As part of an effort to improve companies' disaster preparedness, the Financial Services Technology Consortium (FSTC) has completed a framework for measuring businesses' operational resiliency. The Resilient Enterprise: Benchmarking for Maturity initiative is a collaborative effort begun in 2005 between
In spite of writedowns of nearly $150 billion in the last three quarters, brokerage IT spending will grow a modest 1.3% from 2008 to 2011, according to analysts at Oliver Wyman/Celent. They expect North American brokerages to spend $30 billion
In a deal that will make the Boston, Mass.-based insurer the fifth largest P&C carrier in the United States, Liberty Mutual announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Seattle-based Safeco for an estimated $6.2 billion. Following
Over on our sister site All About N-Gage, Ewan has reviewed FIFA 08, pronouncing it great for both novices and footie fanatics, praising the crisp graphics and training touches in particular. The only downside was thought to be the lack
More proof that Symbian Signed is starting to uncork the freeware blockages of the last year. Martin Storsjo's most excellent Large Time screensaver has also (at last) been officially Symbian Signed. (via p@sco)
Fellow mobile writers Matthew Stevens and Darla Mack have drawn our attention to Gypsii,another entrant in the albeit crowded marketplace for social networkspowered by the mobile phone. Gypsii is primarily built around photosharing and tagging each photo with the GPS
What two devices are black, metal, quad-band, Wi-Fi, GPS, qwerty and 3mp cam-equipped? That's right. The Nokia E90 and the i-Mate Ultimate 9502. Here Steve has pitched them headlong at each other, to see how the two titans fare. If
Sony Ericsson's Q1 results show an increase in overall device shipments of 2% from last year, but the good news end there with the average selling price dropping from 134 EUR to 121 EUR and profits dropping 42% to 181
The Nokia Music Store is now available in France, with a pricing of 1 euro per song, 10 euros per album, or 10 euros a month to listen to all the store's tracks through a PC. As with the other
Yes, it's that time in the month. PDA Essentials magazine is out, issue 74, this time with a two page feature on N-Gage, a two-page tutorial on location tagging your photos on the N95, plus a review of the Sony
SAMPOL has recently been involved in the build of the brand new Santo Domingo Metro, a rapid transit system in the capital of the Dominican Republic, and chose Cummins Power Generation to supply the metro's standby power needs. SAMPOL commissioned
Cargo Network International (CNI) was established in 1995 to provide a fully integrated international transport service to Australian importers and exporters. The company brings over 20 years&squo; experience in this specialised industry, providing our clients a professional integrated logistics management
