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BT corporate archives to be put online

BT corporate archives to be put online

...and The National Archives, with an award of around £745,000 from JISC, the UK's national education and research IT support organisation. The remainder... Read more

16 January, 2012 by Rupert Goodwins

University cloud services get £12.5m injection

...shared infrastructure would be sent out by the Joint Information Systems Committee (Jisc), which is managing the programme, "soon". The shared IT infrastructure, including the... Read more

7 February, 2011 by Jack Clark

Global warming research university to open up data

...The University of East Anglia is to receive Jisc funding for a project to open up its research on global warming... Read more

12 August, 2010 by Kable
<endeca_term>JISC</endeca_term> RSC South East 1.2

JISC RSC South East 1.2

A free app developed by JISC RSC Southeast to provide information about News, Events, Newsletters, case studies and... Read more

4 March, 2011
RSC Northwest 1.0.0

RSC Northwest 1.0.0

An Aurasma Augmented Reality app for use as a learning tool with JISC Regional Support Centre Northwest Read more

8 May, 2012
SPACE (Simulated Performing Arts Creative Environment) 1.05

SPACE (Simulated Performing Arts Creative Environment) 1.05

...stands for Simulated Performing Arts Creative Environment and is jointly supported by JISC and the HEA under the Open Educational Resources Program Read more

10 October, 2011
SPACE (Simulated Performing Arts Creative Environment) 1.05

SPACE (Simulated Performing Arts Creative Environment) 1.05

...stands for Simulated Performing Arts Creative Environment and is jointly supported by JISC and the HEA under the Open Educational Resources Programme Read more

28 September, 2011
Cloud-SAFE - Accounting for Cloud Computing

Cloud-SAFE - Accounting for Cloud Computing

...cloud facilities, as have been covered in a suite of reports from JISC on using the cloud for research Read more

30 July, 2010
Using Cloud for Research: A Technical Review

Using Cloud for Research: A Technical Review

...standardisation. The TeciRes project is one of three parallel projects funded by JISC, the other two complementary projects being a review of "Using cloud computing... Read more

1 June, 2010

Warning over cloud computing's environmental costs

...technologies used to connect to it are highly energy inefficient, says a Jisc report. The document from the university IT organisation's TechWatch service, Low... Read more

26 November, 2009 by Kable

Digital divide shifts from access to application

...understand how to exploit IT fully. In an opening speech to the Jisc conference in London on Monday, Martin Bean said that the digital divide... Read more

14 April, 2010 by Kable

Universities to consider national shared services

Jisc will investigate a national shared services infrastructure for universities and colleges. The... Read more

4 January, 2010 by Kable
<endeca_term>JISC</endeca_term> TechWatch Report: Content Management Systems

JISC TechWatch Report: Content Management Systems

Institutions are struggling to maintain their Web sites. Out of date material, poor control over design and navigation,... Read more

1 September, 2001

British Library launches national web archive

...developed with the National Archives, the national libraries of Scotland and Wales, Jisc, the Wellcome Library and technology partners including IBM. Examples of the type... Read more

26 February, 2010 by Kable
National Archives puts Cabinet Office papers online

National Archives puts Cabinet Office papers online

...1915-1977' project has been funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (Jisc) digitisation programme and will enable users to search for keywords within the... Read more

4 December, 2008 by Kable

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Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

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apexwm

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BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

6 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

7 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

7 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
mrbigdong

@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

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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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JohneKerr

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

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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...

1 day 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...

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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...

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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?

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