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TCS creates 350 UK jobs
News The Indian outsourcer is to boost its 5,000-strong UK workforce with 350 jobs at two development centres in England and Scotland [30 Jun 2008]
Europe inks third of outsourcing deals in early 2008
News Everest Research claims European companies shrugged off the credit crunch to sign 36 percent of all outsourcing deals in the first quarter of this year [30 Jun 2008]
Gov't: Fujitsu missed 'key milestones' in NHS IT deal
News Health minister Ben Bradshaw claims the £896m NHS IT contract was cancelled over the company's inability to fulfil vital elements of its 'core contract' [27 Jun 2008]
BT buys two German IT companies
News The telecoms and IT services company has bought Stemmer and SND, which formed the enterprise IT services section of net AG [26 Jun 2008]
Flexible working still frowned upon, say IT pros
News Research claims half of IT workers believe the industry has not adapted to flexible working [26 Jun 2008]
UK tech students farm out coursework to India
News Academics at Birmingham City University have warned that IT students are hiring coders in India to complete their coursework for as little as £5 [26 Jun 2008]
Green IT strategies beyond the datacentre 
Video Forrester Research's Christopher Mines discusses telecommuting, videoconferencing and training strategies for making organisations' IT greener [24 Jun 2008]
Tech teams failing on quarter of in-house SLAs
News Forrester Consulting research claims IT teams are meeting service-level agreements with other business departments only 74 percent of the time [24 Jun 2008]
Gov't appoints tech tsar to cut IT costs
News The former CEO of Logica, Martin Read, is to help the government deliver large IT projects successfully and cut the £13bn annual costs involved [24 Jun 2008]
IT work is 'boring', say UK students
News Sixty-three percent of students believe an IT career would be 'boring', claims careers charity Crac, adding that the gender divide will worsen [23 Jun 2008]
UK CIOs trail France in boardroom promotions
News A survey has found France to have Europe's most CIO-friendly boardrooms, while Sweden languishes at the bottom of the boardroom-promotion heap [20 Jun 2008]
Credit crunch driving outsourcing demand
News The financial services sector is turning to outsoucing because of financial constraints and liquidity problems, according to a recent survey [19 Jun 2008]
Fujitsu to return £67m to NHS
News Following the collapse of the company's contract to help revamp NHS IT, Fujitsu has to pay back money it received from the NHS in advance payments [18 Jun 2008]
Microsoft loses interest in Yahoo
News Yahoo has confirmed talks between the two companies have broken down, with Microsoft indicating that it is no longer interested in buying Yahoo [13 Jun 2008]
Young IT managers value ethics over pay
News Research has found today's managers in the tech sector are loyal and prepared to work hard to develop their careers, with most saying they would not even quit their job if they won the lottery [12 Jun 2008]
Businesses shun outsourcing 'megadeals'
News Companies are moving away from large outsourcing contracts in favour of spreading smaller contracts between several suppliers, according to figures from analyst Gartner [12 Jun 2008]
Prisoners to train for career in IT
News The scheme launched at HMP Wandsworth will boost former inmates' chances of finding work in the tech sector, and may even help plug the UK's skills gap [12 Jun 2008]
Soaring IT salaries defy economic slump
News IT pay is rising faster than at any time in the past three years, according to a salary survey [11 Jun 2008]
IT costs snap up quarter of NHS budget
News The cost of upgrading the health service's IT systems now uses up a quarter of the NHS's budget for major projects [10 Jun 2008]
FTC plans formal investigation of Intel
News The US Federal Trade Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation that will explore the chipmaker's business practices [09 Jun 2008]
Google inks £75m lease for campus on Nasa land
News The deal, negotiated over the last year, builds on an agreement signed with Nasa in 2005 to collaborate on space and technology research [05 Jun 2008]
Orange to cut 450 jobs in customer-services drive
News The company will cut the jobs and some offshore Indian call-centre work in a bid to 'improve responsiveness' and 'remove duplication' [05 Jun 2008]
South Korea slaps Intel with £13m antitrust fine
News The country's antitrust regulator claims the chipmaker offered rebates to South Korean PC makers in return for not buying AMD chips [05 Jun 2008]
Lawsuits filed to block HP-EDS merger
News A US organisation and EDS shareholder have both filed lawsuits raising questions over the price of the proposed sale [04 Jun 2008]
BT launches major drive to cut CO2 emissions
News By 2016, the telecoms giant hopes to reduce its 1996 global CO2 emission levels by 80 percent [03 Jun 2008]
