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Dear silicon.com: Tech teacher shortage, Kangaroo and phones on planes
Comment Also getting readers reaching for their keyboards this week, the OFT and Kangaroo and phones on planes - love them or loathe them? The issue that got readers talking this week was the IT-teacher drought - is "boring" IT to blame? [03 Jul 2008]
Report on e-Commerce/e-Government in Local Government: Outreach Results and an Action Plan
White Paper The State Office for Technology (OFT) is committed to reaching out to local government to bring them into New York State's e-Commerce/e-Government initiative. In the summer of 2001 OFT conducted an Outreach Program to collect information necessary... [03 Jul 2008]
Assessing the Impact of Public Sector Procurement on Competition
White Paper The paper suggests an approach for identifying sectors in which further investigation of public procurement processes might be justified, and uses readily available sectoral data for the United Kingdom to identify a number of sectors for further... [03 Jul 2008]
The Evolution of Internet-Scale Event Notification Services: Past, Present and Future
White Paper Loose coupling, "an oft-praised quality of the Event-Based Integration (EBI) style of software architecture, emerges because event notifications can decouple sources and sinks in space, time, and topology, and provide a defined interface for the... [03 Jul 2008]
Kangaroo web TV faces competition scrutiny
News The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) says the joint venture could create an excessive concentration of video content. But the OFT is worried the concentration of content could potentially give the joint venture excessive power in the market. [30 Jun 2008]
Paul Coby
CIO Profile Coby's oft-used motto is "there are no IT projects, only business projects" and it is an approach that has proved to be extremely successful. Paul Coby was voted top CIO in 2007's inaugural CIO50 and since then has largely focused on ramping up the... [11 Jun 2008]
Faster payments ends wait for bank clearance
News The OFT-driven faster payments initiative, which seeks to reduce payment clearing times for internet and telephone payments of less than £10,000 to near real-time and standing orders to same-day processing, has been hailed as the start of the... [27 May 2008]
IT education organisation takes Microsoft grumbles to EC
News Last October, Becta went to the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) with two Microsoft-related complaints, one regarding school subscription-licensing arrangements and the other regarding the lack of full interoperability between recent products, such as... [14 May 2008]
The Naked CIO: Unequal opportunities
Comment Office insights… ¦ Workaholic Brits can't find the off switch ¦ Get flexible, keep staff - it works for the OFT ¦ Are remote workers hitting you where it hurts? From the inside, we know that to be true. [28 Apr 2008]
Wanted: Women must save IT industry
News Office insights… Workaholic Brits can't find the off switch Get flexible, keep staff - it works for the OFT Are remote workers hitting you where it hurts? The future of the UK's IT industry hangs on its... [15 Apr 2008]
Tech-savvy workers to make IT decisions in future
News Office insights… Workaholic Brits can't find the off switch Get flexible, keep staff - it works for the OFT Are remote workers hitting you where it hurts? Within two years, the brand and model of the... [14 Apr 2008]
'Dull' jobs cuts as companies turn to the cloud
News Office insights… Workaholic Brits can't find the off switch Get flexible, keep staff - it works for the OFT Are remote workers hitting you where it hurts? HP claims IT departments should be prepared for... [08 Apr 2008]
SAP takes tag-team approach to exec reshuffle
News Office insights… Workaholic Brits can't find the off switch Get flexible, keep staff - it works for the OFT Are remote workers hitting you where it hurts? With the appointment of Leo Apotheker to the post... [04 Apr 2008]
Shell accused of keeping staff in dark over job losses
News Office insights… Workaholic Brits can't find the off switch Get flexible, keep staff - it works for the OFT Are remote workers hitting you where it hurts? Shell has been accused of keeping IT staff in the... [03 Apr 2008]
Is your network performance getting you down?
News Office insights… Workaholic Brits can't find the off switch Get flexible, keep staff - it works for the OFT Are remote workers hitting you where it hurts? IT teams are dedicating increasing amounts of... [01 Apr 2008]
