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Naked CIO: Cloud computing more expensive than we thought?
Comment Before they knew it they were spending more than £500,000 per year on user fees annually associated with the application. It's not just the technology that's important - how you account for its cost can also have a huge... [19 Nov 2009]
Why are Indian outsourcing companies such bashful suitors?
Comment The top three Indian firms each have around 100,000 employees in large tech hubs such as Bangalore and smaller cities such as Jaipur and Coimbatore. But now, as technology spending rebounds, aggressive... [06 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]
The Weekly Round-Up: 30.09.09
Round-Up The tech industry has always had a soft spot for the paranormal, what with its mailer-daemons, software wizards, trolls and the like. Throw in that green-tinged Gollum tan that many IT people develop from... [30 Oct 2009]
Who do you trust when you're spending your IT budget?
News While asking colleagues for referrals was voted the most popular way to get advice on new tech, scouring the blogosphere and social networks also proved popular among European execs. Only six per cent of UK execs said... [28 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... [22 Oct 2009]
Windows 7: Who's adopting it, when and why?
News Windows 7 has already outsold Vista in the consumer market and you will increasingly have users who have Windows 7 at home ringing tech support asking how they can do the same thing on XP. With software... [21 Oct 2009]
2010: When IT budgets start to grow again
News According to research from Gartner, enterprise tech spending is down 5.2 per cent on 2008 figures. The news is not all good for CIOs, however: for more than half of tech chiefs, budgets... [20 Oct 2009]
How to grow tech businesses during a recession
Comment In large organisations spending requires multiple approvals at several different levels of authority. A big challenge for selling technology during a recession is that the ultimate customer spending... [06 Oct 2009]
Time to polish up your CV: The IT job market is getting better
News According to new research, the number of vacancies for tech professionals in the third quarter of this year increased by 23 per cent, compared to the previous quarter. Tech jobs have been harder to come... [05 Oct 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.09.09
Round-Up But - before you go: take a moment to enjoy the rest of the best tech news from the week. Spending 20 seconds per day on Facebook is about enough time to update your status from "At work" to "Checking... [04 Sep 2009]
Are your software licences up to date - and does your CFO know?
News Finance chiefs should ask their tech team to centralise documents regarding software licences, meaning they're easy to get hold of in the event of an audit, the BSA's spokesman said. Mark Bethell, senior manager within... [04 Sep 2009]
Looking for a safe IT job? SMEs could be the answer
News According to Forrester, European SMEs are more likely to cut their tech spending than their large enterprise cousins - 32 per cent of SMEs are reducing their IT operating budget this year with 28 per... [19 Aug 2009]
Kerching! London Poundland stores pilot contactless payments
News A degree of momentum has been building recently, however, with Barclays pledging to replace its entire fleet of cards with contactless-enabled equivalents and estimating all its debit cards will have the tech by 2011. [12 Aug 2009]
Green shoots? What green shoots? No let up in IT spending freeze
News The Fujitsu research found some signs of encouragement, with the majority of retailers questioned having no plans to cut IT budgets any further and one fifth saying they will increase IT spending this year, investing in... [11 Aug 2009]
