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Surfers shine at studies and salaries

Government must do more to reach the un e-enabled, finds report

01 May 2008

Public Sector IT

Brent Council sends PCs to Africa

A partnership with Computer Aid International makes compliance easier for Brent 22 Apr 2008

Public Sector IT

Government urged to introduce data loss controls

New losses of data revealed 15 Apr 2008

Public Sector IT

OGC hits back at public sector overspend claims

The Office of Government Commerce does not waste money, it counters 11 Apr 2008

Public Sector IT

Technology vendors offer advice in response to police reform strategy

Vendors have advised the government to move slow on police IT plans 12 Feb 2008

Public Sector IT

NOMIS marks another government IT failure

Another government IT project gets chalked up to experience 10 Jan 2008

Public Sector IT

UK moves up e-government rankings

UK ranks fifth place for sophistication and availability of online government services 21 Sep 2007

Public Sector IT

ID cards on track for 2009 as procurement begins

Procurement process finally gets underway but questions remain over the technical "nuts and bolts" of the project 13 Aug 2007

Public Sector IT

E-gov focus shifts towards ROI

Kable research predicts increase in spend on customer-facing projects 01 Aug 2007

Public Sector IT

PM Brown faces IT question time

NHS and ID cards top bill of unresolved issues for incoming PM 18 Jun 2007

Public Sector IT

Audit bodies give public sector advice on value for money

Public sector managers can assess how well they spend their money on office systems 01 Jun 2007

Public Sector IT

EzGov pushes shared services to local government

Substantial savings are on offer for councils willing to share applications 22 May 2007

Public Sector IT

Socitm advises measured approach on shared services

Socitm warns that a government push for shared services could make life harder for local councils 11 May 2007

Public Sector IT

Public sector IT growth set to slow

Budgets are set to fall as work moves from back-end infrastructure to front-office projects 14 Mar 2007

Public Sector IT

Councils reduce IT spend

New Socitm report highlights huge fall over the last year 11 Jan 2007

Public Sector IT

Government to axe over 500 websites

Nearly 100 sites have already closed as part of a new Transformational Government initiative 10 Jan 2007

Applications

New SAP UK chief sees world of opportunity

Government and SME efforts will lead SAP's growth, according to new UK managing director Steve Rogers 22 Nov 2006

Public Sector IT

Report labels public-sector IT chiefs “reckless”

Think-tank The Work Foundation says a gung-ho attitude is to blame for public-sector IT problems 25 Sep 2006

Public Sector IT

OGC scheme brings discounted PCs to the public sector

The Great Deals initiative promises price cuts of up to 45 percent 30 Aug 2006

Public Sector IT

Government faces damning reports on ID cards

The charges include bad management, inadequate consultation, and questionable cost predictions 04 Aug 2006

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Labs report: SP3 strengthens XP security

Service Pack 3 adds support for the Network Access Protection (NAP) mechanism in Windows Server 2008 09 May 2008

Features

Data analytics pays dividends

The New York Stock Exchange is deriving more value from its data after replacing a cumbersome warehousing system with an analytics appliance 09 May 2008

Comment

IT leader profile: Chris Brown

Chris Brown is IT support manager at server hosting firm Smartbunker, heading 35 staff 09 May 2008

Comment

Leader: The dilemma facing SAP

What next for German software firm SAP? 09 May 2008

Comment

On the web, it pays to suspect everything

Users must be taught that even the most innocent-looking sites can harbour threats 08 May 2008

Analysis

Microsoft upgrades mobile device support

Windows Mobile update comes alongside new infrastructure for enterprise-wide deployments 07 May 2008

Features

Wireless vendors pile on 802.11n pressure

Firms are spoilt for choice when it comes to 802.11n kit, but is it still too early to upgrade? 07 May 2008

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Credit card firms have got a cheek

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IT Week Labs

NIC failure scuppers 'Anywhere Access'

Personal file backup can be a pain – so much so that some people can’t be bothered - “It’ll be alright –... 29 Apr 2008

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The Week in Green

So it looks like the £25 a day congestion charge for gas guzzlers will never see the light of day .... 09 May 2008

Lem Bingley

What will web 3.0 involve?

Chatting with an IT industry pal the other day, we got to wondering what might constitute web 3.0.... 31 Mar 2008

Phil Muncaster

Unlocking information with social intelligence

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David Neal

You're not hired

Even though it finished such a long time ago I still miss The Apprentice dreadfully. This is not because of a particular... 17 Jul 2007

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