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Government continues to stonewall over ID card costs
News The Department for Trade and Industry said it has no plans to use ID cards for any of its services and so has made no estimate of the costs of using them while the Treasury said it does not anticipate any extra costs as a result of ID cards.
[February 20, 2006, 11:30]
Google exec plays Shakira mash-up to business leaders
News Prime Minister Tony Blair also appeared at the two-day event, which also features speeches from the Chancellor Gordon Brown and Henry Paulson, secretary of the US treasury on Tuesday. Google's vice-president of European operations added some Latin...
[November 27, 2006, 16:41]
Government pulls support for Home Computing Initiative
News The Treasury should have taken the opportunity to engage in a formal consultation process to fully assess the benefits of this scheme," said Tom Wills-Sandford, deputy director general of Intellect, in a statement.
[March 22, 2006, 17:05]
Public sector workers 'should get subsidised broadband'
News My concern is that when the Department of Trade and Industry is in a fight with another department, such as Health, Education or the Treasury, it lacks the weight needed to get its way," explained Taylor, who was minister of science and technology...
[June 24, 2003, 12:31]
Gates rejects birthplace of modern computing
News Despite its code-breakers being credited with ending the Second World War at least two years ahead of time, and its innovative history, Bletchley receives no public funding at all from the UK Treasury.
[August 11, 2003, 10:00]
Industry lambasts snooping law costs
News We do know the Home Office is in the queue to the Treasury to see what sort of budget it has, but we have no idea how much. The UK government is facing a backlash from industry over its draft code of conduct for the Regulation of Investigatory...
[April 30, 2002, 17:55]
Tories: Government is falling behind in open source
News The Conservatives said the recommendations by Thompson would now be considered by the Shadow Treasury team for inclusion in party policy. The Conservative party has criticised the UK government over its lack of implementation of open-source...
[January 28, 2009, 12:41]
Windows for supercomputers by November
News Car companies and drug companies are among the early users of such clusters, he said, noting that Microsoft has a cluster internally that its treasury uses to evaluate the company's vast investment portfolio.
[March 4, 2005, 8:20]
Watmore to start in September
News Projects: undertaking ad hoc policy and strategy studies as necessary to support ministers, the Prime Minister's Office, Cabinet Office or the Treasury. The managing director of a major consultancy has been appointed to lead the UK's information...
[May 26, 2004, 12:15]
Failed gov't IT projects cost £273m
News The figures were revealed in a series of Parliamentary written answers to shadow chief secretary to the treasury Philip Hammond. Almost £300m worth of public-sector IT projects have been binned in the UK, sparking accusations that the government is...
[October 21, 2008, 8:31]
E-minister: Britain will be broadband leader
News A report that the DTI requested £1bn to invest in infrastructure and was turned down by the Treasury is vehemently denied by Hewitt. E-minister Patricia Hewitt has rejected mounting criticisms about broadband Britain, claiming everything is on...
[April 24, 2001, 10:57]
Chatroom Danger: Wonderland paedophiles given the thumbs up
News Whether plea-bargaining, in its discreet British form, took place, or whether the judge simply thought it right to reward the defendants for their patriotic gesture towards the Treasury, does not really matter.
[March 15, 2001, 12:48]
Qualcomm 3G phone ban to take effect
News The report also estimated up to $1.4bn in lost revenue for the US Treasury in connection with the upcoming 700MHz spectrum auction. President Bush's administration said on Monday that it would not veto a decision handed down in June by the...
[August 7, 2007, 10:52]
Jane Wakefield: BT caught in the offside trap
News Overnight BT's share price plummetted by £2bn, and the next day the company told the Chancellor to shut up, stating bluntly that treasury and telecoms don't mix. Like Manchester United, BT is a British institution with plenty of cash and a high...
[February 21, 2000, 14:37]
UK needs to find its 'high-end' IT niche
News The next stage in the work of the i2010 working group will be a meeting in June, to which Margaret Hodge, the minister of state for industry and the regions, has invited Stephen Timms, of the Treasury, and Bill Rammell, the minister of state for...
[May 9, 2007, 17:33]
Pinder satisfied with UK's progress
News Pinder's successor, Ian Watmore, is to play a "leading role" in bringing about the efficiency programme, and will be tasked with ensuring that benefits are delivered following the Treasury's investment in e-government.
[July 26, 2004, 15:00]
Spending watchdog attacks Government's record on IT
News The National Audit Office (NAO) has cast doubt on the Government's claim that it can realise significant public sector savings by investing in new IT systems. The Chancellor has stated that Whitehall should aim to save £21.5bn by 2008 by laying off...
[February 17, 2006, 13:55]
IRS Human Capital: Hiring and Attrition of Employees in Compliance Occupations
White Papers A significant amount of research has focused on employee turnover. Previous research has explored the relationship of wages, human capital, and demographics to the length of employee tenure in a job or organization.
[May 20, 2005, 3:00]
IT consultants: your government needs you
News Treasury purchasing agency OCGbuying.solutions is looking for IT consultants to provide services across the public sector and for not-for-profit organisations. The invitation to tender, published on 2 June, 2005, said that the type of consultancy...
[June 6, 2005, 15:55]
Nasa hacker loses last-ditch appeal
Blog The secretary of state has advised [via] treasury solicitors that despite Mr McKinnon's diagnosis with Asperger's Syndrome, she will now be making arrangements for his extradition," stated Todner. Self-confessed Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon has lost...
[October 13, 2008, 18:03]
