Budgets and investment

Heathrow CIO: New IT strategy to improve passenger experience

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Airport investing in real-time data, new Terminal 2 centre, and virtual baggage systems
08 May 2012

Expert casts doubt on value of Facebook shares

Facebook home page
Facebook's float points to another dotcom bubble
04 May 2012

North Bristol NHS Trust busts EPR budget by £1.2m

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Trust has had to fork out for extra staff, hardware and technical resources
02 May 2012

Lincolnshire County Council to save £2.5m a year after joining PSN

Council is first partner to join East Midlands Public Service Network
01 May 2012

O2 offers financial backing for local authority IT projects

70 per cent of council IT departments believe budget cuts are a significant obstacle to adopting new technologies
27 Apr 2012

Gartner: Customer ‘experience’ now a top-10 CIO priority

Gartner advises organisations to revisit their CRM strategies
25 Apr 2012

Oracle barred from lucrative US Federal Government contracts

Computer giant thrown off federal government software and services procurement programme following over-charging dispute
23 Apr 2012

Bring your own device-related spending to top £2bn by 2016

Some 9.5 million employees in the UK will be using their own computing devices for work, according to a new report
19 Apr 2012

Analysis: Why the Big Apple's IT is rotten to the core

Failed IT projects... costly over-runs... budgets embarrassingly busted.It is not just projects in the UK's public sector that can often go horribly wrong
18 Apr 2012

Who wants sweaty assets?


18 Apr 2012

Emissions management case studies: RSA and Swiss Post

How technology is helping two major organisations to reduce their carbon footprint and energy bills
17 Apr 2012

Essential guide to carbon and energy management

Green IT was all about reducing the carbon footprint of the datacentre, but now companies are using software to help reduce emissions and energy consumption across the whole company
17 Apr 2012

G-Cloud director Chris Chant to retire at the end of the month

Quits before completing Cloudstore, and after penning a damning blog about the current state of government IT
17 Apr 2012

UK tech firms reluctant to invest in emerging markets

'Familiar' G7 markets remain attractive to UK business, according to a new report from financial advisory firm Grant Thornton
17 Apr 2012

University of the West England deploys Microsoft Lync to boost productivity

Unified communications form part of £10m IT overhaul
09 Apr 2012

Opinion: It should be standard to require standards

Given the hassle proprietary document formats cause, it’s a mystery why so many users still use them
02 Apr 2012

Broadband Britain: government must put its money where its mouth is


02 Apr 2012

Cabinet Office: government IT contracts capped at £100m

But certain projects are exempt
02 Apr 2012

Lack of IT investment puts supply chains under strain

The parlous state of the EU’s economy has led many businesses to cut back on supply chain investment. But are such cost-saving measures are storing up trouble for the future?
02 Apr 2012

US firm's new tech hub to create 50 'high value' jobs in Northern Ireland

Jobs to pay more than double the private sector average, says minister
29 Mar 2012

Budget 2012: Reaction from the IT industry

Will the UK be 'Europe's technology centre'?
21 Mar 2012

EDF Energy selects Atos for £100m datacentre services deal

10-year contract to improve resilience and flexibility of IT infrastructure
21 Mar 2012

Monstrous waste of money


21 Mar 2012

Study: 70 per cent of CIOs say they need more support from the board

BCS survey suggests IT leaders lack tools and boardroom influence to meet the challenges they face
16 Mar 2012