spending a-z
RSS spending a-zLocal gov't tech spend to hit Ł3bn
News Local government IT spending is predicted to hit Ł3bn during 2007/8 - a nine per cent increase on the previous year. Security from A to Z According to the Society of IT Management's (Socitm) annual IT Trends survey, spending on local government IT... [03 Jan 2008]
ID cards to cost more than Ł5.6bn
News Silicon.com's A to Z of ID Cards The cost of a passport is set to increase substantially over the next five years to cover the cost of larger electronic chips that will hold more data and fingerprints, according to a separate report by a... [09 Nov 2007]
Global security spend to hit $10.5bn
News Security from A to Z 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... [28 Apr 2008]
ID cards fuel Ł147m consultancy bill
News Home Office spending on consultants shot up from Ł7.6m in 1997/98 to Ł147m in 2006/07, a period described by shadow home secretary David Davis as the "worst period in its 200-year history". Silicon.com's A to Z of ID Cards [11 Apr 2008]
Recession fears squeeze tech budgets
News A-Zs Ś Security from A-Z Ś Biometrics from A-Z Ś Broadband from A-Z Ś Wireless from A-Z Ś Green IT from A-Z Tech budgets are starting to feel the squeeze on the back of the credit crunch crisis and fears of a... [24 Jan 2008]
Dell's smiling after quarter profits
News Security from A-Z Biometrics from A-Z Broadband from A-Z Wireless from A-Z Green IT from A-Z Chief financial officer Donald Carty, who is to be replaced by Brian Gladden on June 13, said: "I think our results demonstrate we made some progress... [30 May 2008]
Christmas spend online to hit Ł5bn
News Security from A to Z A is for Antivirus Z is for Zero-day Online spending on cards is set to rise by more than half (55 per cent) to Ł5.6bn - meaning more than one billion pounds per week will be spent. [30 Nov 2007]
Gov't IT spending to face scrutiny
News Government spending on IT is to come under scrutiny as part of a wider Treasury review of national projects. Security from A-Z Biometrics from A-Z Broadband from A-Z Wireless from A-Z Green IT from A-Z [01 Feb 2008]
UK businesses shunning encryption tech?
News Despite the lack of encryption, UK IT managers claim their corporate data is safe and almost two-thirds (65 per cent) said the HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) data breach will not change their IT spending priorities, according to a survey by Check Point. [03 Dec 2007]
UK passports face massive price hike
News But a report by parliamentary spending watchdog the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) warns the cost could increase even more with the introduction of the second generation ePassports in 2009.silicon.com's A to Z of Biometrics [10 Oct 2007]
Smaller ISPs: The secret to our success
News The UK broadband market witnessed a lot of consolidation last year, including Thus grabbing two rivals in a Ł70m spending spree, BT snapping up PlusNet for Ł67m, and Pipex forking out Ł10m for Freedom2Surf, Ł12m for Bulldog and Ł24m for Toucan. [26 Jan 2007]
Networking vendors escape recession
News The UK's largest organisations are still buying networking equipment despite recessionary cuts in general IT spending - but they are buying incrementally rather than waiting for the big, one-off projects which were popular a few years ago. [22 Aug 2002]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Christmas wish list
Comment The list from A to Z For decades my Christmas wish list has presented a viable spending opportunity - but not this year. Written at The Atlantic Hotel on the island of Jersey and dispatched via a free wi-fi service that actually needed no password... [20 Dec 2007]
Defra IT - blowing budgets and showing up late
News Security from A-Z Biometrics from A-Z Broadband from A-Z Wireless from A-Z Green IT from A-Z The Treasury recently launched a review of government spending on IT under a wider examination of the costs of national projects. [07 Feb 2008]
The Cloud descends on Europe
News Wireless from A to Z The Cloud is spending 100m over the next two years to expand its wi-fi presence in Europe. A is for Antivirus Z is for Zigbee Ben van Dongen, managing director for metro wi-fi at The Cloud, said the company is now ready to... [29 Nov 2006]
