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PAYE system not ready for rollout
News The figure is two-thirds of the £851m the HMRC has spent so far on a programme to modernise tax collection, with savings of about £2.4bn achieved since the programme began, according to the report. HMRC expects the £2.7bn transformation programme... [21 Jul 2008]
Barclays gives online users free security software
News The bank said more than one million PIN readers have been sent out to customers under this programme. Barclays director of digital banking Sean Gilchrist said in a statement: "For the last two years we have offered customers free antivirus software... [01 Jul 2008]
Oracle pumps up prices, BEA takes the hit
News Trying to find other prices in order to check 'like for like' can be challenging for users, as analyst Tony Lock, programme director at Freeform Dynamics, explained on Monday. He told silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk: "Having acquired a number... [24 Jun 2008]
NHS head defends major IT delays
News Six years into the national NHS IT programme (NPfIT) the Lorenzo care records systems have still not gone live anywhere in the country, leaving health trusts in the North, Midlands and the East to rely on interim systems while they wait for... [18 Jun 2008]
Fujitsu to pay back NHS £67m
News The service provider, which had its contract to deliver part of the £12.7bn National Programme for IT (NPfIT) terminated last month, owes the money out of £143m it received from the NHS in advance payments.silicon.com Public Sector [17 Jun 2008]
Exclusive: UK's top CIO revealed
News Royal Mail's Robin Dargue has been voted the UK's top CIO as he embarks on a mammoth technology-based £2bn transformation programme aimed at making the 360-year-old organisation leaner and able to compete better in the deregulated postal market. [11 Jun 2008]
Prisoners to gain IT skills
News It was developed by not-for-profit organisation Working Ventures UK through its 'Exit to Work' programme and London skills organisation the London Employer Accord, working in partnership with the three companies. [11 Jun 2008]
BT to cut CO2 emissions by 80 per cent
News Its 2008 Sustainability report revealed that during the last financial year it had saved £365.3m as a result of its environmental management programme. Dr Chris Tuppen, BT's director of sustainable development said in a statement: "The Climate... [03 Jun 2008]
Admit to security breaches, companies told
News ENISA has also launched a three-year programme it says will "mitigate the risk of a digital 9/11" by improving the resilience of public electronic communications in Europe. Andrea Pirotti, executive director of ENISA, said in a statement: "Europe... [27 May 2008]
Time to bin ID cards?
News He denied the early mini system for critical workers would be any less robust than the full ID card programme. IPS executive director Bill Crothers said they had about 150 technical meetings with the final candidates to establish their suitability. [23 May 2008]
£81m cost of botched gov't shared services
News The NAO report points to inadequate contract management and poor initial implementation within the department and says the DfT was over optimistic in setting its timetable and goals for the programme with its main IT supplier IBM. [23 May 2008]
BT business hubs to be wi-fi hotspots
News BT Business Open Wi-Fi will be an extension of the communications and IT company's existing programme of creating "Openzones" using its residential customers' hubs - the hub being a wireless modem and router unit. [22 May 2008]
IT education organisation takes Microsoft grumbles to EC
News Becta also announced this week an open-procurement process for its upcoming, revised software-licensing programme, which covers software such as office-productivity suites. Becta's executive director of strategic technologies, Dr Stephen Lucey, has... [14 May 2008]
Nasa supercomputer gets rocket power
News The US space agency's Pleiades programme aims to give peak performance of 1,000 trillion operations per second - or one petaflop - by 2009. Ames director, Pete Worden, said the massive performance boost will fulfil Nasa's increasing need for... [09 May 2008]
Top IT job at NHS split into two
News The Department of Health advertised for a CIO to "focus on the big picture of delivering our overall IT vision" and a director of the IT programme and system delivery to "focus on managing NHS Connecting for Health and enhancing partnerships with... [28 Apr 2008]
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