delays in news
RSS delays in newsSepa adoption 'could take five years'
News Despite calls for a deadline forcing corporates to sign up to the Single Euro Payments Area (Sepa), it could be another five years before the directive is fully adopted. Cheat Sheets Faster Payments Basel II MiFID diams... [18 Nov 2008]
The 10 projects at the heart of NHS IT
News Delays to the summary care records rollout have meant that only two of the five early adopter sites, Bolton and Bury, have uploaded their records to the Spine. The system aims to cut the lengthy delays,... [10 Nov 2008]
BA blames Heathrow T5 chaos on IT testing slip ups
News In the report, BA is quoted as accepting the committee's findings that training and testing had been insufficient saying: "We should not have absorbed the continuing building delays by compromising the time needed to... [03 Nov 2008]
Motorola delays split into two
News Motorola has reported losses for the third quarter. And as the economy worsens, the company also said it will delay its split of the company in two. On Thursday, Motorola reported a net loss of $397m, or 18 cents per share. [31 Oct 2008]
Google pledges reliability for its cloud-based Apps
News Glotzbach said: "That 10 to 15 minutes per month average represents small delays of a couple of seconds here and there. Customers paying Google for Gmail are guaranteed the email service will be available 99.9 per cent... [31 Oct 2008]
Round three for BT's Phorm trials
News BT is to perform another trial of Phorm's ad-serving technology, after delays of more than half a year. Phorm's technology, which BT will use under the brand of 'Webwise', has attracted protests from peers, politicians,... [29 Sep 2008]
NHS email upgrade rocked by delays
News The NHS has warned hundreds of thousands of staff that it has been forced to push back an email upgrade to next year. At least 300,000 staff at surgeries and hospitals nationwide have been told the highly anticipated upgrade will be... [18 Sep 2008]
Sony Ericsson: Microsoft mobile is on track
News On Monday, and over the weekend, several technology blogs, and Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter, reported delays in product rollout, quoting rumours and unnamed sources at Sony Ericsson. Sony Ericsson on Monday ditched... [02 Sep 2008]
Police shame 999 time wasters on YouTube
News Now Avon and Somerset Police have turned to YouTube to shame timewasters for tying up a line where delays can cost lives.silicon.com Public Sector Losing your glasses or forgetting the answer to a quiz question could... [29 Jul 2008]
MoD IT - late and over budget
News Defence Information Infrastructure Programme (DII) found that problems with the rollout of the hardware and "persistent weaknesses" in the core software have led to significant delays. A Ministry of Defence (MoD)... [04 Jul 2008]
Mobile phones key to paperless air travel
News GPS-enabled handsets could also be used to track passengers in airports, with the potential to save airlines $600m by cutting flight delays, with messages sent to wayward passengers to move them to gates more... [20 Jun 2008]
NHS head defends major IT delays
News The head of the NHS has defended delays that have kept a key system from going live in the £12.7bn upgrade of health service IT. At a Public Accounts Committee hearing into the National Programme for IT committee member... [18 Jun 2008]
Fujitsu to pay back NHS £67m
News He said: "There were a lot of delays in getting paid that were quite frustrating. He said: "The constant need to change systems to meet local requirements, which had not been in the contract, has been a big part of the... [17 Jun 2008]
'Connected' UK vulnerable in face of cyber attack
News He admitted past failings in the public sector security due to delays in issuing patches in time but said that the government is committed to continuing to improve response times. Security minister Lord West told the... [16 Jun 2008]
Health care records service delayed
News Tim Burr, head of the National Audit Office, said in a statement: "The scale of the challenge involved in delivering the National Programme for IT has proved to be far greater than envisaged at the start, with serious... [16 May 2008]
