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Westminster computing put on size-zero diet

Whitehall's green IT champion doesn't like pies with his chips

Revealed: The apps you'll have on your phone in 2012
Find out what you'll be packing - and the applications your company needs to prepare for

Tags: gartner, mobile phone, app store, iphone

UK ID cards rollout hit by delay as launch date revealed
Target for Greater Manchester cards is missed

Tags: public sector, biometrics, id cards

£500,000 fine coming for businesses that lose data?
Watchdog gets teeth - but only after more than 700 data breaches

Tags: ico, information commissioner's office, data loss, data breach

The software that can save you big bucks? You've already got it
How ERP can clobber CO2 and cut costs to boot...

Tags: sap, bi, erp, green it

UK web snooping plans: Full steam ahead
News in brief: Government ploughs on with Interception Modernisation Programme

Tags: instant messaging, facebook, interception modernisation programme , web monitoring plans

'Don't just outsource the problem when you outsource IT'
Get the strategy right first, public sector told

Tags: local council, cost savings, public sector outsourcing

Bletchley Park's World War Two codebreakers in their own words
A journey from the Colossus computer room to the battlefields of Europe

Tags: codebreaking, second world war, bletchley park

Europe: Brace yourself for a telecoms overhaul
News in brief: European Parliament agrees to reform package

Tags: european union, parliament

Covert surveillance must be reserved for serious crimes, says government
News in brief: Councils must cut back on using Ripa powers to catch petty offenders

Tags: ripa, surveillance

Whose IT budget has been hit the hardest?
The winners and losers in tech spending revealed

Tags: budget growth

Why the UK will never create a Google, Microsoft or Oracle
CIO Jury: Brains are not enough to create a British software powerhouse

Tags: google, microsoft, oracle, cio jury

£39m boost for London Olympics' emergency comms
Airwave beefed up in time for 2012 Games...

Tags: home office, tetra, london 2012 olympic games, airwave

'Incompetent': Watchdog's verdict on prisoner database
News in brief: Parliament's Public Accounts Committee slams C-Nomis

Tags: pac, database, c-nomis, prison

Taxman to save £110m by taking an axe to its IT estate
HMRC trims one of UK's largest outsourcing contracts

'UK must up privacy safeguards following Phorm'
News in brief: Government must boost privacy safeguards

Tags: european commission, uk government, phorm

Parking in the West End goes contactless
Wave and pay on trial with Westminster City Council

Tags: westminster council, parking, wave and pay, contactless payment

Full steam ahead for plans to cut off file-sharers
News in brief: Peter Mandelson confirms government plans to ban repeated offenders

Tags: isps, peter mandelson, file sharer

Why CIOs are saying yes to open source software
Open source finds favour with IT chiefs - but what about end users?

Tags: cio, linux, open source

How will you use Google Wave? Recruiting, decision-making, dealing with complaints
Wave's co-creator on why businesses are already eyeing Google's collaboration platform

Tags: sap, web 2.0, google, web apps

Olympics tech team gets ready to put London 2012 IT through its paces
Gearing up for the Games: Integration labs, datacentres and increasing staff

Tags: integration labs, beijing olympics, atos origin, london 2012 olympic games

'Cross-border shopping must be made easier'
News in brief: EC calls for simplified retailing

Tags: european commission, eu, shopping, online

Monitoring staff email and internet: The dos and don'ts
Should you be keeping an eye on the inboxes of your workers or not?

Tags: office policy, privacy policy, hr, monitoring staff email

Blocked: BBC plan to share iPlayer with rivals
Back to the drawing board, says watchdog

Tags: video on demand, channel 4, bbc trust, bbc

Windows 7: Who's adopting it, when and why?
Hasta la Vista... Redmond's latest OS set to trample on predecessor

Tags: operating systems, microsoft, it director, windows 7

It's a dog's life for police BlackBerrys
Eaten by dogs and run over by cars: find out how smartphones are adjusting to life out on the beat

Tags: police national computer, rim, smartphones, blackberry

ID cards: 10,000 Brits want to sign up
Out of 61 million? Well, that's a start...

Tags: manchester, directgov, id cards

Virtualisation: How to get real benefits from your virtual investment
Cutting the connection between the hardware and operating system can bring big benefits - but beware the pitfalls

Tags: gartner, hypervisor, servers, virtualisation

Tax-refund phishing scams hit an all-time high
HMRC warns users to avoid getting duped by fake cashback offers

Tags: email, tax, hmrc

Next-gen IP kicks off in Europe
News in brief: First EU agency starts IPv6 ball rolling

Tags: enisa, ipv4, ipv6

Telecoms worker? You're in demand. Techie? Not so much
Job market research reveals spike in telecoms vacancies

Tags: telecoms, monster, jobs

It's down to you to save the world, IT industry
Brussels calls on tech to cut its own carbon - and help everyone else do the same

Tags: dematerialisation, collaboration, carbon emissions, videoconferencing

NHS bodies outsource payroll in £12m deals
Eight new customers for NHS SBS

Tags: finance, payroll, outsourcing, nhs sbs

Bletchley Park WWII codebreakers honoured
Foreign Secretary meets veterans who helped crack the Engima

Tags: bletchley park

Home Office inks £430m deals with Atos Origin, Fujitsu
£100m shaved off tech costs

Tags: atos origin, fujitsu, home office

BBC names new CIO as part of tech shake-up
And promotes from within...

Tags: news, cto, strategy, cio

LHC restart on track for November
The countdown is on to more particle colliding…

Tags: lhc, cern

UK lagging in 25th place in global broadband stakes
South Korea is king of the fat pipes according to study of worldwide broadband quality

Tags: south korea, uk, broadband

'New tech? Not for me': CIOs running scared in the recession
Wait and see is the downturn motto for IT chiefs

Tags: purchase, budget, cio, fujitsu

Where to make the biggest bucks working in IT
Which sectors are best for your pay packet?

Tags: finance, retail, public sector, salaries

How to avoid getting burned when outsourcing
Telltale ways of spotting the danger signs with BPO suppliers

Tags: gartner, bpo, offshoring, outsourcing

Bletchley Park lands £460,000 funding boost from lottery
Home of WWII codebreakers gets cash for restoration

Tags: national museum of computing, code, nazi, bletchley

Is open source software finding a home in Whitehall?
Public sector use of open source could soon get a boost

Tags: ingres, government, software, open source

Xerox snaps up ACS in $6.4bn deal
Another multibillion-dollar acquisition in the fight for services dominance

Tags: xerox, acs

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