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Major names back changes to computer education
Microsoft and Google are two of the big names that have joined the call to improve the teaching of computer skills in schools to try and increase the number of children that can write code. The government has also acknowledged the need to do more an... News | 28 Nov 2011
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Tough economic conditions hit Phoenix bottom line
The tough economic climate and longer sale cycles have taken their toll on the bottom line at Phoenix IT Group with its half year results showing a drop in revenue and pre-tax profits. In an interium set of results the channel player reported revenu... News | 28 Nov 2011
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Apple facing increased tablet competition
The customer hunger for tablets continues to grow but market leader Apple faces more challenges to its tablet crown in the fourth quarter with rivals, including the latest entrant Amazon, looking to take a larger slice of a growing market. Apple is ... News | 25 Nov 2011
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MicroScope's top stories, week ending 25 November 2011
A week when Hewlett-Packard had its first post-Leo results, Dixons was also busy filing its numbers and the question of how to sell cloud in distribution was exercising some debate in the channel. Caution remains as Dixons losses deepen Times are ... News | 25 Nov 2011
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Iomart buy-and-build bandwagon heads to Scotland
Hostingand cloud services provider iomart Group has forked out £2.48m to acquire fellow Glasgow-based infrastructure provider EQSN, and signalled its ambition to continue growing through acquisitions that "add depth and value" to its ... News | 24 Nov 2011
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Caution remains as Dixons losses deepen
The retail sector has taken a hammering in recent months with Best Buy opting to close its stores, Kesa selling Comet for £2 and Dixons seeing its losses year-on-year continue to mount. Although Dixons reported a £25.3m loss for the first... News | 24 Nov 2011
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WD given EU green light to buy Hitachi HDD business
Western Digital has been given the green light by the European Commission to complete its purchase of Hitachi's hard disk drive business. The $4.3bn deal had been referred to the EU's competition regulator because it tied up the second and third larg... News | 24 Nov 2011
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HP server business cleans up after Thai floods, says Whitman
Increasingly constrained supplies of hard disk drives as a result of the Thai flooding disaster heading into 2012 will play into HP's hands, according to CEO Meg Whitman. Presiding over her first quarterly earnings release since taking over the stewa... News | 23 Nov 2011
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Government claims SME supplier success
The government has claimed that the volume of IT contracts being won by SME suppliers has seen a dramatic increase during the course of 2011. At Monday's The Crown and Suppliers: A new way of working, procurement conference in London the government's... News | 22 Nov 2011
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BYOD may not yet be priority issue for UK CIOs
A new report on business transformation from managed services provider Calyx has revealed that collaboration and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) business strategies have not yet gained anything like the traction that has been touted. Calyx teamed up wit... News | 22 Nov 2011