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Europe and Middle East information technology (IT)

• January 23, 2012 23 Jan'12

  Gartner identifies trends in CIO spending in 2012

  Chief information officers are facing an austere 2012. Spending on IT will rise on average by just 0.5% worldwide, but IT budgets in the UK, Europe and North America are declining.

• October 31, 2011 31 Oct'11

  Samsung overtakes Apple in global smartphone shipments

  Samsung has overtaken Apple in worldwide smartphone shipments after Apple suffered its lowest levels of shipments in two years

• September 15, 2011 15 Sep'11

  Cyber attacks are becoming lethal, warns US cyber commander

  Cyber attacks are escalating from large-scale theft and disruption of computer operations to more lethal attacks that destroy systems and physical equipment, according to the head of the US Cyber Command.

• May 19, 2011 19 May'11

  Is the NHS National Programme for IT terminally ill?

  A damning report from the National Audit Office (NAO) has revealed the woeful state of the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT), nine years after the hugely ambitious project was launched.

• May 13, 2011 13 May'11

  White House proposes cyber network security legislation

  The White House has proposed cyber security legislation to protect the US government and private computer systems from millions of daily cyber attacks.

• May 12, 2011 12 May'11

  SME technology trends in 2011: Analysys Mason talks cloud and mobility

  European SME technology trends in 2011 will see the rise of cloud-based services and mobility applications, predicts Steve Hilton, principal analyst for Analysys Mason.

• May 03, 2011 03 May'11

  Cloud computing: How to avoid a network bottleneck

  Cloud computing can put a huge load on a business's network. Organisations need to ensure network access from the user's browser on the local area network (LAN), to a cloud-based datacentre across on the public internet are fit for purpose.

• April 01, 2011 01 Apr'11

  CSC to acquire troubled NHS supplier iSoft

  IT services giant CSC has agreed to acquire troubled healthcare software firm iSoft after the latter suspended shares and put itself up for sale last week.

• March 28, 2011 28 Mar'11

  Businesses spend over £600k a week on data security abroad

  Companies are spending up to £624,000 a week to secure their most sensitive business data abroad, a study has revealed.

• February 11, 2011 11 Feb'11

  Case study: Salvatore Ferragamo steps into the future with SAP

  Italian shoe and other luxury goods maker Salvatore Ferragamo is standardising on SAP ...

• January 31, 2011 31 Jan'11

  Public sector outsourcing grows in the UK as commercial deals fall again

  Public sector contracts accounted for 77% of the total outsourcing spending in the UK in 2010, according to the latest report from consultancy TPI.

• September 24, 2007 24 Sep'07

  Stock exchanges face IT challenge to prove ‘best execution’ under Mifid

  In less than two months Europe's stock exchange technology will be put to the test when the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid) brings new requirements for investment firms, including banks, insurers and hedge funds, to protect ...