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RSS supplier in newsMinistry of Justice loses 45,000 records
News The MoJ didn't notify more than 30,000 of the 45,016 affected by the data breaches, first when MoJ supplier records were compromised in June 2007 and then when the names, addresses, birth dates and alleged offences relating to 3,648 people were... [25 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]
Has Barclays stamped out fraud with PINsentry?
News Any user wishing to set up an online transfer to a new third-party account, other than a standard supplier such as a utility company, is required to use the system. The UK's third-largest bank said this week that it has distributed the card reader... [18 Jul 2008]
Exeter Uni gives £5.5m network upgrade the green light
News The test was outsourced to Spirent Communications and was used to determine whether the preferred supplier hardware was fit to deliver 200 channels of IPTV and 1Gbps networking to the desktop across the university's campus.silicon.com Public Sector [17 Jul 2008]
Data centre costs top reason for virtualisation
News One of the sponsors of the research was virtualisation-software supplier VMware. Nine out of 10 organisations that have adopted virtualisation technologies have done so to reduce data centre costs, according to research from IDC. [08 Jul 2008]
ePassport upgrade scaled back
News Any transitional support and maintenance arrangements would have been likely to increase costs to IPS considerably until any new supplier was able to support the electronic channel. Millions had been spent on the Electronic Passport Application... [02 Jul 2008]
'Chip and Bin' dumped by council
News That cost staff hundreds of hours of time in contact with the software firm, the weighing system supplier and the bin supplier, through meetings, email and phone calls. The UK's first project to measure the amount of rubbish thrown away using... [17 Jun 2008]
Stock Exchange offers low latency feeds
News Savvis' service will connect investors to the exchange's Infolect and TradElect electronic trading platforms via the supplier's London Docklands data centre.silicon.com Financial Services The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has agreed a deal for... [10 Jun 2008]
House of Fraser synchronises supplier data
News Department store chain House of Fraser has signed up to the Inovis Data Synchronisation service in the hope of reducing the time to upload information on suppliers' products into its core merchandising system by 50 per cent.silicon.com Retail... [09 Jun 2008]
When is a supplier gift/junket inappropriate?
News In all such situations it is important to ensure that your personal and professional integrity remains beyond question, particularly if the supplier in question is one currently engaged in an active negotiation. [06 Jun 2008]
£81m cost of botched gov't shared services
News The NAO report points to inadequate contract management and poor initial implementation within the department and says the DfT was over optimistic in setting its timetable and goals for the programme with its main IT supplier IBM. [23 May 2008]
Durham health consortium outsources e-procurement
News The service will be hosted by the e-procurement specialist supplier Wax Digital. A consortium of health trusts and HM Prisons within County Durham has outsourced its shared procurement hub, which it uses to source around £350m of supplies and... [22 May 2008]
Royal Mail on target to save £300m with SAP
News Central to the project is SAP supplier relationship management (SRM) software and its E-Procurement module. Royal Mail also uses the SAP financial application and plans to upgrade to SAP's SRM 7.0 and add a supplier collaboration module in the near... [22 May 2008]
Scottish Water splashes out on tech
News The water supplier has been working on a tech transformation project for the past six years and is already working with Atos Origin, Fujitsu, Logica and TCS. Scottish Water has signed three tech contracts to the tune of £120m to help improve its... [28 Apr 2008]
Who is the UK's IT hero of the year?
News Last year's event was the most successful yet, with the best and brightest across both the supplier and user communities in the UK technology industry rewarded for their achievements. Entries for the prestigious CNET Networks UK Technology Awards... [22 Apr 2008]
