While hardware and components makers face economic hurdles, the picture for software is getting brighter, according to earnings reports from major vendors and mid-year market research polls. Vendors and analysts lay much of the blame for ...
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IT managers in businesses and governments are taking steps to ensure that the Summer Olympics do not bust networks or budgets. The opportunity for problems is there. The Olympics will be live streamed, and London's time difference means ...
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As business opportunities in China have become increasingly relevant to today's global economy, the 7th China Software & Sourcing Summit offers participants a prime opportunity for access and insight into the dynamic workings of the Chinese ...
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Financial services firm Old Mutual has been able to improve the service it gets from its IT suppliers, increase IT effectiveness and at the same time lower costs through the creation of an outsourcing strategy that is mutually beneficial to ...
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The G-Cloud looks set to become the future model for the way government buys its IT – with a new framework in the pipeline that will include secure email services for the NHS – and calls for it to become a blueprint for all new ...
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IT departments must be prepared to renegotiate IT support and invest in mobile device management (MDM) to support staff using their own devices at work. A survey of 3,796 consumers across 17 different countries by analyst Ovum has found ...
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) CIO Philip Langsdale is overseeing a major overhaul of the department's flagship Universal Credit programme, according to senior Whitehall sources. The Universal Credit programme, which aims to ...
Does banking have the allure of a new Apple product? Barclays Bank thinks it does. Barclays is attempting to redefine banking as it tries to mimic the success of companies like Apple, Amazon and Google. PingIt, the bank's real-time ...
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Electronics firm Philips has called on skills specialist The Open Group to reorganise its IT workforce. The move enables Philips to identify the skills already available within its company and to create a clear career development path ...
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Computer Weekly is this week launching its inaugural programme to recognise the most influential women in UK IT. The initiative builds on our successful UKtech50 awards to highlight the most influential people in the UK tech scene – ...
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And now, the end is near. On 23 November 2012, Gerry Pennell will leave the job of a lifetime. Four years after signing up as CIO for the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, his IT team has won every technology gold medal going after ...
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Whitehall must measure the progress of its IT strategy more effectively, particularly the use of agile methodologies,if it is to achieve its technology transformation agenda, the Institute for Government has warned. In its report, System ...
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When Andy Haywood says he is extremely busy, it is probably not an exaggeration. Eight months after joining the Co-operative Business Group (CBG) as group chief information officer (CIO), he is leading a full-scale IT transformation ...
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YouView, the broadband digital TV box service that launched two years later than planned in July this year, has lost a High Court appeal to keep using its name. Following a legal dispute that began in 2010 between the company and billing ...
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CIOs across Europe are predicting their IT budgets will increase by an average of 2% in 2013, despite the downturn. But investment on capital projects will slow, as operational spending assumes higher proportion of the IT budget, research ...
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