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Is the UK an open source laggard?
News Secondly, the high licensing and training costs for Microsoft Office will push us to evaluate alternative options. This came on the back of a recent survey in which the UK ranked fifth in terms of uptake of open source code. [21 Jul 2008]
Red Cross invests in Epos system
News In addition, data will be sent back to head office from the tills indicating how fast certain products are selling and others less so. The British Red Cross has signed a deal with Cybertill to install up to 430 electronic point of sale (Epos... [14 Jul 2008]
London travellers hit by Oyster outage
News These cards can be replaced free of charge at any London Underground office. Shops selling Oyster tickets were also affected but the majority were brought back into operation during Sunday. Travellers in London were forced to pay full price fares... [14 Jul 2008]
Aviva strikes $1bn BPO deal
News Insurance giant Aviva is to sell off its offshore operations and outsource $1bn worth of back-office work. It is understood that some areas of work, such as property claim call centres and direct sales, could now be brought back to the UK. [11 Jul 2008]
3G iPhone - the business perspective
News Don't expect Apple's hardware to be flooding into your office overnight. Enterprise infrastructure vendor, Sybase, claims to have seen an increase in inquiries about its back-end secure mobile email software - which links mobile devices such as the... [10 Jul 2008]
Are banks going soft on e-crime?
News Home Office suggestions that the National Fraud Reporting Centre will have a national e-crime investigation arm were welcomed by the committee but it criticised the time it was taking to establish a countywide cyber crime unit. [08 Jul 2008]
ePassport upgrade scaled back
News H is for Home Office The Identity and Passport Service (IPS) has scaled back plans to upgrade its electronic passport system. Millions had been spent on the Electronic Passport Application (EPA2) project upgrade. [02 Jul 2008]
Nationwide hands network reins to BT
News BT will also provide improved remote access for the building society's staff who work away from the office. Back in March, Nationwide signed a multimillion pound deal with SAP to use the German software giant's banking platform as part of its £300m... [30 Jun 2008]
Reports in full: HMRC and MoD data breaches
News The inquiry focused on two National Audit Office (NAO) audits that took place between December 2006 and March 2007 and between September and October 2007 relating to two separate audits of the department's £10bn expenditure on child benefit. [26 Jun 2008]
Timeline: HM Revenue & Customs data blunder
News An earlier audit by the National Audit Office (NAO) in March 2007 identified many of the issues that would contribute to the loss of the discs, and in October four copies of the data discs were produced before a set managed to get through to the NAO. [26 Jun 2008]
Flexible working still a stigma, say techies
News Nearly a fifth (17.4 per cent) said they believe flexible working has a negative effect on career progression, with some respondents saying employers see them as less committed to their job if they are not in the office. [25 Jun 2008]
Treasury turns to tech guru to slash IT costs
News Read said in a statement: "I am pleased to be involved in this programme and to be leading the work on back office and IT services. The appointment comes as public sector procurement body the Office of Government Commerce announced a new version of... [23 Jun 2008]
Celebrating 60 years of computing
News Baby was built using metal racks from the Post Office along with hundreds of valves, and the keyboard was a series of push buttons and switches, mounted vertically. Bletchley Park turns back time On Saturday, it will be exactly 60 years since the... [20 Jun 2008]
Cyber crime: The global battle
News The cyber crime units have grown fast within the bureau, from a couple of specialist agents tied to a white collar crime squad to a dedicated cyber squad within every field office. Each field office has specially trained agents with a particular... [05 Jun 2008]
Mobile broadband ushers in Blue day
News Blue Mobile has a solid back office. Ask anyone in the finance arena about up-to-date financial information and they will almost certainly say Reuters and Bloomberg. That perception could soon be about to shift, with the launch last month of a... [03 Jun 2008]
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