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News But a spokesman for the Identity and Passport Service said the department had confidence in the system that would be fully functional by the second half of 2009. A prototype of the UK ID card biometric database will be delivered by French firm... [04 Aug 2008]
The Naked CIO: Tech's weasel words
Comment A department that once was the epitome of straight-talking no longer seems capable of giving a simple answer. And a little more honesty wouldn't go amiss either, says the Naked CIO. As a CIO I probably have as many pet peeves as the next person. [04 Aug 2008]
Flexible working: Gov't 'must do better'
News The Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills is leading the way with 100 per cent of staff given laptops for home working, but the Ministry of Justice has just four per cent of staff able to work from home, putting it at the bottom of... [30 Jul 2008]
Leeds Council puts faith in Microsoft
News The agreement is already delivering benefits with a pilot project underway in the Children's Services department around secure joint working on document and case management files. Leeds City Council (LCC) is hoping to save money and develop new... [28 Jul 2008]
Ministry of Justice loses 45,000 records
News The MoJ has lost laptops, portable storage devices and papers containing information on recruits, offenders, court appellants and suppliers, the department's annual resource accounts have revealed. The details of 45,000 people, including criminal... [25 Jul 2008]
Photos: Future car tech at the British Motor Show
Photo UK environment minister, Phil Woolas, has a go on a simulator that tests how efficient your driving is here at the Department for Transport's Greener Driving Pavilion at the show. The CCR is capable of 242mph and can reach 60mph in just 3.2 seconds. [25 Jul 2008]
First students graduate from IT 'business' degree
News McKibbin has secured a place on British Airways' IT Graduate Programme in Newcastle, to start this September; while Broom will take up a post with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, working within the procurement department. [24 Jul 2008]
ISPs join file sharing crackdown
News The deal between ISPs and the music industry was reached under the guidance of the Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and also includes the Motion Pictures Association of America. [24 Jul 2008]
Does open source pose a security risk?
News A May study funded by the US Department of Homeland Security praised improvements in open-source security. The security practices of open-source IT developers should lead enterprises to think twice before using open-source software, according to a... [22 Jul 2008]
Ragan Report: Do-It-Yourself Video Communication
White Paper Enabling internal collaboration, training, and video content presentations and webcasts at IBM was becoming prohibitively expensive and demanding for its IT department. Find how your IT department can reduce its workload with self-service... [18 Jul 2008]
Building Trusted VPNs With Multi-VRF
White Paper In large enterprises, particularly those distributed across disparate locations, sensitivity to information pertinent to a department drives the requirement for an IT manager to logically demarcate information flows to be within that department. [18 Jul 2008]
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Helps to Reduce Information Search and Retrieval Time
White Paper Different areas of the IT department were storing documentation in a variety of folders across the local and wide area networks - making them increasingly hard to find. A global brokerage firm with offices located in major financial centers around... [18 Jul 2008]
PowerTech's AS/400 Security Solution Delivers Peace of Mind, Ease of Use for Fortune 500 Broadband Company
White Paper Bringing the disparate systems and networks also acquired along the way into compliance with enterprise security standards created a huge technical challenge for Charter's IT department, which currently supports 15,000 employees. [18 Jul 2008]
Document Management Technology Enables City of Hope to Streamline Accounting and Accelerate Insurance Billing
White Paper Like most hospitals, City of Hope had a growing problem keeping up with all of their paper records in the accounting department. Several years ago, they installed a document management system to manage these records but it was taking too much time... [18 Jul 2008]
WorldView Case Study: Texas Plywood and Lumber Company, Inc.
White Paper Locating signed customer invoices became a challenge within Texas Plywood's accounting department. Founded in 1953, Texas Plywood and Lumber Company, Inc.supplies builders with doors and trim for houses that range from starter to one-of-a-kind... [18 Jul 2008]
