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London Olympics gets new CIO
News Before joining Co-op FS as executive director of business transformation and shared services, Gerry was director of technology for the Manchester Commonwealth Games, where he designed and delivered the Games' IT. [15 Sep 2008]
O2 mobile coverage takes the subway
News The rollout, which also involves the Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT), follows O2's backing of Glasgow's successful bid to host the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Five stations on the Glasgow Subway are to get... [11 Sep 2008]
£2.5bn gov't telecommunications contract up for grabs
News The Foreign and Commonwealth Office says the Ocean Programme is geared towards encouraging increased "working across government", supporting "communications across the whole of the public sector" and providing for a... [05 Aug 2008]
Error-Resilient Scalable Video Over the Internet
White Paper This paper presents an efficient method for the transmission of scalable video with error resilience over the Internet. The paper developed a Motion-JPEG2000-based software tool, called stream scaler, which can control the resolution... [04 Aug 2008]
Flexible working: Gov't 'must do better'
News Foreign and Commonwealth Office: 510 out of 5,880 staff have full or limited remote access to the department's IT infrastructure. The government may be pushing employers to embrace more flexible and greener ways of... [30 Jul 2008]
Foreign Office tech overspend leads to project trimming
News The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has overspent on two IT projects which has forced it to rethink some of its development plans. The cost of implementing the revamped FCO Telecommunications Network (FTN) has... [07 Jul 2008]
Assessment of Homeland Security Initiatives
White Paper This paper assesses the current state of policy and practice regarding homeland security in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It focuses on four main issues: current initiatives/trends shaping policy around homeland... [03 Jul 2008]
IP Communications Customer Success Stories
White Paper This is a brochure of testimonials from IP Communications system customers, including Cray; Menlo College; NASA; Ministry of Social Policy, New Zealand; Commonwealth of Massachusetts; Sports Soccer; and the City of... [03 Jul 2008]
Tony Mather
CIO Profile Tony Mather joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) as CIO in May last year as a board member reporting directly to the department's permanent under secretary (equivalent to a private sector CEO). [11 Jun 2008]
IBM and Pragmatix Put Technology Infrastructure Out of Harm's Way for Financial Services Company
White Paper Pragmatix, Inc.an IBM Business Partner based in Elmsford, New York, immediately understood what worried the managers of Commonwealth Advisors, Inc.after Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc in Commonwealth's... [26 Apr 2008]
BizTalk Server Portal Helps Businesses Slash the Time and Work of Registration
White Paper To promote development of new enterprises, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania provides a one-stop business registration portal. Aggregating and automating the business-registration requirements of the... [24 Apr 2008]
eCommerce Solutions: Winning Market Position Through IT Partnerships
White Paper CommSec, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Commonwealth bank, had to provide a complementary service that would enhance the presence and services of the parent organisation. The CBA CommSec and IT&e partnership is unique... [10 Apr 2008]
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Increases Collaboration and Streamlines Administration with Microsoft Windows 2000 Active Directory Services
White Paper The Commonwealth saved $9.2 million over the three years of implementation and lowered the total cost of ownership for e-mail and collaboration by $9 million. Pennsylvania had 40,000 unique desktops in 47 agencies with... [10 Apr 2008]
Web Site Delivers Accurate and Timely Results for 2006 Commonwealth Games
White Paper The Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games Corporation (M2006) needed a Web site to deliver schedules, venue and transport information, team and athlete profiles, photos, and up-to-the-minute news and results during the 12... [25 Mar 2008]
Investment in 64-Bit Intel Itanium 2 Servers Pays Returns for CommSec
White Paper As Australia's largest online financial services provider, Commonwealth Securities Limited (CommSec) needs to ensure that the internal and external Web sites it maintains, which receive more than 27 million hits a day,... [05 Mar 2008]
