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The Weekly Round-Up: 06.11.09
Round-Up However, despite more than a third admitting working outside office hours, techies still trail some way behind the most prolific cash-in-hand workers of all: the money-strapped, workaholic hairdresser. [06 Nov 2009]
Techies and hairdressers united in the moonlight
News More than a third (37 per cent) of IT technicians admit taking on extra work outside office hours, a survey has revealed. Almost half of survey respondents said they had done work for customers they had... [04 Nov 2009]
Green IT: Thrifty CIOs should make it a priority
News Companies often renew their office hardware every three years without necessarily questioning the business case of upgrades, staff retraining and other overheads involved. The alternative is to simply extend your... [29 Oct 2009]
Is open source software finding a home in Whitehall?
News Field predicted the areas of the public sector where open source could flourish was within organisations that contained the greatest amount of in-house technical expertise, such as the BBC, the Met... [29 Sep 2009]
Solution Provider Expands Into New Markets, Helps Customers Reduce Costs With OBA
White Paper PointCross met its customers' demands by creating Solo, an Office Business Application that exposes critical business information in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007. PointCross, founded in... [30 Jul 2009]
Business School Enhances Student Learning With Collaboration Software
White Paper By carefully analyzing student needs and taking advantage of the power and flexibility of Microsoft Office Groove 2007, EM Lyon created a virtual office solution that met its... [25 Jul 2009]
Cheat Sheet: The Police Central e-crime Unit
Cheat Sheet The Home Office claims that the joint investigation between PCeU and the banks "prevented £20m-worth of harm". There are a number of other bodies that are charged with tackling cybercrime of different sorts: for example,... [20 Jul 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 01.05.09
Round-Up The Round-Up is now receiving so many press releases about clouds it feels like it's working for the Met Office. If you're the kind of boss that doesn't even trust your team to be out of the... [01 May 2009]
Masters the Four "R"s of Effective Complaint Management
White Paper Office of Inspector General (OIG) needed to streamline the complaint management process, ensure timely follow-up of responses and provide information to their investigative community across the country to ensure that... [30 Apr 2009]
Two Popular Casinos Bet on PeopleAnswers and Turnover Drops 38%
White Paper These lofty guest expectations must be met by every resort employee, including front office clerks, valets, retail salespeople, casino dealers, and security officers, to name a few. To establish and... [30 Apr 2009]
Prisoner database hit by delays, budget blowout
News The projected spend on the system has now risen to £513m, a report by the National Audit Office (NAO) has found. Many benefits of the programme are capable of being realised but the key aim of creating a single database... [12 Mar 2009]
£7bn MoD IT project: Late, overbudget, unloved
News The PAC report follows a National Audit Office (NAO) report last July which found the DII was running more than a year late. Click here to read page 2 the use of legitimate means of reducing payments made to Atlas, where... [15 Jan 2009]
Battlefield tech busts budget by £141m
News A National Audit Office (NAO) report into 20 Ministry of Defence major projects to develop a range of aircraft, vehicle, communication, missile and detection systems found that over the last year their schedules had... [17 Dec 2008]
Met Office vid forecasts goes mobile
News The Met Office has announced a free video on demand weather service for mobiles. The service will provide weather watchers with video updates via the Met Office's mobile... [27 Nov 2008]
Catherine Doran, CIO, Network Rail
Comment The Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) is handing Network Rail £2.4bn less cash than Network Rail requested over the next five years. I was part of that very charmed generation that came along just as computers were moving... [18 Nov 2008]
