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e-readers and tablets rule this Christmas
According to YouGov, 1.3m e-readers were sold in the UK this Christmas; 92% of them Kindles. 640,000 tablets were sold; 72% of them iPads. In the US c4 -5m Kindle Fires were sold. Morgan Keegan was...
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IBM adds 'test in the cloud' capability with Green Hat
IBM’s latest acquisition isn’t in the analytics space where most of its recent activity has been (see here) but is still in the cloud space which is another of its target areas. The newest purchase is...
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BAE Systems Detica becomes CEOP strategic partner
Interesting announcement from BAE Systems Detica; it has announced Strategic Partner status with the CEOP Centre (Child Exploitation and Online Protection). CEOP’s other strategic partners are...
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UK up but ‘difficult’ for Robert Walters
After a decline in Q3 UK net fee income (gross profit) at recruitment firm Robert Walters (see Robert Walters follows the trend), the UK closed Q4 3% up, against group NFI growth of 12% (at constant...
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Decline of the traditional IT Dept
We really liked the quote from George O'Connor at Panmure Gordon in his morning note today. Indeed, I couldn't have put it better myself! George wrote:- As we pour through the latest industry analysts...
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To be reborn, first you have to die
On Friday in my post Decline of the traditional IT department George O’Connor had quoted Lewis Platt – then CEO of HP – from Fortune in 1994 saying "We have to be willing to cannibalize what we're...
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Regent
Regent Group Ltd, where I was a non-executive director, and its trading subsidiary, Regent Partners International Ltd, went into administration on 23rd Dec 11. As a result, members of the management...
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Healthcare still moving for Allocate, despite slow closure rate
Business is going to plan at Allocate Software with H1 (to November 30 2011), performing in line with management’s expectations, although we did pick up a note of caution from CEO Ian Bowles’s comment...
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Instem fails to meet expectations
Instem Life Science Systems, provider of IT applications to the global early development healthcare market, warned today that turnover in the year to 31 December 2011 was only slightly ahead of last...
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UK ‘blot’ spreads at Hays
We described the UK results of international recruiting giant, Hays, as a ‘blot on the landscape’ last quarter (see Hays: UK & Ireland blots the landscape). Well, it seems the ‘blot’ spread further...
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‘Little British Battler’ invitees soon to be announced
What a storming response we had to our call for ‘Little British Battlers’ to meet the TechMarketView research team (see Calling all ‘Little British Battlers’!). Over 150 companies applied and about...
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KPMG: public sector down, financial services up
'Big 4' firm KPMG has revealed its performance in FY11 (to 30 September) revealing a solid global performance: combined member firm revenues were $22.7 billion, an increase of 10.1% in USD or 6.2% in...
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Craneware H1 update is a jolt to the system
AIM listed Craneware usually brings good news when it reports but its H1 update broke the trend causing its shares to plummet 23% in response. Revenue for the six months to December 31 2011 was up 12%...
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Northgate wins Northern Ireland education contract
We’re getting news that Northgate has been appointed preferred bidder for the Education Network Northern Ireland (ENNI) contract. The value is not yet confirmed, but the base contract will be in the...
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ARM backs the right horse?
You might have read my comments in Murad Ahmed’s article in The Times today about how the time for interactive TVs have finally arrived. See CES showcases gadgets and gizmos for 2012. For those not...
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Teaching the 'grammar of the 21st Century'
Today, Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, will give a speech at the BETT Show announcing that the current ICT lessons in schools will be scrapped from this Sept to be replaced by compulsory lessons...
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A good ‘miss’ at Michael Page
If you were to look at the FY trading update from international recruitment firm Michael Page in isolation, you’d probably applaud the 23% uplift in net fee income (gross profit) and the 18% increase...
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Software AG ends the year with a bad fall
Software AG shares dropped over 20% yesterday after its prelim Q4 results indicated an 8%-10% drop in total revenue to Euro 290m-Euro 295m (constant currency) compared to a year ago, and licence...
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Shrinking PC sales take their toll on Microsoft’s Q2
Microsoft has warned of lower revenue and profits from the Windows division in Q2 following a contraction in PC sales. PC shipments in the last part of calendar 2011 were impacted by the floods in...
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Infosys lowers guidance!
They are the first India-based major to report each quarter and are therefore seen as the bellwether for the offshore services brigade – indeed for the global IT services market. So when Infosys says...
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