Budgets for IT and telecoms are being cut ahead of staffing costs such as salaries, benefits and work jollies. More and more vendors and resellers, not least Avaya, are turning to converged communications and 'pay as you go' network solutions to...
Tech budgets are starting to feel the squeeze on the back of the credit crunch crisis and fears of a recession. But the credit crunch isn't yet hitting tech budgets across the board, with reducing operational costs now a constant feature for most...
The sector grew by 6.2 per cent last year and that is against a backdrop of static or even falling IT budgets. All sizes of IT consultancies felt a financial squeeze at the end of the Y2K gravy train and ecommerce fad.
Organisations that had large ICT budgets generated on average 2.4 per cent more profit than those that invested below the European average. A study of almost 1,000 European companies conducted by Gartner and commissioned by BT Ignite has revealed...
Recently I caught up with Adrian Fegan, head of ICT at Leeds City Council, to talk about fixed-mobile convergence. OK, the camera's resolution is a measly 1.3 megapixels but the fact one has been included shows this device sees its competition as...
Coupled with HDTV, it's all a bit of a tight squeeze down an 8Mbps fat pipe. Bundling broadband with mobile and fixed-line services is fast becoming a theme among the mobile operators - Vodafone yesterday announced it plans to resell DSL to its...