Financial Markets

Government Partners With Bailed-out Banks To Help IT Firms

After helping to support struggling banks, the government has announced that is partnering with some of the same institutions to…

15 years ago

No “Green Shoots” Yet For IT Spending

But the the decline in IT budgets may have bottomed out according to analysts

15 years ago

US Bank Allows Cheques To Be Uploaded By iPhone

USAA, a private bank and insurer in the US, is updating its Apple iPhone app so account holders can simply…

15 years ago

Cisco Reports 17 Percent Drop In Profits

Cisco Systems reports its profits fell by almost half in the fiscal fourth quarter and sales dropped by more than…

15 years ago

Semiconductor Sales Bring Market Optimism

After upbeat financial results from Intel and better forecasts in the handset and PC industries, global semiconductor sales increased in…

15 years ago

Ingres Promises to Bring Moore’s Law To Data Analysis

Vectorising the database unlocks ten-fold improvement for the open source database vendor Ingres

15 years ago

IBM’s SPSS Buy Threatens Oracle, SAP And SAS

Buying its data mining partner, IBM issues a challenge to its rivals Oracle, SAP and SAS to up their game

15 years ago

Green Grid Gurus Show The Way At Online Summit

Got questions on how to get more from your data centre? This online event promises access to the experts without…

15 years ago

IBM Touts CICS Relevance 40 Years On

It's as old as the moon landings, but IBM's real-time transaction system, CICS, is still in use on the majority…

15 years ago

Tory MP Davis Slates Plans To Put NHS Data On Google

Google's poor privacy record makes it the last place to put private data, says Tory shadow home secretary  turned civil…

15 years ago

IT CEO On £650K Bemoans State Of UK Tech Industry

Micro Focus chief Stephen Kelly has called for tax incentives to help the IT industry despite his company claiming "20…

15 years ago

AMD Posts Loss But Up On Year Ago

AMD posts another quarterly financial loss, but the results show some improvement over AMD's performance from a year ago

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Microsoft Looks To Windows 7 For Earnings Boost

Microsoft's earnings are forecast to meet or exceed analyst predictions, but to be lower than the numbers it posted a…

15 years ago

Twitter’s Google Docs Hack – A Warning For Cloud App Users

Twitter lost its data through a hack on Google Docs. Learn from this to be very careful how much trust…

15 years ago

Anti-regulation Lord Appointed To Regulator Ofcom

Lord Blackwell who criticised the government for getting in the way of free enterprise before the dot com crash has…

15 years ago

UK Sustainability Priorities Dominated By ‘Quick Wins’ Mindset

Companies are grasping easy options for greening up, because of poor quality data, according to an Oracle performance management study

15 years ago

Google Sees 19 Percent Growth Despite Downturn

Google enjoys a small rebound in the second quarter, posting a profit of $1.48 billion (£907m) on $4.66 per share,…

15 years ago

Rogue Trader Talks Financial Crisis at IT Security Event

Who better to speak on the importance of data management and security than Nick Leeson say organisers of RSA Conference…

15 years ago

Strong Intel Results Point To Economic Stability

Intel's strong second quarter fuels hope that the global recession that has hammered the IT industry may be easing

15 years ago

At Last Google Apps Drops The Beta Label

You can't have it both ways, says Jim Rapoza. If Google expects users to pay for a service, then it…

15 years ago

SaaS Users Not Impressed, Survey Finds

Gartner is calling on SaaS vendors to “reaffirm fundamentals,” after survey reveals finds their products don't satisfy users

15 years ago

Gartner Cuts Global IT Spending Forecast

The analyst firm now says IT spending will drop by $200 billion this year, with unprecedented impact on all four…

15 years ago

Ingres: We’re Gaining From The MySQL Meltdown

Customers are turning from MySQL to Ingres in the face of Oracle, says Ingres CEO Roger Burkhardt. And he's not…

15 years ago

UK SMEs Rely On Poor Data

Ninety-eight percent of UK mid-market companies are struggling with data quality, according to IBM research

15 years ago

iPhone, Android, Pre: Are The New Smartphones Business-Ready?

New smartphones have impressed consumers, but the iPhone, Android and Palm Pre still lack business features

15 years ago

Researcher Discovers Theft Of 88,000 FTP Credentials

A Trojan which stole 88,000 FTP credentials may have been in action for more than two years, say researchers

15 years ago

Adobe Shuts Up Shop For Cost-Saving Week

Adobe Systems has shuttered its North American operations for the week of 29 June in a cost cutting manoeuvre, according…

15 years ago

IBM Discovers Scheme To Manipulate Encrypted Data

A Researcher at IBM has found an encryption method that lets you operate on data without decrypting it: good news…

15 years ago

Tesco Expected To Disrupt UK Banking With Outsourced Model

Tesco and others are using outsourcing and new IT to break further into the UK banking sector

15 years ago

RIAA Witness Surprised By File-Sharing Fine

The RIAA has been prosecuting an aggressive campaign against illegal music downloaders, even as P2P networks show little sign of…

15 years ago