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2005: More money means more decisions
News Spending in IT is likely to be driven by the public sector in 2005, according to the analyst firm Forrester Research takes an even more conservative stance, predicting an increase in IT spending of just 3.9 percent, but again sees signs of more...
[December 31, 2004, 11:10]
IT recovery -- who do you trust?
News For the past two years, nearly all analyst firms were reporting a flat or negative growth rate for IT spending. Just as IT spending was severely disrupted in 2002 by wild card factors including WorldCom and Iraq, so it is that the outlook for 2003...
[March 14, 2003, 11:37]
How diverse initiatives will come together
News After thousands of layoffs and dramatically decreased spending on IT initiatives, we may be turning a corner for investment in IT initiatives. But I expect to see spending patterns change dramatically as corporations start "testing the water...
[November 12, 2003, 12:45]
Shake-up predicted to accompany IT recovery
News Analyst firm Gartner has declared the slump in IT spending over, and is predicting a return to moderate growth during the next two years. But the shake-up will continue for IT vendors, with consolidation eliminating more than half the companies...
[November 12, 2003, 10:40]
DWP predicts boost in annual IT budget
News The Department for Work and Pensions estimates that its IT budget will rise 12.5 percent to £1.24bn for this financial year, due to a higher level of spending on development costs. Stephen Timms MP, a departmental minister, had indicated higher IT...
[August 18, 2008, 10:40]
Europe's IT spend slipping
News Western Europe has fallen behind the worldwide average for IT spending growth. By comparison, IDC predicts IT spending will rise one percent in Japan and five percent in the US during 2005. The European IT market is expected to grow by four percent...
[May 5, 2005, 16:30]
Small companies drive European IT growth
News When it comes to IT spending, small and medium businesses are on the rise, according to a new study from research firm IDC. Furthermore, IDC believes that these smaller firms could end up being the driving force of the IT industry in Europe.
[April 2, 2001, 14:11]
UK tech spending should be solid in 2002
News Few of the UK's largest companies will cut their IT spending in 2002, according to recent research that found that firms expect investment in new technology to give a major boost to their growth and profitability.
[April 12, 2002, 15:02]
Microsoft exec: Tough times play to our strengths
News With a tough economic climate forcing cutbacks in IT spending, Microsoft is already working on honing a message that it can help businesses save money. In an interview on Friday with ZDNet.co.uk's sister site, CNET News.com, Microsoft Business...
[October 13, 2008, 13:29]
Socitm calls for increased council IT spend
News The Society of IT Management has called for an increase in council spending on IT, despite the prospect of tightening finances. The public-sector IT organisation has made the case for new investment to coincide with the publication of its IT Trends...
[January 26, 2009, 8:27]
Ireland's CIOs not optimistic
News An upturn in Irish business won't necessarily translate into increased IT spending, as the country's CIOs remain under pressure to slim down their tech budgets. According to a new report from analyst firm IDC, 45 percent of Irish public and private...
[August 12, 2005, 17:15]
Rising tech costs put pressure on SMEs
News Rising technology costs saw SMEs in the UK spending £6.1bn on IT last year. SMEs upped their IT spending by eight percent in 2007, with increased outsourcing of IT among small businesses, according to a study by Access Markets International Partners.
[January 15, 2008, 8:00]
Cash Diary
Downloads It lets you not only register your spending and categorize it, but also view the statistics of the money spent under different categories. It even allows you to export all your registered spending and statistics in Comma Separated Values (CSV) files.
[September 30, 2004, 11:56]
Simple Budget for iPhone
Downloads Each day, you enter your spending as it occurs and if you are above the line, you have money in your budget to spend. Get started by setting your targets then enter your spending as it occurs. Simple Budget for iPhone manages your budget on a day...
[November 26, 2009, 5:43]
Survey finds execs rethinking IT budgets
News Growing numbers of chief information officers are re-evaluating their IT budgets and spending plans for coming months, according to one market analyst. Research from Morgan Stanley has found that chief information officerss from Fortune 1000...
[July 11, 2002, 14:57]
University aims for savings through e-procurement scheme
News A Scottish university is hoping electronic purchasing technology will help it reduce its spending costs. Heriot-Watt university in Edinburgh has started using an electronic catalogue commerce system, to cut spending without taking on additional staff.
[October 27, 2004, 15:30]
Symantec outlook overshadows strong profits
News Like many other companies, we saw a pause in IT spending [during] the last week of the quarter," said chief executive John Thompson on a conference call. Even so, Thompson said that customers are taking longer to decide on deals and consumer...
[October 30, 2008, 16:02]
AOL takes fight to BT with £50m
News AOL has announced it will be spending £50m on the first phase of its LLU programme, which will enable it to take direct control of a customer's telephone line and sell their own services, such as faster broadband, rather than reselling BT's...
[January 20, 2006, 15:45]
Euro firms losing out on IT value
News Analytical tools company Alinean said public companies in Europe are spending almost twice the percentage of their revenue on IT than US companies. The highest performers -- in this case, measured by dividing the cost of doing business by IT...
[March 6, 2003, 10:52]
EC: European IT research is too 'fragmented'
News In a speech on Tuesday at the ICT 2008 symposium in Lyon, Viviane Reding pointed out that European spending on IT research and development — both public and private — remains far below that in the US.
[November 27, 2008, 9:33]
