National Statistics, formerly the Government Office of National Statistics, has released a set of figures based on its Family Expenditure survey, collected over the period April 1998 to March this year.
Hardware vendors look like they will have an increasingly difficult time - at a time of belt tightening and focusing on ROI, organisations are unlikely to be willing to commit the capital expenditure and long-term investment nature required for...
Pierre Danon, CEO of BT Retail, has estimated capital expenditure for its WLAN network will be less than £10m ($14.4m) over the coming 12 months. Due to problems with interference in the frequency bands employed by WLAN and other technologies, only...
The pricing model is designed to appeal to IT managers who find it difficult to justify the up front costs of developing such a system in-house. This approach is also more scalable and can be accounted for as a cost rather than capital expenditure.
Capital expenditure budgets have been either frozen or slashed dramatically, resulting in a sharp decline in spending on new technology. Indeed, as I write this article it has just been announced that Lloyds TSB will be closing its call centre in...
The downward pressure on operational IT costs will continue in 2008 but those savings could free up budget for increased levels of capital expenditure. Gavin Whatrup, group IT director for advertising and marketing agency Creston, said a...