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CSC wins MoD <endeca_term>contract</endeca_term> from HP

CSC wins MoD contract from HP

...HP has lost the contract to supply pay, HR and pensions administration to the Service Personnel and... Read more

17 April, 2012 by Jo Best
Nine symptoms for diagnosing ailing IT

Nine symptoms for diagnosing ailing IT

...2. Expired support contractsSome companies depend on support contracts for the smooth running of the business. Others rely on them only... Read more

9 April, 2012 by Jack Wallen

G-cloud to aim for 12-month contracts

...The government is planning to trim IT contract lengths in a bid to prevent its cloud services becoming bound by... Read more

25 January, 2012 by Jack Clark

Ofcom stamps out rollover broadband contracts

...Ofcom has banned 'rollover' broadband and landline contracts over concerns that they lock customers into long-term deals with few... Read more

13 September, 2011 by Ben Woods

Fired e-Borders firm gets £5m payoff

...Border Agency has paid technology firm Raytheon £5m for terminating its £650m contract for e-Borders, the government programme to electronically collect and analyse information... Read more

15 July, 2011 by Sade Laja

CSC contracts could cost NHS more to cancel than keep

...Certain contracts for beleaguered health projects in the north of England could cost the... Read more

24 May, 2011 by Tom Espiner

MPs criticise BBC-Siemens £38m contract failure

...and have said lack of competition was a key reason for the contract's failure. The BBC's Digital Media Initiative (DMI), which was designed... Read more

7 April, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Siemens tech contract 'will cost the BBC millions

...of efficiencies not being achieved, and in July 2009, the BBC's contract with supplier Siemens was terminated by mutual agreement. The BBC then took... Read more

3 February, 2011 by Nick Heath

Five councils sign school IT investment contracts

...Five English councils have signed Building Schools for the Future contracts, which include multi-million pound investments in IT. London's Camden and... Read more

10 December, 2010 by Kable

Cyber agency: Gov't contracts hinder threat response

...Long-term, monolithic government technology contracts are hampering cybersecurity efforts, according to a Cabinet Office technology defence body... Read more

19 November, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Tribunal: DWP must release Gateway contract details

...most of the details of one of the government's largest IT contracts, a tribunal has ruled. The First-Tier Tribunal, which deals with appeals... Read more

24 September, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Oyster card contract moves to Cubic

...London's Oyster travel smartcard, after exercising its right to break a contract that involved the company. On Tuesday, Transport for London (TfL) said that... Read more

18 August, 2010 by Tom Espiner

HP settles with DoJ over contract kickbacks

...Department over alleged kickbacks paid by vendors to help secure federal government contracts. The agreement on Monday resolves the department's three-year investigation into... Read more

3 August, 2010 by Steven Musil

One in four state IT contracts to go to SMEs, says Cable

...A quarter of government contracts, including IT projects, are to be awarded to small businesses, according to... Read more

3 June, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Government to publish ICT contracts online from July

...has told government departments to publish all new information and communications technology contracts online from July 2010. In a letter to departments on Tuesday, prime... Read more

3 June, 2010 by Kable

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Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

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I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

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So let me get this straight just because a consultant has oberved that mobile companies who get in trouble never recover, well we all might as well...

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I'm imagining Batman-style sonar imaging that will detect the cat and Lego bricks in the dark - I'm going to be disappointed aren't I?

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It is useful for their lifes,and also this matters are important for networking students.

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DarkDown

yeah! all we want free software

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Jack Strain

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.

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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...

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Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe

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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