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Are sat-navs causing havoc on the roads?
News However, Lionel A Smith from Fareham added some food for thought by sticking up for those who prefer the more traditional method of map reading: "Practice map reading on a regular basis and plan routes before jumping behind the wheel, then you... [24 Jul 2008]
Courts to save millions with streamlined tech
News It is able to scale up from individual courts or forces to provide an overview of regional performance, allowing different forces to learn from best practice elsewhere in the country. Courts and police forces could save tens of millions of pounds... [17 Jul 2008]
Nationwide hands network reins to BT
News The deal should result in lower cost of ownership through the use of industry best practice and service level agreements. Nationwide Building Society has signed a seven-year £160m deal with BT to outsource the management of its networked IT services. [30 Jun 2008]
Suppliers move away from licensing crackdowns
News He said: "We can get this collaboration going between vendor and user and establish best practice, rather than using a stick to ensure compliance. Software suppliers are to ease up on licensing crackdowns and move away from the draconian audits of... [09 Jun 2008]
When is a supplier gift/junket inappropriate?
News Kevin Fitzpatrick, European CIO for Sodexo, said: "The best test is - would you be embarrassed if your boss found out? But Johnson added that the IT industry isn't different from any other in this practice and that, judging by the offers received... [06 Jun 2008]
Broadband speed: ISPs accept 'code of practice'
News Telecoms watchdog Ofcom has published a voluntary Code of Practice that sets out guidelines for ISPs to ensure they give customers a realistic estimate of the speed they are likely to achieve from their broadband service. [05 Jun 2008]
Time to bin ID cards?
News Crothers said he was confident the different suppliers could gel together to deliver different parts of the ID card system, saying this was guaranteed by shared commercial terms, codes of practice and financial incentives and sanctions. [23 May 2008]
UK blueprint on how tech can beat climate change
News The strategy will focus on examples of best practice and Suffolk suggested that IT "champions" with a proven record of cutting carbon should be a model for Green IT for the public and private sector. He said: "The problem is that people do not know... [08 May 2008]
Google bots are crawling in a new way
News The best of Google Earth The new Google indexing practice involves only "high quality" websites and doesn't run on sites with 'robots.txt' files or other standard mechanisms of warding off indexing software. [16 Apr 2008]
Gov't stung by 'rip-off' outsourcing deals
News Hughes called on the government to lay down a blueprint for best practice. Taxpayers' money is being squandered on public sector outsourcing deals where costs are ballooning up to 75 per cent more than the going market rate. [04 Apr 2008]
Lloyds TSB beefs up project management
News Gibson said Lloyds had a history of best practice in project management and the toolkit would ensure that this level of best practice was being adopted in every project throughout the organisation. Lloyds TSB has made a multimillion-pound... [04 Apr 2008]
'Counsellors' to keep vendor-client marriages sweet
News A team of experts within the VMO help choose the best vendors, negotiate discounts, monitor their performance and reinforce best practice. An increasing number of companies buying IT products and services are hoping to avoid contract problems or... [27 Mar 2008]
Police chief: Cyber crime is everywhere
News Soca has also announced it plans to work more closely with online retailers to share information and best practice and gather intelligence, in a similar way that it says it does with the financial sector via its banking forum. [19 Mar 2008]
Women told: Tech isn't 'boring'
News By this time next year, Reding plans to establish a European code of best practice for women in IT - to address the so-called 'leaky pipeline' phenomenon, whereby girls steadily lose interest in working in technology as they progress through... [07 Mar 2008]
Itil standard has mass appeal
News He added organisations are waking up to the potential of best practice in IT and are taking a closer look at how it can help improve the performance of their tech. Engagement with other best practices drop off sharply after Itil with Microsoft... [03 Mar 2008]
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