For many months recruitment company representatives have been lobbying hard to be allowed to bring in FTV workers. Their requests have been turned down.

Microsoft has expanded its efforts to gain industry standard acceptance for C#, the software giant's competitor to Java.

UK-based entrepreneurs are faring well in the face of the current global downturn, according to a new survey co-funded by the DTI published this week.

China has now moved past Japan to become the 2nd biggest IT hardware provider. Only the US is still ahead of China, but probably not for much longer.

New research shows 46% of UK IT managers believe databases will be inadequate within next 12 months.

Analysts at Gartner Dataquest predict an outsourcing surge this year in the constant drive to lower costs.

Recently Microsoft announced they were outsourcing IT capability to India. We look at the reasons behind this move and what it could mean for the future.