The monthly e-zine from Delta Comtech

January 2009


Happy New Year


As we enter another challenging twelve months for UK businesses, our monthly e-zines will bring you a series of  new ideas on how to get the best value out of your IT budget during the economic downturn.

Our first article this month presents the arguments for and against outsourcing.

 

Maximising IT budgets in a downturn: Outsourcing

 
Faced with a harsh economic outlook for 2009, every business will be reviewing its accounts for new ways to save money. This article presents the arguments for and against outsourcing and forms the first part in a series of tips on how to maximise your IT budget during the downturn. Read more

 
 

Top 10 predictions for 2009

 
At his annual “Predictions” dinner, hosted at New York’s Waldorf Astoria hotel last month, futurologist Mark Anderson offered some encouraging news for 2009. So as the year gets underway, we thought it would be fun to look at Anderson’s top ten tips for the coming twelve months. Read more

 
 

Money back from the taxman? Sounds phishy!

 
Internet scammers are constantly on the look out for ways to hook victims. But are they stretching the imagination too far with a recent round of emails promising tax rebates from the HMRC? The HMRC refer to this as the most sophisticated and prolific phishing scam they have encountered. Read more

 
 

Survey says two web searches are like boiling kettle

 
A Harvard academic has warned that just two Google search requests can produce “as much carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle”. So is this another sign that an increasing reliance on PC hardware, network servers and hosted data centres will land us in hot water with the environment? Read more 

 
 

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