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RSS office 12Is the UK an open source laggard?
News Secondly, the high licensing and training costs for Microsoft Office will push us to evaluate alternative options. CIOs are split on the controversial issue of adopting more open source software in corporate IT. [21 Jul 2008]
Privacy chief fights UK-wide database
News A database of all calls, emails and internet traffic, to be stored by the Home Office for at least 12 months, is thought to be included under proposals for "modifying procedures for acquiring communications data" in the draft Communications Data... [15 Jul 2008]
ID cards face student scorn
News H is for Home Office Young people have condemned ID cards as "illegal" and "creepy" on a website to canvas their views. People aged 16 to 25 have been using the site MyLifeMyID.org, launched today, to discuss the £4.4bn National Identity Scheme (NIS). [09 Jul 2008]
Privacy concerns over Google Street View
News The Information Commissioner's Office has said it has concerns about Google's Street View and thinks the company could be breaching data-protection law. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) told silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk that it... [09 Jul 2008]
City slickers addicted to email
News Workers in the City just can't resist checking in at work while on holiday with almost two-thirds contacting the office by phone, text or email while they're away. Just 40 per cent said they're able to relax enough to resist emailing the office... [07 Jul 2008]
ePassport upgrade scaled back
News H is for Home Office The Identity and Passport Service (IPS) has scaled back plans to upgrade its electronic passport system. Millions had been spent on the Electronic Passport Application (EPA2) project upgrade. [02 Jul 2008]
Office Business Application Bridges Gaps and Extends the Reach of Line-of-Business Application
White Paper To expand and improve access to its LOB applications, SYSPRO leveraged the power and flexibility of the 2007 Microsoft Office system to develop an Office Business Application. SYSPRO is a global leader in the production of world-class ERP software... [01 Jul 2008]
Office Business Application Bridges Gaps and Extends the Reach of Line-of-Business Application
White Paper To expand and improve access to its LOB applications, SYSPRO leveraged the power and flexibility of the 2007 Microsoft Office system to develop an Office Business Application. SYSPRO is a global leader in the production of world-class ERP software... [01 Jul 2008]
Kangaroo web TV faces competition scrutiny
News The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) says the joint venture could create an excessive concentration of video content. Kangaroo, the proposed online on-demand video joint venture between BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4, has been referred to the... [30 Jun 2008]
HMRC and MoD face action over data blunders
News The Poynter report said: "The data loss incident arose following a sequence of communications failures between junior HMRC officials and between them and the National Audit Office (NAO). The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is taking... [25 Jun 2008]
Treasury turns to tech guru to slash IT costs
News Read said in a statement: "I am pleased to be involved in this programme and to be leading the work on back office and IT services. The appointment comes as public sector procurement body the Office of Government Commerce announced a new version of... [23 Jun 2008]
Leading a horse to water
Comment Notable trailblazers in this are the Cabinet Office sharing services with other, smaller departments such as the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills, the Office of National Statistics and The Children and Family Court Advisory and... [23 Jun 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 20.06.08
Round-Up The survey, by managed office company Regus, found almost half of remote and mobile workers spend at least half a day per week working in a public place. The latest figures - courtesy of BT - show that most city centre office workers are tied to... [20 Jun 2008]
Celebrating 60 years of computing
News Baby was built using metal racks from the Post Office along with hundreds of valves, and the keyboard was a series of push buttons and switches, mounted vertically. On Saturday, it will be exactly 60 years since the world's first stored-program... [20 Jun 2008]
Thin clients switch on digitally excluded
Case Study The project is aiming to give digitally excluded families a leg up onto the internet by installing thin client Windows PCs, complete with the MS Office suite, in their homes. A project to tackle digital exclusion in socially deprived regions of... [17 Jun 2008]
