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Council workers shown the door over Web abuse
News Five council workers from the Wirral, Merseyside, have been suspended over allegations they were using council computers to download and view pornographic images. The individuals, who all work for Wirral Council's young offenders team, were removed...
[October 28, 2002, 17:14]
Council workers lose jobs over eBay 'addiction'
Blog One council worker has been sacked, and two have lost their jobs over spending too much time on auction site eBay, reports the BBC. Apparently some of the the staff members at Neath Port Talbot were spending up to two hours a day on eBay and...
[September 21, 2007, 15:23]
Cambridge rings the changes with converged IP
News Cambridgeshire County Council has awarded Avaya a seven-figure contract to supply a converged IP network for its 4,000 workers. All of this will allow council workers to adopt greater flexible working.
[October 19, 2007, 13:07]
IT strike relations worsen in Swansea
News On Friday the council's deputy leader accused Unison, the trade union representing the 100 striking IT workers, of attempting to "hijack public services" in the dispute over Swansea's e-government programme.
[September 13, 2004, 12:45]
Brighton Unwired With WiMAX
White Papers Bill Parslow, Head of ICT & eGovernment, Brighton & Hove City Council on its investigation into WiMAX to build a wireless broadband 'Metranet' to bring internet connectivity to schools whilst laying the foundations for mobilising workers in the...
[August 11, 2005, 0:00]
German city reveals Linux migration tactics
News On Wednesday, Horst Bräuner, the civil servant responsible for implementing the migration, revealed the tactics used to get the council workers of Schwäbisch Hall onside. We put the chairwoman of our workers' council on stage in front of all the...
[February 11, 2004, 12:00]
Council turns its back on BlackBerry
News Unlike Barnet Borough Council, there is no "alert button" facility on the PDAs, although Worcestershire are planning a review in 2006 concerning social workers working alone. But one council has turned its back on the Research in Motion device on...
[December 8, 2005, 10:35]
Westminster gets all meshed up
News It will allow council workers to carry out their daily functions far more efficiently and at lower cost," the Council spokesperson told ZDNet UK, giving the example of a wirelessly connected health officer inputting data into a handheld device...
[November 27, 2006, 15:21]
Newcastle demonstrates teleworking's benefits
News Newcastle City Council has claimed productivity gains for benefits staff allowed to work at home. The council ran a three month pilot, named the City Service Work Styles Project, between July and October 2005 in which six staff, equipped with...
[February 23, 2006, 16:55]
Council IT staff don't respect top bosses
Talkback I fear home users may overtake large Council networks for resistance to simple attacks that pass the info needed for more complex attacks on sensitive information. IT workers are notoriously bad at maintaining good security practices in the name of...
[November 2, 2005, 23:36]
Strike to cripple Swansea's public services
News Council workers in Swansea have voted in favour of industrial action in support of striking IT staff in a move that could cripple public services. The council has largely managed to keep its main systems up and running during the strike but in an...
[October 7, 2004, 11:55]
Union criticises Gateway closures
News A Gateway spokeswoman said yesterday that the company would carry on dealing directly with employees, as well as facilitating the representative council. Unions have offered to assist workers who are facing redundancy following Gateway's withdrawal...
[August 9, 2001, 13:15]
Insurance Service Provider Boosts Value of Information Assets With New CMS Tool
White Papers The National Council on Compensation Insurance, Inc. NCCI) offers workers compensation insurance information on its custom-built Web portal. However, manual content management processes that required IT involvement hindered NCCI employees' ability...
[July 27, 2009, 1:20]
Bega Valley Shire Standardises on the Microsoft Platform to Reduce Costs, Meet Compliance
White Papers By leveraging the Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI) within Microsoft-based applications which provides open database connectivity, Council workers have been able to provide consistent high quality service by having 'one Council...
[September 28, 2007, 1:00]
HP wins $27m London council deal
News Tablet PCs used for remote working are a part of the deal, which in total will touch 4,000 council workers. HP will migrate Newham to Microsoft Windows and Exchange 2003 groupware. The contract also covers a blade server farm, storage area network...
[December 13, 2004, 10:05]
Nine laptops stolen from Middlesbrough Council
Blog Nine laptops containing sensitive data have been stolen from Middlesbrough Council's teaching and learning centre, the BBC reports. Thieves broke into Middlesbrough Council's teaching and learning centre on 6 January.
[January 17, 2008, 16:24]
Social Services turns to Wi-Fi
News Barnet Council's Children and Families Service has rolled out PDAs to 240 social workers, O2 said on Wednesday. Social workers are using wireless technology to speed up communications on the front line.
[August 31, 2005, 16:30]
Councils, IBM face legal action over outsourcing deal
News The union claims IBM, Somerset County Council and Taunton Deane Borough Council kept Unison in the dark over the deal and broke a Transfer of Undertakings agreement by refusing to reveal the full details of the terms under which staff would be...
[August 7, 2008, 10:29]
Satellite tech tracks Cornwall's binmen
News Each vehicle is fitted with a telematics unit which uses a GPS satellite receiver and GPRS capability to communicate back to the council team. The system records arrival and departure times, as well as speed and mileage, and can also alert council...
[November 14, 2008, 6:30]
Workplace surveillance boosts stress levels
News IT monitoring also applies to many managers and professionals but the study, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, found no adverse effects for this group. Bearing the brunt of the IT scrutiny are administrative and white-collar...
[January 9, 2008, 7:36]
