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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Outsourcing Yearbook eBook launched
sourcingfocus.com is proud to announce the launch of The Outsourcing Yearbook 2012.
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Quantum Computers Could be Just a Decade Away
IBM has announced that is has made a major breakthrough in its quest to develop quantum computers – now such systems could be as soon as a decade away.
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Training for Mobile Developers sees Demand Hike
81% of IT professionals plan to bolster their skills in mobile computing – an area widely seen to be a growth area.
About one-fifth of the IT professional polled by CWJobs.co.uk said they are plan to completely re-skill and become mobile computing experts.
Businesses and public sector agencies see mobile apps as a way to serve their customers more effectively and also now allow workers to use internal business applications on their phones.
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China Outsourcing Sector Reaches $60 bn Turnover
China's IT outsourcing sector grew by 40% to reach $60.1 billion in 2011, according to its Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
The IT services and software sector, rose by 32.4% to reach $292 billion. This was 4.4% quicker than the industry's average annual growth from 2006 to 2010.
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Department of Health Awards potential £30m Contract to SME
The Department of Health has signed a deal that could be worth up to £30m with UK SME, Methods Consulting, to give the NHS an electronic recruitment service.
Methods will provide a web based portal that can be accessed through a variety of current and future web enabled devices.
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Security Fears are the Main Reason That Fewer Than 15% Buy Via Mobile
A new report ‘Shopping in a Multichannel World’ by Shoppercentric, an independent agency specialising in shopper research, has revealed that only 13% of consumers used their mobile to buy something in the last month, with over 70% of those polled having doubts about security.
Reasons cited not to buy via mobile include 51% not feeling able to experience products effectively, 46% complaining of poor network coverage, and 71% didn’t think mobile was currently secure enough.
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Food Standards Agency Inks Capita Deal Food Standards Agency Inks Capita Deal
The Food Standards Agency signed a £19m 5 year managed services deal that will see Capita supply IT services to five UK sites.
Capita will supply network infrastructure services, server, storage and desktop support.
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Over Half of Civil Servants Do Not Know About Public Sector Network
56% of civil servants working in IT or commercial functions are unaware of their organisations position on the all-important Public Sector Network. The problem is worse is central government (69% are unaware) compared to local government (31% unaware).
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Business and Professional Services Sector Performing Better Than Expected, says CBI.
Despite the tough marketplace of the past quarter, numbers employed in Business & Professional Services grew (+10%) for a fourth quarter running, defying expectations of a decline (-11%). Firms expect headcount to continuing rising at a similar pace in the coming three months (a balance of +8%).
And the slowdown is not as rapid as previously predicted. Over the past three months business volumes declined at a slower pace (-11%) than had been expected (-20%). The decline in business values was more marked (-31%).
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Monday, February 27, 2012
CIO s Role to be Short Lived, say CFOs
43% of senior finance professionals in the UK believe that the CIO role will merge with the CFO role, says a study by IT services provider Getronics.
17% of the finance professionals thought that the CIO role would disappear altogether, in the wake of the trend that 77% of CFOs have claimed greater responsibility for IT decisions in the last 12-24 months.
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