News

• U.K.'s Logica goes to CGI for $2.6 billion

  By John Ribeiro | 31 May, 2012 11:04

  CGI Group, a Canadian IT services and business process services company, has agreed to acquire its larger European competitor Logica for £1.7 billion (US$2.65 billion) in cash, in a bid to expand its European presence, the companies said Thursday.

• Emergency workers scan QR codes to quickly access health information

  By Kerry Davis | 31 May, 2012 02:06

  QR codes are being used for more than just advertisements in Marin County, California. There, paramedics hope the stickers could help save lives in emergency situations.

• Ellison, Phillips, McDermott to take stand in Oracle-SAP retrial

  By Chris Kanaracus | 24 May, 2012 16:49

  During the upcoming retrial of Oracle's corporate-theft lawsuit against SAP, the companies plan to call a star-studded array of tech executives as witnesses including CEO Larry Ellison, former Oracle co-president and current Infor CEO Charles Phillips and SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott, according to court documents filed Thursday.

• Tech guns for hire: 5 places to find skilled IT contractors

  By Logan Kugler | 22 May, 2012 20:08

  Even for organizations with a stellar full-time IT staff, situations often arise where temporary outside help is needed. A big Web project might demand a few extra programmers to meet a tough deadline, for example, or a rollout of tools to support a sales force bent on capturing a broader market may require expertise not available in-house.

• Outsourcing Allows Utility to Refocus IT

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 21 May, 2012 23:44

  Consumers Energy has hired an outsourcer to take over some of its day-to-day IT operations, and it hopes the move will allow its own data center workers to focus on projects that directly impact its bottom line.

• Nvidia tries to link cloud with graphics processors

  By Agam Shah | 16 May, 2012 05:03

  Nvidia on Tuesday announced technologies that could make its upcoming Tesla graphics processors more accessible to cloud deployments in enterprises, while also reversing a trend of relegating highly parallel chips to specialized math and scientific calculations.

• Utility hires outsourcer -- but keeps IT staff

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 14 May, 2012 23:02

  Consumers Energy, a large utility in Michigan, has hired an offshore outsourcing firm to take over some of its IT operations. But instead of cutting its internal IT employees, it is retraining them for new types of work.

• Amazon Web Services personalizes CloudFront web hosting service

  By Peter Sayer | 14 May, 2012 21:59

  Amazon Web Services has extended its CloudFront web hosting service to include dynamic content that can be personalized for each visitor.

• Options grow for third-party SAP application support

  By Chris Kanaracus | 11 May, 2012 05:40

  The nascent market for third-party SAP application support gained another player on Thursday, with Spinnaker Support announcing a service that will place it in competition with the likes of Rimini Street.

• Google releases 'experimental' full-text search API for App Engine

  By Cameron Scott | 09 May, 2012 10:31

  Google is testing a long-awaited full-text search API (application programming interface) for the Google App Engine, the company said on Tuesday.

• EXCLUSIVE: Ingram Micro delivers the goods

  By Mike Gee | 09 May, 2012 08:20

  When Ingram Micro recently revealed its new $35 million warehouse, it also revealed, exclusively to ARN, elements of its game plan for the rest of the year.

• EBay setting up a second development center in India

  By John Ribeiro | 08 May, 2012 23:29

  EBay is hiring for a development center it is setting up in Bangalore, its second in the country.

• MasterCard, startup PaidPiper tap into credit cards for mobile payments

  By Stephen Lawson | 08 May, 2012 04:27

  PaidPiper, a startup that will debut at the CTIA Wireless show this week, is developing a mobile money transfer system suited to developed economies where the credit-card infrastructure is dominant.

• Campbell takes over as DiData's Director of Solutions, Australia

  By Mike Gee | 07 May, 2012 14:14

  ICT services and solutions provider, Dimension Data Australia, has appointed Neil Campbell to the position of Director of Solutions, Australia.

• Office Live Small Business is closed, but customers still grapple with migration

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 05 May, 2012 08:29

  The deadline to migrate email domains and websites hosted on the Microsoft Office Live Small Business (OLSB) online service suite passed on Monday, but customers continue to post a steady stream of complaints and problem reports, indicating that the number of businesses that haven't made the transition is considerable.