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RSS government itUniversity donates old PCs to Chile
News She said: "Government-run schemes to increase access to ICT in education have made good headway, but children in extreme geographical regions in Chile face a gaping digital divide. Phil Andrews, of Nottingham University's IT operations team, said... [15 Aug 2008]
£68m 'snooping' database: Little impact on serious crime
News Powers to snoop on the UK's email and internet records will be of limited use in tackling serious crime, the government has admitted. Consultation papers released this week show the government wants to keep the "who", "when" and "where" of... [13 Aug 2008]
Will Nasa hacker be granted European court appeal?
News However, her colleague, trainee solicitor David Dinkeldein, told silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk that, as the ECHR will be considering the application, the UK government will not be able to extradite McKinnon for two weeks. [12 Aug 2008]
Inbox: YouTube surveillance, skills gap, Naked speak
Comment Inundating silicon.com's inbox this week have been comments surrounding the "sous-veillance" techniques being employed allowing citizens to turn the spotlight on government. Give them a grounding in business, government, media on which to hang... [11 Aug 2008]
Indian outsourcing giant builds £154m site
News The state government has worked at enhancing infrastructure facilities at Hyderabad to make it a premier IT destination globally. Indian IT outsourcing giant Infosys is building a £154m campus in Hyderabad that will employ 25,000 people. [11 Aug 2008]
Simplify Your World - A Virtual Desktops Case Study
White Paper In this second of a three-part Webcast series sponsored by Dell EqualLogic, hear how one organization - a county government - has done just that - deployed virtual desktops to help rein in desktop cost and complexity to simplify their IT environment. [08 Aug 2008]
Gov't battles EU to use passenger data
News The government is battling European Union (EU) proposals to restrict the way it uses air passenger data to monitor immigration. The government attacked the EU draft proposal on PNR saying there was a "real risk" it "would degrade e-Borders by... [08 Aug 2008]
IT teams not living up to public sector demands
News Some had a few constructive criticisms to give to their IT departments, with a third suggesting the government's IT problems could be solved by buying from local UK-based companies rather than multinational conglomerates. [07 Aug 2008]
Gov't spends £18m on comms surveillance
News Telecommunications companies and internet service providers have received more than £18m from the government in the past five years to cover the costs of collating databases of communications information, security minister Admiral Lord West... [07 Aug 2008]
IBM-Linux love-in targets Vista grumblers
News The partnership is targeting specialised markets, such as government, finance and education, where the partners said they see an opportunity due to the unpopularity of Windows Vista and the recent success of Linux-based efforts from IT... [07 Aug 2008]
Case Study: Clackamas County Oregon's Outdated Fibre Channel Infrastructure Runs Out of Capacity
White Paper Learn how one county government in the state of Oregon solved the problem of an aging Fibre Channel SAN that could not scale to meet growing needs. This case study discusses how Clackamas County's IT Department replaced an old Fibre Channel SAN... [07 Aug 2008]
Welsh Assembly signs e-procurement contract
News The portal, which supports the 'xchangewales' e-procurement programme, was ordered by Value Wales, the procurement arm of the government. Two hundred buyers for the government have been trained to procure goods and services online for central and... [06 Aug 2008]
£400m outsourcing deal faces employment tribunal
News The dispute revolves around the transfer of 1,500 local government jobs in Somerset - including more than 130 IT workers as well as finance, HR, property procurement and contact staff - to a joint venture company Southwest One at the end of 2007. [06 Aug 2008]
The rise and rise of Infor
Comment John Suffolk UK government So it may come as a surprise that on paper the achievements of Infor, a relative unknown, are even more impressive. First, it is expensive to maintain multiple platforms, although they have to do this to some extent... [06 Aug 2008]
£2.5bn gov't telecommunications contract up for grabs
News A £2.5bn network that will be the high-tech telecommunications backbone of government has been put out to tender. The next generation Ocean Programme network will streamline voice and video communication, data sharing and collaborative working... [05 Aug 2008]
