Matthew Brown Quotes

The question for government is whether it can compete long term with a resurgent financial services industry in terms of getting the skills. If key IT staff are poached by the City, there could be serious consequences for the government`s IT agenda.

Mobile search is an area of keen interest to both users and vendors.

(Early last Friday evening, some elected officials sat in a room at the Bradley County Courthouse and admitted to each other that they didn`t know what to do with $20 million. It was a meeting of the County Finance Committee, but this was the first time they had ever faced such an issue.) I`m just walking into an ocean, ... An ocean I`ve never seen before.

It`s a great feeling. We`ll celebrate it tonight but then we have to get back to business.

In the mobile search market, a lot of business models are being tested, but it is not clear which will be viable.

It`s just time for another change, for me to start my life over. I have a job and a couple of offers. The money`s nice. People like me, treat me right.

We knew we had to come back and show these guys that we`re a better team, that we can in fact, beat them and that`s what we did.

Logic dictates contractors can`t be self-employed and employees simultaneously. It might only be a matter of time before we see truly joined up government, whereby claims by contractors for employment rights automatically trigger tax investigations.

In 2004, just 54% of contractors were predicting their earnings to rise, while 20% were predicting a fall in earnings, compared to only 3% now. For the last few years public sector IT spending has been a substitute for subdued spending in the private sector - but 2006 is set to be a year of strong growth across the board.

We have to get the job done. We`ve got a certain time we`ve got to get LaSalle Street open, and we`ve got to hit that date.