A Japanese newspaper has reported that the Chinese government is planning to start asking firms wanting to export digital equipment into the country to give the government the source code for the product.

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Computer Weekly asked The Corporate IT Forum if it had any questions to ask Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer as they were interviewing him. So how could we refuse?
With our latest Corporate IT Forum Reality Checker suggesting that corporations may skip Vista altogether and go straight to Windows 7, we asked why large businesses should upgrade to […]

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The Corporate IT Forum has introduced a new range of corporate IT ‘reality checkers’ to enable IT directors to easily compare the progress and position of their company’s IT against other, similar-sized organisations.
Designed and developed by and for large-scale users of IT, the Corporate IT Forum reality checkers will allow IT users to immediately identify […]

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The Home Office has finally given its backing for a new central ecrime unit to fight cyber crime. Great news for long-suffering CSOs battling daily ecrime attacks but more work needed we think. The Home Office promises just £7m of funding to tackle an issue that the Home Office itself calls a ‘global menace’ - […]

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Companies often spend large proportions of their IT budgets on outsourced and offshored IT service providers so would it surprise you that many IT directors still struggle to find out whether or not they are receiving true value from these contracts?
When it comes to benchmarking outsourced contracts, companies are usually trying to find out one […]

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Declan Curry, the new presenter of the BBC’s popular Working Lunch TV programme is to present the awards at the Forum’s prestigious Real IT Awards ceremony on November 27 at the Cumberland Hotel, Marble Arch, London. The Forum’ s Real IT Awards have been designed by and for corporate IT and aim to recognise and […]

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