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Google digs deep for geothermal energy
News The US Department of Energy says these advanced techniques can dramatically increase geothermal potential by 40 times. Google is investing $10m in "enhanced" geothermal systems - essentially technology for tapping underground heat - which it says... [20 Aug 2008]
Wanted - CIOs with opinions
News Will the IT department exist in five years? If you are the head of IT at an organisation - public or private sector, large or small - you should be on the silicon.com CIO Jury. Many of your peers already are. [18 Aug 2008]
Hackney Council in £1.9m IT overhaul
News Hackney Council is set to overhaul the entire IT operation supporting its housing department in a £1.9m deal with local government software specialist Civica. The council's management organisation, Hackney Homes, is set to take delivery of a new... [15 Aug 2008]
NHS names top tech tag team
News The Department of Health has named the new leadership team that will direct the future of the NHS National Programme for IT. Christine Connelly will become CIO for Health, focusing on developing and delivering the overall information strategy for... [07 Aug 2008]
£18m National Identity Register deal awarded
News But a spokesman for the Identity and Passport Service said the department had confidence in the system that would be fully functional by the second half of 2009. A prototype of the UK ID card biometric database will be delivered by French firm... [04 Aug 2008]
Flexible working: Gov't 'must do better'
News The Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills is leading the way with 100 per cent of staff given laptops for home working, but the Ministry of Justice has just four per cent of staff able to work from home, putting it at the bottom of... [30 Jul 2008]
'Star Trek' communicators free up doctors' time
News Belfast Health and Social Care Trust has saved the equivalent of 4,000 emergency department staff hours per year with an internal 'Star Trek'-style wireless voice communicator. The network, which is supplied by Vocera and is accessed by a pendant... [29 Jul 2008]
Leeds Council puts faith in Microsoft
News The agreement is already delivering benefits with a pilot project underway in the Children's Services department around secure joint working on document and case management files. Leeds City Council (LCC) is hoping to save money and develop new... [28 Jul 2008]
Ministry of Justice loses 45,000 records
News The MoJ has lost laptops, portable storage devices and papers containing information on recruits, offenders, court appellants and suppliers, the department's annual resource accounts have revealed. The details of 45,000 people, including criminal... [25 Jul 2008]
First students graduate from IT 'business' degree
News McKibbin has secured a place on British Airways' IT Graduate Programme in Newcastle, to start this September; while Broom will take up a post with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, working within the procurement department. [24 Jul 2008]
ISPs join file sharing crackdown
News The deal between ISPs and the music industry was reached under the guidance of the Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and also includes the Motion Pictures Association of America. [24 Jul 2008]
Does open source pose a security risk?
News A May study funded by the US Department of Homeland Security praised improvements in open-source security. The security practices of open-source IT developers should lead enterprises to think twice before using open-source software, according to a... [22 Jul 2008]
UK youths going mobile web crazy
News Professor Leslie Haddon of the Media and Communication Department at LSE said the lower figure for mobile social networking use compared to email reflects the latter's longer established presence in the market. [17 Jul 2008]
Defra to ditch desktops and PDAs
News A Whitehall department wants to scrap desktop and handheld computers in favour of lone laptops. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) hopes to cut power bills and CO2 emissions by introducing one laptop per worker. [16 Jul 2008]
'Greedy' appliances to power one million homes
News Efficiency improvements to the greediest home appliances - including power supplies for laptops, mobile phones and printers - can save enough energy to power 1.5 million homes, according to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs... [14 Jul 2008]
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