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Gov't stung by 'poor value' outsourcing deals
News A consultancy firm claims the cost of some public-sector outsourcing deals is ballooning up to 75 percent more than the going market rate [07 Apr 2008]
Shell accused of 'dumping' IT staff
News Trade union Unite says the oil giant is keeping staff in the dark over their future following its £4bn outsourcing deals [04 Apr 2008]
Local gov't CIOs to shape national IT policy
News Socitm has set up a UK-wide body that will meet three times a year to allow local-government issues to be put on the national CIO agenda [03 Apr 2008]
IT fault causes millions to pay incorrect tax
News HM Revenue & Customs has admitted that its Paye computer systems experienced difficulties coping with people who had more than one job [03 Apr 2008]
Network-performance issues eat up tech time
News IT professionals spend one month of the year determining the cause of network issues, and performance problems appear to be rising, according to research [02 Apr 2008]
Shell agrees $4bn IT outsourcing deal
News As part of the deal with AT&T, EDS and T-Systems to outsource the bulk of its technology infrastructure, the oil multinational willl transfer almost 3,000 IT staff [01 Apr 2008]
KPMG inks five-year outsourcing deal with BT
News The £62m deal will see BT provide an IP-based telephone system and other improvements aimed at delivering operating-cost savings to KPMG businesses [01 Apr 2008]
Banks tighten their IT-spending belts
News The economic slowdown is leading banking and insurance organisations to redraft their investment plans, with IT spending expected to fall [01 Apr 2008]
Why HP is different from IBM
Q&A When HP last year pushed IBM into second place in the supplier charts, some wondered where it could go from there. As head of a large chunk of the company, Ann Livermore should have some answers [31 Mar 2008]
Apacs head of IT steps down
News Sue Yeo has left the organisation after 17 years, following a management restructure at the payment industry body [31 Mar 2008]
Companies using 'counsellors' to manage IT suppliers
News An increasing number of businesses are employing 'vendor- management offices' to avoid contract problems with IT vendors [28 Mar 2008]
UK warned over migrant IT worker shortfall
News A report has warned that the hi-tech sector will need 19,000 additional skilled migrant workers by 2012, but that they will be increasingly hard to attract [26 Mar 2008]
Another judge rules for program patentability
News Arguing that 'it is simply inaccurate to label all programs within the computer as software', a High Court judge has ruled Symbian should be granted a patent for an indexing method [25 Mar 2008]
India's Wipro to create hundreds of UK tech jobs
News The Bangalore-based company will open a low-cost regional software development facility outside London and the south-east [25 Mar 2008]
Gartner: Don't blame IT for dirty data
News The analyst firm says businesses should take more responsibility for the quality of data instead of laying the blame at the IT department's door [20 Mar 2008]
IT chiefs need more incentive to go green
News Datacentre managers would be more inclined to improve efficiency if they had responsibility for the power costs, says analyst [20 Mar 2008]
SOA and RFID top CIOs' wishlists
News Service-oriented architecture is the number-one must-have technology for CIOs according to a survey carried out by IDC, with RFID and VoIP adoption close behind [19 Mar 2008]
Western economies warned of 'serious' skills crisis
News One of India's most influential IT leaders has claimed poor maths education is one of the main reasons for a shortage of science and engineering graduates in Western countries [19 Mar 2008]
Australian expo aims to entice UK techies
News The 'Australia Needs Skills' expo in London is looking to attract a growing list of IT specialists needed to address the country's skills shortage [18 Mar 2008]
Businesses urged to invest in staff training
News The government has set out its vision for turning the UK into an 'innovation nation', targeting the skills crisis and lack of training as barriers to success [18 Mar 2008]
Asian firms boost salaries to secure IT talent
News Firms in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong are hiking salaries and resorting to other staff-retention practices as they compete to attract skilled IT professionals [17 Mar 2008]
Security skills still most valuable to IT chiefs
News Research claims 73 percent of IT managers value security skills most, but 53 percent think mobile, wireless and RFID skills will be key in the future [14 Mar 2008]
Businesses embrace remote working
News Seventy percent of enterprises polled by Quocirca said at least a quarter of their staff work remotely at some point in the working week [14 Mar 2008]
IT recruiters claim over-reliance on foreign workers
News Recruitment body Atsco says more needs to be done to encourage UK students to consider careers in IT [13 Mar 2008]
IT vendors to profit from stricter green standards
News Tech vendors stand to make billions as companies increasingly need to measure their environmental impact, claims S2 Intelligence [13 Mar 2008]
