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Charity Commission saves a bundle with online returns
News It outsourced the project to online specialist Parity to provide a portal that would allow charities to file returns securely online and distribute information to them, based on data in each return. The Charity Commission has revealed an online... [24 Jul 2008]
Web 2.0 prompts love for open source
News The study found the market is led by MySQL - bought by Sun in February for $1bn, more than the total size of the market - with other popular choices including Ingres, Oracle-owned BerkeleyDB, PostgreSQL, which forms the basis for commercial... [24 Jul 2008]
Google open sources data-moving tool
News Google is not the first to open source its internal data interchange system: Protocol Buffers is very similar to the Thrift framework, developed by Facebook and now an open-source project in the Apache Software Foundation Incubator. [11 Jul 2008]
Yahoo! 'Boss' offers up search to build on
News has begun a project that lets anyone build a customised search engine atop the internet company's technology. data with internal data. The service, which entered public beta testing last night, is called Boss (Build Your Own Search Service). [10 Jul 2008]
ID cards face student scorn
News So far the vast majority of the comments have been against the project. D is for Data privacy worries Site forums so far have raised fears about data security and governments abusing the information despite the glowing assessment of the scheme... [09 Jul 2008]
Hospitals roll out RFID
News A total of 110 hospitals have signed up to deploy the Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) system. Neil Lawrence, project manager for AIDC, said: "The use of AIDC has been picked up very quickly and everyone from manufacturers to nurses... [09 Jul 2008]
ePassport upgrade scaled back
News D is for Data privacy worries Millions had been spent on the Electronic Passport Application (EPA2) project upgrade. The total write-down of EPA2 assets since the project began in 2005 is £10.8m, comprising £5.5m in 2006-07 and £5.3m in 2007-08. [02 Jul 2008]
Nationwide hands network reins to BT
News The contract will see Nationwide's voice and data network infrastructure and existing third-party network contracts transferred to the telco. Back in March, Nationwide signed a multimillion pound deal with SAP to use the German software giant's... [30 Jun 2008]
MI5 seeking changeable techies
News As well as being able to demonstrate broad experience of IT solution design, candidates must have more in depth experience in at least two of the following areas: data centres; servers and storage; messaging; telephony; application design using... [23 Jun 2008]
'Chip and Bin' dumped by council
News The UK's first project to measure the amount of rubbish thrown away using microchipped bins has been dumped. South Norfolk walked away from the scheme, started in Autumn 2002, citing "unreliable" and "inconsistent" data. [17 Jun 2008]
Network Rail on track with IP
News The company - which operates the Britain's rail infrastructure - will gain an IP voice and data network to replace its legacy fixed line and internet services. The IP network will be integrated into Network Rail's FTN project which aims to replace... [10 Jun 2008]
Open source guru criticises Oyster software
News Changing the Linux licence would not prevent online payments systems that record user data, Stallman added, because the government could change the copyright laws or use non-free software. Since starting the GNU project in 1983 and setting up the... [10 Jun 2008]
ANPR "ring of steel" watches over Manchester
News A GMP spokesman said the stored data would be used to provide criminal intelligence and evidence in police investigations. In a statement Mike George, ANPR project manager for GMP, said: "GMP has historically invested in vehicle-based ANPR systems... [05 Jun 2008]
BT to cut CO2 emissions by 80 per cent
News The telecoms giant will build the largest wind power project outside of the energy sector as part of a push to slash its 1996 global CO2 emission levels by 80 per cent by 2016. A is for AbroadB is for BladesC is for Carbon footprintD is for Data... [03 Jun 2008]
BlackBerrys on the beat
News Keith Gough, mobile information project manager at Thames Valley Police said the tech will allow officers to "police smarter not harder". BlackBerry devices are the only mobile devices accredited for restricted level data by the UK government... [03 Jun 2008]
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