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Identity scheme echoes ID cards, say campaigners

...scrapped less than six months ago. Campaigners say that a new identity assurance scheme outlined by the government has shades of the ill-fated ID... Read more

24 May, 2011 by Nick Heath

DWP cancels identity services tender

...The Department for Work and Pensions has cancelled its tender for identity assurance services, after claiming it had not followed the relevant procedures for the... Read more

22 December, 2011 by Mark Say

Government discusses digital identity plans

...a number of major operators about the delivery of its digital identity assurance project, the Cabinet Office has said. A spokeswoman for the department told... Read more

9 September, 2011 by Gill Hitchcock

UK allocates £10m to new ID scheme

...Maude has said the government will put £10m into its new Identity Assurance scheme. Photo credit: Cabinet Office The 'Identity Assurance' single sign-on scheme... Read more

31 October, 2011 by Tom Espiner
Determining the Value of Software <endeca_term>Assurance</endeca_term> Renewal for Your Organization

Determining the Value of Software Assurance Renewal for Your Organization

...designed for growing and mid-sized organizations that have a Microsoft Software Assurance (SA) agreement through the Open Business, Open Value, Select, or Enterprise Agreement... Read more

21 October, 2010

Microsoft software licensing changes: What they mean for your business

For companies with Software Assurance, each user also gets Office Roaming Use Rights meaning they can remotely... Read more

30 July, 2010 by Tim Ferguson
A Framework for Modeling the Software <endeca_term>Assurance</endeca_term> Ecosystem: Insights From the Software Assurance Landscape Project

A Framework for Modeling the Software Assurance Ecosystem: Insights From the Software Assurance Landscape Project

...that drive people's behavior often form barriers to the adoption of assurance solutions for the soft-ware-reliant systems those organizations depend on Read more

1 August, 2010

Shades of ID cards haunt new authentication scheme

...card project that was scrapped less than six months ago. The identity assurance scheme, announced by Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude last week, will create... Read more

23 May, 2011 by Nick Heath
Software <endeca_term>Assurance</endeca_term> Curriculum Project Volume I: Master of Software Assurance Reference Curriculum

Software Assurance Curriculum Project Volume I: Master of Software Assurance Reference Curriculum

Modern society is deeply and irreversibly dependent on software systems of remarkable scope and complexity in areas... Read more

1 August, 2010
Business Insights Webcast: Simplifying Desktop Management With the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (Level 100)

Business Insights Webcast: Simplifying Desktop Management With the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (Level 100)

...a dynamic desktop solution that is available as a subscription for Software Assurance customers. The solution suite enhances application deployment and compatibility, increases IT staff... Read more

29 July, 2010
Business Insights Webcast: Enterprise Agreement Welcome Briefing (Level 200)

Business Insights Webcast: Enterprise Agreement Welcome Briefing (Level 200)

...through Microsoft Volume Licensing Services (MVLS), the benefits of activating Microsoft Software Assurance (SA), how to add products and solutions, and hear an overview the... Read more

15 July, 2010
Enterprise Desktop Virtualization

Enterprise Desktop Virtualization

...a core component of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) for Software Assurance, enables deployment and management of Microsoft virtual PC Windows desktops to enable... Read more

25 June, 2010
Allows Efficient IT Management Using Standardized Environment

Allows Efficient IT Management Using Standardized Environment

...agreements. Detailed knowledge of different types of licenses such as OEM, Software Assurance or Volume licensing; and reusability not only helped the company to cut... Read more

1 June, 2010
Software Quality <endeca_term>Assurance</endeca_term> in CMM and XPA Comparative Study

Software Quality Assurance in CMM and XPA Comparative Study

Software Quality Assurance is a planned and systematic set of activities necessary to provide adequate... Read more

27 January, 2012
Disaster Recovery and Data <endeca_term>Assurance</endeca_term>

Disaster Recovery and Data Assurance

In this podcast, the speakers discuss about the disaster recovery and data assurance. The speakers will also discuss the affects and ways how to overcome... Read more

1 January, 2012

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DarkDown

yeah! all we want free software

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Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

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itsajob

2. Bad idea. Making up patch cables loses you your commission from the cable supplier. 3. If you tidy up, other people can understand where the...

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Paul Smyth

Is this classic FUD? One thing I would definitely have notice is a Mozilla threat to stop supporting GNU/Linux.

3 days ago by Paul Smyth via Facebook on Firefox rapid release improves Fedora Linux
UnderINK

I agree with the previous commenter wholeheartedly. I couldn't say it better myself. This is very 'Big Brother'. And while I agree with protecting...

3 days ago by UnderINK on European e-identity plan to be unveiled this month
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Nice to see that Turing's idea of a general purpose computer doing once-hardware-powered tasks in software is now universal ;-) Mary

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