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Environment Agency puts searches online
News The Environment Agency has completed the initial rollout of a £4m project to make its property searches available online. Computacenter, which already hosts the EA’s main website infrastructure, will remotely monitor and manage the new environment... [02 Sep 2003]
Environment Agency sends £1.5m message to Kingston
News Kingston Communications has won a £1.5m contract with the Environment Agency in the UK to provide a voice network and voice messaging system. And in a separate three-year contract valued at £450,000, it will maintain and enhance the Environment... [20 Dec 1999]
Environment Agency beefs up storage with CA
News The Environment Agency has signed a three-year, £210,000 deal to upgrade its storage in a bid to improve weather warnings to the public. Paul Sanderson, IT manager for the Environment Agency, told silicon.com: "This is slightly more expensive [than... [19 Jan 2006]
Debut for Microsoft-funded cross-platform Java environment
News The first Java environment to support both Microsoft and Sun Java technologies in the same implementation has been demonstrated by a Microsoft-funded company. It provides a just-in-time code generation layer between the Java program and the... [17 Jun 1999]
CIOs: 'Focus on leadership, environment and new techs'
News IT leaders need to address issues as diverse as leadership succession, environmental impact, their relationship with HR and new technologies as they head into 2007, said analyst Gartner in its annual CIO New Year Resolutions. [07 Dec 2006]
Hazardous IT waste warning issued
News The UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is warning companies disposing of redundant IT equipment such as computer monitors that they may find themselves falling foul of new hazardous waste legislation. [27 Jun 2005]
Scottish Executive signs £25m IT services contract
News The Scottish Executive Environment and Rural Affairs Department (Seerad) has signed a new £25m, five year IT services contract. The company had a previous contract with the department which ran for six years and included a joint project by Seerad... [05 Jul 2006]
5 years ago: UK firms warned of Y2K eco-nightmare
News 06.05.1999: The UK Environment Agency has warned of a possible environmental disaster if firms do not increase their efforts to beat the millennium bug. However, an Environment Agency survey of 400 companies found that 69 per cent of companies were... [06 May 2004]
World's "wild" web sparks fears for the future
News The web is turning into a hazardous environment, and there should be more tech-savvy politicians in government today so better legislation can be established, says an industry-renowned internet guru. It is not a nice environment," he said, noting... [23 Jun 2005]
Council says Linux migration poses "unacceptable levels of risk"
News London's Newham Borough Council has ditched plans to move to an open source environment and will instead concentrate on negotiating a new deal with Microsoft that could act as a model for other public sector bodies. [06 Jan 2004]
Win2000 surpasses NT4 in thin client scalability
News Microsoft's Windows 2000 software marks a move forward for the thin client environment across the board, according to early adopter John Saville, Head of IT services for the University of the West of England. [22 Feb 2000]
IBM works with gov't on open source security trial
News The Cabinet Office and IBM are working together on a secure open source environment for public and private sector organisations. The Central Sponsor for Information Assurance (CSIA) said this week the initiative had been launched to assure public... [27 Apr 2006]
MIPS measure environmental impact: how it works
News HP, EMI and Barclays are among a group of companies attempting to discover just how much effect technology has on the environment - and they are using MIPS to do it. However, Case said, these figures are still preliminary: for instance, the figure... [17 Sep 2002]
Farming subsidy IT system to cost £90m
News The Department for Environment is to spend at least £90m on a major overhaul of IT systems in the Rural Payments Agency (RPA). In a statement to parliament, Jim Knight, parliamentary under-secretary at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural... [29 Jul 2005]
Rural broadband divide must be closed, say MPs
News The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs committee has told the government to take its broadband policies back to the drawing board. In a report published on Tuesday, the Select Committee on Environment, Food and Rural Affairs condemned the fact... [16 Jul 2003]
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