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HP close to buying EDS for $12bn

News HP, which is due to report its second quarter earnings on Thursday, issued a press release after the close of the stock market Monday. I think HP has been wanting in some sense to be more like IBM for quite a while," said Gordon Haff, analyst with...

Tags: hurd, compaq, eds, hp

[13 May 2008]

IBM tools to curb data centres' power-hungry appetite?

News It generated nearly $200m of technology-services contract signings in the first quarter and about $300m in the fourth, chief financial officer Mark Loughridge said in recent profits presentations. Green IT from A to ZClick on the links below to...

Tags: data centres, ibm, green

[01 May 2008]

UK online spend up 50 per cent this year

News Compared to figures for the first quarter of 2007, the spend marks an increase of 50.5 per cent, according to the latest report from the IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index. A-Zs… Security from A-Z… Biometrics from A-Z…

Tags: consumer electronics, alcohol, online retail

[22 Apr 2008]

US no longer king of the PC?

News This is the second quarter in which its purchase of Gateway and Packard Bell have counted toward its total shipments and the combined company's total actually resulted in a 20 per cent drop from the same quarter a year ago, which IDC said is due...

Tags: asus, dell, us, pc

[17 Apr 2008]

Yahoo! ad-share gaining ground on Google?

News outpacing Google in spending on search advertising, ad viewer-ship and click-through rates during the first quarter. s first-quarter share of search spending by selected advertisers rose to 23 per cent of the market, up from historic levels of 18...

Tags: ad, yahoo, google

[17 Apr 2008]

O2 slashes £100 off iPhone price

News Both Apple and O2 remain tight-lipped on the 3G iPhone speculation but analysts at the Bank of America predict Apple will launch the high-speed wireless version of the device in the second quarter of this year and produce up to eight million...

Tags: apple, o2, iphone

[15 Apr 2008]

ID cards fuel £147m consultancy bill

News Q is for Quarter Home Office spending on consultants shot up from £7.6m in 1997/98 to £147m in 2006/07, a period described by shadow home secretary David Davis as the "worst period in its 200-year history".

Tags: home office, biometrics, id cards

[11 Apr 2008]

Workers, wi-fi and coffee shops: The perfect blend

News A quarter of workers now take advantage of wi-fi hotspots, working remotely from a coffee shop at least one day per week to escape the interruptions of the office. The survey of 1,000 business people found the main reasons for spending the day...

Tags: caffè nero, bt openzone, wi-fi

[07 Apr 2008]

Is your network performance getting you down?

News According to network monitoring company Network Instruments' research, three-quarters of network professionals cite 'identifying the source of a problem' as their primary troubleshooting concern - up a quarter on last year.

Tags: voip, security, network

[01 Apr 2008]

The CIO shopping list

Comment A quarter of CIOs said they will be outsourcing this year - mainly on the infrastructure, rather than application development/maintenance side - but none said they will be offshoring. Half of the CIO Agenda respondents said they will be investing...

Tags: cio agenda, tech, agenda, list

[26 Mar 2008]

Leisure company uses web to streamline suppliers

News Providing the pilot goes well, rollout to the remaining 16 sites will commence in the second quarter of this year and take about two months. However, Crawshaw expects the benefits will also include freeing staff from time consuming purchasing...

Tags: butlins, hospitality, e-procurement, procurement

[28 Jan 2008]

Brits suffering fat pipe rage

News Nearly a quarter of users there said they plan to switch broadband providers in the next three to six months. Speed tops the list of fat pipe frustrations, with nearly a quarter of respondents saying sluggish connections are the most annoying thing...

Tags: fat pipes, broadband, speed, survey

[25 Jan 2008]

Software sector 'worst performing in UK'

News This was against a background of 107 warnings by UK quoted companies, the highest quarterly figure since the last quarter of 2001, a 22 per cent increase on the same period in 2006. There was also a fall off in the number of warnings in the...

Tags: services, ftse, warning, software

[16 Jan 2008]

Health warning to overweight IT managers

News Almost a quarter admitted that despite spending most of their day behind a desk, they still don't exercise even once a week. Overweight IT managers are risking their health by smoking and failing to exercise - but they are at least staying off the...

Tags: bupa, it managers, tech, admitted

[15 Jan 2008]

Xmas shoppers making merry in cyberspace

News A further 21 per cent said they will do a quarter of their shopping online. A recent forecast by market research company Forrester, predicted more than 70 per cent of UK web users will shop online, each spending an average of more than €700 during...

Tags: ecommerce, online shopping, xmas, shopping

[17 Dec 2007]

IBM brains up with $5bn Cognos buy

News The transaction, which works out to $58 per Cognos share, is expected to close in the second quarter of 2008 and provide shareholders a net value of $4.9bn, IBM said. Business and technology research company AMR Research, for example, expects...

Tags: ibm, acquisitions, cognos, cnet news

[12 Nov 2007]

ID cards to cost more than £5.6bn

News Q is for Quarter The cost of a passport is set to increase substantially over the next five years to cover the cost of larger electronic chips that will hold more data and fingerprints, according to a separate report by a parliamentary spending...

Tags: id cards, home office, epassports, cards

[09 Nov 2007]

More jobs to go at Alcatel-Lucent

News Alcatel-Lucent is to cut 4,000 jobs and undergo major restructuring after it posted a third-quarter loss of €258m. A seven-person management committee is to be set up to lead the overall operation of the company, which also suffered a serious loss...

Tags: alcatel-lucent, networking, telecoms, quarter

[01 Nov 2007]

Green IT - do companies really care?

News A further nine per cent don't know, and of those that do monitor it a quarter have seen their energy consumption increase over the past two years. Nearly half of IT executives - 42 per cent - admit their company does not monitor IT-related energy...

Tags: power, ibm, cio, green

[27 Sep 2007]

Women vs men: Who's more web-savvy?

News Silver surfers are also getting web-savvy: one-quarter of all Britons online are aged over 50, and over-50s account for 30 per cent of the total time spent on the internet. Women in the younger age brackets are spending more time online than their...

Tags: online, internet, women

[23 Aug 2007]

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