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RSS aspirePAYE system not ready for rollout
News The report also reveals HMRC revised its Aspire IT services contract with Capgemini to help meet targets to cut IT running costs by 10 per cent by 2010-11. The launch of a computer system to handle all PAYE tax claims has been suspended because of... [21 Jul 2008]
Riverbed Steelhead Appliances Enable Improved Services to Users While Expanding Market Area
White Paper Aspire.net provides managed IT services, primarily to the legal and professional services industries in the eastern United States. Aspire.net faced several challenges, including the need to provide a consistent, high quality user application... [18 Jul 2008]
Financial Solution Helps Wealthy Investors to Minimize Taxes, IRS Headaches
White Paper CEO of Aspire, wanted to create software and services to help users quickly and easily implement effective strategies for minimizing taxes. Aspire worked with Qdabra Software to build on the capabilities of Microsoft software in order to better... [01 Jul 2008]
Financial Solution Helps Wealthy Investors to Minimize Taxes, IRS Headaches
White Paper CEO of Aspire, wanted to create software and services to help users quickly and easily implement effective strategies for minimizing taxes. Aspire worked with Qdabra Software to build on the capabilities of Microsoft software in order to better... [01 Jul 2008]
The Naked CIO: What makes a great IT leader?
Comment Let's be clear: some of my thoughts here may be what I aspire to, rather than what I necessarily am. Climbing the greasy pole as a CIO depends on certain key factors. These are important for reaching the very top and indispensable for avoiding a... [30 Jun 2008]
Photos: Five of the best mini laptops
Photo Acer Aspire One Also packing an Intel Atom is Acer's Aspire One mini note - due to launch in the UK next month. Price is circa £1,200 - or about the cost of four Acer Aspire Ones. Here we round up five of the best mini laptops. [06 Jun 2008]
Editor's Blog: Ever tried to sack a CIO?
Comment But for those tech chiefs out there - and I know many - who want to make a difference to their organisation, and even aspire to higher roles there or elsewhere, it's time to step out of the shadows. Over lunch the other day the chief executive of a... [06 Mar 2008]
The Promises and Risks of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) in the Financial Services Industry: A Financial Services Industry White Paper
White Paper The paradox is unavoidable: in an era when firms aspire to agility, adaptability and ease of maintenance in their application portfolios, many are still saddled with leaden systems built to last - not to change. [14 Feb 2008]
Authoring Constraint-Based Tutors in ASPIRE
White Paper This paper presents a project the goal of which is to develop ASPIRE, a complete authoring and deployment environment for constraint-based Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs). ASPIRE is based on the previous work on constraint-based tutors and... [08 Jan 2008]
Sports Academy Scores Big with IP Telephony
White Paper ASPIRE, Qatar's Academy for Sports Excellence, enhances user mobility with Avaya IP Telephony solutions to support its quest to become a world-renown training facility for young Middle Eastern student-athletes with the potential for greatness. [12 Dec 2007]
Sports Academy Scores Big with IP Telephony
White Paper ASPIRE, Qatar's Academy for Sports Excellence, enhances user mobility with Avaya IP Telephony solutions to support its quest to become a world-renown training facility for young Middle Eastern student-athletes with the potential for greatness. [12 Dec 2007]
BBC tech chief hits back at iPlayer critics
News If everything could have that intuitiveness of use.and certainly in terms of the BBC iPlayer I aspire to it being that easy to use," he said. The BBC has hit back at criticisms from the Mac and open source communities over the iPlayer only being... [30 Oct 2007]
Q&A: Ashley Highfield, head of BBC's Future Media and Technology unit
Comment If everything could have that intuitiveness of use… and certainly in terms of the BBC iPlayer, I aspire to it being that easy to use. As head of the BBC's Future Media and Technology unit Ashley Highfield, one of this year's silicon.com Agenda... [30 Oct 2007]
HMRC slammed over Capgemini contract costs
News Edward Leigh MP, chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), called the costs "hard to justify", following the costly transition of the Aspire (Acquiring Strategic Partners for the Inland Revenue) contract from Accenture and EDS to Capgemini... [12 Jun 2007]
Steve Lamey
CIO Profile Aside from the challenge of overseeing the successful integration of the IT operations of HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) and supporting almost 100,000 staff, Lamey is responsible for one of the biggest outsourcing deals in the public sector - the... [06 Jun 2007]
