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RSS revealed in newsTesco.com vans cut fuel bills with telematics tech
News Tesco conducted a trial of the technology over the end of last year and early this year using 200 vans, which revealed the fleet could make an additional potential 50,000 deliveries per week. Tesco.com has upped delivery rates and reduced fuel... [25 Jul 2008]
Ministry of Justice loses 45,000 records
News The MoJ has lost laptops, portable storage devices and papers containing information on recruits, offenders, court appellants and suppliers, the department's annual resource accounts have revealed. The details of 45,000 people, including criminal... [25 Jul 2008]
London: Card fraud hotspot
News The UK's top card fraud hotspots have been revealed in a report that shows the crime is spread across the country. London, specifically the south east of the capital, saw the most card-not-present fraud over the past six months, with Romford and... [24 Jul 2008]
Charity Commission saves a bundle with online returns
News The Charity Commission has revealed an online service to handle the submission of annual returns from 169,000 charities is saving the body £425,000 per year. The Commission, which acts as a regulator and registrar for charities in England and Wales... [24 Jul 2008]
PAYE system not ready for rollout
News The suspension of the system comes as a report from the National Audit Office revealed HMRC had spent £552m on IT transformation between 2006 and March 2008. The launch of a computer system to handle all PAYE tax claims has been suspended because... [21 Jul 2008]
The £500k hunt for missing HMRC discs
News Financial minister Jane Kennedy revealed the costs in a written answer to parliament. The taxpayer has been landed with a £473,544 bill for the hunt for the missing HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) data discs. [18 Jul 2008]
BlackBerry PDF flaw puts business networks at risk
News The UK's leading CIOs revealed… RIM is warning businesses to disable the function that allows a BlackBerry to read PDF files until an update can be issued, after a security flaw was found in the company's software. [17 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. A Whitehall department wants to scrap desktop and handheld computers in... [16 Jul 2008]
Privacy chief fights UK-wide database
News The ICO's annual report also revealed it had issued nine enforcement notices for data protection breaches this year to bodies including Carphone Warehouse and Greater Manchester Police, and had carried out 11 prosecutions. [15 Jul 2008]
UK failing to respect computing heritage
News The UK's leading CIOs revealed… IT chiefs have hit out at the lack of respect the UK as a nation gives to its computing heritage following the mothballing of the Museum of Computing in Swindon.silicon.com asked a number of CIOs whether the UK made... [15 Jul 2008]
Microsoft readies online apps for business
News The UK's leading CIOs revealed… Microsoft announced its road map and pricing for web-based software suites built for big companies and growing businesses. Enabling telecommuting, which many employers and workers increasingly favour, is likely to be... [09 Jul 2008]
Foreign Office tech overspend leads to project trimming
News The funding figures were revealed in a written answer to parliament by foreign office minister Meg Munn. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has overspent on two IT projects which has forced it to rethink some of its development plans. [07 Jul 2008]
NHS data handling: Calls for independent audits
News The potential change was revealed by Marlene Winfield, national patient lead for NHS IT body Connecting for Health. NHS trusts are being urged to introduce independent auditors to make sure they are keeping to guidelines to protect their handling... [07 Jul 2008]
Viacom vs Google: YouTube privacy fears
News Privacy activists from the Electronic Frontier Foundation said in a blog post the order "threatens to expose deeply private information" and violated the Video Privacy Protection Act, a 1988 federal law passed after Supreme Court nominee Robert... [04 Jul 2008]
Google Talk finds a home on iPhone
News A Google's software engineers revealed the news about Google Talk in a blog on Wednesday. Google is making its Google Talk instant-messaging application available for Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch, however these new applications come in light of... [04 Jul 2008]
