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In my November 2006 column, I covered a flood of online video news. Recently, nearly nonstop announcements about video services are appearing as companies endeavor to make money from the […]

Byline: Lesley Meall Bespoke systems The past few years have been a period of significant change for many accounting practitioners. Firms have needed to take on board numerous new regulations [...]

Information technologies are toppling traditional hierarchical business-management systems. The new model for twenty-first-century management will be extra-preneurship--virtual networks based on collaboration and self-actualization that will add value to all current [...]

With the current deterioration in the state of the economy, it has been somewhat surprising to watch the impact, or lack thereof, on the many websites that I frequent. Unlike [...]

First there was the dot com bomb, this was followed by global terrorism and armed conflict, which in turn led to an economic downturn that hit the technology sector hardest […]

The mists seem to have cleared enough to see the lie of the land, providing some with the confidence to say that the worst is over and the recession has […]

While current IT managers may be wary of cloud computing, upcoming generations more used to the idea mean cloud services will quickly become the norm for many applications When we […]

Byline: Rich Karpinski Remember ASPs - application service providers? How about SaaS, or software as a service? Or, to crib an IBM-birthed term, on-demand applications? Don't forget managed services. And [...]

It's not hyperbolic to say that digital marketing is facing a real revolution. After a decade of youthful growth, it's finally maturing. Progress has been steady until recently, when some […]

It has taken a while but the waves of the economic downturn have finally begun to lap at the shores of digital media. For the last few months the industry […]

As media agencies warn that clients are beginning to tighten their purse strings, display advertising seems to be the first affected as the focus falls on ensuring ROI The digital […]

The display ad market so far in 2008 provides interesting insights into the health of the online market but also the wider economy. The last five months have seen around […]

Have IT chiefs got their priorities wrong? The issue of consumer influence on IT purchasing should be higher up the CIO agenda Last month, IT Week celebrated its 10th anniversary […]

The end is nigh... or is it? The world was set to end Terminator-style at the end of 1999 as millions of PCs crashed due to the Millennium Bug. Planes [...]

Upstarts crash the search party A new breed of enterprise search tools promises to make it easier for managers to mine corporate data Tired? Disorientated? Confused? That's probably not all […]

Peer just a year or two down the retail road, and the most exciting source of technological potential comes from the all-but-ignored pillar of digital signage. This is not merely […]

Byline: JUSTIN CARRETTA As one of the top minds working at General Electric sees it, no longer are we merely in an era of dizzying high-tech advances. Knowingly or not, [...]

Media speculation has reached fever pitch on the upcoming transfer of power from Tony Blair to Gordon Brown. Westminster is waiting expectantly for an announcement following last week's local elections. […]

Apple's iPhone might have captured the public's attention but the strategic question remains: How will media and entertainment companies along with wireless carriers profit from mobile content? According to Hamilton […]

Once they had a slightly grubby reputation, but affiliate networks are now firmly in the mainstream, and finding that the rest of the industry wants a piece of their success. […]

future of the It organisation Will we actually see significant changes within the industry in the year ahead, such as SOA or RFID technology finally coming of age? As we […]

Finding 1 Customer Service Surges as a Top Priority for 2007 Upgrading infrastructure and improving processes remain high priorities. But many companies now appear to be ready to take it […]

Is Web 2.0 a legitimate trend or merely a catchphrase - and a soon-to-be dated one at that? The tech renaissance is providing second chances for many in PR, the [...]

The start of 2007 finds IT vendors at the top of the food chain squirming at being treated like the help. Vendor royalty such as Microsoft, Dell, and Intel, along […]

Just how diverse is IT in the United States today? It depends on who you ask. Some will say, 'More than ever,' and tell you about companies that are itching […]

Cliff Saran cliff.saran@rbi.co.uk For IT directors, 2007 may be the year that they are able to escape inflexible terms and conditions on their enterprise software usage, according to Forrester Research. […]

There's a four-letter word IT pros know all too well: risk. In 2007, IT executives will need to clearly evaluate risk as they weigh sometimes opposing proposals to bolster security, […]

After the wish lists and resolutions have faded, there are the inevitable predictions about how the new year will play out. This year, Gartner weighs in with its 'Top Predictions [...]

Web 2.0 is revolutionising the way we communicate, consume media, entertain ourselves, shop and bank. Sure, the drivers that are changing internet use today are partly due to the developments [...]

Hot on the heels of the Stern Review, the Queen's Speech addressed the threat of climate change. It introduced a statute to reduce carbon emissions by 60% by 2050, along […]