IT workers johnson
Photos: UK's ID card revealed
Photo There is also doubt among MPs and academics over how many people will be willing to pay £60 to have an ID card, after Johnson announced it would never be compulsory for UK citizens to carry a card. The... [30 Jul 2009]
Revealed: £12.4m cost of pilots' ID cards project
News The scheme, initially intended to make ID cards compulsory among pilots and other airside workers from this year, will now go ahead on a voluntary basis after being scaled back by Home Secretary Alan... [23 Jul 2009]
Labour politician joins calls to scrap ID cards
News Johnson reiterated to Parliament yesterday that the government is pushing ahead the rollout of ID cards and that a key contract to produce the cards for the medium term will now be in place this year, ahead of original... [07 Jul 2009]
ID cards: 'A project nobody wants and the nation can't afford'
News Johnson also announced yesterday the government still plans to roll the scheme out in Greater Manchester on a voluntary basis and will also extend it across the North-West region early in 2010. The... [01 Jul 2009]
ID cards U-turn: No compulsory cards for pilots
News In a statement, Balpa general secretary Jim McAuslan attributed the government's U-turn to the influence of Home Secretary Alan Johnson, who replaced Jacqui Smith at the beginning of the month. The government has... [01 Jul 2009]
Microsoft, Novell love-in spawns 100 joint customers
News The new customers include Honeywell Aerospace, Procter & Gamble, SC Johnson, Sky and Sony Pictures Entertainment. The arrangement has led to technical co-operation between the two, including a plug-in for Microsoft's... [11 Jun 2009]
Transport for London to slash IT spend by £400m
News The savings drive will help deliver part of the £2.4bn of "efficiencies" demanded by TfL commissioner Peter Hendy and London mayor Boris Johnson. Several hundred people are expected to lose their jobs as part of the... [18 Dec 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 25.04.08
Round-Up It's a well known fact that Samuel Johnson started to write the first dictionary on a ZX Spectrum. Again, it rankles somewhat with Dr Johnson's assertion, made without... [25 Apr 2008]
Five-year court battle bankrupts former City IT manager
News Johnson then started a £10m legal battle against Perot Systems, claiming one of its employees had provided a defamatory reference accusing him of being a fraudster to a staff screening company used by Deutsche Bank to... [09 Jun 2006]
Outsourcing row breaks out at Westminster City Council
News Unison national officer Dave Johnson said workers were stunned by the news: "This is pure economic greed at the expense of hundreds of jobs. Westminster City Council has denied it is... [22 Feb 2006]
CSC to retrain up to 10,000 workers after offshoring
News Alan Johnson, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, has cheered the decision. In a press statement, he said: "Globalisation is here to stay - Amicus is showing the way ahead, working in partnership with CSC to... [09 Aug 2005]
Microsoft bags Wal-Mart exec for COO role
News Microsoft said in June that it was giving Johnson a raise. Microsoft said its current sales chief, Kevin Johnson, will move to an unspecified new role once Turner joins Microsoft in the... [05 Aug 2005]
O2 workers reject "insulting" pay offer
News Dave Johnson, lead CWU negotiator with O2, warned that a ballot on industrial action is "inevitable" if O2 fails to improve its latest pay offer and said the mobile operator faces a summer of "discontent and disruption". [02 Aug 2005]
Portals and knowledge management - doors opening
Comment We don't use knowledge management as a term because it means many things," says Dominic Johnson, marketing director at Autonomy. We use a statistical approach to information," explains Autonomy's... [26 Apr 2004]
DTI says: get ready for self-employment
News Industry Minister Alan Johnson welcomed the report, saying that it "raised interesting issues about the way we will be doing business and organising work in the future". The majority of UK... [16 Aug 1999]
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