Updated: Tom Watson has announced how smart use of IT has enabled the government to save £26.5bn across government whilst also defending his own spending
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Updated: Tom Watson has announced how smart use of IT has enabled the government to save £26.5bn across government whilst also defending his own spending
BT's poor results and shock redundancy plan have come about because of problems in its Global Services division, says Bathwick Group's Katy Ring. But there could be hope
BT and Marks & Spencer and other users are looking to IT for solutions, according to a conference on the commercial risks of climate change
If you are using Citrix XenApp to distribute applications to Windows machines, you should look at Citrix Receiver for iPhone as a possible way to get them to mobile users
SAP announces its planned acquisition of Clear Standards, which designs applications for measuring greenhouse gas emissions
Yahoo continues to wrestle with the global recession and strong competition from rivals Google and Microsoft
In March 2009, the site had a reported 9.3 million users, boosting its popularity immensely both among the general public and within the enterprise
Larry Ellison has committed Oracle to investing more in Sun's SPARC, apparently because he think servers are like iPhones. That's just silly, says Peter Judge
The move to greener IT is unstoppable - even in a recession. But IT departments have a tough job getting their message with the other 90 percent of the company, says Forrester's Chris Mines.
Product sales decreased by 22 percent, while service maintenance sales climbed by 9.4 percent, Cisco says.
But court insists on a higher price for a Silicon Valley pioneer
Acer has pulled back its 2009 netbook shipments forecasts by several million, after reporting a disappointing first quarter
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IBM will sell Brocade's Ethernet switches under its own brand - in response to Cisco's move to sell servers
The recession has dampened end users' enthusiasm for "green" IT outsourcing contracts
Motorola originally announced the plan more than a year ago, but the slumping economy forced it to shelve the idea
The recession is creating an army of disaffected ex-employees - many of whom will still have access to their former company's IT systems, warns Matt Hines
As its deal with IBM evaporates, Sun needs a backup plan. Chris Preimesberger thinks there might be another deal on the table - from HP and Oracle, or maybe from Cisco
Rackable's announcement came the same day that SGI filed for bankruptcy protection for the second time in three years
Google is setting up Google Ventures, a venture capital fund with the capacity to invest in emerging areas such as clean-tech, bio-tech, health care, and Green IT
Gartner has released a new report that shows the overall gloomy global economy is forcing enterprises to cut back on nearly all of their IT spending in 2009
The UK financial services company has cut its printers, faxes and other output devices from 150 to 50
Software revenue will be virtually flat in 2009, rising only 0.3 percent from 2008, according to research firm Gartner.
Questions are being asked about the degree to which a costly IT project contributed to the decision to effectively nationalise and then sell Scotland's largest building society
Banks need to get more for their money, as their IT budgets could remain flat for up to three years
A new police e-crime unit will help combat the threat, according to payments industry body
Oracle announced that its third-quarter fiscal 2009 earnings per share were up 3 percent over the same quarter last year
Newssift.com, could make it easier for enterprise and business users to hunt down specific business news
Social Networking and Cloud Computing are proving a headache for organisations.
An AMI report says midmarket companies are finding cost-cutting measures directed at printing and office supply costs to be the most advantageous