Business managers are preventing IT directors from implementing a cohesive IT strategy, by putting them under excessive pressure, a survey for Hewlett-Packard has found.
Baroness Shriti Vadera has been named as the new UK broadband minister after Stephen Timms moved on to the Department for Work and Pensions following a cabinet reshuffle.
Globalisation - oft maligned and ill understood - is creating a new and evolving international division of labour. Western governments and companies are beginning to adapt to this, and to develop strategies that are in long-term alignment with it.