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Queensland's managed it; the US GSA has had a stab at it; so why might Europe's procurement rule change not help its national governments IT purchasing?

Queensland's managed it; the US GSA has had a stab at it; so why might Europe's procurement rule change not help its national governments IT purchasing?
Beautiful designs - software, not football stadiums - as Infor tips up in Birmingham to talk upgrades and ecommerce.
T-Mobile US is scrapping roaming charges in favor of a fixed price plan for those who travel overseas. On its face, this is a compelling offering and a disruptive move in an otherwise mored marketplace.
The public sector is rife with costly IT failures, but the usual suspects continue to pick up new contracts. Is the time approaching when doing a bad job might not lead to fresh revenue streams?
TIBCO TUCON 2013 gets underway next week. It promises to be an exciting week as the company unveils progress with analytics, cloud and - of course - integration as evidenced by high profile customers.
The BBC is a UK institution almost on a par with the National Health Service in terms of its role in the national consciousness. But it's also an organisation that's having to re-examine its role in the world and to work out its direction in a digital age.
GE is presenting a coherent and well thought out vision of the future involving machine data with the intuition that experience brings in its core vertical markets. It is a huge opportunity.
Can an enterprise software company dating back to 1981 become an unlikely leader in the emerging PaaS (Platform as a Service) category? I went to Boston to find out.
Amazon has won the latest round in its battle to be awarded a cloud infrastructure contract. IBM's challenge is thrown out. What does this mean for vendors going forward?