Andy Mccue
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Outsourcing can triple desktop support costs
Insight Outsourcing IT can more than triple the cost of desktop PC support for businesses, according to a new study.
Tags: IT Management
Winners and losers--users' perceptions of tech's big names
News Cisco Systems has the most positive image among IT directors out of a list of 10 major global IT vendors --and Siebel has the least positive, a Silicon.com survey finds.
Tags: Vendor selection
Skills gap 'damaging' for U.K. businesses
News U.K. businesses continue to face difficulties recruiting qualified IT staff, with one in five companies experiencing problems finding applicants with the right skills.
Tags: Business plans, IT training, Human resources
Online auctions slash procurement costs
News Britain's Office of Government Commerce turns to reverse e-auctions to save 35 percent on laptops and PCs.
Tags: E-commerce, Government, Budgeting/cost control, Supplier, Auction, Procurement, public sector, London, online auction, Silicon.com
UK police raid chip and PIN hacking operation
News Fraud police have discovered that criminal gangs are hacking chip and PIN terminals to steal customer card transaction and PIN details.
Tags: Hacking, Network security, Security, Chip, Fraud, Card, Environment, payment, software, Silicon.com
BT to offer inter-company TelePresence
News The IT and communications giant will extend its TelePresence offering to allow customers to use the expensive videoconferencing technology outside their own organizations.
Tags: Next-generation technology/networks, Hewlett-Packard Co., British Telecommunications, Video Conferencing, Silicon.com, Cisco TelePresence, Andy McCue, U.S., barrier, banking
BA profits boosted by cuts in IT spend
Insight A company-wide cost-cutting programme has helped British Airways boost its end-of-year profits by a third, with cuts in IT spend playing a key part.
Tags: ROI/TCO
Spam deluge hits voters in India
News Indian voters are being spammed by email and text messages from rival political parties in the fiercely contested elections that began this week.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Politics
IT patient data to aid UK's 2011 census
Insight Data on health conditions and treatments made available by IT could render sections of the U.K.'s population census obsolete by 2011.
Tags: IT Management
U.K. police caught for sending 'grossly offensive' e-mail
News Police officers and staff at Merseyside Police have been caught sending "grossly offensive" racist, homophobic and pornographic images over the force's email system.
Gates was forced to rebuild Windows Vista
News Microsoft scrapped the first incarnation of Longhorn after a senior executive warned it was too complex to work properly.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Longhorn
Gartner: Linux 'five years away from mainstream use'
News Linux's biggest test will be whether it can demonstrate the necessary performance and security to function as a data centre server for mission-critical applications.
Tags: Open source
Sony makes job cuts official
News Sony made its 20,000 job cuts official on Tuesday. The cuts, which affect 13 percent of its workers worldwide, are part of a major three-year restructuring strategy.
Offshore outsourcing has not hit UK jobs, says report
News Report comes as Indian IT company creates 600 jobs in Northern Ireland.
Tags: IT outsourcing, Outsourcing
CIOs "bullish" on health of economy and IT spend
News But Forrester warns the disruption caused by Hurricane Katrina could have a negative impact by the fourth quarter.
Tags: IT budgeting, Analyst reports
