Recession makes firms turn to outsourcing
Irish businesses are turning to outsourcing as a response to the recession, according to leading industry executives.
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Taking partners to task
Ten years ago, the talk in IT circles was all about outsourcing and the idea that leading vendors would relieve organisations of their entire technology burden.
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Vodafone to sell iPhone in UK and Ireland
Vodafone and Apple today confirmed that they have reached agreement to bring iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS to the UK and Ireland in early 2010.
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How IT can help your business beat the bug
There’s a chance swine flu will turn out to be another ‘Millennium Bug’ – lots of hype about how it will affect business, followed by lots of precautionary investment in technology, followed by the stark reality: minimal impact.
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Chorus NTL’s on-demand service will complement its HD offer
Chorus NTL is to launch video-on demand services, including a television catch-up service, next year.
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Google’s Unlimited Power?
Is Google the best thing to happen to the digital world, or the most worrying concentration of power in 20 years? Is its impressive array of new services and applications a godsend, or is such a singular portal of information creating an unhealthy over-reliance on one company?
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Tech firms waiting three times longer for payment
Irish technology companies are waiting three times longer to be paid for their products and services than they were one year ago, a major new survey has found. The 1,400-member Dublin Chamber of Commerce survey found that the average payment period for companies had risen from 30 days to 90 days.
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Phishing for victims in choppy waters
In many of life’s endeavours, times and technology dictate the techniques employed. Robbing banks in the 1930s needed a tommy gun and a waiting car.
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Who’s minding the storage solutions?
Most business people are, or should be, aware of Parkinson’s Law, which states: ‘Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.’ There is a similar law which is demonstrated daily in IT:’ Data expands to fill the available storage.’
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Irish e-mail falls within surveillance bill loophole
By Adrian Weckler
A loophole in the government’s telecoms surveillance bill will result in the majority of Irish e-mail accounts falling outside its provisions, according to industry experts. Read the rest of this entry »
