Google is reportedly negotiating with messaging app WhatsApp over a possible takeover worth nearly $1bn (£655m) According to an inside source, the negotiations started more than a month ago, says DigitalTrends. Further reading ...
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Lincolnshire County Council is seeking a new outsourcing partner following the issue of a tender for services, expected to weigh in at between 85m and 110m. The contract is expected to be awarded in April 2014, with the winning bidder ...
April 3, 2013 - Construction industry stakeholders from across Canada have formed a new national organization to help “keep a steady flow of highly skilled workers available to the growing industry”: BuildForce Canada. ...
When it comes to education, most people agree, more is better. No one embodies that principle at least in regard to IT certifications better than Jerry Irvine. CIO of IT consulting firm Prescient Solutions and member of the National Cyber ...
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THE chance to break new ground in a firm with 145,000 staff worldwide drew Englishman Chris Robinson to his role as Asia-Pacific chief information officer at KPMG. After taking up the CIO role at KPMG in Australia in May 2010, Robinson ...
Microsoft trumpeted Office 365 customer successes at its U.S. Public Sector CIO Summit on Tuesday, but some of those otherwise happy clients have a wish list of features and enhancements they'd like to see in the vendor's cloud email and ...
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Virtualization, cloud services and software-as-a-service (SaaS) is making it much easier to shift IT infrastructure operations to service providers, and that is exactly what many users are doing. This trend is being felt the most at ...
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Over the years, the Network World Middle East Awards event has become a starring fixture on the region’s technology calendar. As established as the ceremony is, though, no one could have predicted how much of a success last ...
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Intel says its rapidly expanding bring-your-own-device programme has been a resounding success that delivered about 5 million hours of productivity gains last year. In the company’s annual IT report released earlier this month, CIO ...
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IBM's decision to base its cloud services on OpenStack may prove to be a key to establishing the fledgling open-source platform as the enterprise standard. The announcement earlier this month follows similar moves by rival enterprise IT ...
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Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's belief that the women's revolution has "stalled" and that "men still run the world" may have merit, at least in IT. Women today are clearly rejecting IT as a career. In the early 1980s, women accounted for ...
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Intel says its rapidly expanding bring-your-own-device program has been a resounding success that delivered about 5 million hours of productivity gains last year. In the company's annual IT report released earlier this month, CIO Kim ...
IT leaders at Computing's Big Data Summit 2013 yesterday agreed that social media analysis could benefit them internally as well as externally, and could be the next step for them in order to get the most out of their big data tools. Tony ...
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The Canadian Building Trades says the federal government’s budget for 2013-2014—the Canada Jobs Grant, specifically—will allow an increase in the delivery of training and the capacity to access such training. “We ...
Companies are rebranding what they have offered for many years as "big data solutions", Financial Times CIO Christina Scott warned delegates at Computing's Big Data Summit today. Speaking at Computing's flagship event on the topic ...
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