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Why are Indian outsourcing companies such bashful suitors?
Comment But now, as technology spending rebounds, aggressive M&A could help firms grow quickly. Indian outsourcers certainly have the cash - so why aren't they buying up their competitors? Saritha Rai finds out. [06 Nov 2009]
BT offers free fibre to Glasgow businesses
News Back in 2008 BT announced it would be spending £1.5bn to bring fibre broadband to around 10 million homes and businesses by 2012. BT is offering a free taste of superfast broadband to businesses in Glasgow. [05 Nov 2009]
Exclusive: Jimmy Wales on what's next for Wikipedia
Comment In the days before Wikipedia, they were probably spending a lot of time watching Star Trek or. In an exclusive interview, Wikipedia founder and silicon.com Agenda Setter Jimmy Wales talks to Natasha Lomas about what's... [05 Nov 2009]
Whose IT budget has been hit the hardest?
News Financial services firms' IT budgets fell by 8.3 per cent between 2008 and 2009, meaning the banks have cut their budgets more than other industries, and saw spending fall by 6.8 per cent year-on-year. [04 Nov 2009]
'Incompetent': The verdict on gov't prisoner database
News Parliamentary spending watchdog the Public Accounts Committee has branded the implementation of the National Offender Management Information System (C-Nomis) a failure. Chair of the PAC, Edward Leigh, said of the... [03 Nov 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 30.09.09
Round-Up Throw in that green-tinged Gollum tan that many IT people develop from spending too much time hunched over a screen and add in those odd, bearded sysadmins that lurk dwarf-like in the server room, and you get the feeling... [30 Oct 2009]
Digital Dilemmas: Should I add my boss as a Facebook friend?
Comment Cons: It won't be; before you know it you'll be spending agonising hours over-analysing every mouse click. silicon.com's Natasha Lomas deconstructs this Digital Dilemma… It's the mother of digital conundrums: you log... [28 Oct 2009]
Why CIOs are saying yes to open source software
News There's no point in spending a fortune on proprietary systems or programming frameworks that don't move with the times. It's a question many CIOs are wrestling with: can open source help make your IT budget stretch a... [28 Oct 2009]
Who do you trust when you're spending your IT budget?
News When it comes to deciding how to spend a hard-won portion of the IT budget, who do CIOs trust for advice? Consultants? Blogs? Whitepapers? Or something else entirely? According to a survey by industry watchers Pierre Audoin Consultants... [28 Oct 2009]
How Google Apps helped Jaguar Land Rover keep motoring after Ford sale
News JLR is spending £200m separating its IT operations from Ford, largely on carrying out the painstaking process of copying and cloning more than 1,600 business applications. Following its sale by parent company Ford last... [26 Oct 2009]
Keeping IT green in tough times
News David Metcalfe, director of green tech analyst house Verdantix, said many big spending plans around carbon management and reduction have been put on hold. Verdantix's Metcalfe agreed telepresence technology has remained... [22 Oct 2009]
Windows 7: Who's adopting it, when and why?
News With software spending down 16.5 per cent year-on-year, Windows 7's launch tomorrow will see it enter the market amid one of the toughest squeezes on IT budgets for some time. Governor believes Microsoft's sales will... [21 Oct 2009]
2010: When IT budgets start to grow again
News If you haven't guessed already: 2009 was a bad year for IT spending, analysts have found. According to research from Gartner, enterprise tech spending is down 5.2 per cent on 2008 figures. By next year,... [20 Oct 2009]
Managed Print Services and Beyond: How You Can Cut Costs and Go Green While Increasing Employee Productivity
White Paper According to the Photizo Group, a recognized thought leader in print services management, hardcopy costs are the last bastion of uncontrolled spending within organizations today—regardless of industry. [13 Oct 2009]
Online banking fraud rockets as fraudsters get smarter
News This is largely due to improved fraud detection systems in banks, which monitor irregular spending. Online banking fraud jumped by 55 per cent during the first six months of this year as criminals become even more... [07 Oct 2009]
