Home shopping group Littlewoods has awarded Cable & Wireless a five-year contract worth more than £20m to provide a new network for its growing business.
The government is to press ahead with its plans for ID cards at a cost of £5.4bn over 10 years but there are still major doubts over the feasibility of the project.
Whitbread Group has signed a renegotiated £26m, five-and-a-half-year extension to an existing contract with service company CSC to provide India-based applications support.
The Confederation of British Industry has called on the government to remodel its Technology Strategy Board to push for development and public sector adoption of new technologies.