The new year began badly for ecommerce as it emerged that online shopping over the festive season had failed to come up with the goods.
The year 2001 brings happy news for IT salespeople of a big boost in internet and IT budgets.
Suppliers are taking the initiative when it comes to business-to-business ecommerce.
Deloitte & Touche has declared the UK technology industry 'fit and well' in its second annual survey.
Approximately a quarter of a million people joined the teleworking workforce last year, an increase of 19 per cent, according to an IES analysis.
A recent survey of IT students in the UK and Ireland has shown that, to them, the most attractive employer is Microsoft, with Sun Microsystems and IBM following closely.
In spite of the recent well-publicised market slump, there is huge potential for ebusinesses to grow the online shopping market in the UK.
According to research by ITEuropa.com, IT sales will boom in the Middle East and Africa over the coming three years as small and medium sized companies in the more developed countries start to automate their operations.
Nearly half of computer users in the UK now suffer from PC rage, according to new research.
Senior marketing staff are wasting the equivalent of a whole working week approving and amending direct mail and brochure copy, according to marketing communications specialist Elateral.
Sixty-five per cent of companies expect to achieve some form of voice and data integration over the next two years, according to an NOP survey.
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