GWAC Buyer's Gude
White Papers Some procurement shops have come under scrutiny in Congress, where lawmakers have asked tough questions about contract overlap and service fees. The marketplace for governmentwide acquisition contracts remains in state of flux.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Buying Sun Would Be 'bad Idea' - Ellison
News The CFO appeared to downplay Oracle's five-month, hostile quest for PeopleSoft, which is currently under extended regulatory scrutiny. Under its new policy, Oracle won't give contributions to any politicians who have ties to government agencies...
[October 14, 2003, 9:40]
IT Jobs To Go At Barclays
News Other suppliers are also facing increased scrutiny from senior executives and sources claim the involvement of Accenture and HP in IT deals at the bank is also under review. Other sources close to the situation have indicated that despite...
[August 31, 2005, 15:35]
US To Create 'risk Assessments' Of Air Passengers
News ATS is a system that supports CBP law enforcement activities, as such an individual might not be aware of the reason additional scrutiny is taking place, nor should he or she as this may compromise the means and methods of how CBP came to require...
[December 5, 2006, 11:45]
CA Settles Accounting Lawsuits
News CA's accounting has been under scrutiny for five years. The lawsuits stemmed from allegations by investors that the company hid slumping sales by switching to a new subscription-based licence model, which charged customers over the life of a...
[August 26, 2003, 12:10]
California Woes Cloud Oracle's Quarter
News Oracle's sales efforts have come under scrutiny and embroiled Governor Gray Davis, who is up for re-election in November. Timing is everything -- and for Oracle, the controversy over its $95m contract with the state of California couldn't have come...
[June 2, 2002, 7:32]
Juno Links Up With Time Warner
News Time Warner has come under considerable scrutiny over the past few weeks regarding its policies toward open access, in light of its pending merger with America Online. Time Warner's current contract with Road Runner, a high speed Net service...
[July 31, 2000, 14:29]
A Clause For Alarm
News Given the multimillion-dollar costs of today's software deals, customers often devote surprisingly little time and resources to scrutiny of contracts that are rife with obscure terminology, vague expansion charges, and mind-boggling license...
[July 17, 2002, 8:50]
3 Disables Data Roaming To Avoid Bill Shock
News Data-roaming costs are increasingly under scrutiny after the European Commission forced operators last year to slash their voice-roaming rates within Europe. Because of the huge disparity between what we charge on our own networks and the costs...
[July 8, 2008, 12:50]
AOL Saga Opens Old Dot-com Wounds
News Companies that have recently come under scrutiny over their use of barter deals include Homestore.com, which earlier this year disclosed that barter revenue inappropriately boosted its 2000 revenue by 27 percent and 54 percent for the first nine...
[August 13, 2002, 14:25]
SAP Project With German Military Stalls
News These federal deals operate in the glare of public scrutiny," said Joshua Greenbaum, a technology analyst at Enterprise Applications Consulting. Just last month, SAP announced it had won a contract with the US government for a similar project.
[November 22, 2002, 10:01]
Court Orders ICANN To Open Books
News But it does increase scrutiny of the organisation at a time when ICANN is reeling from attacks from critics who have decried it as secretive and overreaching. ICANN has a contract with the US government to oversee key Internet functions, most...
[July 30, 2002, 9:40]
Oracle Special: Inside The Pressure Cooker
News Wall Street applies microscopic scrutiny to earnings reports at those times, and a negative assessment can tank a stock price overnight. Pressure to make a sale is nothing new in the hypercompetitive business of corporate software, where a single...
[July 2, 2001, 13:41]
OFT Plans Crackdown On PC Makers And ISPs
News All software and hardware products, and Internet service packages will come under scrutiny. The OFT investigation will go beyond enforcing competition and consumer protection laws, and will specifically address reported concerns over the...
[October 4, 2001, 13:55]
Data Watchdog Probes Government Email Bonfire
News We are coming to our contract year-end and [emails] are clogging up the system. The Office of the Information Commissioner is investigating the Cabinet Office for deleting millions of emails days before they would be made available to the public.
[December 22, 2004, 11:30]
