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Cheat Sheet Well the government put around euro;31m into the pot in the summer of 2006, which is equivalent to the other major European nations. I see what you're thinking but this isn't the Galileo from Pisa but Europe's proposed global navigation satellite...
[28 Jan 2008]
Cheat Sheet We are calling for greater public debate and for the government to consider legislation that would require organisations that suffer information security breaches to alert their customers if there is a chance the breach has put individuals...
[28 Aug 2007]
Cheat Sheet Gateway Reviews are used as best practice in central civil government, the health sector, local government and defence. There are six Gateway Review stages that a government project needs to go through to reach its conclusion.
[07 Jun 2007]
Cheat Sheet Now the domain of the Office of Government Commerce (OGC), Itil is the most widely accepted standard in this area and is used by organisations from multinational corporations all the way to small businesses.
[05 Jun 2007]
Cheat Sheet Some industry types have suggested government handouts will be necessary to subsidise any future fibre rollouts in Blighty. Good for your digestion, so I hear. Apparently so. But we're not talking about that sort of fibre.
[11 May 2007]
Cheat Sheet The Police and Justice Act 2006, which gained Royal Assent on 8 November, is the focus of the government's police reform strategy. The Computer Misuse Act. I think I can work out what that is. Indeed, it is a reasonably self-explanatory article of...
[29 Nov 2006]
Cheat Sheet Prince was first developed in 1989 by the Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency (CCTA), the organisation that has since become UK government procurement body the Office of Government Commerce.
[07 Nov 2006]
Cheat Sheet What's more, network providers say it is unfair and unnecessary to have the government interfere in the free market. Are you suggesting that telcos are influencing government? An aggressive catfight about who should control the internet or at least...
[16 Jun 2006]
Cheat Sheet The UK government will have switched off the analogue signal by 2012 - which is how those bog-standard five channels are received now - and, in order to keep watching, we will all have to be receiving digital television by then.
[27 Mar 2006]
Cheat Sheet E-government? Electronic government is going to transform the way the public sector communicates with the average Joe on the street, or so Whitehall hopes. Basically it's a double whammy - cut costs in government administration and give people...
[01 Dec 2005]
Cheat Sheet The government's IT strategy? The government itself has admitted that work will continue well beyond 2010. This is all part of the government's attempt to personalise services for the punter. Public sector jobs are likely to be cut when the...
[17 Nov 2005]
Cheat Sheet So has the government given the green light for us to see the X-files? What were the rumours of government paper shredders glowing red hot at Christmas 2004 all about? The Freedom of Information Act 2000 is designed to give people easy access to...
[12 Sep 2005]
Cheat Sheet The government is investigating this at the moment but Blunkett wants as many biometric identifiers as possible on the card. The government claims most of the cost will be covered by the charge for the ID card.
[22 Nov 2004]
Cheat Sheet But there is no hard evidence of this and the Indian government is now looking at putting in place its own data protection laws to reassure overseas firms. That's to do with India isn't it? Yes and no.
[11 May 2004]
Cheat Sheet It does and indeed it raises some of the same issues - such as fears of an all-seeing invasive government and media industry but, in truth, it's far less sensational than that. Government rollouts will likely be the first major deployment of...
[20 Apr 2004]
Cheat Sheet Does that mean shady government types can track my every move? Go on then, what does that stand for? It's short for radio frequency identification. And what is it? RFID chips are tiny microchips (smaller than a grain of sand) with antennae on them.
[16 Apr 2004]
Cheat Sheet IBM also announced recently plans to link powerful government supercomputers to one another to create a gigantic research tool. Grid computing? What's that then? Sounds a bit like the leccy to me. You're right.
[11 Apr 2002]
Cheat Sheet When Microsoft decided to integrate its browser into Windows 95 the US government threw up its hands in horror and accused the company of violating the decree. What's the US Department of Justice's problem?
[24 Jan 2002]
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