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Capita takes the blame for tax security lapse
Talkback This is basic stuff, it should not have occurred and I trust that Capita are going to put Lambeth Council and its constituents into the same position that they would have been in had the breach of security had not occurred.
[September 4, 2005, 9:29]
Capita boss quits amid Labour loans furore
News Capita founder and chairman Rod Aldridge is quitting over his £1m loan to the Labour Party, claiming it has led to "spurious" but damaging suggestions the company was awarded government contracts because of it.
[March 23, 2006, 14:05]
Capita: Planning is key to VMware deployment
News Making a success of a virtualisation strategy is mainly about getting the planning right, according to Capita, which uses VMware's virtualisation software. Capita's senior IT infrastructure manager, Shaymus Kennedy, told delegates at the London...
[July 12, 2007, 13:34]
Capita see virtual benefits and pitfalls
Blog No chance of falling asleep at the VMware conference thanks to Capita's Shaymus Kennedy. He works out of the financial services side of Capita in Dublin and proved a good spokesman for VMware. Capita have been using VMware for three years now and...
[July 10, 2007, 16:46]
Capita takes the blame for tax security lapse
News IT services company Capita has apologised for the "regrettable error" that saw the personal information and credit card details of local residents in Lambeth, London, emailed as plain text. Capita is still refusing to reveal how many residents were...
[August 31, 2005, 13:45]
Capita-IBS merger sent to Competition Commission
News Capita has seen its acquisition of fellow public-sector software and services provider IBS OpenSystems referred to the Competition Commission by the Office of Fair Trading. With the removal of IBS as an important rival, Capita would be likely to...
[November 24, 2008, 15:10]
Capita takes the blame for tax security lapse
Talkback Capita claims this is an "isolated incident" and that it "won't happen again". Of course this has not happened to Lambeth Council constituents but Capita certainly have a habit for repeating these statements.
[September 4, 2005, 17:27]
Capita takes the blame for tax security lapse
Talkback Why is it a day never goes by without a story about EDS or Crapita messing up?
[August 31, 2005, 13:49]
Capita takes the blame for tax security lapse
Talkback Yes, we are stupid. Because fool me once then shame on you. But fool me twice then shame on me. And since "we" (our decision makers) keep repeating the same old mistakes and never really learn from the past (why should they?
[September 6, 2005, 20:27]
Capita takes the blame for tax security lapse
Talkback More to the point, who keep hiring these muppets in the first place? How can a company that has so blatantly and publicly cocked up keep going?
[September 1, 2005, 13:20]
IT services chief dragged into Labour loans row
News The chairman of IT services company Capita has been named as one of the individuals who loaned a total of almost £14m to the Labour Party's election fund last year. The list shows Capita chairman Rod Aldridge gave the Labour Party a commercial loan...
[March 21, 2006, 15:20]
Government slammed for IT training scheme fiasco
News The government's relationship with services outfit Capita has come under fierce criticism in the official enquiry into the Individual Learning Accounts (ILA) fiasco. A National Audit Office report released Friday put a large part of the blame at...
[October 25, 2002, 12:04]
Open source: Developing markets and anti-Americanism
News South Africa and over 16 months of GDP per capita in Vietnam. MERIT) in Holland conducted a study recently comparing licence fees with a country's gross domestic product (GDP) per capita. Amazon.com in the US is equal to almost 3 months of GDP per...
[November 14, 2005, 11:00]
Upgrade error exposes taxpayers' data
News Speaking to ZDNet UK, one Lambeth resident said he had paid his council tax to Lambeth Council last Thursday using the online payments system provided by Capita. A spokeswoman for Lambeth Council told ZDNet UK that she had been told by Capita that...
[August 30, 2005, 13:10]
Developing countries get free medical help online
News In the 65 countries where the GNP (Gross National Product) is less than $1,000 per capita per year, the service will be completely free, and for the 30 countries where the GNP is between $1,000 and $3,000 per capita the journal subscriptions will...
[July 10, 2001, 15:25]
Tech exports take the lead
News While the United States currently leads the rest of the world in computer usage per capita, it actually lags in some other areas. It is second to Iceland, for example, in Internet usage per capita, although it still leads the way in total Internet...
[March 13, 2000, 13:51]
One billion PCs now in use worldwide
News But, rapid economic development across emerging markets is not only narrowing the disparity in average living standards, it's closing the difference in per-capita PC penetration between mature and emerging markets.
[June 23, 2008, 11:04]
UK leads way on public IT spending
News Denmark tops the table for per capita investment on public sector IT at €384 per head. Kable analyst Scott Bryan, said: "There are other countries spending similar amounts per capita or as a proportion of their GDPs, but they have smaller economies...
[May 31, 2005, 16:40]
France opts for wireless 'beauty contest'
News Analysts say the arrangements could have been worse, pointing out that, considering the long period of repayment, the French licenses will cost about £159 per capita, far less than the average of about £345 per capita paid by UK bidders.
[June 7, 2000, 11:36]
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[October 25, 2007, 8:00]
