office 2007 in news
Sort by: Relevance | Date
Security expert slams Home Office data-sharing guide
News The Home Office has published a code of practice for data sharing between public- and private-sector organisations. The Home Office said on Thursday that the code was designed to be "overarching", and... [10 Oct 2008]
BAT lights up £26m SAP savings
News The company was prompted to embark on the project as it felt it had too many back office systems with little standardisation which, at £34m per year, was costing the company too much in support and development. [02 Oct 2008]
Lost data total nears 30 million records
News August 2008: PA Consulting loses a data stick holding records on 84,000 prisoners, a breach that subsequently sees the contractor lose its lucrative contract with the Home Office. February 2008: A laptop bought on eBay... [30 Sep 2008]
Microsoft interoperability makes "substantial progress" in schools
News The schools' IT body had been concerned about interoperability between the open-source Open Document Format (ODF) and Microsoft's Office 2007 formats. It lodged a complaint about Microsoft with the... [17 Sep 2008]
Vista finds a home on 1,300 Canterbury Uni desktops
News As part of the migration, the university has also moved to Microsoft's Office 2007 package. Canterbury Christ Church University has moved to Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system in time for the new... [15 Sep 2008]
TelePresence saves HSBC money - and airmiles
News The system has already proven successful for HSBC - during one month of use between its 8,000-strong London HQ and its Hong Kong office, the bank saved $604,000 on air travel bills and reduced distance flown by staff by... [05 Sep 2008]
Third of UK homes still without web access
News While broadband continues its march into ever more homes in Blighty, new figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) also reveal that more than a third of households are still going without a web connection. [27 Aug 2008]
"Shambolic" security behind Home Office data breach
News The loss of a USB stick containing unencrypted data on 84,000 prisoners by a management consultancy working for the Home Office has been slammed as a "shambolic" failure by the IT security industry. Details of how... [27 Aug 2008]
Prisoner data breach firm paid £100m
News The management consultancy firm at the centre of the latest government data breach storm has been paid almost £100m over three years for its services by the Home Office and its agencies, with individual consultants from... [22 Aug 2008]
Home Office loses data on 84,000 prisoners
News Unencrypted data on all 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales has gone missing after a Home Office contractor lost a USB stick on which it had been stored. Contractor PA Consulting alerted the Home... [22 Aug 2008]
ISO rejects latest OOXML appeals
News The International Organization for Standardization has thrown out four appeals against its ratification of Microsoft's Office Open XML document format. The appeals were made by Brazil, India, South Africa and Venezuela,... [19 Aug 2008]
More businesses turning to VoIP?
News The number of worldwide residential and small office/home office VoIP subscribers grew 60 per cent between 2006 and 2007, hitting 75 million, the report adds, with the largest gains in... [14 Aug 2008]
Microsoft's 'Patch Tuesday' targets six critical flaws
News Versions of Office are affected by this flaw, including Office XP Service Pack 3 (SP3), and Office 2003 SP2 and SP3. Office applications have received critical patches... [13 Aug 2008]
Gov't spends £18m on comms surveillance
News The figures were not recorded in Hansard, but were confirmed to be correct by the Home Office yesterday. A Home Office spokesperson on Wednesday declined to specify which ISPs and telcos had received the... [07 Aug 2008]
Ministry of Justice loses 45,000 records
News The largest loss in January 2008 saw an "inadequately protected" laptop containing the names, dates of birth, addresses, offences, and - in a fifth of cases - national insurance numbers, of 14,000 fine defaulters go missing from a... [25 Jul 2008]
Keep updated for stories matching office 2007 in news via RSS
