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HP close to buying EDS for $12bn
News I think this is sort of further evidence that HP really does see value at scale basically, at size," said Haff. The Wall Street Journal initially reported the two have been in talks for HP to buy EDS for $12bn to $13bn, citing unnamed sources. [13 May 2008]
e-Borders to cost £1bn over next decade
News Now we need to go further, with full-scale screening of travellers. The UK government plans to spend £1.2bn on its e-Borders programme over the next decade, as the electronic passenger-screening system is fully implemented. [02 Aug 2007]
Biggest spenders on IT in government revealed
News Government CIO John Suffolk said he was struck by the sheer scale and complexity of the public sector and the ubiquitous use of IT. The government spends more that £12bn per year on IT, with the NHS and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP... [10 Jan 2007]
Major change needed to NHS IT programme
News This misconception has been a prime cause of large scale IT project failure since computers first became common place," said Hayes in a statement. Major changes must be made to the £12bn NHS technology programme - including a shift in focus away... [15 Dec 2006]
The McCue Interview: DWP CIO Joe Harley
Comment He says: "I was just taken with the sheer scale of it, the big challenge that was needed to be done. He admits the scale of the job was a challenge he could not resist. CIO jobs don't come much more challenging than at one of Whitehall's biggest... [27 Jul 2006]
Radioactive: The next billion mobile users
Comment The received wisdom is that handset costs are a critical factor in achieving sufficient scale. The challenge operators face in these markets is to achieve economies of scale and keep fees down with a relatively small number of customers. [03 Aug 2005]
National ID card scheme 'will cost £18bn'
News There aren't any large-scale biometric ID schemes like this anywhere in the world. I don't think biometric technology was made to be done on this scale," he said. The cost of the government's proposed biometric national ID card scheme will more... [31 May 2005]
MPs hammer Customs for failure to control IT spending
News PAC chairman Edward Leigh, MP for Gainsborough, said: "It cannot be acceptable that Customs has already spent huge sums of public money without being confident about the scale of the likely benefits. Customs & Excise has been slammed by the Public... [22 Jun 2004]
IBM lands $1.7bn deals
News Although contracts that call for revenue in the hundreds of millions of dollars are impressive, large-scale IT service deals often entail significant costs for the service provider, such as investments in technology. [22 Dec 2003]
Microsoft moves into business reporting
News Actuate said on Thursday that Microsoft's announcement does not change its product strategy, which will remain focused on large-scale reporting applications that run on multiple databases and operating systems. [14 Feb 2003]
John Lamb's Week: New economy mechanic takes pot shot at incubators
Comment Another company, Scale Eight, says its answer to net storage demands is a management system based on parallel processing techniques at one-fifth the cost of existing storage. This Monday evening I'll be legging it over to Westminster Hall in London... [19 Jan 2001]
iMode moves into WAP's European waters
News The three companies will be investing around $30m each in setting up two R&D centres in Italy and the Netherlands to develop services such as gaming, email, SMS, image exchange, location-based services and mobile transactions. [19 Jan 2001]
The Value Proposition: IT and the utopian fallacy
Comment Business-to-business initiatives allow the dominant players in an industry to increase profits and in the process to eliminate many of the smaller suppliers which can't compete with their economies of scale. [05 Apr 2000]
