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Variety favours Delcam
The strong upward momentum that has been evident at Delcam (see here) is still going strong, with the company reporting what it says are its best ever set of results, for the year to December 31 2012....
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Xchanging may lose Metal Exchange contract
Business process services provider Xchanging may see its flagship IT services contract with the London Metal Exchange (LME) terminated or significantly scaled back over the next twelve months. The news...
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Xchanging may lose Metal Exchange contract (update)
Xchanging’s announcement that it may lose all or part of its flagship infrastructure services contract with the London Metal Exchange (LME) (see here) is an unfortunate set-back for the recovering...
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‘Mahindra IT’ marriage delayed again
It’s been nearly four years since Indian industrial conglomerate Mahindra & Mahindra effected the arranged marriage between its telecoms-focused IT services arm, Tech Mahindra, and the resuscitated...
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2012 progress for Pilat Media and 2013 promise
Despite a bumpy year Pilat Media made progress in Q4 to end FY12 in a strong position and with new ventures to explore during 2013. Revenue was up 4.2% yoy to £23.5m which was better than the c3%...
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Instem fails to grow in FY12
Instem, the AIM-listed provider of IT applications to the early development healthcare market, has registered FY12 revenues a tad below those achieved in FY11. The picture would have been worse had it...
View ArticleLittle British Battlers – The Second Coming!
After our second hugely successful Little British Battler Day in February (see here) we are delighted to announce the publication of the accompanying report, which provides concise snapshots of the...
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More uncertainty for UK Border Agency suppliers
Yesterday, Home Secretary Teresa May announced that the UK Border Agency is to be abolished with its work returning to the Home Office. She described its performance as “not good enough”. The UK Border...
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Paywalls
Paywalls really interest me which is why I have written about them many times before. See Paywalls that work and work backkwards. In 1995 I launched Hotnews which just might have been the first...
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RM in line start to the year
A brief Q1 update from RM shows no surprises for the education software and services provider. The positive news follows non-exec chairman Martyn Ratcliffe's decision last month to relinquish the...
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Blackberry exceeds expectations
There was much anticipation ahead of Blackberry’s Q4 results – announced ahead of the markets opening before the long Easter break. I understand that around 30% of the stock had been shorted. Ie...
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International expansion smoothing performance at DRS
As a seasoned software and services provider to the education, election and census sectors, DRS Data and Research Services is used to the performance peaks and troughs that are a natural part of its...
View ArticleUKHotViews email Easter shutdown
Today’s will be the last UKHotViews email this side of Easter. The team will be back at their desks bright eyed and bushy tailed on Tuesday. Till then, may we wish all our readers season’s greetings...
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BT finally clinches Cornwall deal
We have written extensively on the long (and we suspect, at times, trying) journey that BT has been on with Cornwall Council. Most recently we commented in February in ‘More uncertainty for BT at...
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Steria ousts CGI (Logica) from HSE
Steria has ousted CGI (Logica) from the UK Health & Safety Executive (HSE) following the retender of its IT outsourcing contract. The news came as quite a surprise considering the length of...
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Dell, Windows 8 and poor forecasts
OK, I too haven’t read all of the 274 page public filing that Dell made on Thursday relating to their latest musing about going private. But what did interest me was the statement about the “uncertain...
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Share indices March 13
Except in one sector (Telecomms – see later) March was relatively unspectacular. But what a Q1 we have seen! NASDAQ up 8%, FTSE100 up nearly 9%, the FTSE SCS Index up 10.5%, TechMark100 up 13% and the...
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The Year of Wearable Computing
Those of you ‘lucky’ enough to have attended my annual ‘State of the ICT Nation’ address in Sept 09 (Well,l it did cost £1500 a ticket!) will remember that I declared 2010 would be ‘The Year of the...
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Accenture acquires predictive analytics player
Having reported a consulting slowdown this quarter (see Accenture repositions guidance on consulting slowdown) Accenture is now looking to the emerging space of predictive analytics to reignite its...
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Accenture repositions guidance on consulting slowdown
The continuing slowdown in converting its consulting backlog into revenues has prompted Accenture management to reposition its FY13 revenue guidance to the ‘lower half’ of its previously forecast 5-8%...
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