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RSS programmesMicrosoft training Black Country kids in joys of IT
News Youngsters are recruited to the scheme by Zenos' school and college outreach programmes. Microsoft is helping youngsters in the Black Country learn about the joys of IT - and also plugging a skills gap for helpdesk support technicians in the region. [23 Jul 2008]
MoD IT - late and over budget
News The £7.1bn cost breaks down into a £4.9bn contract with Atlas, £1.2bn to deliver related IT programmes on which DII depends and a further £1bn for associated work yet to be contracted. A Ministry of Defence (MoD) programme to replace hundreds of IT... [04 Jul 2008]
Microsoft unveils licensing plan for business
News The company had managed to shrink its number of options - from 107 programmes in 2006 to 23 as of last year. With Select Plus, the number of Microsoft licensing programmes has crept back up to 26. The software maker has come under criticism from... [01 Jul 2008]
Virtualisation key to staff-owned devices
News A recent study from analyst house Gartner into employee-owned-notebook programmes, revealed that an increasing number of staff want to use their own laptops at work. The ability of virtualisation technology to free software from the underlying... [30 Jun 2008]
CIOs not taking security breaches seriously
News Other top concerns for CIOs over the next 12 months are major business programmes, business continuity and disaster recovery. CIOs and internal auditors don't feel IT fraud and data privacy is a serious threat to their business despite the spate of... [27 Jun 2008]
BBC takes wraps off iPlayer 2.0
News There is also a "More Like This" section which lists related programmes which viewers might be interested in along with links to relevant websites. There is also a TV schedule to help people plan their viewing by listing which programmes will be... [25 Jun 2008]
MI5 seeking changeable techies
News The UK's security intelligence agency is looking to recruit enthusiastic IT architects to work in Central London with experience in "IT solutions design" for large-scale organisations - and who are keen to work on business change programmes. [23 Jun 2008]
Leading a horse to water
Comment Driving through things like the tell-us-once programmes or the work we are doing on contact centres are all critically important and if you asked me what my priority is in 12 months' time, I would give you the same answer," adds Suffolk. [23 Jun 2008]
Tech-savvy recruited for organised crime
News They have research and development programmes, they are putting people through university, they are calculating return on investment and they have better quality assurance. A Soca spokesperson told silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk on Friday: "We... [23 Jun 2008]
Yvonne Gallagher
CIO Profile As CIO for the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), Yvonne Gallagher is responsible for leading the MoJ's IT and information strategy, for the provision of IT services to the Ministry's headquarters, Her Majesty's Court Service, Tribunals and the Judiciary... [11 Jun 2008]
Tony Mather
CIO Profile In addition to managing a tech budget in excess of £100m per year and major IT-related programmes such as biometric visas, shared services and the Firecrest project to upgrade the FCO's entire IT infrastructure, Mather runs the information... [11 Jun 2008]
Graham Young
CIO Profile In that role he was responsible for moving the design process from the drawing board and complex mainframe-based programmes to PC-based CAD and engineering design. Graham Young joined architect Foster + Partners in June 2007 and has 40 years... [11 Jun 2008]
Catherine Doran
CIO Profile She embarked on a career in technology after initially studying maths and geography at university in Ireland and has played a lead role in improving the performance of major organisations through IT transformation programmes. [11 Jun 2008]
Richard Williams
CIO Profile Before joining Astra, Williams worked at audit and consulting firm Coopers & Lybrand where he led a number of IT strategy and application development programmes working with various pharmaceutical and consumer companies. [11 Jun 2008]
Ian Cohen
CIO Profile Cohen chairs the Group's Technology Leadership Council, Investment Board and is currently leading a variety of business process, cultural and technology change programmes. As a group executive director as well as CIO, Ian Cohen is a member of the... [11 Jun 2008]
