January 2015

• January 30, 2015 30 Jan'15

  Media industry operates on a shoestring IT budget, says BT

  The media industry struggles to invest in technology, because investors are concerned with making new television and film content  Continue Reading

• January 30, 2015 30 Jan'15

  Tech hotspots outside of London hunting for IT staff

  More than a quarter of IT roles advertised are outside of London, according to a recruitment report  Continue Reading

• January 30, 2015 30 Jan'15

  Only fall of global firm will shake up cyber security

  It will take a major global company going down in the wake of a cyber attack to really shake up information security, says police chief  Continue Reading

• January 30, 2015 30 Jan'15

  Google changes privacy policy in light of investigation

  Google has been forced to implement a change in its privacy policy after an investigation from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)  Continue Reading

• January 30, 2015 30 Jan'15

  Apple success shows the importance of making IT invisible

  It's been impossible to ignore the biggest technology headline of the week - especially as it became the biggest business headline in many places too. Apple declared the largest quarterly profit in ...  Continue Reading

• January 30, 2015 30 Jan'15

  Visa Europe says 2015 will be a defining year for digital payments

  Visa Europe will continue to spend hundreds of millions of euros to reduce the domination of cash payments in Europe  Continue Reading

• January 30, 2015 30 Jan'15

  How likely is your job to be taken over by a computer?

  Greater automation means the boundaries are moving and more jobs could be taken over by a computer  Continue Reading

• January 30, 2015 30 Jan'15

  Government network services tender deadline slips again

  Crown Commercial Service pushes back deadline for tender submissions to Network Services framework to give suppliers more time to prepare  Continue Reading

• January 30, 2015 30 Jan'15

  BT pledges ultrafast 500Mbps connections for all

  BT announces pilots of G.fast technology and promises universal ultrafast broadband within a decade  Continue Reading

• January 30, 2015 30 Jan'15

  Google sees 2014 revenues hit $66bn

  Google has seen its revenues for the fourth quarter of 2014 increase by 15% year-on-year.  Continue Reading

• January 30, 2015 30 Jan'15

  Allied Irish Bank outsources to Wipro

  Allied Irish Bank (AIB) has signed a five year IT outsourcing agreement with Wipro as it attempts to transform into a digital bank.  Continue Reading

• January 30, 2015 30 Jan'15

  Amazon to put cloud on the balance sheet

  Amazon will report on AWS in its financials from Q1 2015, as it continues to invest heavily in the cloud service  Continue Reading

• January 30, 2015 30 Jan'15

  IT sector outdoing rest of economy despite rise in IT supplier insolvencies

  Insolvencies among information and communication suppliers increase by a fifth as the economy continues to pull out of recession  Continue Reading

• January 30, 2015 30 Jan'15

  Full steam ahead for P&O Ferries e-commerce website

  P&O Ferries has seen a 20% increase in users of its new e-commerce website, which it launched in December 2014  Continue Reading

• January 30, 2015 30 Jan'15

  Scotland sees startup growth, but Wales lags behind

  Scotland’s technology sector has seen a large growth in startup companies since 2009  Continue Reading

• January 30, 2015 30 Jan'15

  Only 45% of IT pros get value from UK cyber security initiatives

  Despite the positive effect of UK government cyber security initiatives, more work needs to be done to get real value out of them  Continue Reading

• January 29, 2015 29 Jan'15

  Should everybody be on video?

  Video conferencing has many times been presented as THE solution for many business communications challenges, and yet beyond walnut veneer boardrooms and despite the wider usage of video in ...  Continue Reading

• January 29, 2015 29 Jan'15

  IT leaders want to hire chief data officers this year

  A study shows 61% of CIOs at large organisations want to recruit a chief data officer (CDO) in the next year with data volumes hindering progress  Continue Reading

• January 29, 2015 29 Jan'15

  CIOs admit they are concerned about Saas management

  The majority of organisations are running applications in the cloud, but IT managers are concerned they are losing control of the Saas budget  Continue Reading

• January 29, 2015 29 Jan'15

  Facebook's fourth-quarter profit soars on mobile advertising

  Facebook has reported fourth-quarter revenue of $3.8bn and net income of $701m, up 49% and 34% respectively compared with the same period a year ago  Continue Reading