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Thursday, May 10, 2012
Google boosts cloud spending to contest with Amazon
Google has increased spending in order to compete against Amazon in offering cloud services. Google will be playing catch up against Amazon Web Services with its high user-base in over 190 countries since its beginnings six years ago.
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012
Government set to miss broadband targets
The government is unlikely to meet targets of installing superfast broadband to 90% of the UK by 2015. According to a new report from the London School of Economics (LSE), the current levels of funding will not suffice.
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Friday, May 04, 2012
Government plans £200 million mobile coverage project
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has released further information regarding its Mobile Infrastructure Project (MIP).
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Thursday, May 03, 2012
Amazon wins mobile management contract with SAP
German based SAP, the largest producer of enterprise software have tendered a contract to provide mobile marketing to Amazon.
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Wednesday, May 02, 2012
Cisco and IDA fund R&D jobs to the tune of €26m
Cisco’s Research and Development centre located in Galway, Ireland is to be expanded thanks to the Industrial Development Agency’s investment
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Monday, April 30, 2012
Amazon Cloud reaches $500 million in sales
Amazon’s cloud (AWS) made $500 million from sales in the first quarter 2012. The cloud service has grown significantly year-on-year with 2012’s first quarter up by $189 million from the same time last year.
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iCloud reaches 125 million users
Apple has revealed in the release of second quarter earnings last week, that the icloud has reached over 125 million users.
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China set to become largest m-payments market
China’s mobile market is expected to grow to be the largest in the world by 2012 according to research from Kapronasia. The research points to the Chinese market growing to reach 441 million users and worth over $80 billion.
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Friday, April 27, 2012
CRM software enters into the top 10 of CIOs priorities
Technology research group Gartner have released a survey that demonstrates that Customer relationship management (CRM) software has become a top priority for CIOs. The survey placed CRM software as the eighth most important consideration for CIOs in 2012.
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012
US suspends offshore programme
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has suspended funding for a training programme for offshore Filipino nationals. The trainees were educated to work in English speaking call centres.
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