Financial Markets

Netbooks May Have Harmed Acer’s Revenues

Acer has pulled back its 2009 netbook shipments forecasts by several million, after reporting a disappointing first quarter

15 years ago

How To Run An Efficient Data Centre

The technology to make data centres more efficient is well-proven - but it's only implemented on a minority of data…

15 years ago

IBM Takes Brocade Equipment To Fight Off Cisco

IBM will sell Brocade's Ethernet switches under its own brand - in response to Cisco's move to sell servers

15 years ago

Motorola May Spin-Off Handset Unit

Motorola originally announced the plan more than a year ago, but the slumping economy forced it to shelve the idea

15 years ago

Job Cuts – The Biggest Security Risk Of All?

The recession is creating an army of disaffected ex-employees - many of whom will still have access to their former…

15 years ago

Sun, Do You Have A Plan B?

As its deal with IBM evaporates, Sun needs a backup plan. Chris Preimesberger thinks there might be another deal on…

15 years ago

Rackable Plucks SGI From Chapter 11

Rackable's announcement came the same day that SGI filed for bankruptcy protection for the second time in three years

15 years ago

Google Plans Venture Capital Fund Despite Downturn

Google is setting up Google Ventures, a venture capital fund with the capacity to invest in emerging areas such as…

15 years ago

Gartner: IT Spending Down Nearly 4 Percent in ’09

Gartner has released a new report that shows the overall gloomy global economy is forcing enterprises to cut back on…

15 years ago

Legal & General Adopts Sustainable Printing Plan

The UK financial services company has cut its printers, faxes and other output devices from 150 to 50

15 years ago

Worldwide Enterprise Software Sales Flat In ’09

Software revenue will be virtually flat in 2009, rising only 0.3 percent from 2008, according to research firm Gartner.

15 years ago

£30m IT Project Helped Drag Dunfermline Down

Questions are being asked about the degree to which a costly IT project contributed to the decision to effectively nationalise…

15 years ago

IT Efficiency Key For UK Financial Services

Banks need to get more for their money, as their IT budgets could remain flat for up to three years

15 years ago

UK Online Fraud Up 132 Percent

A new police e-crime unit will help combat the threat, according to payments industry body

15 years ago

Oracle Bullish Despite Downturn

Oracle announced that its third-quarter fiscal 2009 earnings per share were up 3 percent over the same quarter last year

15 years ago

FT Announces Business Search Engine

Newssift.com, could make it easier for enterprise and business users to hunt down specific business news

15 years ago

New Technologies vs Business Security

Social Networking and Cloud Computing are proving a headache for organisations.

15 years ago

Small Companies Focus on Printing Costs

An AMI report says midmarket companies are finding cost-cutting measures directed at printing and office supply costs to be the…

15 years ago

SAP And Oracle Target Supply Chain Costs

SAP has launched an application designed to automate regulatory compliance across the supply chain

15 years ago

Dell Cuts Costs And Staff

The PC maker has announced that it will begin cutting staff from locations around the world.

15 years ago

Oracle May Acquire Virtual Iron

Oracle may be close to acquiring server virtualisation specialist Virtual Iron Software.

15 years ago

EDS wins £700m UK Data Centre Efficiency Deal

Insurance company Aviva will make use of the services company's data centre expertise

15 years ago

UK Faces Data Management Timebomb

Too many financial services organisations think data management is the IT department's problem, according to new research

15 years ago

UK Start-up Offers Oracle Carbon Metrics

Zogix helps companies extract green data from existing applications

15 years ago

Mini-Notebooks Power 2008 PC Growth

Figures just released for PC shipments in Q4 2008 reveal the big inroads made by mini-notebooks into the Western European…

15 years ago

UK Companies Streamline 2009 IT Expenditure

The first results of an annual IDC survey reveal that UK enterprises are approaching 2009 IT budgets with caution and…

15 years ago

11 Best Practices to Save on Data Centre Power

Data centre managers could save millions of kilowatt hours annually by implementing 11 best practices, says analyst company Gartner. Most…

15 years ago