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Article | 20/10/2010 Intel to invest up to $8B in U.S. chip plants
Intel Tuesday announced plans to invest between $6 billion and $8 billion to upgrade multiple computer chip manufacturing plants in the U.S., and to b...
Article | 19/10/2010 Gartner warns of emerging 'super vendors'
ORLANDO - Gartner Inc. analysts Monday warned that the tech industry is caught in a "vortex of insatiable mergers and acquisitions" that is creating a...
Article | 18/10/2010 How to tame the social network at work
They're a productivity sink and a bandwidth suck. They're a vector for malware and a gift for corporate spies. They're a data spill just waiting to ha...
Article | 16/10/2010 Forrester downgrades US IT spending forecast
Forrester Research is now predicting U.S. IT spending to grow 8.1 percent this year, a slight drop from the analyst firm's July prediction of a 9.9 pe...
Article | 15/10/2010 Tech hiring up almost 50 per cent since 2009, Dice says
The number of available full-time tech jobs has increased 46 per cent in the past year, and contractors' hourly rates are rising as companies seek way...
Article | 15/10/2010 Budget constraints still weigh on IT execs
GRAPEVINE, Texas -- A good chunk of attendees of Storage Networking World here this week revealed that trying to handle data management while maintain...
Article | 14/10/2010 IBM buys e-discovery vendor PSS
IBM said Wednesday it is purchasing e-discovery vendor PSS Systems, in a move that further broadens Big Blue's sprawling portfolio of information mana...
Article | 13/10/2010 Career watch: 50 hot skills on the rise
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Article | 12/10/2010 Metro Bank outsources entire IT infrastructure
Metro Bank, the first high street bank to be launched in the UK in over a century, opened its first branch in July with a company-wide outsourced, pay...
Article | 7/10/2010 Unused applications wasting millions, say IT managers
Companies are wasting large amounts of money on unused applications, according to research among senior IT staff, with the largest firms estimating th...
Article | 6/10/2010 Twitter's new CEO expected to show them the money
The switch in leadership at Twitter is signaling that the company is ready to turn what has been something of an online adventure into a real money-ma...
Article | 1/10/2010 With Apotheker at helm, HP signals new direction
The initial reactions to Hewlett-Packard's appointment of Leo Apotheker as its new CEO has been double-takes.
Article | 29/09/2010 Google is world's most attractive employer; Microsoft drops
Google is the "world's most attractive employer" based on a survey of 130,000 career seekers with an education in business or engineering, according t...
Article | 25/09/2010 News quiz: The week in tech
Got a Facebook phone? If so, either you've got a lot of company or none at all, depending on which Internet rumors you believed this week. In other ne...
Article | 28/09/2010 How to get tough with your tech vendors
Planning a purchase from a major IT vendor? In this still-tough economy, negotiating pros recommend being aggressive and creative, as well as analyzin...