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News The Home Office is running 125 months late and £50m over budget on its combined IT projects. The Liberal Democrat home affairs secretary, Simon Hughes, obtained the information through a written question... [11 Nov 1999]
Home Office: We got data retention wrong
News The Home Office made a startling admission on Thursday morning that its plans for making ISPs retain details of customer emails and web surfing have not worked out as it had hoped, and the UK is now "back to square one". [06 Dec 2002]
Home Office to give early warning on security holes
News The Home Office has said it will start giving advance warning about upcoming security patches and software vulnerabilities to essential public services, such as transportation, health and telecommunications. [28 Jul 2004]
Home Office loses data on 84,000 prisoners
News Unencrypted data on all 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales has gone missing after a Home Office contractor lost a USB stick on which it had been stored. Contractor PA Consulting alerted the Home... [22 Aug 2008]
Home Office inks £430m deals with Atos Origin, Fujitsu
News The Home Office has announced it's extending IT contracts with suppliers Atos Origin and Fujitsu, under new deals worth £430m. The Home Office claims the contract extensions, which will run until 2016,... [12 Oct 2009]
Home Office laptop and disc up for grabs on eBay
News The Home Office is investigating the apparent sale of one of its laptops, along with an encrypted data disc, on eBay. The technicians at the repair centre, at Leapfrog Computers in Westhoughton, subsequently found an... [29 Feb 2008]
Home shopping enjoys market upturn
News The Internet has prompted a major turnaround in the declining home shopping market, according to a report by research company, Verdict. Traditional high street stores like Tescos, Woolworths and Arcadia are seeking... [16 Aug 1999]
Home Controls Manufacturer Uses .NET Micro Framework to Create Product Quickly
White Paper Consistent with its mission to apply the latest technologies to the development of new products that satisfy the needs of emerging markets, Leviton engineers and designers have been at the forefront of delivering trusted residential... [30 May 2007]
Home Depot Builds Solid IT Foundation - With Hitachi Freedom Storage "Thunder 9200"
White Paper Atlanta-based Home Depot is the world's largest do-it-yourself retailer. Home Depot needed a reliable storage infrastructure to support its expansion and success. Extending the long-term relationship... [10 Apr 2008]
Virus warning: Home users targeted by porn worm
News Failure to patch a three-year-old Microsoft vulnerability is leaving home and business users exposed to a JavaScript worm that redirects Internet Explorer to porn sites. Worms such as Fortnight are likely to increasingly... [20 Jun 2003]
Home broadband gives kids better GCSE results
News Having web access at home can make the difference between a pupil getting grade A at GCSE and grade D. According to the ONS stats, degree-level educated adults are most likely to have internet access at... [28 Aug 2008]
Home Office turns down Nasa hacker's appeal
News The man accused by the US government of accessing more than 73,000 US military machines has lost his second appeal to the Home Office against extradition. McKinnon's recent diagnosis with Asperger's Syndrome, a condition... [14 Oct 2008]
Home Office warned over PFI deal
News A leading contract lawyer has warned the UK Home Office to look carefully at the terms of its 10-year Private Finance Initiative (PFI) deal with the Sema Group, if it's not to go the same way as other high profile failures. [16 Apr 1999]
Home Network Administration Protocol (HNAP) Whitepaper
White Paper This whitepaper provides information about the Home Network Administration Protocol (HNAP), which enables network equipment manufacturers to allow programmatic configuration and management by remote entities. [31 Jul 2009]
Info watchdog: Home Office guilty of data protection breach
News Privacy watchdog the Information Commissioner's Office has found the Home Office to have breached data-protection law over the loss of 84,000 prisoners' data. Although the data was lost by contractor PA Consulting, as... [23 Jan 2009]
