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04/07/2008
IT staffing issues remain a major concern, say execs
Finding the right IT staff remains a challenge for large companies, according to a roundtable of executives.
02/07/2008
CIO News View: Eee but the PC is changing
Eee PC joins hot list of must have devices in the enterprise
New Microsoft bid for Yahoo search business
Microsoft could team up with Time Warner and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp in a new bid to acquire the Yahoo search business, according to the Wall Street Journal.
01/07/2008
Yahoo comes out fighting over Microsoft and Icahn
Yahoo has issued a presentation to shareholders casting doubt on the sincerity of Microsoft in negotiating to buy the company and attacking investor Carl Icahn who is challenging the board over its handling of the takeover bid.
30/06/2008
CIO News View: Don’t believe the Windows 7 hype
Five reasons not to get too excited by version 7
Gates: Yahoo deal 'not likely'
A deal between Microsoft and Yahoo doesn't appear likely to happen in the future, Bill Gates said in a TV interview on Friday.
27/06/2008
CIO News View: Fear, loathing and semantic search
Call it, if you really must, Search 2.0, but the desperation to crack the code that makes semantic search a reality is becoming tangible.
Fujitsu launches £44 million Green datacentre
Fujitsu has opened a £44 million green datacentre in a former warehouse, which it claims will use half the energy of current datacentres.
25/06/2008
Virgin loses 3,000 customer bank details
Virgin Media has lost the bank details of 3,000 of its customers.
24/06/2008
CIO News View: Symbian: (Lack of) business as usual
The smartphone OS is now owned by Nokia but it never made business phones a priority anyhow
Service level agreements are failing - Forrester
There is a fundamental mismatch between the service level agreements signed by IT departments and business units and the business objectives the SLAs are meant to deliver.
23/06/2008
CIO News View: Is tech M&A frenzy good for business?
Deal-making has a downside for customers
More than four-fifths of enterprises have endpoint holes
More than four out of five businesses fail basic security tests according to Sophos. Research carried out by the security vendor found that 81 per cent of corporate endpoints failed basic tests.
13/06/2008
CIO News view: Yahoo: Dumb call means it’s time for internet Monopoly
Sorry saga of Yahoo’s attempts to avoid being acquired
10/06/2008
CIO News View: Will Apple head for business?
Apple’s business opportunity and the CBI’s scary stats
Icahn attacks Yahoo chairman over pay
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn has continued his shouting match with Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock.
09/06/2008
IBM to release enterprise mashup tool
IBM plans to release enterprise-ready mashup products in the third quarter, hopes to offers a free trial version hosted on the Web that customers can test out beforehand.
US regulators launch anti-trust investigation into Intel
The US Federal Trade Commission is launching an anti-trust investigation into Intel, the chip manufacturing giant.
06/06/2008
Yahoo denies 'poison pill' plan
Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock has rejected charges by shareholder Carl Icahn that an employee retention package was designed to discourage a Microsoft takeover.
02/06/2008
