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RSS project'Incompetent': The verdict on gov't prisoner database
News Chair of the PAC, Edward Leigh, said of the programme that was designed to implement a single database between the Prison Service and the National Probation Service: "Even we were surprised by the extent of the failure of C-Nomis",... [03 Nov 2009]
Open source? No good for cost cutting, say CIOs
News Regardless of any possible functional benefits of an open source system, the cost of change and retraining would outweigh any benefits certainly in the short term and the project would distract from other more pressing... [23 Oct 2009]
How tech is helping gamblers get that casino feeling
News Kiessling's team has just completed a three-year project to build a new poker platform (P5) at a cost of between €20m and €25m which took 250 man years to create. When you think of gambling, smoky casinos... [23 Oct 2009]
Keeping IT green in tough times
News And in the midst of a recession, with cost cutting a priority, it's easy to let slide worthy targets such as becoming carbon neutral - especially if the choice is between a project to shrink the carbon footprint of IT... [22 Oct 2009]
Blocked: BBC plan to share iPlayer with rivals
News The public service side of the project would involve setting up a federation of British broadcasters, which would then provide access to their on-demand video content via the iPlayer. The project would... [21 Oct 2009]
It's a dog's life for police BlackBerrys
News The technology is there and in many ways that's the easy bit - what this is is a people project. This is not really a technology project," Hitch added. Getting chewed - and eaten - by dogs. Getting run... [20 Oct 2009]
Important characteristics of a comprehensive Security Event Management solution
White Paper Join the experts as they outline how to implement a successful SEM project. Security event management (SEM) is a simple way to improve your company's ability to discover and react to potential attacks, while meeting... [20 Oct 2009]
CIOs waste energy and budget as one in six servers go unused
News Gartner analyst Rakesh Kumar told silicon.com that because project managers buy more new hardware and new software for each project, consolidation is not happening - and that IT departments need to be... [19 Oct 2009]
How File Fragmentation Occurs on Windows XP / Windows Server 2003
White Paper A while ago there was a little research project to find out exactly how fragmentation occurs on Windows XP. It was sparked by some users at a past trade show that mentioned that having all the free space defragmented... [16 Oct 2009]
Dell Proconsult Windows 7 Readiness Assessment FAQ
White Paper Your migration project is evaluated in terms of Dell's Best Practices learned from internal and customer Windows 7 migration projects. What is the Microsoft®Windows®7 Readiness Assessment (W7RA)? W7RA is a gap analysis... [15 Oct 2009]
Windows 7: The five things you need to be thinking about now
News With that in mind, companies should get cracking on their migration project now, as most migrations will take 12 to 18 months of waiting, planning and testing before they start to go live, Gartner added. [15 Oct 2009]
Troops in Afghanistan to get gadget gifts
News The project will enable members of the public to support the men and women deployed on military operations, without inundating the postal service with unsolicited mail. Troops serving on Afghanistan's front line are to... [15 Oct 2009]
Google unleashes biggest ever Apps rollout for 35,000 users
News However, according to Kinsella, the use of Google Apps isn't just about cost: "This whole project was not a project to save money. Business support services company Rentokil Initial has signed up for the... [12 Oct 2009]
Photos: 10 of the best open source mobiles
Photo However, Android wasn't the first mobile Linux effort by any means: work on open source mobiles by the LiMo Foundation, as well as the Openmoko project was already underway by the time the Google OS was announced. [12 Oct 2009]
BBC names new CIO as part of tech shake-up
News Hall joined the BBC from Shell as an IT project manager in 1995. She has also been technology controller for BBC Nations & Regions, which saw her setting the technology strategy for the launch of BBC Northern Ireland's... [09 Oct 2009]
