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News This bungled policy has already proved to be an expensive, embarrassing nightmare for the Labour party," he added. The controversial ID project has hit another delay, with the government missing its own... [16 Nov 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Outsourcing
Cheat Sheet Delivering services from offshore can further drive down costs thanks to cheaper labour and tax rebates abroad, with offshore delivery typically offering savings of 20 per cent on average compared to in-house provision,... [11 Sep 2009]
Tories plan to revamp NHS IT gets grim diagnosis
News The Conservative Party has today revealed its plans to reform what it calls Labour's "shambolic" and "costly" plans for healthcare technology in England. Launching the review shadow health minister,... [10 Aug 2009]
'Nasa hacker' case raised in parliament
News Backbencher Kate Hoey was among the Labour MPs who supported a review of the UK-US arrangement, saying it is "not working in terms of natural justice". The Conservative Party has championed the case of... [16 Jul 2009]
Labour politician joins calls to scrap ID cards
News The government has defended itself against fresh calls to drop its troubled ID cards scheme, this time from within the Labour party. In an extensive parliamentary debate yesterday,... [07 Jul 2009]
Tories tell vendors: 'Don't sign ID card contracts'
News Speaking to ZDNet UK, Green cautioned the current Labour government against pushing on with its ID card plan. The Conservatives have urged a group of technology suppliers not to sign contracts for work related to ID... [18 Jun 2009]
Legal Eye: How to save money with offshoring
Comment Indexation and the vanishing labour arbitrage It is also appropriate to consider the inclusion of certain exchange collars beyond which the economics no longer stack up for either party. However, while... [26 May 2009]
High fibre, high investment and high speeds
News The Labour Party conference saw Prime Minister Gordon Brown announce a £300m scheme to give nearly every family in the UK free access to broadband at home. While it's been some years since the UK became... [29 Dec 2008]
Free PCs and broadband for 20,000 kids
News The pilot is part of a £300m programme announced by Prime Minister Gordon Brown at the Labour Party conference in September to bring broadband to children from low income and jobless families. From... [22 Oct 2008]
Gov't to spend £300m on free broadband for UK's poor
News In his keynote speech at the Labour Party Conference on Tuesday, Brown outlined a £300m programme which will see the government pay for broadband connections, software and computers for all children aged... [23 Sep 2008]
Police to be armed with 10,000 handhelds
News Brown, who was making his maiden speech as leader to the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth, said: "We will provide hand held computers - 1,000 now, by next year 10,000 right across the country -... [26 Sep 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 29.06.07
Round-Up In one instance e-ballot papers suffered a glitch whereby the wrong party logos, those of the likeliest competitors for power, Labour and the Conservatives, were mixed up and appeared next to the wrong... [29 Jun 2007]
Call for e-voting to be scrapped amid security fears
News In Swindon laptops and live electronic voting registers were unreliable and kept crashing, while in Rushmoor an online ballot paper temporarily included a Labour party logo next to the Conservative... [25 Jun 2007]
Cheat Sheet: The Computer Misuse Act
Cheat Sheet As well as being the vehicle for delivering Labour's police reforms, the Police and Justice Act contains amendments to the Computer Misuse Act. This was a key recommendation of the All Party Internet... [29 Nov 2006]
eSure brings Indian call centre work back to UK
News Online insurance company eSure will bring its offshore call centre work in India back to the UK from February next year.eSure started using offshore Indian call centres in 2004 and currently has 100 agents with an unnamed... [27 Nov 2006]
