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News Schmooze: Pac-Man Linux Gobbles Microsoft
News The Linux operating system may pose many problems for competitors such as Microsoft, but it hadn't occurred to the Schmoozer that one of them was the GPL's resemblance to Pac-Man. I-Mode phones have been offering games like Pac-Man for a while, of...
[June 22, 2001, 17:56]
NetSuite Case Study: PAC International, Inc.
White Papers When PAC International, Inc.a Portland, Oregon-based distributor of sound insulation products used in construction, found it would need to dramatically increase its headcount to be able to maintain its separate customer relationship management...
[October 18, 2005, 0:00]
Gates Wades Into Open Source Debate
News While he has no objection to open-source development efforts, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates is concerned about the "Pac-Man-like nature" of the licence that governs the distribution of such software. then) they're pretty stunned when the Pac-Man...
[June 20, 2001, 8:42]
Leading Aerosol Products Manufacturer Delivers Five-Star Services To Fortune 500 Clientele With Secure Converged 3Com IP Telephony Solution
White Papers Telephony is vital to every organization, but for large enterprises like Accra Pac Group, with Fortune 500 clients like General Motors and others, it can make the difference between retaining and losing millions of dollars in revenue.
[July 12, 2005, 0:00]
Per-Antenna-Coded Schemes For MIMO OFDM
White Papers Two Per-Antenna-Coding (PAC) receiver schemes for Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) are described and compared in this paper. With PAC (sometimes called horizontal coding), these different data...
[November 1, 2004, 23:00]
Customs Criticised For £100m Spend
News The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has criticised HM Customs & Excise for spending millions on its e-government programme without being confident of the benefits for either itself or for UK businesses.
[June 22, 2004, 11:25]
10 Years Of IT Failures, And What Has The Government Learned?
News The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report, Achieving Value for Money in the Delivery of Public Services, says that despite the PAC's reviews of many high-profile IT failures over the last decade many departments still disregard common and well...
[December 7, 2005, 9:00]
Tax Credit IT System Condemned
News A report by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) calls the new tax credits system "frustratingly arcane" and says it has failed to cut fraud and instead routinely overpays hundreds of thousands of genuine, and often vulnerable, claimants.
[September 8, 2005, 9:25]
Department Of Health Dismisses NHS IT Blame
News The Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC), chaired by the Conservative MP Edward Leigh, issued a report on Tuesday that criticised the NHS's National Programme for IT (NPfIT) over its failure to meet budgets and delivery times.
[April 17, 2007, 14:17]
Microsoft Memo: Linux Fight Backfiring
News Top Microsoft executives, including co-founder Bill Gates and chief executive Steve Ballmer, have long derided open-source software as being everything from a "cancer" to "Pac-Man-like. then) they're pretty stunned when the Pac-Man-like nature of...
[November 7, 2002, 9:33]
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]
MPs Savage NHS IT Delays
News NHS CEO Sir Ian Carruthers and NHS director general of IT Richard Granger were grilled on the Connecting for Health programme by MPs during a heated Public Accounts Committee (PAC) meeting at the House of Commons this week.
[June 28, 2006, 17:10]
Indian IT Services To Double UK Market Share
News India's top five services companies — HCL, Infosys, Satyam, TCS and Wipro — are on course to grow their share of the UK software and IT services market from just under three percent to seven percent over the next three years, according to...
[January 24, 2008, 7:30]
India Mulls Tax-break Extension For Outsourcers
News Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC) has argued this is a reflection of nervousness about countries such as the Philippines and Vietnam, where tax exemptions are threatening to beat India on the cost competitiveness that allowed it to dominate the...
[May 7, 2008, 9:16]
MPs Reveal How To Save £100m On Microsoft Licences
News In its report, titled Purchasing and Managing Software Licences, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said that although government departments had expected to save £36m on licences for the three years ending March 2005, they had shattered this...
[February 27, 2004, 11:05]
£64m NHS E-booking System Hit By Delays
News The government had pledged to offer patients the e-booking service by 1 January, 2006, but NHS chief executive Sir Nigel Crisp told MPs at a Public Accounts Committee (PAC) hearing this week that while patients will still be able to choose which...
[November 2, 2005, 8:20]
HMRC Still Owed Millions By EDS
News EDS agreed it would pay £26.5m of the settlement when it was awarded new contracts by the government, but a report by parliamentary spending watchdog the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has found the IT services company has repaid "little" of this...
[February 6, 2008, 9:40]
Government CIO Council 'must Raise Its Game'
News But in its Delivering successful IT-enabled business change report, Whitehall spending watchdog the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said the role of the CIO Council is not clear and its profile remains low.
[June 5, 2007, 12:21]
MPs Condemn BBC Outsourcing Costs
News In a report by parliamentary spending watchdog the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), it has now emerged the savings for the first year fell 38 percent short of that figure at just £22m. Performance management by the BBC also comes under fire from...
[June 28, 2007, 9:47]
'Inept' IT Planning Behind UK Farm-subsidy Chaos
News A report into the fiasco by Whitehall spending watchdog the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has found implementation of the project started before the final specification and regulations for the subsidy scheme were agreed by the European Commission.
[September 6, 2007, 15:57]
