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  • 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. The latest monthly insolvency statistics from Experian indicate ...  News

  • 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? It's pretty unseemly for one company to accuse the CEO at another of havin...  Opinion

  • Business attacks on Miliband speech miss the point

    It's amazing how quickly the pro-business lobby came out against Labour leader Ed speech attacking predatory businesses and asset strippers. In his speech, Miliband stressed that the choice in politics wasn't between being "pro-business or a...  Opinion

  • Milband's anti-predator business strategy given thumbs down

    The Labour Party leader's attempt to set out a strategy criticising predatory businesses has been given the thumbs down by some in thebusiness and tech world. Yesterday in his speech to the Labour Party conference in Liverpool, Ed Miliband attacked '...  News

  • IT investment critical to future European competitiveness

    European countries risk falling behind emerging economic rivals by 2020 unless businesses begin to match US levels of ICT investment, according to a newstudy from comms provider AT&T and research outfit Oxford Economics. The six-month study purpo...  News

  • HP keeps the strategy, replaces the man who thought it up

    Farewell then, Leo Apotheker. You were the CEO at HP who introduced a software-based strategy on 18 August by simultaneously announcing plans to acquire Autonomy and (with the full authorisation of the board) to look at a strategic options for the PC...  Opinion

  • Strategy, schmategy: could there be more disruption at HP?

    So the biggest technology story doing the rounds today (22 September) is that the board of HP have had a meeting to discuss whether they should get rid of CEO Leo Apotheker, the man they appointed to run the company less than a year ago. Apparent...  Opinion

  • Can Microsoft explanation for Office 365 and Windows Live outage reassure cloud customers?

    The explanation as to why Microsoft suffered an outage of three and a half hours to its Office 365 and Windows Live services on 8 September might not be too reassuring for those people out there tempted to move to the cloud. According to a blog post ...  Opinion

  • Who else thinks resellers can thrive in the cloud era?

    I'm a bit confused by the Channel Transformation Alliance, the body which has been set up to promote and further the spread of cloud computing and managed services in the channel. It's not that I don't think it's a good idea. After all, who could...  Opinion

  • SMEs still struggling to get banking credit

    Business Secretary Vince Cable might have taken to the stage at the Liberal Democrat conference today detailing plans to put more pressure on banks to lend to SMEs but the vast majority still feel left out in the cold over loans. According to the la...  News

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