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Article | 28/03/2013 Gartner: Global IT spending to rise 4.1 percent to $3.8 trillion in 2013
Worldwide spending on IT products and services will grow 4.1 percent this year to roughly US$3.8 trillion, according to new forecast figures released ...
Article | 27/03/2013 Epicor suit claims services firm hijacked its ERP software
Epicor is suing IT service provider Alternative Technology Solutions, claiming the company illegally used its ERP (enterprise resource planning) softw...
Article | 25/03/2013 Dell confirms bids from Blackstone, Icahn group
Dell has received two counter-offers related to its plans to go private, with rival bids coming in from private equity fund manager Blackstone and ent...
Article | 25/03/2013 Japan's Fujitsu pays £800M to cut deficit in UK subsidiaries' pension fund
Fujitsu has paid £800 million (US$1.2 billion) into its pension funds for current and former U.K. employees, and renegotiated cuts to ongoing pension ...
Article | 13/03/2013 Lawmakers: Tougher computer hacking laws may be needed
The U.S. Congress may need to create stiffer penalties for criminal computer hacking to deter the growing number of attacks on U.S. government agencie...
Article | 12/03/2013 HP's Autonomy acquisition under investigation in the UK
Hewlett-Packard's purchase of Autonomy is under investigation by the U.K. Serious Fraud Office, the company said in a regulatory filing ahead of its a...
Article | 7/03/2013 Finishing massive SAP project in current form may not be 'feasible,' study says
It may not be "feasible" to complete a gigantic SAP software project meant to unify California's many public employee payroll systems, according to a ...
Article | 7/03/2013 General Motors to hire 1,000 in Arizona as it moves IT jobs in-house
General Motors is hiring 1,000 IT staff for a center in a suburb of Phoenix, Arizona as part of its strategy to move more high-value IT work in-house.
Article | 4/03/2013 Microsoft promises Surface Pro in European stores next quarter
Microsoft's Surface Pro tablet will go on sale in Europe in the second quarter priced somewhere around €899, while a local telco is now reselling the ...
Article | 27/02/2013 Tata agrees to pay $30 million to settle employees' lawsuit in the US
Indian outsourcer Tata Consultancy Services has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit by paying US$30 million to employees deputed for work in the U...
Article | 27/02/2013 HP shareholder revolt targets two directors, auditor over Autonomy purchase
An investor advisor group is asking shareholders of Hewlett-Packard not to re-elect two long-standing board members and to oppose the ratification of ...
Article | 25/02/2013 Qualys streamlines vulnerability scanning of Amazon cloud instances
Security firm Qualys has improved the integration of its QualysGuard vulnerability management service with Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Monday, allowi...
Article | 20/02/2013 ERP software project woes continue to mount, survey says
ERP (enterprise resource planning) software project schedule overruns got even worse in 2012, according to newly released data from Panorama Consultin...
Article | 20/02/2013 Japan's NTT Com goes on global data center offensive
NTT Communications, the IT arm of Japan's main telecommunications operator, is aggressively expanding its data center operations outside the country a...
Article | 12/02/2013 Indian outsourcing trade body forecasts recovery
India's provision of outsourcing services to other countries will grow by 12 to 14 percent in the fiscal year starting April 1, a trade body predicted...