning" would help them do their job more effectively and 54 per cent asked for a bigger IT budget. [18 Jun 2007]
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