More than half of new technology spending will be outside IT's traditional back-office domain and may well be outside the company, according to Gartner.
Inadequate time for testing has delayed the launch of a prestigious £90m cross-industry electricity trading system.
British Airways and ICL have scrapped a multi-million pound contract to deliver a crew scheduling system already delayed by two years.
Reporting network managers for using software illegally could earn users the princely sum of £10,000.
Hewlett Packard chief executive Carly Fiorina has questioned the openness of the industry consortium that is developing the Universal Description Discover and Integration framework.
The number of people accessing the internet is levelling out in the US, according to a recent report by PricewaterhouseCoopers.
ICL is planning job cuts after its losses trebled, with acting chief executive Richard Christou admitting that it would not survive without parent company Fujitsu.
Companies trading through electronic marketplaces are surfing their way through a legal minefield, according to an analyst's report.
Cybercrime accounted for half of all fraud committed in the UK in the first six months of this year, according to a legal expert.
After five months of redesigning and planning, fashion e-tailer Boo.com, which sank without trace earlier this year, has been relaunched.