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ID cards: Seven years of missed deadlines and U-turns

News October 2006 - The Tories pledge to abandon the ID cards scheme, with Conservative Party leader David Cameron describing the scheme as wrong and a waste of money. Picture the scene: the year is 2016 and ID cards have... [02 Dec 2009]

Green IT: Thrifty CIOs should make it a priority

News Thin client technology can extend your refresh cycles, whilst reducing energy and waste from your computing infrastructure," advised Green. Companies also need to be tapping into the importance of the safe disposal of... [29 Oct 2009]

CIOs waste energy and budget as one in six servers go unused

News One of the largest causes of energy and IT operational waste in datacentres are servers that are simply not being used said 1E CEO Sumir Karayi, who said the savings from decommissioning non-productive servers "cannot be... [19 Oct 2009]

ERP delays give CFOs a headache

News The research also found that when the biggest ERP deployments are delayed this can waste as much as $45,000 per day - more than $1m per month. Cost over-runs on the largest ERP implementation projects can reach tens of... [25 Sep 2009]

Apple's Snow Leopard: Embracing the brave new multicore world

News Worse, the chips required extraordinary amounts of power and produced corresponding amounts of hard-to-handle waste heat. That's because Mac OS X 10.6 begins a long-term attempt by Apple to get ahead by cracking a... [01 Sep 2009]

Too late for CIOs to get lean and agile?

News Such development approaches can reduce waste in IT systems and software development but they won't offer the rapid efficiency gains that finance directors are demanding from their CIOs because the implementation takes... [22 Jul 2009]

Hundreds of IT jobs to go at Lloyds

News I genuinely believe that the low level of morale in parts of the organisation that arises from the job insecurity must impact upon the way employees in the business feel and the way they interact with customers - if this is not true then... [17 Jul 2009]

ID cards: 'A project nobody wants and the nation can't afford'

News One of these days and they're going to wake up to the fact that it's a complete waste of time and money and they're going to have to cut back on every project in order to stop this country sliding into complete... [01 Jul 2009]

Apple, Nokia, RIM agree to one charger for all

News It also cuts down on waste since people can reuse their chargers when they get a new phone. We are also planning to take manuals out of our packaging and instead use e-manuals that will be right on the devices to help... [30 Jun 2009]

Testing times for the cloud: IBM gets involved

News Mitchell said development is an area where organisations traditionally over-provision IT and waste money. IBM is ramping up its cloud computing activities with a push into services to help businesses develop and test... [17 Jun 2009]

And the £400m biometric passport contract goes to…?

News The government's scheme to introduce ID cards has faced criticism from opposition parties, claiming it is a waste of money at a time when government spending is under increasing scrutiny. The UK government has awarded... [12 Jun 2009]

Windows 7: 'It's not you, it's just bad timing'

News Other than that I see no reason to waste money moving away from XP, which does everything I need it to. Despite its imminent release, Windows 7 isn't likely to hit business desktops any time soon. A recent silicon.com... [10 Jun 2009]

Twitter's fake tweeters to be unmasked

News Stone wrote in a company blog post on Saturday: "With due respect to the man and his notable work, Mr La Russa's lawsuit was an unnecessary waste of judicial resources bordering on frivolous. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone... [08 Jun 2009]

'Green shoots of recovery? What green shoots?'

News Consumer confidence is also likely to be in the doldrums for a long time to come, according to Mark Beattie, CIO of waste management and recycling company LondonWaste, who added: "I think it's very hard to see what... [20 May 2009]

Pilots to bail out on ID cards

News Pilots do not think it will improve security and think the scheme is a waste of money and do not trust the government with their details. The majority of pilots in the UK do not want ID cards and will fight plans to... [08 May 2009]

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