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Government Pulls Support For Home Computing Initiative
News The Home Computing Initiative is one of a series of important measures in place under the banner of the Government's Digital Strategy, which helps tackle the digital divide for employees on lower incomes.
[March 22, 2006, 17:05]
Government Backs Grid Computing With £1m
News IECnet - the Inter-Enterprise Computing Knowledge Transfer Network - is a collaborative project between IT industry body Intellect and the National e-Science Centre. Parsons, of the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, summed the problem up in may...
[August 10, 2005, 15:35]
Secure Computing Success Story: State Government
White Papers Moreover, the software tokens had to run on a broad range of computing systems already in use within the state government. When a state government recently sought to upgrade its network, the planners wanted the system to provide higher confidence...
[April 18, 2005, 0:00]
Enabling Government And Public Sector Applications For On Demand Computing
White Papers DataSynapse offers GridServer, the next generation of grid computing. Government entities need to increase Quality of Service (QoS), cut operational and ongoing IT costs, and expand business capabilities.
[November 18, 2004, 2:08]
Trusted Computing Delivers Data Protection And Strong Authentication For The Enterprise And Government
White Papers The computer industry offers many PCs and desktop boards equipped with a Trusted Computing Module (TPM), a dedicated microchip enabled for security-specific capabilities. Specifications for the TPM have been developed and promoted by an industry...
[December 10, 2004, 23:00]
Government Pulls Support For Home Computing Initiative
Talkback 17th of March 2005 HCI gets a major boost from the Government, 23 March 2006 Government pull the plug,As someone who works within the Hci with Charities and Not for profit companies this is a major blow.
[March 23, 2006, 11:02]
Government Pulls Support For Home Computing Initiative
Talkback It's a Government Initiative. I work for an HCI Provider too. If they decide to scrap it to pay for a war in Iraq, or to help Gordon Brown's PM credentials, then there's nothing we can do about it. This whole thing stinks.
[March 23, 2006, 10:55]
Government Pulls Support For Home Computing Initiative
Talkback I run a HCI business which helped the government to reach its digital Britain strategy. As the chancellor has now removed this tax exemption with almost immediate effect I will have to lay off my 5 staff today - I am sure they will not be voting...
[March 23, 2006, 6:15]
Government Backs Grid Computing With £1m
Talkback If you're interested in learning more about grid computing, my company subscribes to reports published by the 451 group (www.the451.com). I think they publish detailed reports every few months and tend to concentrate on a specific industry.
[August 11, 2005, 9:18]
Government Pulls Support For Home Computing Initiative
Talkback Fair enough, it has benefitted many and there are few homes without a computer. Seems to me this now brings everybody back to a level playing field when buying a computer. If anything he would have been better by removing VAT on computers and...
[March 23, 2006, 10:20]
Government Pulls Support For Home Computing Initiative
Talkback By scrapping HCI (Home Computing Initiative - www.dti.gov.uk/hci) without warning or consultation, he has just wrecked the businesses and jobs of hundreds of those working in this area. Gordon's budget will cost hundreds of people their jobs.
[March 23, 2006, 10:59]
Government Pulls Support For Home Computing Initiative
Talkback I've always thought that the HCI initiative was ill conceived as a way to address the digital divide between lower income groups and others and welcome the rethink. The cruel irony of the HCI scheme was that those on, or just above minimum wage...
[March 26, 2006, 20:21]
Government Pulls Support For Home Computing Initiative
Talkback Its crazy. As a small company it was initially difficult to find a suitable provider. Now they are finally available he has withdrawn it. We are waiting the 6 weeks for our licence so despite getting a high percentage of employees interested the...
[March 23, 2006, 10:24]
Government Pulls Support For Home Computing Initiative
Talkback Its crazy. As a small company it was initially difficult to find a suitable provider. Now they are finally available he has withdrawn it. We are waiting the 6 weeks for our licence so despite getting a high percentage of employees interested the...
[March 23, 2006, 11:37]
Government Pulls Support For Home Computing Initiative
Talkback I run the rewards and benefits dept for a major menswear company. In December last year, I passed this by the board of directors, who wanted to go ahead with HCI, as a benefit for those who didn't have children (so didn't benefit from childcare...
[March 23, 2006, 11:45]
Government Pulls Support For Home Computing Initiative
Talkback This is ill-though through and will now result in many job losses across the HCI Sector, so much for a vote winner for Brown’s budget. Let him try and earn a real living.
[March 23, 2006, 9:47]
Government Pulls Support For Home Computing Initiative
Talkback The HCI was a great idea in it's simplicity! Now it's gone. I'll have tyo go back to researching dry bumming on google for a living now.
[March 23, 2006, 11:49]
Government Pulls Support For Home Computing Initiative
Talkback Where I work, we have all just signed up for this. Hundreds of people were just getting ready to go and collect their shiny new PCs when the certificates arrived. I can't imagine what the department right in the middle of arranging all this is...
[March 23, 2006, 21:08]
Government Pulls Support For Home Computing Initiative
Talkback This is just great. I have committed to this scheme for the next three years but it doesn't kick in until 1st April and I have little chance of getting the machine in 5 days. Looks like I would have been better off buying a machine on interest free...
[March 22, 2006, 21:22]
Industry White Paper: Enabling Government/Public Sector Applications For On-Demand Computing
White Papers In today's economy, organizations demand resiliency, scalability and performance from their application software while they contain costs and manage overhead of computing resources. DataSynapse's LiveCluster solution provides the reliability and...
[August 22, 2005, 6:00]
