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Shortage of engineers blamed for ADSL delays
News BTopenworld has admitted that a shortage of BT engineers means businesses could have to wait up to two months to get their broadband services installed. A slight shortage of engineers means it could be up to two months before you get ADSL installed...
[July 27, 2000, 15:36]
Shortage may mean Bluetooth delays
News A shortage of Bluetooth radio modules caused by excessive demand for pre-production developer kits and intensive internal research by Ericsson has forced wireless manufacturer Symbionics to turn away customers.
[September 17, 1999, 10:02]
LCD screen shortage pushes up prices
News Surging demand for notebook computers, televisions and desktop PC monitors have spurred a shortage for the most popular sizes of liquid-crystal display panels. In a report published on Monday, iSuppli/Stanford Resources analyst Rhoda Alexander said...
[October 17, 2003, 12:00]
Microsoft warns of 'acute' UK skills shortage
Talkback The problem is not a shortage of skilled people It is more a shortage of companies willing to employ people of, shall we say more mature years. Employers forget these people have experienced a great number of changes within the industry and had...
[July 6, 2006, 8:32]
UK shortage of IT skills continues
News Employers continue to experience a shortage of core technical skills, according to a quarterly review of the ICT (Information and Computer Technology) labour market by E-skills UK. However, the number of firms reporting IT skills shortages has...
[May 30, 2002, 10:23]
Tackle skills shortage, urges government CIO
News The government's chief information officer has called for the IT profession to present a united front to combat a growing IT skills shortage. My belief is that any great business is underpinned by professionalism, and there is a decline in people...
[May 18, 2007, 11:55]
Microsoft warns of 'acute' UK skills shortage
Talkback The dwindling number of IT graduates in the UK should act as a wake-up call for companies to take action to educate their current employees before declaring a "skills shortage". With around 70 per cent of the world’s business still running upon...
[July 12, 2006, 16:37]
Microsoft admits .Net skills shortage
Talkback I doubt there is really a "skills shortage". But it seems pointless to retrain Java programmers to .net, because .net offers no real advantages over Java. Dot net is just an attempt by Microsoft to lock more people in to their proprietary technology.
[November 9, 2005, 20:00]
IT skills shortage costing Europe 'billions'
News The European Commission is warning that 40 percent of European citizens suffer from "digital illiteracy" and the skills shortage is slowing down the implementation of new projects. Europe is losing out on billions in investment because of a...
[September 12, 2007, 8:32]
'No danger' of Internet-address shortage
News The idea that there is an Internet-address shortage looming in Asia or any part of the world is "misinformation", according to a senior executive at the body responsible for distributing and registering Internet-address resources in the Asia...
[June 24, 2003, 14:22]
A Year Ago: UK could face Net skills shortage
News A new report ranks the UK's Internet economy first among European countries, but warns continuing growth may lead to a widespread dot-com skills shortage here. The report, compiled by consultancy Spectrum Strategy, finds Internet related services...
[June 10, 2001, 6:28]
Microsoft warns of 'acute' UK skills shortage
Talkback Is there an apparent shortage of any *particular* IT skills, seeing as this study was sponsored by Microsoft? I can't help but wonder if perhaps they didn't look at the whole picture, but only concerned themselves with proprietary MS technologies.
[July 5, 2006, 19:10]
LogicaCMG squeezed by graduate shortage
News This shortage appears to be good news for those who do get hired, but not necessarily for LogicaCMG's clients. There is growing concern that Europe may be facing a tech skills shortage in the future. IT services firm LogicaCMG is struggling to hire...
[September 1, 2006, 11:55]
LCD parts shortage likely in 2005
News The shortage of colour filters used in fifth- and sixth-generation LCD plants is projected to be between 7 percent to 12 percent toward the end of 2005. The shortage is a result of a downturn seen in the TFT-LCD industry in the third quarter of...
[April 4, 2005, 10:20]
Shortage: Palms hard to come by
News The Palm shortage, the company says, results from a combination of high seasonal demand and a shortage of LCD panels and flash memory, two critical components used to construct the devices. Somsak called the shortage of devices a "pleasant problem...
[May 24, 2000, 8:37]
Micro Focus: IT faces 'dire shortage' of core skills
News According to the study, published on Monday, there is a shortage of IT skills across Europe and the US, even though such skills are core assets needed during a recession. Last year, we highlighted that IT was the forgotten corporate asset but, this...
[December 1, 2008, 17:11]
News Burst: UK could face Net skills shortage
News A new report ranks the UK's Internet economy first among European countries, but warns continuing growth may lead to a widespread dot-com skills shortage here. A report from the giant Anderson Consulting group suggests that the Internet will create...
[June 9, 2000, 12:11]
India may face IT worker shortage
News India could be faced with a shortage of a quarter million IT workers in five years unless there is reform in technical education, warns an IT industry association in the country. According to a recent survey by the Nasscom (National Association of...
[February 18, 2003, 10:34]
News Burst: IT skills shortage getting worse
News The shortage in European IT professionals is set to increase in the next two years, from 5% in 1998 to almost 20% in 2002, IDC has reported. IDC predicts the internetworking area will experience the most acute skills shortage.
[October 19, 1999, 10:11]
UK could face Net skills shortage
News A new report ranks the UK's Internet economy first among European countries, but warns continuing growth may lead to a widespread dot-com skills shortage here. The report, compiled by consultancy Spectrum Strategy, finds Internet related services...
[June 9, 2000, 16:32]
