services industry
CIOs back call for common skills scheme
News The question of common accreditation, or an IT professional's charter, has been raised by a number of industry societies and employer focus groups, illustrating the demand for such a qualification but the lack of a... [13 Oct 2008]
Infosys posts strong Q2 results
News Srinivas added that, due to market conditions, he expected to see consolidation in the outsourcing industry. BG Srinivas, Head of European Operations at Infosys, told silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk on Friday that... [13 Oct 2008]
Kiln builds a bigger insurance data pot
Case Study While the specialised insurance market isn't suffering the privations of the mortgage industry, City-based insurance company Kiln is undergoing fundamental corporate changes underpinned by a no-less sizeable IT upgrade. [09 Oct 2008]
Tim Berners-Lee
AS Profile It's the breadth and depth of his efforts that earn him the title of the most influential individual in the tech industry. He has also been an outspoken campaigner for net neutrality, arguing against restrictions on... [07 Oct 2008]
Eric Schmidt
AS Profile The Google chief oversees a company that continues to wield influence in the tech industry and rake in the money. The company continues to attract more business users for its Google Apps, is one of the big players in... [07 Oct 2008]
Ray Ozzie
AS Profile A previous Agenda Setter who took the top spot in 2006, Ozzie continues to make waves at one of the biggest tech players - and thus in the industry as a whole. He's currently pushing Microsoft to provide more software... [07 Oct 2008]
IBM follows Microsoft into the cloud
News We are moving our clients, the industry and even IBM itself to have a mixture of data and applications that live in the data centre and in the cloud," said Willy Chiu, vice president of high performance on demand... [06 Oct 2008]
Is Nokia losing its enterprise mojo?
Comment The situation becomes more confusing still when you read the first line of the release: "With its sights firmly fixed on consumer internet services and with a clear vision of changing industry trends,... [06 Oct 2008]
When CIOs tighten their belts, what feels the squeeze?
News It's not just the banks that suffer - anything that involves liquidity problems permeates through all industry sectors. Offshore IT services and software companies are likely to be among the few to... [02 Oct 2008]
Brits lose £120m to foreign card fraud
News According to payments industry body Apacs, the amount UK retailers lose to card fraud has dropped by around a third since the chip and PIN was adopted in 2005, now standing at £47.4m for the period between January and... [01 Oct 2008]
Microsoft SearchPerks: Latest attempt to gain share
News Savoye noted that in the airline industry, for example, loyalty programs have become a standard part of doing business. Data security services - 60 Sec Pitch Microsoft's latest effort to get people to... [01 Oct 2008]
Cost-Sensitive-Data Preprocessing for Mining Customer Relationship Management Databases
White Paper With worldwide industry deregulation, telecommunications and financial services customers face an ever-growing number of choices. So, more customers are switching their service providers. This phenomenon... [01 Oct 2008]
Sprint Global MPLS VPN IP Whitepaper
White Paper In addition, Sprint Global MPLS VPN provides a full suite of value-added services to create one of the most feature-rich MPLS offerings in the industry. Sprint Global MPLS VPN is built on a 100 percent... [01 Oct 2008]
Back to reality for Bangalore
Comment The banking, financial services and insurance sectors account for 40 per cent of revenues for India's $52bn outsourcing industry (as of 2007-2008). Firms such as now-bankrupt Lehman Brothers and... [30 Sep 2008]
Google's vision for an open wireless world
News This notion of a device connecting to any network is quite different from how the wireless industry operates today. Data security services - 60 Sec Pitch The patent explicitly outlines "a transparent... [29 Sep 2008]