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RSS cabinetMeeting Compliance Requirements With Document Management Software
White Paper Compliance is of primary concern to financial service, healthcare, and government organizations. Meeting compliance regulations have historically been perceived as an onerous burden. Today, leading companies are taking a broader approach... [11 Nov 2009]
BT offers free fibre to Glasgow businesses
News BT business customers in the Glasgow Halfway exchange area are being offered the chance to trial fibre to the cabinet (FTTC) broadband, the telco said yesterday. Fibre broadband comes in two flavours: FTTC, where optical... [05 Nov 2009]
Full steam ahead for plans to cut off file-sharers
News Speaking at a cabinet creative industries conference yesterday, the business minister said proposals made back in August will feature in the Digital Economy Bill expected before Parliament in November. [29 Oct 2009]
IT tsar confirmed: Cabinet Office names Angela Smith
News The Cabinet Office has named Angela Smith as responsible for government IT and information security. Cabinet Office names Angela Smith as IT tsar According to the list of ministerial responsibilities... [16 Oct 2009]
BT's home fibre tests: Coming in London and Milton Keynes
News As well as rolling out FTTH, where fibre optic cable is laid all the way to a user's premises, BT is deploying fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC), where cabling only reaches to the street cabinet. BT has... [02 Oct 2009]
George Osborne
AS Profile Osborne's journey to the shadow cabinet saw him serve as a shadow minister in the Work and Pensions Department and a special adviser to Agriculture, Fisheries and Food under the John Major Conservative government in the... [29 Sep 2009]
HM Treasury strikes five-year IT services deal
News Under the deal Fujitsu will deliver shared services as part of the Cabinet Office's Flex framework. The Treasury is the latest government organisation to access the Flex shared services and joins The... [25 Sep 2009]
Photos: BT previews superfast fibre broadband... in Muswell Hill
Photo BT has opened a new high street shop to promote fibre broadband in London's Muswell Hill - the location for one of its two fibre to the cabinet (FTTC) pilots, along with Whitchurch in South Wales. Residents of London's... [17 Sep 2009]
More of a whimper than a bang: Whitehall's green tech drive
News The Cabinet Office said these figures only represent a snapshot and not the full extent of the savings derived from greening its IT but could not provide details of any further savings. According to an announcement by... [16 Sep 2009]
BT superfast fibre broadband destined for London brownfield pilot
News BT's fibre rollout will therefore mostly entail fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC), where fibre optic connectivity is extended as far as the street cabinet, and the connections between the... [07 Aug 2009]
Offshoring: Is resistance weakening at Whitehall?
News Recently, senior civil servants in the Cabinet Office and the Ministry of Justice both told silicon.com that they are open to offshoring work such as software development. After years of resistance to offshoring, the... [03 Aug 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 31.07.09
Round-Up The guidance note on the government use of Twitter went viral this week after being placed on the Cabinet Office blog. Twitter is known for its brevity so it was inevitable that Whitehall's guidelines for departmental... [31 Jul 2009]
Labyrinthine IT systems lose MoD almost £300m
News The MoD's problems are the latest blot on Whitehall's troubled track record when it comes to managing computer systems, ranging from the Department of Health's flawed £12.7bn National Programme for IT to the Cabinet... [21 Jul 2009]
£24.4m written off on government IT project
News The first phase of the project was delivered on time and on budget back in 2007, according to the Cabinet Office's annual report and accounts published yesterday. A spokesman for the Cabinet Office... [17 Jul 2009]
Cheat Sheet: BT's £1.5bn fibre plans
Cheat Sheet The downlink speed a user will actually get will depend on whether BT lays fibre to the cabinet (FTTC), where fibre only goes as far as the street cabinet, or fibre to the premises (FTTP), where it goes... [14 Jul 2009]
