Many organisations have yet to begin using systematic data analysis techniques in HR, marketing and social, according to analyst house Gartner. read more »
Michael Dell’s move to take private the company he founded has received cautious thumbs up from industry analysts. read more »
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Chancellor George Osborne has delivered major breaks to technology businesses in today’s Autumn Statement. read more »
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UK-based organisations put up a strong showing in the SAP Quality awards that were presented yesterday at the Sapphire and TechEd conference in Madrid. read more »
Greater Manchester Police have been hit with a £120,000 penalty from the Information Commissioners Office for the loss of sensitive information on more than 1,000 people. read more »
Accenture has signed a three year deal to help West Yorkshire based health IT specialist TPP to implement a full hospital system for the Airedale NHS Trust that will connect clinicians with 1.1 million patient records. read more »
BT has appointed Luis Alvarez as CEO of its Global Services division. Alvarez, a 12-year veteran, was most recently president of BT Global Services Europe, Middle East, Africa and Latin America. read more »
CSC is to receive £68 million from the government under a deal which ends a £2.9 billion pound contract to provide care records systems to the National Health Service. read more »
IBM has lost one of the most senior figures in British IT services and outsourcing, with the departure of Sean Finnan, the former head of IBM Technical Services in the UK. read more »
Two teenage members of the LulzSec hacking group have pleaded guilty to charges that they attacked Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) website. read more »
NatWest and RBS appeared to be overcoming a major meltdown of its online banking system this afternoon, with cash reportedly flowing back into customer accounts. read more »
Aligning IT with the business has been dubbed “the biggest fraud in the industryâ€�, at the Forrester IT forum in Paris today. read more »
Apple and Google will dominate the emerging digital economy while Facebook ‘is toast,’ claimed George Colony, CEO of Forrester, in the opening key note of the analyst group’s European forum in Paris. read more »
Microsoft has made an ambitious pledge to be carbon neutral from 1 July, the start of its 2012 financial year. read more »
The Ministry of Defence’ decision to award preferred bidder status in a £100 million a year payroll outsourcing contract to CSC was made on the basis of cost alone and the company may not be able to meet its obligations under the contract, according to the PCS union. read more »
The government has held out a lifeline to embattled supplier CSC over its disastrous effort to provide systems for the National Programme for IT in the NHS (NPfIT). read more »
Green datacentre start up Verne Global has launched its 100 percent dual-sourced, renewable energy-powered data centre in Keflavik, Iceland - with initial customers including managed service providers, a major games company and a green cloud provider. read more »