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Netcall improves cash position at half year
An 'in-line' update from AIM-listed build-and-buy contact management company Netcall, points to further progress since its last update in October (see here). After ‘securing a good level of orders’...
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HCL plays ‘local jobs’ theme as BPO losses mount
Shiv Nadar, chairman of fifth-ranked India-based offshore services firm, HCL, made local jobs the key theme of his comments on the company’s Q2 results (to 31st Dec.), poetically declaiming how HCL is...
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EMIS has positive outlook
Trading at UK healthcare software provider EMIS was in line with management expectations in fiscal 2011 despite the uncertainty in the wider NHS IT market. Although detailed figures haven’t been...
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Smart Meter Madness (6)
I first highlighted my concerns about the Government’s plan to replace all 50-odd million UK gas and electricity meters with ‘smart’ devices, back in December 2008 (see Groundhog decade - will ‘Smart...
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Computacenter preferred bidder at Cumbria CC
It’s all change at Cumbria County Council. In August 2010 (see Capita’s time at Cumbria CC comes to an end), we wrote about the Council’s decision to move away from a large outsourced contract for a...
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Help make the Prince’s Trust Fujitsu’s Charity of the Year
This year could be really special for Fujitsu and The Prince’s Trust. The Trust is one of the charities competing in a staff vote to be Fujitsu’s Charity of the Year. So this is a blatant request to...
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Wikipedia closes for a day
Wikipedia will shut down for the day tomorrow in protest against the US Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect Intellectual Property Act. I must admit to being a regular Wikipedia user. Not just for...
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Yang leaves Yahoo
So ‘Visionary’ co-founder Jerry Yang has left Yahoo (FT 18th Jan 12) Five months back Carol Bartz was sacked and, a few weeks back, Scott Thompson from PayPal was appointed as CEO. Yahoo will...
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No surprises from TCS
It was what I guess you’d call a workman-like performance from the largest of the India-based offshore services players, TCS, with Q3 revenues (to 31st Dec.) 21% higher yoy at $2.59b, 2.4% up qoq. The...
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Logicalis profitability up despite headwinds
Datatec, the Johannesburg- and London-listed network integrator, has released an interim management statement this morning covering the period September to December 2011. It reiterates the expectation...
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Kodak files for Chapter 11
Further to my post To be reborn, first you have to die which featured Kodak, the inevitable has now happened. Kodak last night filed for Chapter 11 bankrupcy protection in New York. It has also...
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MindTree in a squeeze
Subscale India-based offshore services firm MindTree, pretty much followed the trend of larger peers, reporting handsome growth in revenues and margins, largely on the back of a much weaker Rupee....
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Aviva brings back calls from WNS
In another sign of the trend to move offshore call services back on shore (see Tide turning for offshore call centres), Aviva, the largest client of offshore BPO pure play WNS, is bringing ‘certain...
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Assurance delivering high growth for NCC Group
The alignment of internal and external factors means escrow and testing provider NCC Group has delivered the goods for the first half of the year (to November 30 2011). Revenue was up 28% to £42.4m,...
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New DG appointed at Intellect
As we reported back in Sept 11, long-standing Intellect Director General John Higgins is moving to head up DigitalEurope in Brussels (See Higgins to work his magic in Europe) Today it was announced...
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Google disappoints
Long-term HotViews readers, or anybody attending my ‘State of the ICT Nation’ presentations over the past five or so years, will know that I am not a great believer in Google’s long term prospects. In...
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Wipro – it’s time to stoke the boilers
It should have been like shooting fish in a barrel. But it seems that India-based offshore services firm, Wipro, must have had wonky sights. With the Rupee depreciating some 11% over the quarter, all...
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Logica renews Taylor Wimpey for 50% less
In yet another sign of how tough things are out in the UK SITS market, Logica has renewed an IT outsourcing relationship with UK house builder Taylor Wimpey, for £15.2m over the next five years – a...
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Even more changes at the top for RM
Not sure of the ‘inner meaning’ just yet, but RM has announced that Rob Sirs is stepping down as group MD “for personal reasons”. Sirs was due to leave RM last year but instead was promoted to his...
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Scisys optimistic on 2012
After a ‘tough but successful’ first half of 2011 (see here) SciSys, the AIM-listed SITS supplier to the government, space, and broadcast & media sectors, met expectations in the second half...
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