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'Inept' IT Planning Behind UK Farm-subsidy Chaos
News This meant the RPA had to make 23 substantial changes to the computer system to take account of the final policy and regulatory revisions. The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) is responsible for administering the Single Payment Scheme (SPS), introduced...
[September 6, 2007, 15:57]
A New Approach To Cybercrime
Leader As this follows much the same policy that produced a string of Whitehall IT farces across tax, immigration, health and defence, the outlook for the law-abiding taxpayer looks as grim as a Guy Ritchie review.
[October 28, 2005, 14:40]
Berners-Lee Pushes Web Science
News As more and more information goes online — submitted by individuals or organisations — new technical and policy problems get introduced, project backers said. Berners-Lee, who is also a senior research scientist at MIT's Computer Science and...
[November 3, 2006, 9:27]
Copyright Truce Excludes Key Voices
News In other words, the RIAA and its allies at the Business Software Alliance (BSA) and the Computer Systems Policy Project (CSPP) are happy enough with the legal status quo, or at least don't wish to risk a clash on Capitol Hill with an uncertain...
[January 15, 2003, 15:45]
Estonia's Cyberattacks: Lessons Learned, A Year On
News According to Heli Tiirmaa-Klaar of the policy-planning department for the Estonian Ministry of Defence, the attacks against Estonia owed at least some of their success to the fact they came out of the blue.
[May 1, 2008, 14:04]
Open Source Debate Brought To A Close - For Now
Talkback One reason for the reduced numbers, says Bev Roberts, head of ICT strategy and policy, is that many social services staff are moving to mobile working: "The department was saying, 'we need to replace some of these old PCs with portables or...
[November 20, 2006, 23:01]
RealNetworks Backs MPEG-4
News For its part, RealNetworks said has long participated in MPEG standards discussions and has supported many formats as part of a policy of creating a universal technology. Had we not supported it, it would have been a break in our policy of being a...
[December 11, 2001, 10:17]
Microsoft Aims Passport At Credit Cards
News For everything Internet-related, from the latest legal and policy-related news, to domain name updates, see ZDNet UK's Internet News Section. Under the deal, Microsoft and Arcot plan to offer, later this autumn, a service that will let banks...
[July 9, 2002, 9:31]
Emergency Services Turn To IM
News For everything Internet-related, from the latest legal and policy-related news, to domain name updates, see ZDNet UK's Internet News Section. All these places have different systems from different vendors that are wonderful, but they can't talk to...
[August 22, 2002, 14:20]
Decryptathon Rallies 75,000 PCs
News For everything Internet-related, from the latest legal and policy-related news, to domain name updates, see ZDNet UK's Internet News Section. The Decryptathon project linked up thousands of PCs across the Internet with a view to enabling complex...
[May 20, 2002, 17:02]
Movielink: Bring On The Experts
News For everything Internet-related, from the latest legal and policy-related news, to domain name updates, see ZDNet UK's Internet News Section. But early this year an executive familiar with the project said it would support MPEG-4, an audio and...
[July 11, 2002, 8:29]
Vendor-neutral Security Certification Update
News Certified CISSP MadMark prepared for his exam by using the list, along with "two years reading, proposing policy changes, configuring tech, security project management, a self-paced exam simulator, and a three-day course from (ISC)2.
[April 4, 2003, 13:33]
FBI: Winning The Tech Challenge
News We do have a very strict certification and accreditation policy or program in place for security — every program has to go through what we call a 'C&A' process. When Zalmai Azmi took on the job of FBI chief information officer three years ago, he...
[July 19, 2006, 12:45]
Fighting Outsourcing 'could Spark Trade War'
News Feeling political pressure from Congress over the loss of US tech jobs to offshore workers, the Computer Systems Policy Project on Wednesday released a report stressing the need to keep international doors open so that domestic companies can...
[January 8, 2004, 9:15]
Tech Companies Broadside Anti-piracy Plan
News This legislation would be an unwarranted intrusion by the government into the commercial marketplace," said Ken Kay, executive director of the Computer Systems Policy Project, a trade group that includes IBM, Intel, Dell Computer, Motorola and...
[October 23, 2001, 8:59]
Outsourcing 'not Something To Get Excited About' - Analyst
News The tech companies, under the banner of the Computer Systems Policy Project, released a report stressing the need to keep international doors open so that domestic companies can remain competitive. In its report, the organisation included...
[January 9, 2004, 14:05]
Liberty Alliance Expands Membership
News For everything Internet-related, from the latest legal and policy-related news, to domain name updates, see ZDNet UK's Internet News Section. The Liberty Alliance Project seeks to establish a standard method for online identifications, so a...
[May 29, 2002, 12:05]
Grid Computing To Tackle Climate Change
News An overall policy on usage of IT should be to switch off unused machines. Wakefield said that the practice within grid computing of using unused cycles on people's computer systems would not contribute to climate change by increasing energy...
[September 4, 2007, 16:12]
AOL Lays Off Netscape Staff
News For everything Internet-related, from the latest legal and policy-related news, to domain name updates, see ZDNet UK's Internet News Section. Not long afterwards, the project switched direction -- choosing to base future versions on Web standards...
[July 16, 2003, 7:57]
Novell Follows Red Hat With Xen Announcement
News We have vision of delivering a policy-driven adaptive data centre," one that uses virtualisation to shift resources to top-priority jobs. Xen is a hypervisor, a software foundation that governs operating systems' access to computer resources such...
[March 23, 2006, 8:00]
