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Tech industry cheers Bush pick for DoJ
News Several members of the tech industry are cheering president-elect Bush's pick for attorney general, saying Republican John Ashcroft's hands-off approach to commerce could be a boon for business.However, some are less certain about Ashcroft's...
[January 5, 2001, 8:46]
Tech industry M&A down 40pc in 2008
News During 2008, tech mergers and acquisitions fell 40 percent across virtually every sector of the industry, with $290bn in deals getting done to date, according to a study released Thursday by research firm The 451 Group.
[December 19, 2008, 7:36]
Tech industry quiet over Netscape lawsuit
News High-tech industry lobbyists issued a collective yawn after Netscape Communications filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against Microsoft claiming the software giant's business practices crushed the alternative browser.
[January 23, 2002, 13:41]
EC: Tech industry must recruit more women
News The tech and telecoms industry needs to get more women on board or risk confronting a shortfall of 300,000 IT workers in 2010, according to the European Commission. The Commission is hoping to influence more girls still in compulsory education to...
[March 9, 2007, 14:41]
Women 'central' to saving UK tech industry
News Women hold the key to plugging a critical skills shortfall that is affecting the entire UK tech industry, says the IT & Telecoms Insights 2008 report by e-skills UK based on Gartner research. Filling this hole will be impossible while the tech...
[April 16, 2008, 8:34]
BCS: UK tech industry faces skills crisis
News The booming games industry combined with tech such as nano- and bio-technology are driving the need for skills. The UK technology industry faces a looming skills crisis, according to the president of the British Computing Society, Professor Nigel...
[November 17, 2006, 15:42]
Divining Bush's views of the tech industry
News Bush's approach is a stark contrast to the stated goals, track record and public perception of vice president Al Gore, and the politicians sparred over their tech strategies in televised debates. His critics lambasted him for being an overly...
[December 14, 2000, 13:19]
ARM takes pulse of tech industry
News British chip designer, ARM Holdings, (quote: ARM) has been largely unaffected by the slowdown in high-tech sales over the last two quarters, but that could be about to change, according to analysts. Because ARM gets its revenues from other firms...
[May 14, 2001, 11:53]
Attacks shouldn't shake tech industry
News Wall Street observers see much fewer dramatic effects on the rest of the tech industry. If analysts are right, the raw numbers for the tech sector shouldn't change much in the long run. Baird & Co.examined at least four tech-related sectors...
[September 17, 2001, 16:03]
Gloomy expectations for budget from tech industry
News The tech industry has just two words for Chancellor Gordon Brown as he prepares to delivers this afternoon's budget: tax breaks. The tech industry doesn't have huge expectations. What the tech industry wants is as many tax breaks as possible at a...
[March 7, 2001, 13:24]
UK education system failing tech industry
News The issue of whether the education system is turning out enough qualified school leavers and graduates is one that has dogged the tech industry for years. The UK education system is failing to turn out the kind of school leavers that the technology...
[August 14, 2006, 14:35]
The Week in Review: Fooling the tech industry
News April launches fuel tech industry World events have had an unusually strong impact on the tech industry of late. The prices of BT's wholesale business ADSL products were cut by more than 50 percent this week, while rural areas will soon have the...
[April 4, 2003, 16:52]
April launches fuel tech industry
News Unlike many launches in the tech industry, Xtraordinary Hosting candidly admitted that the hosting platform is not good for much. Other tech companies chose 1 April to announce altogether more useful-sounding products.
[April 1, 2003, 14:09]
UK tech industry faces recruitment crisis
News Resignations are on the increase in the UK tech sector as bonus payments fall and pay rises drop below the national average. The 2007 National Management Salary Survey by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and Remuneration Economics shows an...
[June 27, 2007, 8:17]
MPs to scrutinise tech industry
News Broadband availability and offshore outsourcing to places such as India are to come under scrutiny from MPs as part of a wide-ranging examination into the health of the UK's IT industry over the next year.
[August 19, 2003, 11:00]
UK education system failing tech industry
Talkback So we're trying to inspire young people to see where a high tech career can lead them. We realise this problem at Universities, such as Southampton. We're just launched our 2006 Future Flight Greener by Design competition to design an airliner for...
[August 14, 2006, 19:15]
Divining Bush's views of the tech industry Pt II
News Go back to Pt I/ Divining Bush's views of the tech industry By contrast, Bush has been hesitant to talk about or form official commissions on topics that can directly influence Internet infrastructure -- despite a respectable record in Texas, which...
[December 14, 2000, 13:20]
The 'Green' Challenge: Complying With the Impending Environmental Regulations in the Hi-Tech Industry
White Papers Most compliance strategies are lagging behind mandated deadlines, placing high-tech manufacturing companies at serious risk. Compliance with pending and existing environmental directives will influence many aspects of business operations -from the...
[November 19, 2008, 23:00]
Microsoft may dodge tech-industry bullet
News Microsoft, one of the few high-tech companies not to issue a profit warning during the quarter, is weathering slow sales in part because of good fiscal management, say analysts. Microsoft could sidestep the PC slowdown that trampled other companies...
[April 19, 2001, 14:55]
Tech industry unfazed by Gates's withdrawal
News But Bill Gates' Windows operating system is the dominant product of its age, running well over 90 percent of the PCs in the world and inspiring praise, venom and legal tangles during various points in Gates' tenure in the industry.
[June 16, 2006, 9:45]
