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Data watchdog steps in over IT project reviews
News The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) has been told to publish the results of its Gateway Reviews into several major IT projects. In a decision notice dated 10 June 2009, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said the OGC must comply with a...
[June 24, 2009, 10:27]
Gov't loses fight to keep ID card reviews secret
News The two independent Gateway Reviews into the likely success of the £4.7bn ID cards project, completed in 2003 and 2004, must be published within 28 days. The publication of the reports was ordered by the Information Tribunal today and is a blow for...
[February 23, 2009, 7:26]
Gov't watchdog reveals early ID card concerns
News The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) has published the findings of two Gateway Reviews into the project carried out in 2003 and 2004. The two Gateway Reviews also saw the OGC making several recommendations that it viewed as critical for the...
[March 20, 2009, 15:49]
Fury over ID card 'cover-up'
News But now, in a written parliamentary answer, McNulty has apparently backtracked: "The government have no plans for publishing Gateway Reviews. The 'Gateway Review' process checks government projects at critical stages in their development with the...
[November 24, 2005, 16:05]
Government IT still in dire straits
News And eight have hit consecutive red reviews during the Office of Government Commerce Gateway Review process, highlighting "substantial difficulties", according to a report by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC).
[July 5, 2005, 15:35]
Government attacked over document shredding
News The Office of Government Commerce (OGC), a Treasury body, has issued guidance to its gateway reviewers to shred all documents related to final gateway reviews, leaving only two copies of each, reported ComputerWeekly.
[June 5, 2007, 17:02]
Startup Spotlight: Chumbo.com
News Based on the business models of companies such as Dell and Gateway, Davis Prais, President of Chumbo.com, has set up an e-business that enables customers to purchase software from an online selection by simply clicking on the Chumbo icon.
[February 2, 2000, 10:35]
Judge rules against release of ID card review
News Judge Stanley Burnton overturned the decision by the Information Tribunal that the ID card gateway reviews should be published. Ruling against the tribunal's decision, the judge found that it had relied on the findings of a report on the...
[April 15, 2008, 8:31]
MoD announces data-protection action plan
News Potential risks to information are regularly reviewed by executive boards and audit committees, and as part of capability reviews and Office of Government Commerce 'gateway reviews' The Ministry of Defence has published an 'action plan' to...
[June 25, 2008, 16:56]
'Inept' IT planning behind UK farm-subsidy chaos
News Work on the SPS implementation also carried on despite receiving three "red" warnings from government procurement body the Office of Government Commerce in its gateway reviews. If 'red' reviews are to be taken seriously, departments need to be...
[September 6, 2007, 15:57]
Glorious, Glorious Spam
Blog Sniffing around for a topic of interest this weekend I came upon an e-mail informing me that Network Testing Labs (hang on a moment, I’ll come back to these guys) has found that in head-to-head testing, McAfee's single-appliance Secure Internet...
[September 30, 2007, 16:08]
HP bumps Athlon up to business class
News Overseas, Fujitsu-Siemens and NEC did adopt Athlon for business PCs, while several smaller manufacturers, such as Micron PC and Gateway, began to sell Athlon XP computers. What's more, IBM and Gateway dropped the Athlon chip in favour of Intel's...
[August 19, 2002, 9:23]
The lay of the LAN review
Reviews Router/gateway combines Ethernet router and access point in one small box devices can't be mixed and matched to get best of breed n/a If you want to create a network combining both wired and wireless connections, a wireless gateway, which adds an...
[February 6, 2003, 14:52]
Microsoft tablets start strong in Europe
News But tablet PC pricing, which ranges from about $1,799, or about £1,151, for HP's tablet and $2,799 for Gateway's, is more in line with typical portables. Find out more about tablet PCs in the ZDNet UK Reviews feature: Tablet PCs: the first wave)
[January 29, 2003, 7:37]
Government seeks new IT spending supremo
News Gershon took the three-year post in 2000 and has made it a key part of the OGC's role to crackdown on the billions of pounds of taxpayers' money wasted on botched public sector IT projects by introducing strict 'gateway' reviews and checks on all...
[October 6, 2003, 14:10]
NHS IT agency faces restructure
News The public release of 31 Office of Government Commerce gateway reviews into the National Programme for IT last week revealed warnings dating back to 2002 that the project was at risk of failure. The Department of Health (DoH) is in talks over what...
[June 25, 2009, 14:36]
Learning the lessons of e-government
Talkback The reviews can be seen at http://ll2b.blogspot.com and World bank's Development Gateway. MAKE RIGHT TO INFORMATION A REALITY Make 'Right to Information' a reality for the Government as well as citizens and improve e-Governance, by using 'e...
[May 19, 2005, 15:15]
Guy Kewney's Diary
News I know it works, because I managed to get it going on my Gateway 2000 deskside PC. And it's all my fault, because PC Magazine reviews software. This is a great relief. The new Nokia 8110 GSM phone doesn't require an expensive data converter to plug...
[August 2, 1997, 8:00]
Analysis: AMD to capitalise on Intel's woes
News Perhaps most worrying for Intel is the rumour that Gateway, one of its biggest customers, is also looking at AMD's Athlon. Nicky Bird, PC research analyst at Romtec, reckons AMD couldn't have chosen a better time to release the speedy new 750: "The...
[December 3, 1999, 10:22]
Optimising and securing your network review
Reviews Wireless Settings configuration screen for the 3Com OfficeConnect Wireless Cable/DSL Gateway. In addition to the steps listed below, make sure you check and update your firewall software (check here for the latest firewall reviews.
[February 6, 2003, 14:55]
