Top stories in the news today:
- Computing - UK firms slash IT investment – UK firms are continuing to slash spending on hardware and software, as IT bears the brunt of business cost-cutting measures. According to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), spending on hardware and software was cut back drastically in the first three months of 2009. Software spending was down across all the sectors that the ONS measures, while hardware spending patterns were more varied – slight increases in spending in the distribution services sector were offset by huge quarter-on-quarter drops in hardware investments elsewhere.
- Computing – So, what is cloud computing, exactly? – A video explaining Cloud computing, one of the most over hyped phrase in the silicon industry.
- IT PRO – IT sector could bounce back this year – Analyst firm Forrester is tipping a strong recovery in the US technology sector beginning in the final quarter of 2009 and into 2010. Businesses and governments overreacted to the US and global recessions, it said, because of early fears surrounding the stability of the financial system and the solvency of lenders, and cut needed capital investment in Q4 2008 and the first half of 2009.
- Information Age – BT and BlackBerry cut costs with unified communications plan – Using the BlackBerry Mobile Voice System (MVS) from Research in Motion (RIM) and BT’s new Communications Complete technology, based on Cisco’s Unified Communications 500 Series platform, users can switch between their mobile operator network and Wi-Fi networks to reduce call costs.
