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Public sector wins huge IT discounts
News The government's latest deal with IT suppliers will allow public sector bodies to buy hardware with a discount of up to 49 percent. OGCbuying.solutions — a government e-procurement arm — is running a scheme which promises average savings of over 25...
[December 11, 2006, 8:27]
Public sector IT spending climb to continue
News The analyst firm said public sector buyers will be looking for packages of technologies that will help them communicate better with the public - such as portals and call centres bundled with services to help them handle cases on a customised basis.
[August 3, 2005, 16:50]
Public targeted by 1,500 monitoring bids per day
News Police, local councils and other UK public authorities made more than half-a-million requests to see citizens' communications data in 2008, according to a watchdog report. Under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa), public authorities...
[August 10, 2009, 16:19]
Public sector spending to boost rural broadband
News The e-commerce minister, Stephen Timms, has announced several initiatives to improve the take-up of broadband by the public sector, particularly in the regions. The new measures are part of the government's strategy of using public sector demand...
[June 26, 2002, 17:04]
Public Background Checks Search Gadget
Downloads This gadget searches billions of public records right from your desktop. It can be used to find people by name, address or phone number. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
[November 8, 2007, 13:06]
Public in the dark about Y2K
News The survey, commissioned by IT giant ICL, showed one in three of the general public believe the millennium bug is a threat to their personal safety. The poll, which surveyed 596 members of the public and 200 IT specialists in January, revealed an...
[February 2, 1999, 15:16]
TechNet Webcast: A More Secure and Well-Managed Infrastructure (Part 6 of 18): Public Key Infrastructure (Level 300)
White Papers The webcast covers Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), starting with a look at how PKI can address identity security issues. This webcast addresses network security issues. The webcast also discusses design points, multi...
[December 7, 2005, 23:00]
Public-private partnership boosts rural ADSL
News Over 60,000 more households and 6,000 extra small businesses in Wiltshire will be able to access ADSL broadband by the end of this year due to a £7m partnership between BT and the public sector. This follows the successful ActNow project in...
[July 28, 2003, 17:41]
Public sector panned over approach to IT projects
News It was a view echoed by Richard Bacon, a member of the parliamentary spending watchdog the Public Accounts Committee and a fierce critic of the £12.7bn programme to modernise NHS IT. In the public sector you get this willingness to grind onwards...
[March 27, 2009, 9:30]
Public-sector bodies sing Windows Vista's praises
News But Microsoft has wheeled out two public-sector customers who are both upgrading to Vista and happy with the benefits. Newham Borough Council and Tube Lines, a public-private partnership set up to maintain the infrastructure of the Jubilee...
[June 2, 2008, 8:26]
Public Sector Network live in next 12 months
News The Public Sector Network will be working with its services available for purchase next year, according to the programme's director. The PSN is designed to change the way government organisations buy and use voice and data networks by creating a...
[September 28, 2009, 8:18]
Public blasts Microsoft antitrust settlement
News The Justice Department and Microsoft on Thursday filed a legal brief summarising public comments received on an antitrust settlement cut in November. What impact the largely negative public comments will have is uncertain, but the settling parties...
[February 8, 2002, 8:45]
Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) Call Flows
White Papers This paper contains best current practice examples of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) call flows showing interworking with the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN). Elements in these call flows include SIP User Agents, SIP Proxy Servers, and...
[December 27, 2004, 2:00]
Public Access Desktop
Downloads Use Public Access Desktop to make a foolproof workstation easily and safely used in any public place, where people have free access to it, but nobody of them can configure the system or clutter the hard disk with garbage (whether accidentally or...
[June 19, 2008, 8:00]
Public sector wins new volume discounts from Microsoft
News As part of a mooted new three-year deal, Microsoft will offer a software and support package at volume discount rates across the UK's public sector. The MoU works by pooling public sector volume licensing purchases to trigger bigger levels of...
[August 18, 2004, 10:25]
Public sector spends up on outsourcing
News New research shows that public-sector buying of outsourcing is concentrated more on IT outsourcing than business processes The latest research from Kable has highlighted a massive increase in public sector outsourcing, with IT contracts driving the...
[June 28, 2004, 16:25]
Public sector cool on VoIP
News UK public-sector organisations aren't rushing to install IP-based telephony systems. In a survey of 400 public sector ICT managers, 42 percent said they don't expect to complete migration from legacy phone switch systems (PBXs) to IP-based networks...
[December 7, 2006, 10:20]
TechNet Webcast: Public Instant Messaging Connectivity With Office Live Communications Server 2005 SP1 (Level 200)
White Papers This webcast provide an overview of the Public Instant Messaging Connectivity service provided by Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 Service Pack 1 (SP1). The attendee will learn the required steps to deploy Live Communications Server...
[September 6, 2008, 1:01]
Public sector urged to learn from business
News BuyIT, the IT best-practice network, has launched its framework for e-government to give the public sector a subtle hint on what it could learn from the private sector with technology. While the 2005 deadline e-government may be a distant dream for...
[May 12, 2004, 17:05]
Data Security Mythbusters: Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
White Papers A single loss or breach of information can have a severe impact on an enterprise's brand and public image, on customer retention, new business attraction, and the tangible bottom line. In today's business environment, enterprises must work even...
[September 2, 2009, 1:22]
