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Star Wars Fans Stung By Jedi Email
News The Office of National Statistics confirmed on Thursday that the stunt, which had raised hopes among Star Wars fanatics across the country that they would be recognised as Jedi Knights, will not work.
[April 17, 2001, 10:11]
Net Crimes Should Be Recorded, Says MP
News Wyatt agreed that the Home Office should include cybercrime incidents in its national crime statistics. The government should include cybercrime figures in its national crime statistics so that the impact of viruses, hacking and phishing can be...
[May 5, 2004, 15:40]
Home Office Says 'no' To Cybercrime Figures
News One of the issues law enforcement faces is that the true extent of IT-based criminality is as yet uncertain because no statistics have been collated hitherto. Despite taking three years, the report failed to collate any cybercrime statistics.
[April 20, 2001, 15:10]
ONS Paints An Increasingly Wired Picture Of Britain
News According to the Office of National Statistics' Yearbook 2004 -- a snapshot of the tastes and events of the nation in 2004 -- 53 percent of UK households have Internet access, 84 percent of the UK's Internet users have used email between April...
[November 30, 2004, 16:10]
Software's Economic Contribution Hugely Undervalued
News The Government has been hugely underestimating the contribution that the software industry makes to the UK economy for more than a decade, according to a report released on Monday by the Office of National Statistics (ONS).
[February 14, 2006, 14:15]
Neighbourhood Statistics Site Trades Up
News The Office of National Statistics is planning a relaunch of its Neighbourhood Statistics website Alan Smith, geographic information strategist for ONS, said it intends to introduce the new site early in 2005.
[June 16, 2004, 13:05]
Government Falls Victim To Y2K -- It Thinks
News The Office of National Statistics confirmed it experienced a "date change glitch", which saw computers in registry offices up and down the country printing incorrect dates on birth certificates. A Cabinet Office spokesman was more willing to put...
[January 19, 2000, 6:18]
Broadband Prevails For UK Internet
News Nearly nine out of 10 connections to the internet in the UK are now made via broadband, according to the latest quarterly survey from the Office for National Statistics. In a survey of internet connectivity carried out in September 2007, the ONS...
[November 21, 2007, 7:48]
Are Taxes Exceptionally Concentrated At The Top?: Treasury Department Release Creates Misleading Impression About Taxes That High-Income Taxpayers Pay
White Papers The Treasury Department fact sheet continues a trend by the Administration and the Treasury Department's public affairs office of using statistics selectively to create questionable impressions about the nature of the nation's tax burden and the...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Office For National Statistics' Centralized HR Management Enables Progressive People Strategy
White Papers The United Kingdom's Office for National Statistics needed to streamline its core HR and training processes to provide a centralized framework for its progressive multi-tiered people strategy modernization program, enable employee data self...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Government Resource Enhances Help Desk Productivity And Gains Insight Into Service Performance With The 2007 Microsoft Office System
White Papers INEGI (Instituto Nacional de Estadistica, Geografia y Informatica) is the government organization in Mexico responsible for national statistics and geographical information. The company selected Microsoft Office system.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Teleworking 'is Good For Your Health'
News The number of teleworkers in Europe has doubled in the past three years to 20 million, and in the UK more than 2.2 million people work at home online at least one day a week, according to a report in the latest Labour Market Trends from the Office...
[October 14, 2002, 18:17]
Big Brother Frowns On Vodafone And The Home Office
News The Office of National Statistics is the front-runner for the title of Most Heinous Government Organisation for its citizen information project, which will collate information on the UK population. PI chose to ignore nominations for David Blunkett...
[July 5, 2004, 12:10]
Cabinet Office Launches Mashup Competition
News Among the data made available is a list of all schools from the Department for Children, Schools and Families, neighbourhood statistics from the Office for National Statistics, and notices from The London Gazette on issues ranging from corporate...
[July 3, 2008, 14:02]
US Fingerprinting Plan Earns Big Brother's Wrath
News Winner: The Office of National Statistics Runners-up: Katherine Courtney, director, identity cards programme, Home Office, and Stephen Harrison, head, identity card policy unit, Home Office. Winner: The NHS National Programme for IT
[July 28, 2004, 19:40]
High-tech Police Tackle Internet Crime
News One of the issues law enforcement faces is that the true extent of IT-based criminality is as yet uncertain because no statistics have been collated hitherto. Eighty officers will be deployed and the Home Office has given the unit a cash injection...
[April 18, 2001, 10:19]
Open Source: Developing Markets And Anti-Americanism
News National Ministry of Science, the Ministry of Statistics, and the OpenOffice.org, which is on the Chinese government's preferred list for government office productivity products. Buying Windows XP and Office XP on
[November 14, 2005, 11:00]
Offshoring 'not Costing UK Jobs'
News Offshoring of IT and call centre roles to low-cost countries such as India has not hit UK jobs, according to the latest official employment statistics from the Office of National Statistics (ONS). The ONS' latest Labour Market Trends figures show...
[September 9, 2005, 9:50]
Census Processing To Use Innovative Technology
News Systems integration firm Lockheed Martin has been chosen by the Office of National Statistics to ensure the process runs smoothly and it will be employing some innovative technology to help it along the way.
[April 28, 2001, 7:03]
News Burst: WAP Fails To Capture Eyeballs
News The PC is overwhelmingly the favourite means of getting online, according to a survey released Tuesday by the Office of National Statistics, a UK government body. Less than one percent of UK Internet users have ever surfed the net using a WAP phone...
[September 26, 2000, 12:40]
