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News It found plastic cards accounted for 65 per cent of all UK spending last year, rising by 11 per cent in value in 2007. This will accelerate a change that is well underway, as the last three years have seen debit card spending rise 31 per cent...
[12 May 2008]
News End users' preferences will account for up to 50 per cent of all purchasing decisions relating to hardware, software and services within the enterprise, Martin Gutberlet, research vice president at Gartner, said last week.
[14 Apr 2008]
News Most IT departments want to be flexible and responsive to the needs of the business and that is hard to if you are spending 70 per cent of your budget on infrastructure," he said. Stephen Gill, vice president and managing director of HP UK and...
[08 Apr 2008]
News Taxpayers' money is being squandered on public sector outsourcing deals where costs are ballooning up to 75 per cent more than the going market rate. The submission says: "This leads to the "bid it thin and get it in" strategy of many outsourcing...
[04 Apr 2008]
News The median growth rate for IT spending is predicted to be 4.9 per cent with the highest growth likely to be seen in the construction and health sectors. According to research by the National Computing Centre (NCC), around 58 per cent of companies...
[10 Mar 2008]
News Web sales increased 75 per cent year-on-year, amounting to the equivalent of £75 for every person in the UK, according to the IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index. Electricals are the favourite purchase, followed by clothing, with 38 per cent and 32...
[22 Feb 2008]
News Nearly two-thirds of all new IT jobs are created in London and the South East, even though the area only accounts for 26 per cent of the UK's population. Almost two-fifths (39 per cent) of new IT jobs are based in London, with another 23 per cent...
[14 Aug 2007]
News Swisscom is justifying this service with research that found 60 per cent of business travellers expect high-speed access in their hotel room - and that seven per cent of guests actually use the internet in their hotel room.
[27 Apr 2007]
News During the past year, wi-fi usage worldwide shot up 44 per cent and the UK was blazing a trail with 75 per cent growth. The UK's most popular wi-fi venue is Heathrow Airport and research out today revealed almost half (49 per cent) of all public wi...
[06 Mar 2007]
Comment The fact that 60 per cent of chief executives believe that CIOs are doing a satisfactory job is bad news, not good. Forrester just surveyed 75 global CEOs, and here's the punch line: 60 per cent of CEOs are satisfied with the overall performance of...
[01 Mar 2007]
News About 76 per cent of Palm owners said they would be "very likely to recommend" their smart phone to others, compared to about 75 per cent for Samsung, 69 per cent for Sony Ericsson, 67 per cent for RIM BlackBerry, 54 per cent for Motorola, and 54...
[29 Nov 2006]
Comment We locate the wi-fi access point near the pub's front door and get a signal strength of around 75 per cent. And at the other end of the bar, perhaps 10 metres from the access point, that signal is an almost unusable 10 per cent.
[13 Nov 2006]
News Just over half (58 per cent) of respondents expect their total IT expenditure to increase in the next two years - although central government IT chiefs are expecting spending to fall. A typical company will spend around 2.5 per cent of their...
[02 Nov 2006]
News They will be distributed at a rate of five per cent of the balance annually. The Gates Foundation will ultimately receive 85 per cent of Buffett's personal wealth, rather than the investor's three children or the foundations that they run.
[27 Jun 2006]
Comment Only 63 per cent of companies even had a stated acceptable usage policy (AUP) to lay down what staff can and cannot do - and that figure is up from 43 per cent two years ago. While only one per cent of companies reported financial theft or fraud...
[19 Apr 2006]
News Looking at 2004 revenues from 35 IT vendors across the world in US dollars, Forrester found North America grew 7.5 per cent, while Europe Middle East and Africa (EMEA) grew 15 per cent and Asia Pacific 12 per cent.
[13 May 2005]
News Sales of servers worldwide increased 5.5 per cent year-on-year to $11.5bn in the third quarter of 2004, according to market researcher IDC. IBM's sales grew faster, though, with revenue increasing 6.3 per cent to $3.4bn, giving Big Blue 31.7 per...
[24 Nov 2004]
News Worldwide spending on information and communications technology is expected to grow about eight per cent a year from 2003 through 2007, a faster pace than global economic growth, according to the World Information Technology and Services Alliance.
[24 Nov 2004]
News About 29 per cent of these companies expect to increase their use of outsourcing of financial functions, with spending likely to be 16 per cent higher than present levels, the survey found. About 44 per cent of companies that have outsourced...
[29 Oct 2004]
News Nearly 75 per cent of people surveyed by service software company Transversal said they hadn't spotted any difference to online government from the investments and half weren't impressed by the service they got from the websites at the moment.
[15 Jul 2004]
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