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RSS society royalCovert surveillance must be reserved for serious crimes, says government
News Speaking on Monday at the Royal Society of Arts, Home Secretary Alan Johnson said: "[the public] will not accept such powers being used to spy on people who put their rubbish out on the wrong day, or let... [05 Nov 2009]
Future of the NHS: Medical records online could transform healthcare
News At the Haughton Vale Surgery and the Thornley House medical centre in Manchester patients can view their records via a secure website - which helped one patient get medical treatment while on holiday in France, after they were able to... [21 Aug 2009]
David Tidey
CIO Profile David Tidey moved to the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in the mid-1980s, and since then he has undertaken both IT and non-IT roles. A member of the local government technology body Socitm, Tidey has been a... [01 Jun 2009]
ScanSafe Case Study: The Royal Society of Medicine
White Paper The Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) provides Internet access to medical professionals and researchers via 150 computer terminals in Europe's largest postgraduate biomedical library. RSM needed a solution... [01 Dec 2008]
CIOs back call for common skills scheme
News Robin Dargue Royal Mail David Lister Royal Bank of Scotland The BCS [British Computer Society] is doing well with accreditation but they must make it more valuable and more relevant," he... [13 Oct 2008]
Woolly risk analysis is hastening a housing crash
Comment Robin Dargue Royal Mail David Lister Royal Bank of Scotland The Nationwide Building Society reported that UK house prices have recorded their largest monthly fall since 1991 and have... [03 Jul 2008]
Nationwide hands network reins to BT
News Robin Dargue Royal Mail David Lister Royal Bank of Scotland Nationwide Building Society has signed a seven-year £160m deal with BT to outsource the management of its networked IT... [30 Jun 2008]
Revealed: What students think of tech work
News Robin Dargue Royal Mail David Lister Royal Bank of Scotland Mike Rodd, director of industry body the British Computer Society (BCS) Learned Society, which is driving an... [23 Jun 2008]
BCS warns over IT degree funding
News David Lister Royal Bank of Scotland Robin Dargue Royal Mail The government is gambling with the UK economy by removing funding for graduates who want to retrain in IT, the British Computer... [20 Jun 2008]
Berners-Lee bigs up the 'semantic web'
News Speaking at the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce in London, Berners-Lee said: "Initially there was a huge issue [with the web] that you couldn't find anything. Sir Tim... [13 Mar 2008]
Computer games 'can help plug IT skills gap'
News Lacey, the former director of information security for Royal Mail, called on the industry to implement staff IT training. David Evans, government relations manager for the British Computer Society, said... [22 Oct 2007]
Online pharmacies prescribed 'green cross' logo
News The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) will roll out its internet pharmacy logo in 2008 to identify accredited online pharmacies. Cleland said: "In order to ensure successful... [22 Aug 2007]
Faster bank transfers delayed to next year
News The 13 financial organisations are: Abbey, Alliance & Leicester, Barclays, Citibank, Co-operative Bank, HBOS, HSBC, Lloyds TSB, National Australia Group, Nationwide Building Society, Northern Bank, Northern Rock and... [15 Aug 2007]
Faster payments plan slows down
News The 13 financial organisations - which account for more than 95 per cent of all payments made in the UK - are: Abbey, Alliance & Leicester, Barclays, Citibank, Co-operative Bank, Northern Bank, HBOS, HSBC, Lloyds TSB, National Australia... [13 Jul 2007]
Vodafone rings up free mobile banking service
News NatWest, the Royal Bank of Scotland and Ulster Bank in Northern Ireland are due to join the service later on this summer. Customers can register their bank or building society account for Monilink mobile... [10 Jul 2007]
