project it system in news
Microsoft: Don't knock Vista 'til you've tried it
News Oh wow," said one user, eliciting exactly the exclamation that Microsoft had hoped to garner when it first released the operating system more than 18 months ago. After months of searching for ways to defend its often-maligned Windows operating... [24 Jul 2008]
Health trust abandons NHS care record upgrade
News A health trust serving more than 500,000 people said it has pulled out of the national NHS IT electronic care record programme because it has lost confidence in the project following the departure of key supplier Fujitsu. [22 Jul 2008]
figleaves.com revamps website
News The current platform is a home-grown system that has been supporting the site for the last seven years, but Hall said it was getting to the stage where it had reached the limit of its flexibility and could no longer provide an experience in line... [16 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]
Foreign Office tech overspend leads to project trimming
News This has been compounded by the need to spend £6.5m simplifying its Prism project, an Oracle-based enterprise resource planning platform to rationalise 30 different IT systems. Other IT systems have been cut down, with "financial constraints... [07 Jul 2008]
ePassport upgrade scaled back
News In the report the IPS explained the decision to drop EPA2 and revert to "more limited" enhancements to the existing ePassport system, saying it was striving for value for money. The Identity and Passport Service (IPS) has scaled back plans to... [02 Jul 2008]
Gov't slams Fujitsu's "core contract" NHS IT failings
News In a written answer to Parliament he disclosed the project suffered from far deeper problems than previously revealed.silicon.com Public Sector Bradshaw said talks had been going on since last summer with the vendor responsible for delivering the... [26 Jun 2008]
Mobile Ubuntu invites developers to build
News David Mandala, project manager of the Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded Group, said in a blog posting: "This release marks the start of a way for new users to experience Ubuntu and open source software and, as the hardware becomes commonplace, it will... [26 Jun 2008]
NHS head defends major IT delays
News NHS CEO David Nicholson defended the delays in delivering the NPfIT, saying the project was "incredibly ambitious, nowhere in the world delivers an IT system quite like the one we want for the NHS" but said the health service had "learnt lessons". [18 Jun 2008]
'Chip and Bin' dumped by council
News The system worked by using chips to weigh rubbish as it was lifted into one of the 12 lorries fitted with an onboard computer. In a statement the council explained why it had now given up, despite sticking with the problematic system until it was... [17 Jun 2008]
Fingerprints analysed on the beat
News The project, called Lantern, is intended to examine how time can be saved by officers trying to establish the identity of persons stopped on the street by enabling fingerprint and number plate checks out on the beat. [11 Jun 2008]
IBM smashes the supercomputing petaflop
News With 80 terabytes of memory, the Roadrunner system and is housed in 288 IBM BladeCentre racks occupying 6,000 square feet. We connected this to a traditional transactional and database project. It has 10,000 connections, both infiniband and gigabit... [11 Jun 2008]
Network Rail on track with IP
News The IP network will be integrated into Network Rail's FTN project which aims to replace 16,000km of copper cabling with 11,000km of fibre optic cabling to support a digital driver-to-signaller radio system. [10 Jun 2008]
Building soc buys Experian mortgage engine
News Henley expects the system to be available to customers by the end of the autumn and will roll it out to its 45-seat contact centre and 22 branches by the beginning of 2009. Stroud and Swindon Building Society (SSBS) has signed a contract to... [10 Jun 2008]
Open source guru criticises Oyster software
News Ironically, it is now the basis for a system designed to smother the freedom of the people of London, through online payments to Oyster cards. While disapproving of the use of Linux in the Oyster system, Stallman said there is not much that could... [10 Jun 2008]
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