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Why are Indian outsourcing companies such bashful suitors?
Comment These large operators offer a wide range of services under a single umbrella. Indian outsourcers certainly have the cash - so why aren't they buying up their competitors? Saritha Rai finds out. They have accumulated... [06 Nov 2009]
Whose IT budget has been hit the hardest?
News While the debate over bankers' bonuses may still be generating headlines, it seems the financial services industry has found one way to cut back - slash IT budgets. Financial services firms' IT budgets... [04 Nov 2009]
Photos: Inside a Microsoft datacentre
Photo Microsoft isn't saying which services are being run out of Chicago, although the Bing posters that covered the second floor server rooms suggest one possible workload. Microsoft recently opened its Chicago datacentre. [04 Nov 2009]
Why the UK will never create a Google, Microsoft or Oracle
News David Supple, head of IT and creative services at Ecotec Research & Consulting, said the UK won't turn out the next software powerhouse "until the government puts a more supportive framework in place to help our creative... [03 Nov 2009]
£39m boost for London Olympics' emergency comms
News The Home Office has announced a £39m deal to help emergency services comms cope during the London 2012 Olympic Games. As a result, the system will be able to cater for thousands more users from within the police, fire... [03 Nov 2009]
3 Strategies for Reducing IT Support Costs
White Paper Download the White Paper to learn: -- Why IT utilisation, end-user support and maintenance budgets are the most strategic areas to investigate -- How to effectively approach cost-saving measures within these areas while maintaining IT... [02 Nov 2009]
Photos: Salesforce.com rides the Google wave with CRM app
Photo Using the app, customers can choose from accessing information about their billing and mobile service, adding services or reporting a hardware problem. Earlier this year, Google launched a collaboration platform called... [30 Oct 2009]
Make haste with the analogue-digital switch, urges EC
News The European Commission has called for EU members to speed their switchover to digital television, and therefore in the process free up spectrum, which can then be used for broadband services. Viviane Reding, information... [30 Oct 2009]
Taxman to save £110m by taking an axe to its IT estate
News The work will be carried out by outsourcing provider Capgemini under its Aspire (Acquiring Strategic Partners for the Inland Revenue) contract to provide IT services and supplies to the HMRC until 2017. [30 Oct 2009]
How will you use Google Wave? Recruiting, decision-making, dealing with complaints
News Lars Rasmussen, Google's software engineering manager and co-creator of Wave, said unlike typical Google services, Wave has stoked early interest among both consumers and enterprises. It may have only been launched a few... [28 Oct 2009]
Who do you trust when you're spending your IT budget?
News According to a survey by industry watchers Pierre Audoin Consultants and the IT Services Marketing Association (ITSMA), CIOs and other business execs most trust their colleagues and peers for advice on which products to... [28 Oct 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Augmented reality
Cheat Sheet The Wikitude app (pictured below) made by Mobilizy was among the first to exploit AR in the smartphone world - it used the G1's hardware coupled with data from the Panoramio, Qype and Wikipedia web services to identify... [27 Oct 2009]
How Google Apps helped Jaguar Land Rover keep motoring after Ford sale
News JLR's move to Google Apps is the company's first step towards simplifying the IT infrastructure it runs in-house and farming out more of its IT services to outsourcers and cloud providers. Where I can deem... [26 Oct 2009]
Oracle Blends Managed Services With OnDemand Pricing
White Paper Growing businesses are increasingly realising that Managed Services offer a scalable, flexible route forward. This whitepaper explores Oracle Managed Services offerings for PeopleSoft and Siebel, and... [26 Oct 2009]
Will 'citizen developers' shake up IT development?
News Gartner defines a citizen developer as a user working outside the scope of enterprise IT and its governance who creates new business apps for others to use either from scratch or by mashing up and building on various existing... [23 Oct 2009]
