A recent series of cloud briefings sought to address the technology, legal and change management aspects of cloud. They prompted some thought-provoking discussions around the longevity and value of cloud computing. With so much noise ...
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Lambeth Council has awarded IT services firm Capita a £3.4m customer services management contract. The nine-year contract has been awarded through Lambeth Council's London-wide framework agreement. It will run alongside existing ...
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Lloyds Banking Group is looking for 30 IT apprentices to take up specialist roles that it says cannot be filled by graduates. The group, which is the parent company of high street bank Lloyds TSB, is looking for school leavers with a ...
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HP CEO Meg Whitman has revealed that the company is still in the market for technology industry acquisitions - but "only" up to $1.5bn in value. Speaking in a US television interview after unveiling lacklustre financial results, Whitman ...
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Style Performance Analytics combines PLM, ERP and BI to revolutionise fashion design process. In a first of its kind IT intervention, the fashion industry can now look forward to utilising IT services to predict future developments. ...
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Despite a continuing drive to lower the cost of IT services, about 75 percent of government IT budgets globally were reported as flat or increasing in 2013, said Gartner Tuesday when releasing findings of the Gartner Executive Programs 2013 ...
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Fujitsu will continue to provide Virgin Money with support for its mainframe environment, after the bank signed a new five year deal with the IT solutions provider. Financial terms were not disclosed. Further reading CIO interview: How ...
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The demand for improved telecom connectivity in Canada's North is real, says a new Conference Board of Canada report, and "the interest in the issue has never been greater". Published by the Centre for the North, "Mapping the Long-Term ...
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U.S.-based workers show more initiative and are more innovative and more understanding of the business than offshore workers, according to a new study that examines sourcing services in the U.S. These qualities are helping to boost use of ...
Computerworld - Corporate attitudes toward bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies appear to fall into one of three categories, according to a survey of IT users released this week: There's no official BYOD policy, devices are banned, or no ...
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The worldwide IT outsourcing market is poised to grow more slowly than previously expected, reaching $288 billion in 2013, a 2.8 percent increase from 2012, according to Gartner. Looking out further, Gartner predicts a 5.4 percent compound ...
Google has reportedly been in talks with major media companies to stream television channels direct to consumers over the internet. The idea is being seen as potential competition to US cable providers, such as Time Warner and Comcast, ...
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National Business Climate Survey results showed that the business climate index (BCI) was 120.6 in the second quarter of 2013, decreased 5.0 points quarter-on-quarter, but still significantly higher than the critical value 100, and ...
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On the issue of global competitiveness, it's between the U.S. and China. India may have most of the IT services and development work, but China has tech manufacturing and its R&D investments are rapidly expanding. Indeed, China is on ...
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Hiring of technology professionals has been on the upswing in the first half of this year, with new IT hires accounting for about 10% of all the job growth in the U.S. in June, according to two independent assessments. Total tech ...
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