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Why green tech is more influential than ever
News As former director of Friends of the Earth and now programme director for his sustainable development charity, Forum of the Future, Porritt has been one of the leading environmental campaigners for years. [08 Oct 2008]
BAT lights up £26m SAP savings
News Colman - who expects the programme to be finished by the third quarter of 2009 - advised other tech departments thinking of embarking on a similar project to "never give up" on trying to get exec buy-in. [02 Oct 2008]
Google Android: Spreading beyond phones?
News Google has come up with a prominent brand and strong developer programme for Android, which brings compatibility issues to the fore. It's not clear yet whether Google shares this broader Android ambition - the emphasis... [23 Sep 2008]
Notts police turns to tech for better crime handling
News The force is in the middle of a 12-month development programme for the call handling system in which 250 functionality acceptance tests will be carried out. Speaking to silicon.com, command and control... [19 Sep 2008]
NHS email upgrade rocked by delays
News In a letter to staff, Will Moss, programme head for the affected internal email system, NHSmail, says the start date has been delayed from 27 September because the organisation cannot yet guarantee the new service will... [18 Sep 2008]
Peru to test run Windows XO laptop
News Microsoft and the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project announced Monday that Peru will be the first country to try out XO laptops running Microsoft Windows as part of a nine-month pilot programme. The... [16 Sep 2008]
Agenda Setters: Where are they now... Ashley Highfield
News In a 2007 interview with silicon.com, Highfield explained how part of his task was to calm the fears of programme makers about digital rights management, which illustrates his influence goes beyond the BBC and into the... [16 Sep 2008]
Data loss consultants sacked by Home Office
News My officials are currently working with PA to take this work back in house without affecting the operation of JTrack or the PPO [prolific and other priority offenders] programme. Since 2004 the company had been... [10 Sep 2008]
Prisoner data breach firm paid £100m
News It adds that the total value of the contract will not be known until the work is finished: "The PA Consulting contract involves work on the design, feasibility testing, business case and procurement elements of the identity cards... [22 Aug 2008]
Council mega-project set to double savings
News He said: "Being the first programme was always going to be difficult. Birmingham City Council's ambitious business and technology transformation project is on course to save more than double the amount... [07 Aug 2008]
First students graduate from IT 'business' degree
News McKibbin has secured a place on British Airways' IT Graduate Programme in Newcastle, to start this September; while Broom will take up a post with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, working within... [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... [22 Jul 2008]
Defra to ditch desktops and PDAs
News Defra permanent secretary Helen Ghosh unveiled the plan as part of its Renew IT Programme to the parliamentary Environmental Audit Committee, as revealed in its recent report. Ghosh said: "One of the things we are doing... [16 Jul 2008]
Foreign Office tech overspend leads to project trimming
News She said the Future Firecrest programme had not overspent "at a programme level" as funding had been moved from associated projects such as iRecords but said the quality of the final systems would not be... [07 Jul 2008]
Nationwide hands network reins to BT
News Nationwide's infrastructure will sit on BT's next generation 21CN network as part of a service transformation programme. Back in March, Nationwide signed a multimillion pound deal with SAP to use the German software... [30 Jun 2008]
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