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Government plans G-Cloud Delivery Board

...G-Cloud to provide services to public authorities and for half of Whitehall's new IT spending to be in cloud services by 2015.The... Read more

28 October, 2011 by Mark Say

Fix for 'bonkers' IT buying will save taxpayer £3bn

Whitehall ushers in new strategy of paying one price for purchases, regardless of... Read more

3 June, 2011 by Nick Heath

iPhones 'not approved' for minister use

...not been approved for official use by ministers or civil servants within Whitehall. Devices are cleared for government use by the CESG, the information assurance... Read more

16 June, 2010 by Nick Heath

Government cuts number of websites by half

...The government has claimed to have almost halved the number of Whitehall websites over the past year. Its annual Central Government Websites report, published... Read more

10 October, 2011 by Staff

Let them have iPads: Why giving tablets to civil servants could actually save taxpayers' cash

...whose job it is to promote new ways of using technology in Whitehall. Mark O'Neill, head of innovation and delivery at the Government Digital... Read more

19 September, 2011 by Nick Heath

Ministry of Justice adopts £14m cloud platform

...The Ministry of Justice has signed a deal to become the second Whitehall department to host IT systems on the Government Wide Service platform. Ministry... Read more

29 March, 2011 by Nick Heath

Cybercrime policing to get £63m boost

...in October, as part of the Strategic Defence and Security Review. A Whitehall official told ZDNet UK in November that the funding will be allocated... Read more

16 February, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Government lags months behind on tech reforms

...months behind schedule on delivering IT reforms and publishing more data online. Whitehall has failed to release guidance on how government departments should limit future... Read more

2 February, 2011 by Nick Heath

Localism Bill to encourage the release of raw data

...already taken, including the publication of HM Treasury's Coins database on Whitehall spending, the requirement for all departments to publish spend and tender data... Read more

14 December, 2010 by Kable

DWP hampered by poor IT, says report

...report says. The DWP is one of the biggest IT spenders in Whitehall, with an annual budget of around £1bn. The National Audit Office (NAO... Read more

25 November, 2010 by Kable

Government IT staff numbers drop nine percent

The number of IT staff working in government departments has dropped by around nine percent in four years, according to figures Read more

11 April, 2012 by Sade Laja

Better late than never? IT reforms months behind as Whitehall reveals how it aims to save £1.4bn

...strategic implementation plan for the Government ICT Strategy, published yesterday, details how Whitehall intends to achieve the savings, using both new and previously announced coalition... Read more

21 October, 2011 by Nick Heath

Tax-spend revelations buried deep in Whitehall data graveyard

...the data is released in its purest form, without being filtered through Whitehall's prism that can eliminate any potentially embarrassing truths. Is the new... Read more

10 June, 2010 by Nick Heath

Hague details cyber attacks on Whitehall

...revealed details of a series of cyber attacks that were launched on Whitehall and the defence industry over the past year. Foreign secretary William Hague... Read more

7 February, 2011 by Nick Heath

The Weekly Round-Up: 18.06.10

...ministers are issued with BlackBerry devices, an arrangement that is common across Whitehall. Besides, you can't really imagine civil servants using iPhones, the sensible... Read more

18 June, 2010 by The Round-Up

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Lonnie

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BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

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...... and PDP11s too

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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...

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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...

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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.

17 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...

18 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
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I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

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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....

21 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...

22 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
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As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

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