Category Archives: IT News

Transport for London to let commuters use contactless payments

The Mayor’s transport advisor, Kulveer Ranger, said that \”These technologies have the potential to take us into a world where travelling around London can be easier and even more convenient for passengers. This technology is now maturing and could enable people to pay for their travel using credit or debit cards – resulting in a […]

International IT Service Firms encouraged to bid for Public Sector Contracts

In an interview with Computer Weekly he said that \”As far as we are concerned, the more suppliers bidding for government work, creates a positive, vibrant, innovative IT community and that is what we ought to promote. I spend a lot of time with our Indian colleagues, they are hugely talented and I encourage them […]

£800 Million To Be Saved In Government Outsourcing & IT Supply Contracts

The new Conservative / Liberal Democrat Coalition Government has been making every effort to cut back on expensive IT development projects in an effort to slash spending and curb the deficit. However, it is also expected to offer new large scale projects to top suppliers in the future as it looks to drive its change […]

New Wipro Datacentre Improves Ability To Compete For Outsourcing Business

The president of Wipro’s datacentre outsourcing practice , Sameer Kishore, said that \”The addition of a datacentre in Europe represents an important milestone in Wirpo’s growth strategy. The Meerbusch facility will enable Wipro to extend its capabilities to the European market and strengthen the company\’s ability to compete for global outsourcing opportunities.\” Recently it was […]

Google Docs Given Collaborative Highlighting Function

Peter Solderitsch, a software engineer at Google, said that \”Writing a document collaboratively in Google Docs is like playing a team sport. Its one thing to see your co-editors\’ cursors and know where they are. But to really work well together, it helps to know what they\’re about to do. Collaborative highlighting makes it easier […]

Government U-Turn On High Speed Fibre Optic Network Pledge

The Director of convergence and network strategy at Star, Hugo Harber, said that \”The decision not to conduct the review creates an imbalance. If you\’re running a small network, and you\’re not one of the big two (British Telecom and Virgin Media), then it\’s going to cost you more to run fibre to a local […]

Wales Catching Up With Rest Of The UK In Broadband And Digital Services

The Ofcom director of Wales, Rhodri Williams, said that \”It’s good to see that the digital divide between Wales and the UK as a whole is narrowing. Communications services are rapidly becoming a necessity rather than a luxury for Welsh consumers and businesses in all parts of Wales. Even though our report indicates that there […]

Government Information Technology Fastest Growing Technology Sector In 2010 According To Gartner

Research Director at Gartner, Kenneth Brant, said that \”We are advising our technology provider clients to prepare business plans for 2011 on the basis of our most-likely scenario for enterprise IT spending growth – 3.5%. However, they should act now to develop contingencies to mitigate the risk of zero growth in 2011, a scenario that […]

SMEs See Information Technology As A Contractor Role Rather Than An In-House Position

Xenios Thrasyvoulou, Chief Executive of PeoplePerHour.com, has said that \”The last decade has seen a boom in remote freelance working, facilitated by the internet. This has been led by the IT industry, which lends itself to freelancing. Our survey findings suggest that the importance of IT industry to the freelance economy is set to grow.\” […]