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RSS third quarterTechies swap BlackBerrys for the beach
News The poll comes as more than a quarter of the 300 London workers surveyed by IT security company Credant Technologies said they check their emails daily during their holidays, with 14 per cent admitting they do so more than once per day. [25 Jul 2008]
Nokia, Qualcomm settle patent dispute
News Qualcomm delayed the release of its fiscal third-quarter results for several hours to first announce the agreement. Nokia, the world's biggest maker of mobile phones, and chipmaker Qualcomm announced yesterday they had entered into a new licensing... [24 Jul 2008]
Record Mac sales give Apple stellar quarter
News For the company's third fiscal quarter, which ended June 28, Apple reported $7.46bn in revenue and net profit of $1.07bn, equal to $1.19 per share. That far exceeds the company's own guidance for the quarter and also beats Wall Street's... [22 Jul 2008]
Nokia grabs bigger slice of market
News For example, the new N96, a compact follow-on to the successful N95, is expected some time in the third quarter. Last week, the Finnish mobile phone maker beat sales expectations on its mobile handset business when it announced its earnings for the... [21 Jul 2008]
Indian outsource giants feeling the pinch
News Meanwhile TPI's index found that companies signed $25.6bn of outsourcing contracts in the second quarter of 2008 - the third quarter in a row to break the $20bn mark and the best recorded performance of three consecutive quarters. [18 Jul 2008]
UK worst in Europe for green IT
News But energy costs were high on UK companies' agenda, with almost half of UK respondents believing a quarter of their company's operating expenses are spent on energy. He said: "There is a strong financial incentive, if you are using products which... [08 Jul 2008]
City slickers addicted to email
News More than a quarter of the 300 London workers surveyed by IT security company Credant Technologies said they check their emails daily during their holidays, with 14 per cent admitting they do so more than once per day. [07 Jul 2008]
London data centres hit by credit crunch
News Businesses chose London for just four per cent of the data centre space taken up across Europe in the first quarter of this year, according to real estate advisor CB Richard Ellis. Andrew Jay, head of technology practice group at CB Richard Ellis... [04 Jul 2008]
Europe embraces outsourcing in 2008
News European companies signed more than a third of all outsourcing deals during the first quarter of the year. EU business accounted for 36 per cent of all contracts signed according to Everest Research, with most contracts for the outsourcing of IT... [27 Jun 2008]
Flexible working still a stigma, say techies
News Of the techies who are able to work flexibly, a quarter (25.3 per cent) do it because their employer allows it, the research found, and a similar percentage (24.9 per cent) said it is a lifestyle choice. [25 Jun 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 20.06.08
Round-Up The latest figures - courtesy of BT - show that most city centre office workers are tied to their desks and see less than an hour a day of natural sunlight, with nearly a quarter seeing less than 20 minutes of the sun's rays during the working day. [20 Jun 2008]
WiMax Forum stamps 2.5G products with seal of approval
News This will also include products designed to work at the 3.5GHz frequency, and the forum said that it would start accepting certification applications for such products in the third quarter of this year, with a view to completing certification by... [20 Jun 2008]
Workers waste company time online
News A quarter of companies have no limits at all. Around a third (32 per cent) of companies said they disciplined an employee for misuse of internet access during 2007, with 13 per cent dismissing someone for persistent misuse. [11 Jun 2008]
Broadband pace lagging in the countryside
News The advice website says broadband headline speeds in excess of 8Mbps are therefore less likely to be available in rural areas, adding that almost all telephone exchanges in areas such as London have a wide variety of LLU (local loop unbundling... [04 Jun 2008]
BT to cut CO2 emissions by 80 per cent
News BT will rely on wind farms to produce a quarter of its UK power by 2016 as part of a major drive to cut CO2 emissions. It will also ensure that a third of its product or service replacement contractors are able to demonstrate increased efficiency... [03 Jun 2008]
