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RSS public serviceMet police in web 2.0 crime map mash up
News The site has been developed by the Met Police Service in conjunction with the Metropolitan Police Authority and the Mayor of London - and is part of a Home Office initiative to get more people involved with their local police and enable the public... [18 Aug 2008]
Finalists for CNET tech gongs announced
News Awards up for grabs include Business Application of the Year, Security Product or Service of the Year, Public Sector Technology Project of the Year and IT Team of the Year. The entries are in, the judges have voted, and now the finalists for the... [18 Aug 2008]
Hackney Council in £1.9m IT overhaul
News Hackney homes head of ICT services Trish Haill said in a statement: "Rather than update existing systems we wanted to start afresh, implementing the latest technology to deliver a cutting-edge service to tenants and an improved working environment... [15 Aug 2008]
More businesses turning to VoIP?
News Business customer share of worldwide hosted VoIP service revenue will increase from 26 per cent in 2007 to 41 per cent in 2011, market research company Infonetics Research predicts. PBX makers have also greatly expanded the list of certified... [14 Aug 2008]
Inbox: YouTube surveillance, skills gap, Naked speak
Comment The technology only isolates the vulnerable if technology is used to replace face to face services instead of enhancing the service. It's time the gov't servants, we, the public, have hired, are made accountable for their actions just like the... [11 Aug 2008]
Apple iPhone gets Google Translate service
News The service] builds on the Google Languages [application programming interface], which we made public around a year ago, so the only bit we built specially was the iPhone interface. Google has released a version of its translation service that is... [11 Aug 2008]
Birmingham to "enrich lives" through tech
News Before the council embarked on the project Tilsley said the council's service levels left a lot to be desired although this is now changing. Chris Leggett, corporate development director of the Service Birmingham joint venture created for the... [08 Aug 2008]
CIOs brave the cold for children's charity
News Steel said: "As a public sector CIO and, now, the president of Socitm I'm used to thinking about how ICT can be used to promote improved service accessibility through digital inclusion, but Byte Night provides a special focus that's about the... [07 Aug 2008]
Welsh Assembly signs e-procurement contract
News In a statement, Welsh Assembly minister for finance and public service delivery Andrew Davies said: "Each year, public sector bodies in Wales spend more than £4.5bn on the procurement of goods, services and capital projects. [06 Aug 2008]
£2.5bn gov't telecommunications contract up for grabs
News The network will replace the existing Government Secure Intranet, Managed Telecommunications Service and Foreign Telecommunications Network. The next generation Ocean Programme network will streamline voice and video communication, data sharing and... [05 Aug 2008]
Microsoft Windows set to retire?
News The system is forecast to be a cloud computing service, making it less reliant on a specific piece of hardware than existing versions of Windows. Such an approach would free up people to use the OS to access information and services on a wide range... [05 Aug 2008]
£18m National Identity Register deal awarded
News But a spokesman for the Identity and Passport Service said the department had confidence in the system that would be fully functional by the second half of 2009. The full version of the NIR, due to go live in 2011 in time for the roll out of the ID... [04 Aug 2008]
Citizens use YouTube to keep gov't in check
News But it warns that the approach does risk airing vendettas against individual public workers, introducing greater budget pressures and distracting from wider public service reforms. It suggests that service delivery is streamlined so it is provided... [31 Jul 2008]
Chinese Life Insurance Leader Obtains Sustainable Competitive Advantage Through IT Planning
White Paper China Life faced the challenge of higher requirement for cost and risk control for China Life from the international capital market after the company went public, higher profit requirement from shareholders, better service requirement from... [30 Jul 2008]
Bumpy landing for Bangalore's airport dream
Comment While top executives can use the expensive helicopter ferry service launching soon, others are obliged to factor in a five-hour lead time before boarding even 30- to 50-minute short-haul flights to neighbouring tech cities such as Chennai and... [30 Jul 2008]
