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Croydon inks £83m deal with Capgemini

News Croydon Council has signed an extension to its IT outsourcing deal with Capgemini, worth an estimated £83m over five years. Capgemini will also provide consultancy services for Croydon's transformation programme to improve the level and efficiency...

Tags: outsourcing, capgemini, croydon

[23 Apr 2008]

iPhone 'mugging fear' unfounded, say police

News Operation Prestige took place in eight London boroughs: Brent, Camden, Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham, Newham, Southwark and Tower Hamlets - which were selected after analysis of police intelligence, said Paice.

Tags: iphone, nmpcu, crime, handsets

[07 Jan 2008]

London: Capital of laptop theft

News Harrow (247); 24= Enfield (237); 24= Waltham Forest (237); 26= Croydon (230); 26= Greenwich (230); 28. Worst London boroughs for laptop robberies Brent (23) Lambeth (22) Westminster (21) Newham (20) Southwark (20)

Tags: theft, london, laptop, laptops

[15 May 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 09.03.07

Round-Up Of course, this is actually a common problem, largely attributable to the fact Microsoft Outlook's spam filter is the high-tech equivalent of a nightclub bouncer in Croydon - letting any old rubbish through its doors until it totally and...

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[09 Mar 2007]

Be extends next-gen fat pipes to third of Blighty

News Be's ADSL2+ network now covers the following locations: Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Coventry, Croydon, Derby, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hemel Hempstead, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Middlesbrough, Milton Keynes, Northampton...

Tags: be, adsl2+

[16 Feb 2007]

Why Oyster's e-money plans hit the buffers

Why Oyster's e-money plans hit the buffers

News For example, a handful of local councils, including Croydon and Lewisham, are using the smart card functionality of the Oyster to give local residents access to council services. Plans to add electronic wallet functionality to the Oyster smartcard...

Tags: transport for london, oyster, e-money, contactless

[09 May 2006]

Ground-Breaking Transformation Helps Croydon Council Keep Customers First

whitepaper London Borough of Croydon needed to meet its e-Government targets and significantly improve its customer services. In order to achieve these goals, Croydon Council planned a major transformation across their business that would move resources from...

Tags: achieve, croydon, consulting, targets

[26 Apr 2006]

Siemens wins £6.7m immigration IT contract

News Siemens is also taking on responsibility for managing the cashiering functions at the IND's public enquiry offices at Birmingham, Croydon, Glasgow and Liverpool. Siemens Business Services has won a £6.7m contract to manage the work permit...

Tags: siemens business services, immigration, home office

[21 Feb 2006]

Leader: Data protection watchdog needs more bite

Leader It's fair to say that the ICO has had its 'successes', such as the £1,200 fine and one-year conditional discharge given this week to a private detective in Croydon for unlawfully disclosing someone's bank account details.

Tags: ico, data protection act, information commissioner

[13 Jan 2006]

Private eye made to pay £1,200 over data abuse

News A private detective has been made to pay £1,200 in costs and given a one-year conditional discharge by magistrates in Croydon after pleading guilty to unlawfully disclosing someone's bank account details.

Tags: information commissioner

[13 Jan 2006]

eBay fraudster jailed and ordered to pay back £70,000

News Simon Edward Hurley from Coulsdon in Surrey was sentenced at Croydon Crown Court on Friday to nine months' imprisonment and ordered to pay back £70,000 plus £8,000 costs within six months. Councillor Paul Smith, Croydon Council cabinet member for...

Tags: fraud, ebay, ebay scam

[04 Oct 2005]

Croydon Council, Capgemini and HP Help to Redefine Local Government

whitepaper Croydon Council is the local authority responsible for Croydon. Croydon Council wanted to respond to government initiatives and changing customer expectations by reviewing its approach to service delivery.

Tags: infrastructure management, council, initiative, delivery

[07 Jul 2005]

Royal Bank of Scotland takes lead with ID management

Royal Bank of Scotland takes lead with ID management

News Harry Croydon, CEO of Coverpoint, said: "It's essential for us that all our communications are secure while at the same time transactions can be processed as quickly as possible. The Royal Bank of Scotland is to provide digital certificates to 40...

Tags: trustassured, eident, bank of scotlane, scotland

[28 Jun 2005]

Election '05: Would e-voting have changed the outcome?

Election '05: Would e-voting have changed the outcome?

Comment In Croydon Central where turnout was 60.6 per cent, Conservative candidate Andrew Pelling won by just 75 votes - or 0.2 per cent of votes cast. As the post-mortem begins on the General Election, one of the biggest questions being asked is whether a...

Tags: detica, fraud, e-voting

[09 May 2005]

National IFA Chooses HP ProCurve for Price and Performance

whitepaper Alexander Forbes Financial Services has regional offices and is head quartered in Croydon. When it recently decided to move its 200 staff from one building to another, it was the ideal opportunity to replace the company's ageing network.

Tags: fault-tolerant servers, backbone, gigabit, gigabit ethernet

[09 Apr 2005]

Government rewards anti-ageist employers...

Government rewards anti-ageist employers...

News Malcolm Wick, Minister for Pensions, said at the awards ceremony in London: "I know from my constituency, Croydon North, that age discrimination can be as nasty and disabling as discrimination based on physical disability, gender or race.

Tags: british energy, ageism in it, bt

[23 Jun 2004]

Norwich Union cuts 700 IT jobs

News Norwich Union said most of the losses will be compulsory and staff at Norwich, York, Bristol, Stevenage and Croydon sites will be affected. UK insurance firm Norwich Union is to axe 700 staff and 250 contractors from its Life unit in a cost-cutting...

[09 Jun 2004]

The Executive Question: Would you do anything for economic growth?

The Executive Question: Would you do anything for economic growth?

Comment If there aren’t enough people to do the work in Croydon, there are in Bangalore. The natural churn of any developed economy greatly overshadows the threats of offshoring, argues executive advisor David Butler.

Tags: offshoring, ela

[03 Mar 2004]

Asylum fraud to be tackled with facial recognition technology

Asylum fraud to be tackled with facial recognition technology

News A pre-tender document seen by silicon.com said the Home Office is looking to introduce scanning and facial recognition technology that can store images on a central database at its Croydon Asylum Screening Unit (ASU) later this summer.

Tags: facial, facial recognition, home office, asylum

[23 May 2003]

Is this the world's thickest criminal?

Is this the world's thickest criminal?

News Kearns was picked up by Croydon police on 31 January after his getaway with the money went horribly wrong. A so-called computer hacker who bungled a blackmail attempt on Barclays Bank has been given a three-year prison sentence after he messed up a...

[23 Aug 2001]

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