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US Report: Gore takes the wraps off 'Internet2' initiative
News The 1 1/2-year-old project is tied to the Clinton administration's Next Generation Internet initiative, which is earmarked for $110M (£65.5M) in funding in the fiscal 1999 budget. The network links 100 universities and a handful of other schools...
[April 15, 1998, 8:47]
NHS IT initiative on track, according to director
News Granger described how patients would soon be able to book their own appointments when an initiative called Choose and Book is fully implemented. The person leading the digitisation of the NHS in England has described its progress as "pretty much on...
[September 30, 2004, 15:30]
HP's Adaptive Infrastructure Initiative Powers Enterprise Business Priorities
White Papers HP's Adaptive Infrastructure initiative addresses these requirements by offering customers standards-based modular systems, products, software and services, that are derived from a shared set of enablers.
[May 11, 2007, 1:00]
Ventura Improves Contact Center Performance With Solutions From Avaya and Initiative Software
White Papers The solution selected includes Avaya Predictive Dialing System (PDS) and synTelate, a product of Initiative Software. Ventura is one of Europe's leading providers of outsourced contact center services.
[September 5, 2006, 0:00]
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
News In his budget speech on Wednesday, Chancellor Gordon Brown announced that the tax exemptions offered within the Home Computing Initiative would be withdrawn next month. The Home Computing Initiative allow employers to loan computing equipment to...
[March 22, 2006, 17:05]
EU unveils plan to 'seize the initiative' for IT
News The i2010 initiative is based on three key pillars: an improved regulatory framework, which will see outdated rules done away with and new regulations tailored to the digital economy; better ICT research, which will be funded by an 80 percent...
[June 3, 2005, 9:10]
IBM launches 'Big Green Linux' initiative
News IBM on Tuesday kicked off an initiative aimed at convincing big businesses and data centres that Linux is not just a way of saving money — and that it's also a good way to cut back on power consumption and environmental damage.
[August 9, 2007, 10:07]
NPfIT initiative offers GPs greater choice of tech
News Eight software companies are to be awarded contracts by NHS Connecting for Health as part of an initiative to offer GPs a greater choice of clinical tech. The eight contracts will be awarded over the next fortnight, and represent the first...
[August 1, 2007, 9:01]
Blair and Ahern launch Irish Net initiative
News The initiative was officially launched on Thursday by Prime Ministers Blair and Ahern as part of the UK premier's visit to Ireland. It is hoped the move will foster closer links between schools both sides of the border.
[November 30, 1998, 12:20]
Storage Management Initiative rebooted
News The Storage Management Initiative specification (SMI-S) got a boost Thursday from a number of tech heavyweights, including EMC, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi Data Systems, Sun Microsystems and Symantec. The next industry standard for storage management...
[June 23, 2006, 9:05]
Red Hat spearheads vulnerability initiative
News Open source software vendor Red Hat has announced a new initiative, implemented by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), that enables members of the software industry to officially and publicly comment on vulnerabilities that...
[September 7, 2006, 18:30]
Cisco initiative tackles mobile working security threat
News Cisco Systems has teamed up with three top antivirus companies in a security initiative intended to ban insecure mobile devices from corporate networks. The initiative, dubbed the Network Admission Control programme, would allow companies to set...
[November 19, 2003, 11:50]
IBM launches $1bn-a-year green initiative
News The initiative will be revealed in full later on Thursday at an event in New York. IBM is to launch a billion-dollar programme aimed at increasing energy efficiency in its data centres. According to The New York Times, the largest operator of data...
[May 10, 2007, 14:34]
Master/Reference Data Management as an Enterprise Data Quality Initiative: Challenges and Best Practices
White Papers Whether master data is necessary for a data quality or data integration effort, or a data initiative to meet regulatory requirements or CRM initiatives, companies cannot afford to ignore it. Enterprises have realized that if they want to leverage...
[May 12, 2007, 1:00]
HP OpenView initiative takes management to next level
News Hewlett-Packard, as expected , took the wraps off of its new service provider strategy this week -- and backed up the initiative with enhancements in 11 different OpenView products. The £700m-plus OpenView unit hopes to be a leader in taking the...
[June 14, 2001, 10:26]
100% Pure Java initiative wins 100 supporters
News "Keep Java pure" is the message behind Sun Microsystems' 100% Pure Java initiative which has already won support from 100 developers but will lock out programs such as Visual J++. The move is an attempt on behalf of the Californian firm to maintain...
[December 12, 1996, 14:50]
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]
Metro Puts IBM Academic Initiative at the Top of the Class
White Papers Metro elected to participate in the IBM Academic Initiative for IBM System i program, forging relationships with local IBM Business Partners, customers and user groups and helping the college develop critical new curricula and, with support from...
[April 5, 2007, 1:00]
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]
