OFT
RSS OFTRanking the Top 5 Quarantine Approaches: Getting the Most From Your Quarantine Method
White Paper Indeed, the oft-noted example of authentication is, at a high level, just another remediation step - something the endpoint user must do to bring her endpoint into compliance. As the quarantine requirements for NAC... [13 Nov 2009]
Microsoft wants to be teacher's pet with new software deal
News Becta's spokeswoman said the organisation took the issue to the OFT as "we didn't feel it was something that could be progressed between [us and Microsoft]". Some UK schools may now be able to get a better deal on... [08 Jul 2009]
Cheat sheet: Project Canvas
Cheat Sheet Ofcom also suggested that the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) may have a part to play in Canvas' future - something unlikely to please the BBC and ITV after the demise of Project Kangaroo. Kangaroo, an online on-demand TV... [23 Jun 2009]
Paul Coby
CIO Profile His oft-quoted business mantra is "there are no IT projects, only business projects". Paul Coby topped the CIO50 list in 2007 and has been present in the list since then. He joined British Airways (BA) in 1997 and became... [03 Jun 2009]
The True Costs of Virtual Server Solutions
White Paper In an economic environment that is repeatedly heralding the message "do more with less" the efficiency of hypervisors are an oft-overlooked aspect of virtual infrastructure acquisition that has massive impact on total... [29 May 2009]
£70bn birthday present for Faster Payments service
News Despite growth in the use of Faster Payments, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) recently warned that consumers could be losing millions with banks not moving fast enough to take up the service. On one day in March, only... [27 May 2009]
Legal Eye: Ecommerce held back by outdated laws
Comment The Office of Fair Trade (OFT) has responded cautiously to a newly proposed EC Consumer Rights Directive whereby all EU countries would have the same level of consumer protection. But this could have the undesired affect... [15 Apr 2009]
Faster Payments too slow: Consumers lose £38m
News However, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has warned that the body overseeing the FPS, the Payments Council, needs to do more to make sure banks are actually using the service. This includes improving take-up of the... [27 Mar 2009]
IT Analysis - Sustained Disruption
White Paper The most oft quoted examples in the technology marketplace are the internet, HTML, the ecommerce model, open source, and distributed computing. Every so often something comes along that change the established order. [01 Mar 2009]
Keeping Your Head Above the Cloud: Seven Data Center Challenges to Consider Before Going Virtual
White Paper One of the pillars of the Virtual Data Center is virtual platform infrastructure, or the virtual machine; however virtual platforms are dependent on many other, oft forgotten components of both the physical and virtual... [11 Jan 2009]
OFT refers Capita IBS deal to Competition Commission
News Capita has seen its acquisition of fellow public sector software and services provider IBS Opensystems referred to the Competition Commission by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT). According to the OFT,... [21 Nov 2008]
Windows 7 prebeta receives positive response
News Microsoft on Tuesday offered up far more details on Windows 7, successor to the company's oft-maligned Windows Vista. In particular, Microsoft is focused on improving the time it takes for Windows to start up and shut down. [29 Oct 2008]
Steve Jobs: No Apple netbook, no touchscreen laptop
News Three of them are some of the most oft-repeated rumours of future Apple products but touchscreens, Blu-ray, and netbooks won't be exiting the Cupertino stable anytime soon. In brief comments after a keynote speech to... [15 Oct 2008]
Cheat Sheet: Faster Payments Services
Cheat Sheet The advent of Faster Payments does, however, spell the end of an oft-used excuse: with FPS, debtors will no longer be able to delay payments by saying the cheque is in the post. The combination of the words 'faster' and... [22 Sep 2008]
Microsoft interoperability makes "substantial progress" in schools
News It lodged a complaint about Microsoft with the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) over anti-competitive practices in October 2007, and in May took that complaint to the European Commission. He asked: "If not for the stance of... [17 Sep 2008]
