Monday, July 20, 2009

IT News HeadLines (ComputerWeekly) 20/07/2009



HP knocked from UK top spot by Dell and Acer
Hewlett-Packard has been ousted from the top of the UK PC market by rivals Dell and Acer after a torrid quarter of falling sales. According...
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PC market outlook improves, but decline still expected for 2009
Gartner, IDC and iSuppli each reported PC market...
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Making a small business mobile
LTT Vending has improved its bottom line with a BlackBerry mobile integration system, supplied by T-Mobile and rolled out by the in-house IT team.
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VIDEO EXCLUSIVE: Navigating to the Moon and back - Apollo 11 programmer describes the challenges
Pat Norris was among the programmers who worked on the Apollo 11 mission that sent Neil Amstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins to the Moon. He tells Computer Weekly what really happened.
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HP knocked from UK top spot by Dell and Acer
Hewlett-Packard has been ousted from the top of the UK PC market by rivals Dell and Acer after a torrid quarter of falling sales. According...
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Spin doctors double Twitter bill
The cost of government tweeting almost doubled as its spin doctors tried to follow citizens and reporters through cyberspace, a report revealed today. Following...
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Technology teaching in schools gets آ£5.6m boost
The government is investing آ£5.6m to improve the way technology is taught in schools in England.
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BT to host Microsoft cloud software - but not Azure
Less than a week after Microsoft announced its Azure...
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The evolution will be televised
WiMAX and LTE networks promise to bring to users the prospect of high quality mobile broadband services. .We find out what new innovations Swedish communications giant Ericssonit has up its sleeve
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Swine flu could reduce 2009 GPD by 3%, say economists
Businesses need to check their contingency...
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PC market outlook improves, but decline still expected for 2009
Gartner, IDC and iSuppli each reported PC market...
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Microsoft expected to report first annual sales dip
Microsoft is expected to report the first annual sales dip in its history this week. But the firm's second quarter financial results, due on...
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Rising IT offshoring undermines UK services
About two-thirds of UK companies have sent IT offshore in the past six months, with...
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Banks are buying IT services again
Financial services companies are spending money on
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Web-based MS Office 2010 to be unveiled next month
Microsoft is to release a preview of the stripped down web-based version of the Office...
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Microsoft and Yahoo could unite against Google
As the battle between Microsoft and Google...
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Government abandons آ£24.4m Scope IT project
The Cabinet Office has revealed it is to abandon the second phase of the Scope...
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