February 2011

• February 03, 2011 03 Feb'11

  Intel chipset embarrassment could ease UK inventory glut

  Delays to PC launch dates caused by Intel's flawed Sandy Bridge chipset could help ease the massive build-up of inventory in the UK channel, according to IDC.  Continue Reading

• February 03, 2011 03 Feb'11

  BT makes progress but revenues dip again

  BT has posted a slight dip in revenues for the second quarter in succession as its Global Services and Retail operations saw turnover drop.  Continue Reading

• February 03, 2011 03 Feb'11

  Virgin Media Business sets sights on data centres

  Virgin Media Business is extending its network into data centres to widen its potential market and is looking to the channel to help it carve out a stake in the emerging cloud infrastructure space.  Continue Reading

• February 03, 2011 03 Feb'11

  Speak&Go - the mobile navigator that talks you through London's travel chaos

  It's dreadful I know, but the column still gets lost in London and it's lived here forever. You'll wander round Shore ditch for days, rather than bite the bullet and get out the A to Z, for fear of being identified as a tourist or, worse, a south ...  Continue Reading

• February 03, 2011 03 Feb'11

  Don't ignore the taxman

  It might seem obvious, but whenever HMRC write to you either personally or as a business, you'd be best advised to never ignore them. The case of Legg v HMRC illustrates the point wonderfully, if not comically.  Continue Reading

• February 02, 2011 02 Feb'11

  Apple makes SCC first SI partner in the UK

  SCC has scooped the first Apple Authorised Systems Integrator (SI) accreditation in the UK to spearhead sales of iPads and Macs to corporate customers.  Continue Reading

• February 02, 2011 02 Feb'11

  Insight hires former HP exec to head up services push

  Insight has named former HP Vistorm exec Steve Browell as director of services to renew its efforts in the market ahead of launching tools to migrate and manage customers in their transition to the cloud.  Continue Reading

• February 02, 2011 02 Feb'11

  New UK CEO for Alcatel-Lucent

  Alcatel-Lucent has appointed former BT managing director of group and Open reach service operations Lucy Dimes as its new UK and Ireland CEO, replacing Lakh Jemmett, who is to take up the post of EMEA vice president of transformation in April.  Continue Reading

• February 02, 2011 02 Feb'11

  BlackBerry user? Single? Love could be looking for you...

  February has well and truly begun, the days are lengthening and soon there will be a whiff of spring in the air... But first we have to make it through Valentine's Day.  Continue Reading

• February 02, 2011 02 Feb'11

  Obama listens and Maude calls for cuts. Notice a difference?

  Here is an exercise in compare and contrast that shows the differences in approach between two nations both trying to do the best for their economies and their people.  Continue Reading

• February 02, 2011 02 Feb'11

  Arrow points to improving economic climate

  Arrow has cast off the shackles of the recession after posting double digit rises in sales and profits for the fourth quarter.  Continue Reading

• February 02, 2011 02 Feb'11

  EMC confirms Giddins as EMEA distie manager

  Industry veteran Amanda Giddins has pitched up at EMC as EMEA distribution manager, months after leaving Brocade.  Continue Reading

• February 02, 2011 02 Feb'11

  Software vendors encouraged to modernise

  Software vendors are going to have to get better at standing out from the crowd and with showing greater flexibility with their channel partners if they are to take advantage of changes happening in the market over the next few years.  Continue Reading

• February 02, 2011 02 Feb'11

  Websense Triton products start to deliver on investment

  Investments in upgrading its web and email protection appear to have paid off for Websense with the vendor reporting a solid set of numbers for its last fiscal year.  Continue Reading

• February 02, 2011 02 Feb'11

  BT goes beyond Infinity

  As everyone kind of suspected they might, BT has caved to the complaints of those that lost out, and will be rolling out superfast broadband to four other towns across the UK in addition to the six previously announced.  Continue Reading

• February 02, 2011 02 Feb'11

  Intel's Sandy Bridge in troubled waters

  Intel's problems with its latest processor - a load have been shipped with faulty chipsets - are hardly surprising. Calling something "Sandy Bridge" is asking for trouble.  Continue Reading

• February 02, 2011 02 Feb'11

  Juniper adds new EMEA partner head

  Juniper Networks has named its vice president of Strategic Alliances, David Helfer, to the post of EMEA partner vice president.  Continue Reading

• February 02, 2011 02 Feb'11

  Gridsure could save us all from the expensive tyranny of passwords

  Who can remember their passwords? Nobody. And yet IT security managers always insist on giving us a random, pattern less string of alpha numeric to commit to memory. One for each of the hundreds of systems we're forced to log into every day.  Continue Reading

• February 02, 2011 02 Feb'11

  Sick employees can get new rights under new interpretation of the law

  Under English law, employees who want to have a meeting with their employer, particularly when discipline or a grievance is involved, have the right to be accompanied by a colleague or trade union representative. But what should an employer do if ...  Continue Reading

• February 01, 2011 01 Feb'11

  Tablets save Q4 for flagging UK PC market

  Tablets replaced netbooks at the beating heart of the UK PC market in the fourth quarter as growth returned despite the best efforts of the weather and dipping consumer confidence.  Continue Reading