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Met Office forecasts blue skies for green IT

News It seems fitting that after the Met Office helped open the eyes of the world to global warming it is at the forefront of efforts to prevent it. These computational workhorses and their predecessors at the Met Office Hadley Centre crunched through...

Tags: met office, energy, green it

[09 May 2008]

OOXML standard: ISO calls for end to 'personal attacks'

News The International Organization for Standardization has called for "personal attacks" to cease in the debate surrounding Microsoft's Office Open XML standard. The move came as an ISO committee meeting in Norway attracted protesters, who gathered to...

Tags: microsoft, ooxml, iso

[15 Apr 2008]

A Vision of Rollout: Seeing Return on CRM

whitepaper A well known e-tailer was challenged with enhancing the e-tailing experience and needed to set its sights on the front-end functionality after their back office was in place. Download this report to learn more about how this e-tailer met these...

Tags: crm, tailer, tailing, enhancing

[10 Apr 2008]

System Upgrade Cures Wait Times at the Doctor's Office

whitepaper NMCS recommended Windows Server 2008, which met the timing and budget of the planned migration from the older system. Petoskey Surgeons is a general and vascular surgery practice with an attached vascular ultrasound lab.

Tags: upgrades and migration

[02 Apr 2008]

Gov't pledges to take e-crime seriously

News But the Home Office has still not agreed to provide the £1.3m in start up funding for a Policing Central E-Crime Unit (PCEU), proposed by Acpo and the Met. The announcement comes in the wake of an e-crime discussion meeting between Home Office...

Tags: e-crime, e-crime crackdown, cyber crime, crime

[26 Mar 2008]

Police e-crime funding set for green light?

Police e-crime funding set for green light?

News Detective Superintendent Charlie McMurdie, who has just stepped down as head of the Metropolitan Police Service's e-crime unit, is waiting for Home Office approval for the £1.3m start-up costs for the Policing Central E-Crime Unit proposed by the...

Tags: cyber crime, nhtcu, e-crime, campaign

[12 Mar 2008]

Consolidation of Cisco Unified CallManager Clusters Improves Manageability and Reduces Costs

whitepaper Cisco needed a way to ensure business continuity if the WAN link between the hub and the remote office went down. SRS Telephony is integrated into Cisco branch office routers. Cisco itself uses Cisco 3640 and Cisco 3745 routers, depending on the...

Tags: telephony systems - pbx

[04 Mar 2008]

How Cisco IT Migrated to Centralized Call Processing

whitepaper In the event of a failed WAN link, Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony (SRST) allows remote office workers to use their IP phones to dial out and receive calls using the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN).

Tags: voip - ip telephony

[04 Mar 2008]

Danish Hosting Provider Migrates Clients to New Messaging Environments and Grows 30 Per Cent Year-on-Year

whitepaper Microsoft had developed an existing Hosted Messaging and Collaboration (HMC) 3.5 solution that combined the following technologies: Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 - the core enterprise-level communication and collaboration server; and Microsoft...

Tags: programming languages

[28 Feb 2008]

Police seek full costs of HMRC CD search

News At the investigation's peak, 47 detectives from the Met's Specialist and Economic Crime Command were charged with searching for the two CDs that went missing in October last year after a junior official at the HMRC sent them unrecorded in the post...

Tags: hmrc, child benefit, police, data loss

[14 Jan 2008]

Airlines defrost planes with Met Office tech

News The Met Office system is aiming to make waiting for planes to be de-iced a thing of the past. A new ice forecasting technology is being used at UK airports to reduce cold weather delays and save airlines money.

Tags: tech, met office, airline, delays

[08 Jan 2008]

Bill Gates Q&A: On why 'it's all about software'

Comment It was only three years after I started Microsoft that I went over to Apple and did Applesoft Basic for the Apple II and Office for the Mac as a product. In five years, where will Microsoft need to be in order to have met the challenges from...

Tags: bill gates, ces, vista, entertainment

[08 Jan 2008]

Airline Harnesses Knowledge in Quest to Spread Wings

whitepaper Panorama Corporate Performance Management (CPM) software, integrated with Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005, provides collaboration tools designed to help managers take action and automate business processes.

Tags: monitoring systems

[18 Dec 2007]

£20,000 reward for missing Revenue discs

News Now that the main search has finished without finding the CDs, the Met has appealed to all staff at HMRC, the National Audit Office and the Treasury to check at work and "other locations" for the discs.

Tags: hmrc, metropolitan police, police, search

[05 Dec 2007]

Technology Program Succeeds, Hikes Project Productivity by Up to 50 Percent

whitepaper Microsoft Corporation faced 3,500 tasks in getting seven customers fully deployed on the prerelease version of its Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution. The result: Microsoft is able to optimize project resources to ensure...

Tags: portals

[03 Dec 2007]

Stories of the month - November 2007

News Two password-protected CDs containing the child benefit information were sent unrecorded and unregistered by a junior HMRC official through courier TNT to the National Audit Office on 18 October - but never arrived and have not been found.

Tags: hmrc, tesco, wi-fi, iphone

[29 Nov 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 23.11.07

Round-Up The discs were sent to the National Audit Office by a junior HMRC official via unrecorded delivery. At the end of this, the toothless Information Commissioner will be given a new set of dentures and the review group will publish a weighty...

Tags: hmrc, data, ico, mac

[23 Nov 2007]

Met Office launches web weather widgets

News The UK's Met Office has launched a range of web widgets allowing people to get the latest weather forecasts and storm warnings on their desktop. The mini-applications are free to download from the Met Office website and include localised weather...

Tags: weather, met office, microsoft, firefox

[22 Nov 2007]

Photos: Floating computers keep an eye on the oceans

Photo The Met Office is taking part in a global programme to monitor the world's oceans to improve understanding of how they influence climate change. The Met Office manages the UK part of the programme and has deployed around 230 Argo floats to date.

Tags: met office, global, weather, satellite

[21 Nov 2007]

PM backs flexible working for UK parents

News This could mean extra pressure on companies to provide high-tech methods of allowing people to stay in touch while out of the office. Wright added the employer must continue to have the final say in granting flexible working to allow employees to...

Tags: gordon brown, flexible working, wfh, request

[08 Nov 2007]

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