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News Science and Innovation Minister, Lord Drayson, said in a statement: "We must safeguard the government's record investment in the science and research base over the past decade. We cannot afford to lose out on the wealth... [30 Jun 2009]
CIO Job Report: June's job moves and CIOs wanted
News Applications have now closed for the post of director of IS, business solutions at Cancer Research UK. Let silicon.com keep you up to date with all the latest CIO job moves and changes with our regular CIO Job Report. [30 Jun 2009]
Psst… Want to get your outsourcing project signed off?
News According to a research report that surveyed 25,000 IT outsourcing buyers, outsourcing deals that can promise ROI within 180 days are nine times more likely to get signed off than those with a two-year or longer turnaround. [29 May 2009]
£70bn birthday present for Faster Payments service
News According to research by TNS, awareness of the service's existence also remains low, with only 55 per cent of people in the UK saying they had heard of Faster Payments and only 46 per cent of individuals having made a... [27 May 2009]
Nanotech and web services need cash boost
News The European Commission wants Europe to double its investment in technology research and development, targeting particular areas such as nanotechnology, web services and what it calls "the Future Internet". [16 Mar 2009]
BT slammed over unbundling price hike
News Broadband analyst Ian Fogg, of Forrester Research, told ZDNet UK on Monday that the LLU pricing issue was closely tied in with BT's proposed investment in rolling out high-speed, fibre-based, next-generation broadband. [10 Mar 2009]
Downturn prompts biz to offload hardware
News According to Anthony Miller, managing partner at research company TechMarketView, the move away from megadeals won't be good for smaller outsourcers. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realise, then, that the big boys... [22 Jan 2009]
Inbox: Who's to blame for snail's pace broadband?
Comment Ofcom has published the initial findings of its research into the real speeds UK consumers are getting from their broadband connections. According to new research, half of Britons aren't - prompting a... [12 Jan 2009]
Fewer white knights to tech's rescue in 2008
News Technology companies seeking a white-knight buyer had a long wait this year, according to a study released Thursday by research firm The 451 Group. In addition, the research group said it expects to see... [19 Dec 2008]
Cisco shuts shop for four days to save some pennies
News Networking giant Cisco Systems plans to shut down its offices for four days at the end of the year to help save money, according to a research note by UBS analyst Nikos Theodosopoulos. The company plans to close its... [26 Nov 2008]
Is Salesforce.com sitting pretty for cloud wars?
Comment As Salesforce.com's director of platform research, Peter Coffee, put it: why would a start-up business want to invest in expensive servers when they could run bespoke applications and websites on Force.com and use Google... [12 Nov 2008]
Microsoft nears Verizon search deal
News While mobile search is still a nascent market, Google controls the lion's share with 61 per cent, followed distantly by Yahoo with 18 per cent and Microsoft with 5 per cent, according to research company Nielsen. [12 Nov 2008]
IBM sets out storage strategy
News The launch is the result of a £1bn investment in research and development. IBM has announced a major launch of storage products and technology to help customers deal with the huge amounts of data they hold. [08 Sep 2008]
Web 2.0 prompts love for open source
News The market for open-source databases is booming due to new workloads such as RFID projects, rich web applications and small portals, despite the unwillingness of enterprises to replace their Oracle, DB2 or SQL Server systems with open... [24 Jul 2008]
"Mega" outsourcing deals decline
News Gartner research director Kurt Potter said in a statement: "Many clients want to test providers' contracting practices, capabilities and cultures before moving favoured providers into larger contracts, or organisations... [11 Jun 2008]
