information systems in news
First students graduate from IT 'business' degree
News Northumbria specifically targets high achievers for its ITMB course, requiring a higher level of entry than standard computing and information systems courses. Employers are increasingly seeking business professionals who have a thorough knowledge... [24 Jul 2008]
Telegraph spreads the news on Google Apps
News Cheesbrough said: "A key part of our technology strategy is to try and purchase and deploy systems as a service predominantly in the cloud where we can, so that when you're out of the office you can access data and information in the same way as... [23 Jul 2008]
Businesses fear Sepa debit fraud risk
News In a survey conducted by Experian in April, 98 per cent of respondents have no plans to enhance payment fraud checks as they join Sepa, even though the increased volume in high speed transaction processing could expose their systems to frausters. [22 Jul 2008]
EC shies away from data-roaming regulation
News O is for Operating systems Mobile users should be made more aware of how much data they are using while abroad in Europe, the director general for the information society and media at the European Commission has said. [22 Jul 2008]
PAYE system not ready for rollout
News One of the key findings of the Poynter Review into HMRC data handling was duplication of information in the HMRC's 650-plus systems increased the risk of data loss. Earlier this year a report found HMRC computer systems had incorrectly taxed up to... [21 Jul 2008]
Courts to save millions with streamlined tech
News The £7.2m secure web-based application pulls information together from police, CPS and court computer systems to chart defendants' progress.silicon.com Public Sector Justice minister Lord Hunt said: "The sharing of knowledge and information is one... [17 Jul 2008]
Soham report IT systems still not in place
News Meanwhile the electronic transfer of court results to the Police National Computer will not start working until August 2008 and systems to join up information about criminal records held overseas have not "progressed very quickly", an independent... [17 Jul 2008]
Defra to ditch desktops and PDAs
News Second permanent under secretary of the Ministry of Defence, Sir Ian Andrews, told the committee the ministry would reduce the number of machines through the Defence Information Infrastructure project to rationalise about 300 systems. [16 Jul 2008]
UK failing to respect computing heritage
News It shouldn't be about museums of computers, it should be about understanding systems and computing in a social and business historical context. European IT director at Key Equipment Finance, Nic Evans, said: "Heritage counts for naught in the... [15 Jul 2008]
Privacy concerns over Google Street View
News Horvath wrote to Davies: "As with all such systems operating at this scale our blurring technology is not perfect - we occasionally miss a face or licence plate, for example, if they are partially covered, or at a difficult angle. [09 Jul 2008]
MoD IT - late and over budget
News A Ministry of Defence (MoD) programme to replace hundreds of IT systems with a single infrastructure is running more than a year late and is £182m over budget. Expenditure has been inflated by continuing spending on older systems and the delaying... [04 Jul 2008]
Ubuntu founder: 'Upstream' bugs must be quashed
News Shuttleworth, who runs Ubuntu's commercial arm, Canonical, said most users expect developers of open-source distributions to fix bugs affecting the operating systems, even if the flaws were introduced in groups of files developed by other coders. [01 Jul 2008]
Jonathan Zittrain on why the internet is on a knife edge
News But he believes the spectre of viruses, spyware and other security threats is driving us away from these open systems. He points to the rise of closed, "tethered" systems used by devices such as iPhones and Xboxes or "cloud computing", where people... [30 Jun 2008]
Reports in full: HMRC and MoD data breaches
News The constant need to bring information together from these systems increases the security risk. HMRC moves to having single customer records across all systems. The fragmentation of the 650 computer systems was identified as one of the fundamental... [26 Jun 2008]
HMRC and MoD face action over data blunders
News The IPCC found that there was a complete lack of any meaningful systems, a lack of understanding of the importance of data handling and a "muddle through" ethos at the HMRC at the time of the loss last November. [25 Jun 2008]
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