Companies 'to spend more on the next wave of technology'

...Successful companies of the future will combine gadgets such as BlackBerry phones, home broadband and increasingly common microchips into a seamless whole.

...Robin Dargue, Diageo's chief information officer and business process director, will be one of the key speakers at the conference along with Arman Hazairin, the vice-president of IT at Telkomsel, Indonesia's biggest mobile phone firm.

Hazairin is expected to discuss Telkomsel's customer service systems, developed by the Renfrewshire software developer Graham Technology.[more, business.scotsman.com]