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RSS suffolkRevealed: What students think of tech work
News John Suffolk UK government If IT is to plug its skills gap by attracting graduates from other disciplines the industry needs to convince students the work can be as exciting as its potentially wallet-fattening pay packets. [23 Jun 2008]
Leading a horse to water
Comment Government CIO John Suffolk is number five in this year's silicon.com CIO50 list. All these tasks ultimately mean one thing to Suffolk - better public services. Suffolk has a great deal of public sector experience but his roots are in the... [23 Jun 2008]
Google Android facing delays?
News John Suffolk UK government New mobile phones being developed by Google and more than 30 partners based on software called Android will arrive in the fourth quarter, a schedule that some carriers and program makers are struggling to meet, The Wall... [23 Jun 2008]
Facebook is "educational", says US uni
News John Suffolk UK government Social networks like Facebook and MySpace have reputations as tools for procrastination but a new study from the University of Minnesota, US says contests this. According to the study, social networks build beneficial... [23 Jun 2008]
BCS warns over IT degree funding
News John Suffolk UK government The government is gambling with the UK economy by removing funding for graduates who want to retrain in IT, the British Computer Society (BCS) has warned - at a time when the industry is crying out for more skilled recruits. [20 Jun 2008]
Euro 2008 blues dents online booze and TV sales
News John Suffolk UK government Online shopping is continuing to grow steadily across many ranges in May but the lack of a home nations team in the Euro 2008 football championship means sales of electrical goods and alcohol has fallen by around 10 per... [20 Jun 2008]
London Stock Exchange to ramp up electronic trading
News John Suffolk UK government The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has celebrated the first anniversary of the launch of its electronic trading platform TradElect with promises of exponential increases in volumes over the next couple of years. [20 Jun 2008]
Travis Perkins builds its tech future
Case Study John Suffolk UK government Travis Perkins has carried out a complete overhaul of its IT over the past year and as a result has a much more robust infrastructure with capacity to expand. The project was prompted by the acquisition of DIY retailer... [20 Jun 2008]
Red Hat CEO: We're "tough to do business with"
News John Suffolk UK government Red Hat's new chief executive Jim Whitehurst has admitted his company needs to improve its approach to its customers and partners. Speaking on the first day of the Linux specialist's annual user conference in Boston... [20 Jun 2008]
MoD to save £35m with online travel service
News John Suffolk UK government The Ministry of Defence (MoD) expects to save £35m per year through an online travel service set up and managed by Capgemini. The service, which will support the travel needs of 300,000 Army, Royal Airforce, Royal Navy... [19 Jun 2008]
Will staff 'Right to Train' boost skills?
News John Suffolk UK government The government has launched a consultation on a proposal to give employees a legal right to request training - describing investment in skills as key to bolstering the economy. [19 Jun 2008]
Oracle takes on SAP with retail apps
News John Suffolk UK government Oracle has released the latest version of its Retail application suite, a move the company says is the most significant product launch of the division's three-year history. CIO50 2008: Top 10 [18 Jun 2008]
Exclusive: UK's top CIO revealed
News John Suffolk, CIO, UK government Royal Mail's Robin Dargue has been voted the UK's top CIO as he embarks on a mammoth technology-based £2bn transformation programme aimed at making the 360-year-old organisation leaner and able to compete better in... [11 Jun 2008]
John Suffolk
CIO Profile Although not a CIO in the traditional sense - each government department has its own CIO - John Suffolk is the public face of UK government IT and leads the work of the CIO Council to deliver the IT strategy behind the 'Transformational Government... [11 Jun 2008]
Green dream fuels shift in Whitehall
News Government CIO John Suffolk also held up the Department for Work and Pensions as an exemplar of Green IT in the public sector, saying it had reduced its number of servers by 2,500, slashing its CO2 output by thousands of tonnes. [09 May 2008]
