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CIO Forum: Why IT bosses fear Google
News Peter Maddigan, associate director, IT systems at Budget Insurance, said: "I know if I, as the person responsible for IT, advocate using Google in an organisation and as a consequence a proposed acquisition was compromised, I'd lose my job. [26 Sep 2006]
Microsoft aims to simplify software licensing
News Paul Broome, IT director at 192.com, said: "With upgrades, 'rental' licences, and licences tied to specific hardware it's crazy, difficult to manage and properly budget for. The toolkit also offers tips on developing procedures for software... [01 Aug 2006]
GNER's on-board wi-fi arrives early
News GNER is the first UK rail operator to go wi-fi on all services across its entire network and claims it will help lure travellers back to trains from budget airlines and the car. The 24 hour tariff is aimed at those travellers who will make a return... [26 Jul 2006]
Taxman's IT bill could rocket to £6bn
News HMRC said it does not expect that level of spending to continue and explained that its demand for IT services will decline because of targets for reducing staff levels by 12,500, an increase in the use of electronic services, the rationalisation... [19 Jul 2006]
IT budgets lag behind business growth
News It found that even in organisations with sales growth of 10 per cent the IT budget increases remained at five per cent or less. Gartner found that in organisations where IT spending is more closely aligned to revenue growth or decline, it is a... [14 Jul 2006]
Hackers target poorly secured media companies
News Only four per cent of the 150 companies in the survey believe they do enough to address security issues, with 54 per cent blaming budget constraints and lack of management support as the main challenges. [21 Jun 2006]
CIO Jury: Software licensing 'too complex'
News Paul Broome, IT director at 192.com, said: "With upgrades, 'rental' licences, and licences tied to specific hardware it's crazy, difficult to manage and properly budget for. Neil Hammond, head of IT at British Sugar, said the complexity is due to... [16 Jun 2006]
Is your company doing enough to protect itself... and you?
News McManus said: "The budget squeeze is most evident among small firms and large firms, where roughly half of the respondents said their security budgets are not adequate to provide the level of IT security needed. [20 Feb 2006]
NHS: IT delays won't slow us down
News NHS Connecting for Health (CfH), which is in charge of the health service's National Programme for IT, insisted the project is "within budget, ahead of schedule in some areas and broadly on track in others". [31 Jan 2006]
Tax credit fiasco: 8,800 identities stolen
News Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown said in his pre-budget report at the end of 2005 that new anti-fraud measures would include HMRC doubling the checks it carries out on new claims for tax credits before payments are made. [19 Jan 2006]
Be secure: 'Plan, don't patch', says AV pioneer
News Companies who have already distanced themselves from the reactive, fire-fighting approach to security are claiming significant savings - such as a halving of the IT budget at insurance giant Zurich, as covered recently by silicon.com. [03 Oct 2005]
CIO Forum: Bank CIOs on the crime frontline
News But it's not all big budget high-sophistication. CIOs within the financial services sector have said they have to up their efforts in the war on cyber crime if they are to win back customer confidence. [27 Sep 2005]
CIO Jury: Are high compliance costs worth it?
News The raft of regulations such as Basel II, International Accounting Standards (IAS) and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), introduced to prevent another Enron, have been a heavy drain on IT departments both in terms of time and budget. [25 Aug 2005]
Prince 'more popular than Oasis'
News Prince2 - which stands for 'Projects in controlled environments' - has become a staple among qualifications sought in the public sector, where project management has at times been something of an oxymoron, with projects running over budget and... [23 Aug 2005]
CIO Jury: IT chiefs not yet planning for Windows Vista
News Perhaps we will within the 2007 budget cycle although it will be an interesting debate agreeing business benefit and ROI. But only two out of silicon.com's 12-man CIO Jury user panel said they have started any planning for Windows Vista, in terms... [03 Aug 2005]
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