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UK set for Europe's ICT spending top spot
News The key factor, according to Forrester, is that business confidence is expected to remain particularly low in Germany over the next few years, which will have a knock-on effect on spending on ICT products and services.
[February 17, 2003, 17:19]
UK schools' IT spending to drop by £9.8m: Report
News The British Educational Suppliers Association says that ICT spending in primary and secondary schools will fall this year. In its annual report on ICT trends in UK state schools, the association estimates that primary school IT budgets will...
[October 1, 2009, 9:12]
Public sector mobile technology explosion predicted
News Public sector spending on ICT for mobile workers is set to increase by nearly five times over the next decade, according to research from market analyst Kable. The Mobile Working ICT in the UK Public Sector report predicts that all mobile workers...
[March 21, 2005, 16:20]
HP to overtake BT as top government IT supplier
News New research from Kable shows that the state sector spent £2.1bn with BT last year; but the combined ICT spending with HP and EDS, which are on course for a merger, was £2.235bn. BT was once more the biggest supplier of UK government ICT in 2007...
[May 22, 2008, 8:26]
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]
Europe's IT spending growth favours UK
News Britain is on track to become the dominant market for information and communications technology (ICT) in Europe this year, thanks in part to public-sector spending and the outsourcing boom. This means the UK's spending will be worth £124.7bn euros...
[February 25, 2004, 14:25]
UK firms ready to spend more on IT
News Britain's bosses expect to spend more money on information and communications technology (ICT) this year than in 2003, according to research published this week. Fifty-eight percent of those surveyed expected to spend more on ICT this year...
[January 13, 2004, 12:05]
NHS IT rollout 'needs proper evaluation'
News Unless it's proven that things like electronic health records work, it will remain difficult to justify to doctors, nurses and patients existing and additional spending on ICT. The potential benefits of ICT use in the health service could be huge...
[July 27, 2004, 14:35]
Socitm appoints new president
News Socitm, the professional association for public-sector ICT managers, has appointed a new president. Also elected at the AGM are Steve Palmer, head of ICT at the London Borough of Hillingdon, who becomes vice president; Caroline Ishola-Burrows from...
[April 30, 2007, 17:38]
Police IT Organisation set to be scrapped
News The Police IT Organisation (PITO) looks set to be replaced by a Police National ICT Group (PNICTG), a new central agency that would have responsibility for both national projects and the local IT needs of the 43 police forces in England and Wales.
[June 27, 2005, 16:05]
BT results show 'new wave' growth
News The surprise is in how quickly BT has expanded what it calls its 'new wave': mobile, broadband and ICT. This cumulatively grew at 30 percent for the year to £3.39bn, with the fourth quarter seeing contract wins in ICT alone worth £2.3bn.
[May 20, 2004, 9:55]
Cash, not clichés, will grow UK tech
Leader It needs to invest in ICT companies that are doing something truly different. If the UK is to remain at the forefront of the world economy, the government needs to do more than provide capital allowances on ICT equipment and tax credits for...
[March 16, 2005, 12:55]
Police forces appoint shared ICT chief
News Two neighbouring police forces have appointed a joint ICT director. Hall has almost 30 years experience in ICT, primarily in financial services. The appointment of this joint director of ICT is an important part of making this happen.
[November 23, 2007, 13:43]
UK drops in ICT league table
News In the longer term, ICT in general may benefit from the stimulus packages being introduced in countries such as the US, as these packages usually include direct or indirect spending on technology and communications projects, the EIU said.
[June 19, 2009, 16:57]
Government gives new life to tech tax break
News UK small businesses will be able to offset their spending on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) against their taxable profits for an extra year, Chancellor Gordon Brown announced on Wednesday.
[April 9, 2003, 16:45]
EU unveils plan to 'seize the initiative' for IT
News The EU has also publicly committed itself to raising spending in the ICT sector, which currently contributes some eight percent of European GDP. The new policy document, i2010, sets out Europe's strategy and regulatory obligations towards ICT...
[June 3, 2005, 9:10]
Surveys give conflicting accounts of IT in the UK
News A Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) study into ICT has lauded British businesses' use of technology, saying industry is using it more effectively -- while the World Economic Forum's Global Information Report has shown the UK's global ICT...
[December 12, 2003, 13:55]
BT unites mobile and fixed business telephony
News The council's ICT head, Adrian Fegan, said FMC "allows us to operate more efficiently, by reducing our telecoms spend, which is critically important for an organisation spending public funds". The service is being trialled first by Leeds City...
[September 14, 2006, 14:45]
European companies 'afraid of new tech'
News This means the UK's spending will be worth £124.7bn euros (£83.3bn), which will be just enough to overtake Germany, currently the largest ICT economy in Europe. If Schoendorf's observations are accurate then UK companies can at least take some...
[March 2, 2004, 16:00]
Poor telecoms regulation 'costing UK £20bn'
News All are currently heavy users of telecoms services, are rapidly increasing their telecoms spending, or are sectors in which the quality of access to ICT affects their choice of country location, the report says.
[January 15, 2004, 11:25]
