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Microsoft training Black Country kids in joys of IT
News He said: "We've combined the objectives with a sub-regional development agency - the Black Country Consortium - and also the Learning & Skills Council (LSC) - so it's looking at how can we start to address skills issues for local businesses, how... [23 Jul 2008]
Revealed: Top tech security risks and cash-sappers
News Expiring warranties: A government agency surveyed by BDNA had 20 per cent of its PCs that were nearing the end of their warranty. Software company BDNA surveyed its customers and identified the 10 most important issues CIOs should be aware of to... [29 May 2008]
£4.2m flood alert tech raises the alarm
News Fujitsu Services will continue to run the Floodline Warnings Direct (FWD) system for another two years under the agreement with the Environment Agency (EA).silicon.com Public Sector People will be able to sign up for flood alerts online as part of... [29 May 2008]
NHS cleans up keyboard act
News The keyboards have been developed by University College London Hospital in a pilot supported by the Department of Health tech agency, Connecting for Health. This period is adjustable depending on the environment. [07 May 2008]
The high-tech road to happiness
News Ambitious proposals in the Highways Agency's (HA) business plan for 2008-09 will build on the success of the six-month pilot of the Active Traffic Management (ATM) system on the M42. The Highways Agency is currently waiting for permission from... [01 Apr 2008]
Ballmer: Microsoft says the future's green
News Don't put Vista in schools, says education agency He said: "The lowering of energy consumption is as important for us as new uses of software and IT for the environment. The UK's Green Party has also criticised Vista for requiring "more expensive... [06 Mar 2008]
SMS gets Oxfordshire residents out of deep water
News The Environment Agency has encouraged local government to be better prepared regarding flood warnings. Wireless from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more… A is for Antivirus B is for Bluetooth [26 Feb 2008]
Microsoft: 'These programs won't work after Vista SP1…'
News Don't put Vista in schools, says education agency Sweeney said: "In theory you only have to fix it once and you should be able to deploy it across your whole environment, but many organisations do not have a highly automated deployment. [21 Feb 2008]
How the good guys fight the security arms race
News During his career as an US Air Force officer he was assigned to the National Security Agency where he helped create the Department of Defense Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (Orange Book) and was co-author of Object Management Group's... [15 Feb 2008]
Microsoft pours $235.5m into school tech
News The programme works through organisations such as the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA) and government education tech agency Becta. The main UK focus has been building teachers' confidence to use technology in the learning... [23 Jan 2008]
Don't put Vista in schools, says education agency
News The government remains committed to technological agnosticism, despite concerns from the educational agency Becta over Microsoft technology. Brian Hardie, Becta's director of marketing and communications, told silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk... [10 Jan 2008]
Operational IT budgets to be squeezed in 2008
News Gavin Whatrup, group IT director for advertising and marketing agency Creston, said a centralisation strategy in IT may lead to an increased capital expenditure in the short term, but he added the long-term picture is to reduce spend. [17 Dec 2007]
Data breach hits thousands of motorists
News An internal inquiry has been launched after staff at Northern Ireland's Driver and Vehicle Agency (DVA) admitted losing data on a total of 7,685 vehicle owners and their vehicles. The data, which was contained on two CDs, was being sent from the... [12 Dec 2007]
Businesses delay Vista plans until 2009
News The Maritime & Coastguard Agency isn't planning to upgrade to Vista for two to three years. James Findlay, head of ICT for the Maritime & Coastguard Agency, said: "With XP SP3 due out next year sometime, there is little incentive to upgrade to... [28 Nov 2007]
'Sentinels' to help fight climate battle?
News The project has been jointly developed by the European Commission and European Space Agency and is aimed at generating data to inform government policy for combating climate change and help plan for the effects of the changes already taking place... [12 Nov 2007]
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