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The Weekly Round-Up: 20.11.09
Round-Up In fact - as an aside - even Whitehall is putting IT on a diet, with the government's green IT champion, Chris Chant telling silicon.com the public sector has "stopped eating pies and put ourselves on a diet" when it... [20 Nov 2009]
Office 2010: Beta launched
News For more, see Office 2010 beta goes public on CNET News.com. Office 2010 beta is now publicly available for download, Microsoft announced yesterday. New features include a social networking connector that allows users to... [19 Nov 2009]
Office 2010 beta released to the public
For the full story, see Office 2010 beta goes public on CNET News. Microsoft announced on Wednesday that the beta of Office 2010 is now publicly available from the company's website. Among the features new to the beta is... [19 Nov 2009]
Clouds clear as Microsoft gives Azure a January launch date
News Dallas will provide developers with access to third party datasets - both public and commercial - to allow them to build applications using the information. Microsoft's cloud-based computing platform Azure has been given... [18 Nov 2009]
How CIOs can achieve post-recession success
Comment Chui: Some of the things that were identified [in our research] are increasing uncertainty, lower availability on credit, potentially lower consumer spending in certain areas and more public sector involvement in the... [18 Nov 2009]
UK ID cards rollout hit by delay as launch date revealed
News The missed deadline is laid out on the ID cards section of the government's public information website, Direct.gov.uk, which reads: "Identity cards will be issued in selected locations first, starting in the Greater... [16 Nov 2009]
Digital Dilemmas: Should your business be on Twitter?
Comment And even the public sector punches above its weight, thanks largely to the self-promoting antics of politicians - those one-man 'enterprises' called MPs. Tis a thankless task to be forever fielding customer complaints,... [16 Nov 2009]
Shared Services: The Practicalities of Local Council Cost Reduction
White Paper Substantial investments have been made in digitising the way that local government delivers public services, managesoperations and creates efficiencies. Local government in the UK has been undergoing modernisation... [16 Nov 2009]
The REAL ID Act: Why Real ID Cards Should Be Based on Smart Card Technology
White Paper They are already widely used for secure identification in both the public and private sectors, are based on international standards, can provide all of the features required to meet the security requirements of the REAL... [14 Nov 2009]
The Impact of the New FRCP Amendments on Your Business
White Paper FaceTime enables the safe and productive use of public and enterprise instant messaging, Skype, Web conferencing and P2P file sharing. Ranked number one in Enterprise IM Management by IDC for three consecutive years,... [13 Nov 2009]
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) and Application Security
White Paper The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) of 2002 has radically redesigned how public companies comply with federal regulations. The extensive corporate governance requires that executives, auditors, securities analysts and legal... [13 Nov 2009]
Mobile GIS for Homeland Security
White Paper Whether the mission is homeland security or public safety, remote access to information is absolutely essential and critical. The ability to provide Location-Based Services (LBS) in a mobile environment requires a... [13 Nov 2009]
PKI and Federation: Realizing the Best of Both Worlds
White Paper This technical paper, designed for solution architects and identity management consultants, compares and contrasts X.509 certificates as used within a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and federated identity deployments... [13 Nov 2009]
Security Configuration Benchmark for Sybase ASE 15.0
White Paper CIS provides benchmarks, scoring tools, software, data, information, suggestions, ideas, and other services and materials from the CIS website or elsewhere ("Products") as a public service to Internet users worldwide. [13 Nov 2009]
Democracy in U.S. Security Strategy: From Promotion to Support
White Paper Democracy promotion in some form has been central to U.S.foreign policy since the country's inception, yet recent setbacks require reevaluating: 'What role, if any, should democracy have in U.S.security strategy and... [13 Nov 2009]
