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Parking in the West End goes contactless
News The three-month pilot, which is being conducted by Westminster City Council, will see around 20 parking meters equipped with the contactless readers. Photo credit: Westminster City Council) According to... [29 Oct 2009]
Open source? No good for cost cutting, say CIOs
News Chris Ford, IT director, Nottingham City Council Despite tough economic conditions, CIOs have not turned to open source software as a way of making their IT budgets go further, according to silicon.com's latest exclusive... [23 Oct 2009]
Win a luxury New Year's Eve package worth £1,000
News BT Business is offering two nights' accommodation on the 30 and 31 December 2009, for two people to stay in a deluxe double room at luxury boutique hotel The Glasshouse in Edinburgh city centre. This competition is now... [20 Oct 2009]
NHS bodies outsource payroll in £12m deals
News NHS SBS will supply the eight organisations - which include NHS Nottingham City, Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust and Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust - with services including finance, accounting and payroll. [13 Oct 2009]
Busting the myths about QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions and IBM Smart Business
White Paper So you already know there aren't actually any alligators in the New York City sewers and that the Loch Ness monster doesn't really exist, but how many myths about IBM Smart Business and QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions do... [08 Oct 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Linking up with Barack Obama?
Comment Compiled at my hotel in Jersey City, New Jersey, US, on a rainy autumn day and dispatched to silicon.com via a free wi-fi connection Travelling as I do in the course of my professional activities, I meet a lot of... [05 Oct 2009]
The Portuguese Municipality of Matosinhos Links Back-Office Data With Online Service Delivery to Make Life Easier for Citizens and Civil Servants
White Paper The project to improve city services became known as SIMPLIFE (Simplify). The main goal was to see what motivated the citizens to go to the city hall. The author identified over 2,000 different reasons... [02 Oct 2009]
Ridgeland, Mississippi Discovers How to More Effectively Utilize Its IT Budget and Save Funding From Being Spent Inefficiently
White Paper The City of Ridgeland, Mississippi is situated halfway between Memphis and New Orleans. The city needed to gain greater insight and understanding into both software and hardware assets to ensure... [02 Oct 2009]
National City Re-Architects Information Infrastructure to Support Evolution to a Customer-Centric Enterprise
White Paper National City Corporation is one of the largest financial holding companies in the United States, with core businesses that include corporate and retail banking, mortgage financing and servicing, and consumer finance and... [01 Oct 2009]
Zentrale Informatikdienste Basel (ZID) Completes Big Bang Document Management Migration for 3,700 Users
White Paper Zentrale Informatikdienste Basel (ZID) is the central IT services provider for the Swiss canton of Basel City. Under contract to the government, ZID is responsible for providing IT services for all of the public offices... [01 Oct 2009]
Shanghai Social Security Builds Data Warehouse to Support Policymaking and Service Planning
White Paper China began issuing social security cards in 1999 and selected Shanghai as the pilot city for the initiative. Six million cards were distributed in 1999. In 2008, 13 million cards were issued. When the social security... [01 Oct 2009]
C-Lock Technology Streamlines Greenhouse Gas Emission Monitoring Processes to Help Save the Planet Using an SOA Solution From IBM and EIM
White Paper C-Lock Technology, a wholly owned subsidiary of Evergreen Energy, Inc.is headquartered in Rapid City, South Dakota. C-Lock Technology was established in March 2007 in response to the growing need for a standard,... [01 Oct 2009]
British Airways' London to New York route lets flyers use mobiles
News The service will be available on two Airbus A318s flying between London City Airport and New York's JFK. Air travellers flying between London and New York won't have to go mobile cold turkey from tomorrow. [28 Sep 2009]
Apple's Snow Leopard won't make us move to Macs, say CIOs
News Chris Ford, IT director, Nottingham City Council According to silicon.com's CIO Jury, the release late last month of Apple's latest OS, Snow Leopard, won't signal the company's entry into the business market. [21 Sep 2009]
Less Bureaucracy and Better Target Follow-Up Using SAS
White Paper In the future at Arhus Kommune - the Municipality of the city of Arhus, Denmark - managers at all levels of elderly care centers will be able to create an overview of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and fulfill... [19 Sep 2009]