September 2011

• September 30, 2011 30 Sep'11

  KCOM stays on track avoiding low margin business

  KCOM's decision to pull away from low margin business continues to show signs of delivering better financial results for the firm as it looks for more high-end contracts to keep the profits flowing.  Continue Reading

• September 30, 2011 30 Sep'11

  IT insolvencies increase but things could be worse

  There's an interesting quirk in the latest monthly insolvency figures from Experian. While the number of insolvencies in August as a whole were the lowest since February, the figure for the IT sector was 9% higher than in August 2010.  Continue Reading

• September 30, 2011 30 Sep'11

  Ingram Micro takes practical approach to the cloud

  Selling the cloud is something that the channel knows it needs to start thinking about but getting from a situation where it is just an idea to a solid business plan requires a fair bit of work.  Continue Reading

• September 30, 2011 30 Sep'11

  Micro-P signed by Huawei to support enterprise ambitions

  Just weeks after it announced plans to establish distribution relationships in the UK the Chinese comms and networking vendor Huawei has taken the wraps off its first data channel appointment.  Continue Reading

• September 30, 2011 30 Sep'11

  Apotheker walks away with millions after HP CEO change

  Those in the channel worried that Leo Apotheker, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, was going to be short of a bob or two following his decision to step down last week might well revise their opinion in light of his severance package.  Continue Reading

• September 30, 2011 30 Sep'11

  IT insolvencies rise as financial strength weakens

  The number of IT firms hitting the wall has risen slightly despite things improving in other areas of the economy with large enterprises holding firm in the face of ongoing uncertainty.  Continue Reading

• September 30, 2011 30 Sep'11

  MicroScope's top stories, week ending 30 September 2011

  Apple cuts iPad 2 component orders in run-up to Christmas Apple has cut component orders for the iPad 2 by up to 25%, fuelling speculation that the vendor is reacting to growing economic pessimism in the European theatre.  Continue Reading

• September 30, 2011 30 Sep'11

  Reasonable adjustments must aid employee

  Businesses with employees on sick leave or who need some form of rehabilitation to come back to work ought to take note of the case of Salford NHS Primary Care Trust v Smith.  Continue Reading

• September 29, 2011 29 Sep'11

  Yah boo sucks, that's enough Oracle and Autonomy!

  I love a good spat as much as the next person but am I alone in thinking there is something incredibly childish in the current very public row between Oracle and Autonomy?  Continue Reading

• September 29, 2011 29 Sep'11

  A sad day for fans of Citizen Jingoism; Sun online forum to shut

  Fans of low-brow debates like myself will be mortified. The Sun's online Forum is to close on Friday 30 September. I'm mortified. All I've got left now is the Nick Ferrari phone in on LBC. The closure of MySun raises a few questions though.  Continue Reading

• September 29, 2011 29 Sep'11

  Have rumours of Nokia's death been greatly exaggerated?

  As you will probably know by now, Nokia today announced that it will close a factory in Romania and lay off over 2,000 employees, with another 1,000 jobs expected to go elsewhere in the business as a result of changes to its Location & Commerce ...  Continue Reading

• September 29, 2011 29 Sep'11

  Blackberry faces fight to hold onto enterprise dominance

  The main beneficiary of the bring your own device movement is set to be Apple with the vendor mounting a serious challenge to the Blackberry dominance in the enterprise space.  Continue Reading

• September 29, 2011 29 Sep'11

  O-bit flowers in Daisy's garden

  O-bit Telecom, acquired by Daisy Group last February, will launch new channel services next week as it presents a fresh face to the market and reveals it has not, as at first expected, been wholly absorbed by its new owners.  Continue Reading

• September 29, 2011 29 Sep'11

  Westcoast looks to spread apprentice sign-ups through channel

  Westcoast is encouraging resellers to take an apprentice to help Britain improve its skills base and to grow the business through the current difficult trading conditions.  Continue Reading

• September 29, 2011 29 Sep'11

  Unused TV spectrum gives new hope to rural 'notspots'

  Personally, I'm obsessed with the continuing story of white space, the invention that uses unused parts of the TV spectrum to create a new form of Wi-Fi, reports Nick Booth. The upshot is that large parts of Britain - unreachable parts of the ...  Continue Reading

• September 29, 2011 29 Sep'11

  RM swings the axe as public sector spending cuts bite

  Education specialist RM is to trim its staffing numbers by a fifth as a result of the impact of public spending cuts on its business concluding a strategic review which has been running over the past few months.  Continue Reading

• September 29, 2011 29 Sep'11

  Oracle locks horns with Autonomy over sale claims

  His views on HP already being well known, Larry Ellison has now turned his fire on Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch, lambasting the boss of the UK's largest software firm - and HP's latest acquisition - in a statement titled 'Another whopper from Autonomy.'  Continue Reading

• September 29, 2011 29 Sep'11

  Diluting the Agency Workers Regulations

  They've not even been brought into law yet but rumours are circulating that the Government - more specifically the Prime Minister - is looking at diluting the effect of the Agency Workers Regulations.  Continue Reading

• September 28, 2011 28 Sep'11

  Whitespace offers new generation of Orwellian technology

  Personally, I'm obsessed with the continuing story of White Space, the invention that uses unused parts of the TV spectrum to create a new form of Wi-Fi. The upshot is that large parts of the Britain - unreachable parts of the countryside, can now ...  Continue Reading

• September 28, 2011 28 Sep'11

  Cloud offering won't compete with channel, says Virgin Media

  Virgin Media Business (VMB) has teamed up with cloud computing specialist Savvies to launch its first true cloud product, the Virtual Private Data Centre (VPDC), but has moved to reassure its service provider channel that it does not plan to compete...  Continue Reading