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Is Your IT Spending Too Conservative?
White Papers Most corporations have frozen IT spending for 2002 - no big secret there. While this isn't necessarily bad, as it has allowed many IT departments to finish deploying software bought in the boom years, it will make meeting objectives for major cost...
[August 30, 2009, 1:23]
Tories: Centralised data creates 'honeypot' for fraud
News The shadow justice minister has said a Conservative government would collect less personal data and have a minister in each department accountable for information security. She claimed Conservative policies to abolish identity cards and...
[September 29, 2009, 9:11]
Tory rage over Ofcom stitch-up
News The Conservative party has condemned rumours that former culture secretary Chris Smith is set to become the first chairman of the new communications regulator Ofcom. This is supposed to be an independent body -- the legislative process is still in...
[August 21, 2001, 9:26]
Tablet PC shipments fizzle out
News The nascent tablet PC market is underperforming even the most conservative expectations, according to a report published late on Tuesday, with shipments in the second quarter of this year 23 percent lower than in the first quarter even though more...
[July 30, 2003, 12:45]
News Burst: Tories call for national ban on mobile masts
News The Conservative Party has called for all the UK's local authorities to ban the installation of mobile phone masts on council land. In a letter sent to Conservative group leaders, shadow environment secretary Archie Norman urged that planning...
[January 31, 2001, 10:33]
Shadow chancellor slams government over open source
News Speaking on Thursday at a conference organised by the Royal Society for the Arts, he said: "In recent months, Conservative MPs have put down parliamentary questions that reveal most central government departments make use of no open-source...
[March 8, 2007, 12:28]
Election 2001: Tory manifesto embraces freedom of the Net
News The Conservative party is proposing a laissez-faire approach towards regulating the Internet space, in contradiction with Labour's controversial Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) which gives police and other authorities the power to...
[May 22, 2001, 12:46]
Cameron urges Brown to rethink ID cards
News The Conservative Party leader has warned of the dangers to data security posed by the national ID cards scheme. David Cameron, leader of the Conservative Party, called on the prime minister, Gordon Brown, to rethink his plans for the National...
[November 23, 2007, 13:26]
Tory Party promises to abolish IR35
News While IT consultants try to work out how the recent high court ruling on IR35 affects them, the Conservative Party has vowed to abolish the controversial tax if it wins the coming General Election. Now, in its manifesto, the Conservative party has...
[May 11, 2001, 16:43]
Think tank urges Microsoft breakup
News The Progress and Freedom Foundation, a conservative Washington think tank, is suggesting a new way to slice and dice Microsoft. The recommendation is unusual because organisations and lawmakers on the conservative side of the political spectrum...
[January 28, 2000, 8:50]
Tories champion Nasa hacker in parliament
News The Conservative Party has championed the case of Gary McKinnon, the self-confessed Nasa hacker, in an opposition day debate in parliament. Conservative shadow home secretary Chris Grayling said that in cases such as McKinnon's, which could be...
[July 15, 2009, 17:42]
Tory MP says don't blame hackers
News A senior Conservative MP believes hackers may not be responsible for hacking into the Tory party's bank account, despite reports in the national press. A spokeswoman says, "A complaint from the Conservative party has been received and is being...
[November 24, 1999, 13:19]
Tories liable to compensate ID scheme vendors
News A Conservative government would have to compensate suppliers of the National Identity Scheme for lost profits as well as costs if it cancelled the project. To guarantee these payments knowing that a future Conservative government has already said...
[May 29, 2008, 8:48]
Tories plan to jettison joined-up gov't IT systems
News The Conservative shadow security minister has said that the government needs a less joined-up approach to information systems. Dame Pauline Neville-Jones, a former chair of the Joint Intelligence Committee, told the RSA Conference Europe 2008 in...
[October 31, 2008, 6:30]
Conservatives press for open-source push
News David Cameron has declared that a Conservative government would favour a greater use of open-source software. In a speech to the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts on 3 April, the leader of the Conservative Party called for...
[April 7, 2008, 11:00]
Gov't faces backlash over e-Borders travel database
News Both the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties have attacked the UK government over the retention of travel data. However, the Conservative party said the civil liberties of ordinary UK citizens were being gradually eroded by the increasing...
[February 9, 2009, 15:21]
Pro-patent lobby in sticky situation over ice-cream offer
Talkback If one is not conservative with ones password, then one is truly not a conservative at all.
[June 6, 2005, 23:57]
Tories: Government is falling behind in open source
News The Conservative party has criticised the UK government over its lack of implementation of open-source technology. It isn't rocket science — it's about creating a modern and efficient procurement system," said Thompson in the Conservative statement.
[January 28, 2009, 12:41]
Tories attack Whitehall IT
News The Conservative Party has issued figures claiming the government has overspent by £2bn on IT upgrades over the past two years. Davis, who is contending for the party's leadership, was the senior conservative member behind the figures, which were...
[June 8, 2005, 16:15]
Tories plan to neuter Ofcom
Blog If elected, the Conservative Party would take away Ofcom's policy-making functions, David Cameron said on Monday. So with a Conservative Government, Ofcom as we know it will cease to exist," Cameron said.
[July 6, 2009, 16:12]
