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Lie detectors to hunt out benefit cheats

News A spokesman for the Department for Work and Pensions said the decision on whether to roll out the scheme nationwide would depend on the results of these new trials. It is also making it quicker and easier to review claims, especially for those...

Tags: dwp, benefits, lie detector

[07 May 2008]

OOXML row continues

News The UK Unix & Open Systems User Group (UKUUG) said on Thursday that the British Standards Institution's controversial decision to vote for approval of OOXML in a recent International Organization for Standardization ballot followed a flawed...

Tags: bsi, microsoft, ooxml

[02 May 2008]

Vodafone CEO: We will slash CO2 by 50 per cent

News Vodafone has said it will halve its carbon dioxide emissions by 2020, largely by making its networks more energy efficient. According to Arun Sarin, the company's chief executive, the move is "the right decision for a responsible business to take".

Tags: co2, green it, vodafone, sharing

[22 Apr 2008]

ID cards chief defends u-turn

News Hall said the decision to delay a Parliamentary vote on making ID cards compulsory for British citizens until 2015 was an example of the government "listening to people" and to the recommendations of a wider report into "identity assurance" by...

Tags: id cards, security, identity, british

[10 Mar 2008]

Women told: Tech isn't 'boring'

News Women are especially under-represented at senior decision-making level in IT - EC analysis conducted in October last year of 150 European companies in the telecoms sector found the average percentage of women on boards of directors was just six...

Tags: skills, geek, women, decision making

[07 Mar 2008]

Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 gets cautious welcome

Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 gets cautious welcome

News Also, the coincidence of the release of Windows Server 2008 to the release of 2007 Exchange, and their common architecture and administration, is important to our decision. Current focus is on making more efficient use of CPUs by the use of...

Tags: microsoft, cio jury, windows server 2008, cio

[28 Feb 2008]

Microsoft to embrace open-source and says won't sue

News It laid out four principles aimed at making its high-volume enterprise software support standards and better handling data from non-Microsoft software. Smith said: "As we said immediately after the CFI decision last September, Microsoft is...

Tags: microsoft, sue, open source, licence

[22 Feb 2008]

Fuzzy logic tech project to help the elderly

News Fuzzy logic uses computational mathematics to reach conclusions based on vague information, replicating human decision making.silicon.com's A to Z of Biometrics Speaking to silicon.com, research fellow at DMU's Centre for Computational Intelligence...

Tags: intelligence, care, research, computers

[03 Jan 2008]

NHS completes Pacs digital x-ray project

News The government also claims the technology is improving reporting and clinical decision-making and contributing to reduced patient waiting times between referral and the start of treatment. The NHS has completed a project to rollout digital x-ray...

Tags: nhs, pacs, reporting, health

[27 Dec 2007]

Windows Vista - why you shouldn't skip it

News But it also said skipping Windows Vista might be the right decision for smaller organisations because they don't have the scale to support multiple OSs on an ongoing basis, making a wholescale 'forklift' migration project more efficient.

Tags: vista, migration, xp, microsoft

[07 Dec 2007]

HMRC email rejected filtering of sensitive data

News The NAO has released the details of an email exchange between the junior HMRC manager responsible for sending the CDs containing 25 million child benefit records and the NAO, with a senior HMRC manager copied in on the emails - although both sides...

Tags: hmrc, alistair darling, nao, benefit

[23 Nov 2007]

HMRC data blunder to sink ID cards?

News Another reader, ex-RAF cryptographer Paul Howard, said the government's delay in making the data loss public underlines the need for the UK to adopt Californian-style data breach legislation "to ensure the loss of personal records are notified...

Tags: hmrc, id cards, data, cards

[22 Nov 2007]

Google DoubleClick deal: EU ramps up scrutiny

News In making the decision to push the $3.1bn deal into an extended investigation, the Commission cited concerns about the merger's impact on competition in the online advertising space - and potential subsequent harm to consumers - as the driving issue.

Tags: google, eu, ec, acquisition

[14 Nov 2007]

IBM brains up with $5bn Cognos buy

News Steve Mills, senior vice president and group executive of IBM Software Group, said: "Customers are demanding complete solutions, not piece parts, to enable real-time decision making. IBM has announced it intends to buy business intelligence...

Tags: ibm, acquisitions, cognos, cnet news

[12 Nov 2007]

'Sentinels' to help fight climate battle?

News The project could provide "assured continuity of crucial data sets" that could help understand and predict climate change and inform policy-making in hundreds of years, he added. Professor David Crichton, consultant on insurance and climate change...

Tags: earth, europe, climate, monitoring

[12 Nov 2007]

CIOs plan more outsourcing

News As the reasons behind the decision to outsource change, Smith added, there will also be a dramatic change in outsourcing hotspots, with Eastern Europe and Vietnam already making a significant impact on the IT outsourcing map.

Tags: outsourcing, offshoring, plan, software development

[12 Nov 2007]

Online shoppers get savvy in run-up to Xmas

News A separate survey has pinpointed a key emerging factor in consumers' online decision-making process. The vast majority (86 per cent) of online consumers suffer some sort of difficulty in making their purchase.

Tags: customer service, retail, websites, website

[05 Nov 2007]

Lenovo dropping IBM logo two years early

News William Amelio, chief executive of Lenovo, said in a press announcement relating to its quarterly results: "By making substantial progress on all of our critical priorities over the past few quarters, we're now a stronger, healthier company.

Tags: lenovo, laptop, thinkpad, ibm

[05 Nov 2007]

Named: ID cards scheme supplier hopefuls

News He added the IPS will be in constant contact with the eight bidders to outline detailed plans and listen to supplier views before making a decision. Eight companies are in the running as key suppliers for the Identity and Passport Service's (IPS...

Tags: passports, suppliers, procurement, ips

[22 Oct 2007]

How to survive the first 100 days as CIO

News A really good way in the early days of making contact with people is asking them what the acronyms mean. One of the interesting things for me when I moved from BT to Network Rail was moving from a company where everything was governed by what was...

Tags: management, career, cio

[22 Oct 2007]

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