CSC blames poor performance on NHS debacle
US systems integrator CSC has said a 'poor' yearly performance was in part due to NHS write-offs....
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US systems integrator CSC has said a 'poor' yearly performance was in part due to NHS write-offs....
17 May, 2012 by Tom EspinerParliament has amended UK information law in an attempt to make open data easier for developers...
2 May, 2012 by Tom EspinerThe G-Cloud programme will cost £4.93m, but save £340m, according to Cabinet Office minister...
1 May, 2012 by Tom Espiner
Denise McDonagh, the Home Office's director of IT, is set to lead the government's G-Cloud...
16 April, 2012 by Jack Clark
The European Commission has asked the European Parliament not to vote on the contentious...
5 April, 2012 by David MeyerNearly £4m of public money has been ploughed into the Tech City initiative, a government-backed...
20 March, 2012 by Jack ClarkThe government has denied a claim by a minister that the upcoming Communications Bill green paper...
10 February, 2012 by David MeyerThe Czech Republic has become the second EU country to suspend its ACTA ratification process...
8 February, 2012 by David MeyerIt's good to see that the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, otherwise known as ACTA, is at...
29 January, 2012 by David MeyerA French MEP has quit the process of scrutinising ACTA for the European Parliament, calling the...
26 January, 2012 by David MeyerThe Houses of Parliament has opened bids to manage and support its IT and telecommunications...
9 January, 2012 by Tom EspinerGreens in the European Parliament have taken Swedish Pirate Party copyright views on board,...
7 October, 2011 by Tom EspinerThe Scottish government has asked the UK communications minister Ed Vaizey to back a bid to...
26 September, 2011 by Tom EspinerThe implementation of the Digital Economy Act, a piece of legislation designed in part to crack...
29 March, 2011 by David MeyerNews The European Commission has given Google the chance to avoid formal proceedings by coming up with remedies to antitrust concerns over page-ranking and advertising Read more
21 May, 2012 by Tom EspinerNews The government's NHS Information Strategy sets out plans to enable the reuse of data and give patients access more access to their health details online Read more
21 May, 2012 by Jo BestNews The government will introduce a bill to intercept a wider range of internet communications, including those on social networks, and give police wider surveillance powers Read more
9 May, 2012 by Tom EspinerNews The European Commission is set to lay out proposals for a EU-wide e-ID scheme, it has revealed as it outlined a pan-European strategy aimed at protecting children from harmful online content Read more
3 May, 2012 by David Meyer 1 comment
News A second version of the G-Cloud app store will be available in May, according to Chris Chant, outgoing programme director at the Cabinet Office Read more
26 April, 2012 by Gill HitchcockNews West Midlands Ambulance Service has used the government's fledgling G-Cloud CloudStore to buy Microsoft's Office 365 and Sharepoint 2010 for its staff Read more
25 April, 2012 by Jo BestNews Opening up public-sector data is a good thing overall, a report from the National Audit Office has said, but the government needs a better grasp on the benefits and costs of its policy Read more
18 April, 2012 by Gill Hitchcock
News HP has lost the contract to supply pay and pensions administration to the Service Personnel and Veterans Agency to CSC, the MoD has announced Read more
17 April, 2012 by Jo BestNews The millions of pounds spent on the IRIS scheme at airports 'would have been better spent on immigration staff', say MPs, who have also raised questions about the progress of e-Borders and e-gates Read more
11 April, 2012 by Jo Best 1 commentNews The number of IT staff working in government departments has dropped by around nine percent in four years, according to figures Read more
11 April, 2012 by Sade Laja
News Lincolnshire County Council has awarded KCom a contract to build the core network infrastructure for the East Midlands public services network Read more
3 April, 2012 by StaffNews The Cabinet Office says its new contract with Oracle should cut software costs via a single pricing structure for all departments, licence sharing and shared services, among other measures Read more
28 March, 2012 by Sade LajaNews Virgin Media Business, BT and KCom are among the dozen companies that successfully bid to become suppliers of managed telecoms for the public sector's network of networks Read more
23 March, 2012 by Jo BestNews Government services will be online by default in the future, and must be easy enough for the minister responsible to use, under new measures announced in the 2012 UK Budget Read more
23 March, 2012 by Jo Best
News The agency, dedicated to running large EU-wide IT systems, has officially begun work in Estonia, and will initially focus on databases related to visas and fingerprints, with other systems likely to follow Read more
22 March, 2012 by David Meyer 2 comments
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@JoshArg - Well, I am writing this from my N150 Plus, running Ubuntu 12.04 and using a Bluetooth mouse (well, to be totally correct it is a...
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