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Open source? No good for cost cutting, say CIOs
News Chris Ford, IT director, Nottingham City Council Despite tough economic conditions, CIOs have not turned to open source software as a way of making their IT budgets go further, according to silicon.com's latest exclusive... [23 Oct 2009]
NHS bodies outsource payroll in £12m deals
News NHS SBS will supply the eight organisations - which include NHS Nottingham City, Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust and Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust - with services including finance, accounting and payroll. [13 Oct 2009]
Apple's Snow Leopard won't make us move to Macs, say CIOs
News Chris Ford, IT director, Nottingham City Council According to silicon.com's CIO Jury, the release late last month of Apple's latest OS, Snow Leopard, won't signal the company's entry into the business market. [21 Sep 2009]
IT graduates failing to make the business grade, say UK tech chiefs
News Chris Ford, IT director, Nottingham City Council The majority of the jury said they believe universities are not producing IT graduates with the right skills for their businesses - bad news for graduates competing for... [02 Sep 2009]
Photos: Barclays turns to Hollywood to sell security
Photo With the film shot on location in Nottingham and Leicester, the entire project cost less than £1 per employee, according to Barclays. Think of a great premise for a Hollywood blockbuster and chances are it wouldn't... [03 Aug 2009]
Heat wave? No sweat for CIOs
News Chris Ford, IT Director, Nottingham City Council The latest silicon.com CIO Jury poll asked tech chiefs whether they'd taken any extra steps to protect their technology infrastructure during this week's heat wave, with... [03 Jul 2009]
Nigel Underwood
CIO Profile And holds a mathematics BSc from The University of Nottingham. Nigel Underwood, former CIO of DHL Logistics, is no stranger to the silicon.com CIO50 - this year marks his third appearance on the three-year-old list, a... [03 Jun 2009]
David Wright
CIO Profile Wright, who lives in Nottingham with his family, is a graduate of Virginia Bankers Association School of Bank Management and holds a masters of Business Administration and an MSc in the management of IT from the... [01 Jun 2009]
Trio of research hubs to poke digital benefits
News The universities of Aberdeen, Newcastle and Nottingham have been selected as the trio of tech hubs charged with investigating issues including digital exclusion, healthcare and transport delivery, and the ethics of data... [29 Apr 2009]
Google's Street View gives UK its close up
News The full list of UK cities covered by the service includes: Aberdeen, Belfast, Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Coventry, Derby, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, Leeds, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Norwich,... [20 Mar 2009]
Brits to get paid-for Android apps this week
News The typical G1 user is a 32-year-old male, likely to be living in London or the South East - although there are also G1 'hotspots' in Leicester and Nottingham, according to Warmsley. Paid for applications will be... [11 Mar 2009]
Marshal Case Study: Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH)
White Paper Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) is one of the largest in the UK with an annual budget of more than £500 million. With a small ICT team supporting such a large number of end users, the challenge was to... [21 Feb 2009]
Apple is not lost without Steve Jobs
News Chris Ford, IT director, Nottingham City Council IT leaders are confident Apple will remain successful following Steve Jobs' decision to step down as CEO for six months in order to deal with health issues. [27 Jan 2009]
Nottingham Trent uni bets £1.6m on unified comms
News Nottingham Trent University is replacing its legacy ISDX telephone system with a £1.6m Cisco unified comms (UC) network to foster closer collaboration between members of staff. The university's IT director, David Swayne,... [26 Jan 2009]
Photos: How Betfair predicts the future
Photo Leighton Vaughan Williams, Professor of Economics and Finance at Nottingham Business School, told silicon.com presidential elections have been predicted by analysing betting behaviour for decades. In the hurly burly of... [22 Dec 2008]
