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BYOD is no money-saver, says council's IT chief

...a money-saving exercise, Tony Doyle, head of ICT services at Blackpool Council, has warned. Since starting its BYOD scheme, the council has realised that... Read more

27 April, 2012 by Sade Laja

Birmingham City Council transfers IT roles to India

...result from the transfer of IT roles to Pune, IndiaPhoto: Birmingham City Council A joint venture that serves Birmingham City Council is planning to send... Read more

24 May, 2011 by Nick Heath

iPhone apps help save councils millions

The Local Government Association (LGA) has said that councils saved more than £200m last year by using location-based technology to... Read more

7 September, 2010 by Kable

How Birmingham is delivering £1.5bn savings with transformational IT

...information directly from the dozens of back office computer systems used by council staff and then displays it through the council's website, as well... Read more

14 June, 2010 by Nick Heath

IBM hook-up with councils loses £31.5m

...The leader of Somerset county council, Ken Maddock, has said that Southwest One is failing to deliver, that... Read more

17 February, 2012 by Gill Hitchcock

Cheshire East Council lands £80,000 fine for data breach

...Cheshire East council has been fined £80,000 by the Information Commissioner's Office for... Read more

15 February, 2012 by Staff

National Archives trials archiving scheme for councils

...the pilots in seven local authority archives, covering more than 20 local councils. Staff will be trained in how to develop a curated web archive... Read more

25 July, 2011 by Staff

Watchdog fines Surrey council over data breaches

...Surrey County Council has been fined £120,000 by the Information Commissioner's Office for... Read more

10 June, 2011 by Staff

Surrey council seeks fibre tenders for final fifth

...Surrey County Council is inviting bids to make sure all its residents have access to... Read more

6 June, 2011 by David Meyer

London councils fined thousands over lost laptops

...The Information Commissioner's Office has fined two London councils over losses of unencrypted laptops containing sensitive data. Ealing Council was fined... Read more

9 February, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Manchester adopts web-based service for deaf people

...Manchester City Council has launched a service that will enable residents with hearing problems to... Read more

30 December, 2010 by Kable

ICO censures Portsmouth City Council over data breach

...Portsmouth City Council has been censured by the information commissioner after it revealed someone else... Read more

5 November, 2010 by Kable

Norfolk council signs up to BT school cloud

...Norfolk County Council children services has signed BT's first contract to provide cloud services... Read more

7 October, 2010 by Kable

Birmingham council reconsiders open-source software

...Birmingham City Council has said it is assessing open-source software as a possible tool... Read more

29 September, 2010 by Kable

Sussex council claims savings from online maps

...East Sussex County Council has said that a series of online maps developed to enable people... Read more

26 September, 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

2 hours ago by Mike Denton via Facebook on Security on the farm: Accounts and permissions
minzhu

Don't blame CEO, they want RIM win. RIM has strange culture and self distruct political environment. In RIM if a new hired person figure out...

4 hours ago by minzhu on RIM CEO: Time to squash BlackBerry myths
Thomas Gellhaus

I've been very pleased with Mageia 2. My review went up on Sunday. My only issue is that my particular wireless printer hasn't been detected on...

7 hours ago by Thomas Gellhaus via Facebook on Scorecard - Linux Mint 13 and Mageia 2
knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

13 hours ago by knapper on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
JohneKerr

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

14 hours ago by JohneKerr on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
Iain Sutherland

I received the notification of Mageia 2 being released on Saturday, was already running Mageia 1. After running the installation X came back up...

15 hours ago by Iain Sutherland via Facebook on Scorecard - Linux Mint 13 and Mageia 2
SoapyTablet

If ZTE have been selling below cost with the ZTE Blade / Orange San Francisco then given the current high street price of the Nokia Lumia 710, you...

19 hours ago by SoapyTablet on Huawei, ZTE face EU 'illegal state subsidies' probe
Burn-IT

Yes it is basically down to "nobody in control understands IT, is willing to admit it, or allow decisions to be delegated". Lets get someone in who...

19 hours ago by Burn-IT on 6 million wasted licences and £1,200 PCs: welcome to government IT
pjc158

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...

19 hours ago by pjc158 on RIM to lay off 2,000 on 1 June, says report
Jake Rayson

@191706> *their* own Mac Thank you for picking up the errant spelling :) @apexwm > Mac OS X for Intel machines is supposed to run in VirtualBox...

22 hours ago by Jake Rayson on xTreme Triple Booting: Linux, Mac & Windows
archerthom

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?

22 hours ago by archerthom on Indoor navigation coming to a mobile near you soon
unlockworldwide

May I quote Horace Dediu, who runs the consultancy Asmyco who has repeatedly observed that mobile phone companies that fall into loss – even once...

23 hours ago by unlockworldwide on RIM to lay off 2,000 on 1 June, says report
NarayanaIyyappan

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

1 day ago by NarayanaIyyappan on IPv6 security: Plan now and quiz vendors
DarkDown

yeah! all we want free software

1 day ago by DarkDown on Stallman: Free software battling for hearts and minds
Jack Strain

Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

2 days ago by Jack Strain via Facebook on Indoor navigation coming to a mobile near you soon
Sungwoo

do You know that? it can install 4G Ram. So i buy 4g and install It work! I can run call of duty 4,6,7 [Modern war... 1,2,3] Call of duty 1 was...

2 days ago by Sungwoo on Loose Ends - Upgrading the Aspire One 522
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...

2 days ago by itsajob on Ten IT jobs to save up for those rare lulls
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
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

3 days ago by Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe on Software with everything