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Interwoven bought: now surely Vignette will be next
News that Autonomy is buying Interwoven will do little to dampen the fears that Vignette is not long for this world.Nor will its most recent preliminary results, which suggested it will fall well short of its Wall Street expectations when it
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Autonomy buys Interwoven: exclusive Mike Lynch interview
British enterprise search and information management company Autonomy has snapped up US content management maven Interwoven, for $775m.Interwoven is not coming cheap: it is costing Autonomy a 36% premium on Interwoven's average share price in the
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Blogs > Jason Stamper's Blog
Obama crashes Internet on inauguration day
The hundreds of thousands of people watching President Barack Obama’s inauguration online yesterday crashed the BBC’s live iPlayer coverage of the event.Obama’s inauguration led to a four-fold surge in online TV viewing after broadband Britons
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Blogs > Jason Stamper's Blog
UK tech deals surprisingly resilient in '08: research
PricewaterhouseCoopers research found that the value of UK technology transactions actually increased by almost 10% in 2008 despite the economic situation. What’s more, UK-inspired deals formed one third of all worldwide transactions. Not all
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Blogs > Jason Stamper's Blog
What are the 10 most recession-proof IT sectors?
While there have been some stark warnings about the likely impact of the recession on the IT industry, I like to think that there are sectors that will be more robust than others, and even see some decent growth. Here’s my pick of the top 10
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Blogs > Jason Stamper's Blog
Big Brother celebs not just being watched, but tracked
Housemates in the latest series of Celebrity Big Brother are already being watched by scores of cameras around the clock. But now their precise movements are being tracked thanks to RFID technology installed in the house, which could for example
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Blogs > Jason Stamper's Blog
Steve Jobs’ weight loss nightmare: hormonal imbalance
There have long been rumours swirling around the blogosphere that Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs is seriously ill, particularly since he has already survived pancreatic cancer. His apparent loss of weight over the course of the last year or so
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Blogs > Jason Stamper's Blog
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
To everyone who's read even one of my blogs this year, here's wishing you happy holidays. I shall return with more blogs in the New Year, unless I feel the urge to drag myself away from the festivities because some massive news breaks in the world
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Blogs > Jason Stamper's Blog
TfL’s back office savings should not just be for Christmas
News that Transport for London hopes to save £400m by restructuring its IT systems may be seen by many as a good thing; a step in the right direction. But then again, allowing back office functions to become so stodgy in the first place that an
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Blogs > Jason Stamper's Blog
Celebrity tech endorsements: battle of the brands
Celebrity endorsements of products are par for the course, indeed with more and more viewers becoming blind to more traditional advertising, they are only likely to become more common in the future. While product placements in films have long been
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Blogs > Jason Stamper's Blog
Data centre of the future? Bigger, greener, ‘cloudier’
Feast your eyes on what may well be the data centre of the future: a purpose-built, campus-style data centre that is not only greener than its forerunners, but will help to support the rise in data centre outsourcing in general and cloud computing
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Blogs > Jason Stamper's Blog
The mainframe isn’t dead, it’s resting
This isn't breaking news: reports of the mainframe’s demise are not only premature, they are utterly wrong. But what is true is that companies are trying to do more with less in this economic environment, and that includes the trusty
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Blogs > Jason Stamper's Blog
MiniDisc Community up in mini arms
The worldwide MiniDisc fanbase was somewhat shocked by a blog I wrote recently, in which a survey put the MiniDisc at number 14 in a list of Britain’s 20 most useless gadgets.Now I’m not saying I’m losing serious amounts of sleep over the outcry
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Blogs > Jason Stamper's Blog
Chancellor throws business IT into disarray with VAT rate cut
With news in the pre-budget report that the Chancellor is slashing VAT from 17.5% to 15% from Monday, many businesses will be struggling to get their IT systems updated in time.Since the rate of VAT changes so infrequently, many smaller firms have
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Blogs > Jason Stamper's Blog
SaaS alive and well?
Business process management maven Cordys has obviously not been listening to Lawson’s CEO, who has said that the Software as a Service (SaaS) market is doomed inside of two years.Cordys has just announced that it has entered an SaaS OEM agreement
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Blogs > Jason Stamper's Blog
