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RSS offices in newsTelePresence saves HSBC money - and airmiles
News TelePresence will be fitted at nine of the bank's offices worldwide by the end of this year under a plan to grow videoconferencing use by 16 per cent each year and "significantly" reduce air travel. Cisco TelePresence will be available in offices... [05 Sep 2008]
Dell on the verge of a mini breakthrough?
News Mini-laptops have caught on with heavy computer users who want full-access not just to email but to web pages and business documents while on the go outside of their offices. Dell is poised to announce a new mini-laptop computer later this week, a... [03 Sep 2008]
Financial advisors digitise docs to please FSA
News Independent financial advisor group Independent Financial Services (IFS) has signed a deal to implement scanners in 100 offices, to keep client documents safe in light of FSA regulation. The Kodak scanners provided by BMI Solutions will be used to... [01 Sep 2008]
Home Office loses data on 84,000 prisoners
News The Home Office statement said: "We have been made aware of a security breach at the offices of an external contractor involving the loss of personal information about offenders in England and Wales. Unencrypted data on all 84,000 prisoners in... [22 Aug 2008]
O2 snaffles HomeServe mobile contract
News Didcock said mobile technology plays an important role in keeping the company's thousands of travelling tradesmen in touch with customers and offices 24/7. Mobile operator O2 has secured a three-year contract to provide mobile voice and data... [18 Aug 2008]
'Paper junkies' can't kick printing habit
News Mary Leonard, Envirowise director, said in a statement: "Most offices will find they can reduce waste costs by 20 per cent through simple low-cost actions. Paper junkie office workers are costing their companies up to 10 per cent of their turnover... [05 Aug 2008]
Infosys launches radical retail tech services
News To target new markets and customers Infosys has branched out into the Middle East and Latin America with new offices in recent months. It's less important for him to be the company's controller than to look like he is. [01 Aug 2008]
Heathrow Airport: Lost laptop hotspot
News Of the laptops that turn up in airport lost property offices, 57 per cent are never claimed. Airports are a hotspot for lost or missing laptops with around 800,000 being misplaced in European and US airports each year. [30 Jul 2008]
Kent signs £32m outsourcing deal
News Schools, libraries and council offices in Kent are to be networked in a £32m outsourcing deal. Kent County Council has struck a four-year deal with US outsourcing provider Unisys to provide a shared wide area network built on a high-speed Cisco... [22 Jul 2008]
Whitehall IT to be carbon neutral by 2020
News The Cabinet Office's Greening Government ICT report states energy consumption on the government estate has not been falling as much as expected, and IT is identified as a "certain contributor" - being responsible for around a fifth (20 per cent... [17 Jul 2008]
Defra to ditch desktops and PDAs
News She added: "We are restricting in Defra the number of items which individuals can have and also making sure we are not over-providing within our offices. A Whitehall department wants to scrap desktop and handheld computers in favour of lone laptops. [16 Jul 2008]
Foreign Office tech overspend leads to project trimming
News The Future Firecrest programme has seen 3,000 computers installed at FCO offices in London and Milton Keynes, with new machines and infrastructure planned at FCO sites in Athens, Tbilisi in Georgia, and The Hague from late summer 2008. [07 Jul 2008]
Museum of computing looks for new home
News He said they wanted to keep the museum in Swindon as the museum relied on local volunteers, and it is important to celebrate the town's high longstanding tech pedigree that continues to this day, with Intel and Motorola having local offices. [02 Jul 2008]
Timeline: HM Revenue & Customs data blunder
News Data from the discs is then uploaded to a standalone computer at the HMRC offices in Washington (WVP) for analysis and the original CDs are placed in a locked room. The tax post system is undocumented and untraceable, despite a fully IT-enabled... [26 Jun 2008]
Ultra fat pipes to squeeze through Dundee's sewers
News Dundee Council has already used H2O's fibre to link two city centre offices in order to share information quickly, and was keen for it to be the first Scottish Fibrecity, said H2O. Dundee has been selected as the first Scottish 'Fibrecity... [18 Jun 2008]
