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Microsoft licensing primary concern for hosting providers

Many SMEs move to hosted services because of complex Microsoft software licensing 21 Jan 2010

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Global IT industry to return to growth in 2010

Worldwide IT spending will reach $3.4tn in 2010, a 4.6 per cent increase on 2009, says Gartner 21 Jan 2010

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CSC expands support centre

Chorley centre provides support for utility firms that have implemented SAP enterprise solutions 19 Jan 2010

Steria reaches new pension agreement as Fujitsu strike begins

New Steria pension deal will broadly reflect terms of previous arrangement 18 Dec 2009

Business ability to manage service providers improves

And UK organisations are more willing to work with smaller outsourcers, says study 14 Dec 2009

Star Trek universal translation device still far in the future

Nuance Communications's Turner tells Computing about the pros and cons of speech recognition for enterprises 10 Dec 2009

Wales gets £44m supercomputing institute

Universities of Cardiff and Swansea to deliver HPC Wales 09 Dec 2009

IT industry has a lot to look forward to, says Timms

IT is edging centre-stage in economic up-turn plans 09 Dec 2009

UK's IT leaders must strut the world stage

Digital Britain minister Stephen Timms tells Angelica Mari about the growing reliance of UK IT on offshore relationships 09 Dec 2009

BT goes global with cloud-hosted service

BT to rollout to the US, mainland Europe and Asia in next 18 months 09 Dec 2009

Novell moves to allay cloud and virtualisation fears

Technology roadmap of five middleware products to tackle security and performance issues 08 Dec 2009

Bank of England serves contract notice for secure web services

Bank's intranet and extranet services worth up to £1.1m 07 Dec 2009

HP faces first-ever UK strike on Monday

Unite members join Public and Commercial Services Union staff in protest over pay and benefit cuts 04 Dec 2009

APSCo says that companies are bypassing UK IT workers

Foreign IT firms are bringing staff into the UK using intra-company transfers, prompting speculation that they are paying below the market rate 03 Dec 2009

BP outsources global communications set-up

Contract expected to reduce complexity and cost 03 Dec 2009

Engineering firm welds email to the cloud

Hosted service reduces downtime and eases support problems experienced with previous on-premise messaging systems 03 Dec 2009

LSE hitches wagon to offshoring's rising star

London Stock Exchange CIO David Lester talks to Angelica Mari about the organisation’s recently purchased Sri Lankan services provider MillenniumIT and discusses the impact the move will have on operations and staff in the UK 03 Dec 2009

SMEs should audit before outsourcing, says report

Many SMEs are exposing themselves to unnecessary risk through lack of in-house IT skills, says report 30 Nov 2009

Number of new offshore IT facilities plummets

Top 50 IT services providers open 16 fewer sites in 2009 than in 2008 27 Nov 2009

Endsleigh takes active route to avoid disaster

Endsleigh insures against disaster with managed network services from ntl:Telewest Business 27 Nov 2009

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EU says Oracle can buy Sun

The EC explains why the move will not limit competition within the EEA 21 Jan 2010

Unite announces more Fujitsu strikes

Company’s attempt to ban strike "backfired", says union 21 Jan 2010

Microsoft and HP tie up: What are their motives?

Analysts say Microsoft's plans are clear, but HP's strategy is not 20 Jan 2010

Green Touch issues call to arms to eco-warriers

Green Touch – a scheme that aims to increase IT’s energy efficiency a thousandfold – shows how the industry can work together for the good of all 20 Jan 2010

Hacks of war

The spat between Google and the Chinese government highlights how international conflicts are increasingly being played out in cyberspace 20 Jan 2010

Reviews

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Review: Asus UL50vs notebook

A decent 15.6in screen notebook with CPU overclocking, but grainy display and high price tag could put off some buyers 12 Jan 2010

Review: Motorola Milestone smartphone

The first mobile phone to use Android 2.0 08 Jan 2010

Review: BlackBerry Storm2

RIM’s latest touch-screen smartphone put through its paces 21 Dec 2009

Review: VMware Workstation 7

Already the market leader, Workstation 7 is an even harder act to beat 04 Jan 2010

Review: BlackBerry Bold 9700

A smaller, lighter upgrade to the original Bold 21 Dec 2009

In-depth

Dave BaileyComment

Nexus One, satisfaction nil?

The search giant’s attempt to take a bite out of Apple with its phone offering has been met with a vortex of user and developer complaints 22 Jan 2010

First impressions of Office 2010 Professional Beta

IT manager Jason Slater has been giving Microsoft’s new productivity suite a spin, and so far he likes what he sees 22 Jan 2010

Q&A: Severn Trent Water CIO Myron Hrycyk

Watered down IT budget drives new technology initiatives, says utility company chief 21 Jan 2010

A commitment to green IT will pay off

The Carbon Reduction Commitment provides a strong incentive to invest in more energy efficient systems 22 Jan 2010

Hot Seat: James Barrett

James Barrett is a senior software engineer at Thales Services, a division of the UK’s second-largest defence electronics supplier 22 Jan 2010

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