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HMRC spends £765m on IT outsourcing deal

...dominated by two outsourced deals — Aspire for IT and Mapeley Steps, a PFI contract for the management of HMRC's property, which cost £333m in... Read more

9 November, 2010 by Kable
Interoperability by 'Edgeware': Wireless Grids for Emergency Response

Interoperability by 'Edgeware': Wireless Grids for Emergency Response

...open specifications developed by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) 'Wireless Grid innovation Testbed' (WiGiT) to enable greater interoperability across devices, networks... Read more

26 January, 2011

Oyster card contract moves to Cubic

...HP Enterprise Services. The deal with TranSys was a Public Finance Initiative (PFI), an instrument to allow private sector investment in public sector companies. It... Read more

18 August, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Identity and Passport Service IT costs triple

...said the figures are drawn from Home Office resource accounts and include PFI costs. He also revealed that the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) spent nearly... Read more

3 August, 2010 by Kable

MoD reports rise in IT spending

...in 2008-09, as well as £539m on related private finance initiative (PFI) charges, including the Defence Fixed Telephone Service. He told Conservative MP Graham... Read more

28 July, 2010 by Kable

Government u-turn on private finance for IT

...a catalogue of costly high-profile projects. A report by the Treasury, PFI: meeting the investment challenge, concluded that while PFI was working in many... Read more

17 July, 2003 by Andy McCue

PFI projects on the up

...with large IT and comms components The number of private finance initiative (PFI) contracts signed in the UK - many for large projects with IT at... Read more

24 April, 2006 by Tony Hallett

New hospitals award £68m voice and data contract

...and data services for two new hospitals in the area. A £361m PFI joint venture to build the hospitals, headed up by John Laing, has... Read more

26 June, 2007 by Julian Goldsmith

A litany of disasters has made shared services easy to swallow

...stand to reap profits of £3.3bn from the government's controversial PFI initiatives, which understandably got the hackles of taxpayers up. Due to the... Read more

20 June, 2007 by Paul Bentham
Self Search 1.0

Self Search 1.0

...Of Personality Types' and shows significant correlations with Myers-Briggs, The Sixteen PFI, etc Read more

9 July, 2003

Satellite to get the army talking

Eye in the Skynet... Read more

12 March, 2007 by Tim Ferguson

UK motorways to get £490m PFI telecoms upgrade

...strategy The Highways Agency (HA) has signed a £490m private finance initiative (PFI) deal to upgrade the telecommunications network that links all the information systems... Read more

19 September, 2005 by Andy McCue

Tube gets wireless network in £1.2bn PFI deal

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24 November, 1999 by Suzanna Kerridge

ICL wins PFI schools contract

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30 November, 1998 by John Oates

Will there be a Beagle 3?

...a major airport. A decision will have to be made soon. The PFI concessionary contractor will get to decide where it goes and he'll... Read more

6 February, 2004 by Andrew Donoghue

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SoapyTablet

'Cut Price' Data Roaming? The price has been cut, but it is certainly not 'cut price' in the sense of the phrase, and nowhere near local EU data...

29 minutes ago by SoapyTablet on Cut-price data roaming gets all-clear for July
apexwm

BrownieBoy: "Such crashes are normally down to the OS and/or a rogue application, which could be fixed by re-imaging. Everybody knows how Windows...

1 hour ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Thomas Gellhaus

I've just started using it too, and like you I feel that Fedora is a fine GNOME 3 showcase distribution. I am torn, though, because I checked out...

1 hour ago by Thomas Gellhaus via Facebook on Fedora 17 - The "Beefy Miracle" Arrives
pjc158

Why is it that Newzealand has the guts to stand up to the USA and ask to see the evidence and we don't!

1 hour ago by pjc158 on Judge orders US to share MegaUpload evidence
Dean Talboys

What a farce! Hopefully the European court will see where this is leading.

4 hours ago by Dean Talboys via Facebook on Assange loses extradition battle in Supreme Court
SoapyTablet

Wouldn't surprise me if Samsung actually really had problems producing the white model (as Apple did - it would make more sense) and this non-story...

4 hours ago by SoapyTablet on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
Lonnie

those conformation letters are hard to figure out what is which letters it is a pain in the back side. Please make it more Ledge-able being better...

8 hours ago by Lonnie on Screenshots: Photoshop CS6 Beta
BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

15 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Horace Ontalhold

...... and PDP11s too

15 hours ago by Horace Ontalhold on Fusion-io lays minefield with a billion IOPS
BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

16 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
bobandroid

496,999 BT Fon Hotspots lovingly situated in your next door neighbours garden, no matter how you dress that up its still a pup... Not where I need...

18 hours ago by bobandroid on London Olympics: BT needs 25,000 more Wi-Fi hotspots
apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

20 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Smilig Eddie

2 – 4 more weeks of waiting: how many buyers are going to decide instead to see what the iPhone 5 offers? Consumer trust in the brand has also...

20 hours ago by Smilig Eddie on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
SRist

So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

21 hours ago by SRist on Photoshop users attack Adobe upgrade policy change
Jack Schofield

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

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

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

24 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

1 day ago by debsmk on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
Atangana

I would like a job for me and do good to their tackiness vellent my help I will do my best to help you mercie for all

1 day ago by Atangana on UK's 15-year-old World Excel champion offered £100k job
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....

1 day 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...

1 day ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC