Industry pressure is building ahead of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks in Seattle next week to restrict regulation on electronic commerce. Topping the list is concern over the taxation of Internet transactions.
Fund management group Highland Capital Management, which is owed $26m, lodged a petition of involuntary bankruptcy against Bridge last Thursday, prompting emergency meetings between company executives, investors and advisors.
Sony Ericsson is to launch a combined Wi-Fi/GSM PC Card that will help notebook users take advantage of the coverage offered by mobile phone networks and the higher speed of 802.11b - or Wi-Fi - hot spots.
The key skill is to be able to connect technology spend to business strategy, he said: "You need someone who is the bridge between. And while outsourcing is often seen as a way of better aligning IT spending with strategy, if done wrong it can open...
The new Engineering Wide System (EWS) will cover every aspect of aircraft maintenance in 26 hangars across 142 airports globally, as well as spare parts supply, air-worthiness data, and finance and component workshops.
Outsourcing, shared services and open source software are some of the ways local authorities plan to bridge the IT budget gap that has opened up following the end of the e-government push of recent years.
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