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Thames Water shores up contact centre IT

Network consolidation and replacement of legacy system to reduce costs 21 Nov 2008

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EU police in the dock over data sharing

Poor integration and lax practices are jeopardising EU efforts to fight international crime 20 Nov 2008

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Capita lands NHS Choices contract

The IT services firm has been tasked with turning the NHS Choices web site into the new “front door” for patient contact 20 Nov 2008

Computing podcast: Europol's data sharing woes; credit card protection at Cotton Traders

The pan-European fight against organised crime is undermined by lax data sharing arrangements; and Cotton Traders enhances its credit card protection 20 Nov 2008

V&A exhibits huge thirst for storage

Hitachi Data Systems prepares museum for data explosion 19 Nov 2008

Transport for London signs new Oyster contract

EDS and Cubic to remain key suppliers for smartcard scheme until 2015 19 Nov 2008

Skills drive launched to make IT cool

Skills gap is widening as number of young people entering industry falls 19 Nov 2008

NHS hospitals contract Mytob virus

Worm wriggles into IT systems and does a bit of networking 19 Nov 2008

Whitehall set to follow Defra's green IT blueprint

Defra CIO advised government CIO council on measures taken 13 Nov 2008

BT slashes 10,000 jobs as profits tumble

Telecoms giant announces fall in profits and replaces Global Services CEO 13 Nov 2008

The IT industry can revive the economy

IT has untapped potential that could be of huge benefit in a recession 13 Nov 2008

Computing podcast: Defra's green leadership; and integrated transport problems

Defra is making headway with its green IT strategy; and experts warn integration issues could derail smart tickets 13 Nov 2008

Outlook for NHS IT is far from healthy

Visiting a flagship hospital fails to inspire confidence in the health service’s new patient record systems 13 Nov 2008

UK lagging behind EU police systems

MPs urge parliament to integrate with Europol systems as a matter of priority 12 Nov 2008

NHS IT programme costs London hospital £7.2m

Other trusts are delaying care records system implementation while problems are sorted 07 Nov 2008

Lack of IT standards hampering UK war effort

Proprietary software making it harder to exploit reconnaisance data in Afghanistan 07 Nov 2008

Data losses hit 280 million people

Sixty million are the victim of hacking while the rest are accidental, says KPMG study 07 Nov 2008

Government doubles real cost of an ID card

Citizens will have to pay retailers to collect their biometrics as well as buying an identity card 07 Nov 2008

MPs attack government over e-crime unit funding

But minister insists £7m budget "is not the end of the story" 06 Nov 2008

Home Office announces first UK citizens to receive ID cards

Staff at Manchester and London City airports to pilot controversial scheme 06 Nov 2008

West Midlands unifies traffic control systems

Unified data platform expected to improve vehicle flow management 05 Nov 2008

Liverpool taps BT to improve social care

Outsourcing deal should deliver service and cost efficiencies 04 Nov 2008

Building Schools for the Future project goes live in Sheffield

£10m platform will link central database with school management, e-registration, CCTV and access control systems 04 Nov 2008

Government Gateway secured and back online

Weekend loss of site information caused temporary shut down 03 Nov 2008

Brighton Council moves to Microsoft

Disparate servers moved onto one single network 30 Oct 2008

Computing podcast - IT delays spark FireControl fears, and a preview of the Computing Awards 2008

A project to rationalise fire service control centres will miss a key deadline due to IT issues - we discuss the challenges it faces; and with the 16th annual Computing Awards next week, we preview the big night 30 Oct 2008

FireControl system hits delays

First three regional control centres will not go live in October 2009 30 Oct 2008

Councils miss revised children's system target

Fifteen per cent of local authorities failed to hit key ICS deadline 30 Oct 2008

What next for the Integrated Children's System?

Councils call for more control over key project 30 Oct 2008

West Sussex Council signs Capgemini to support change programme

Project has already delivered £50m of savings 29 Oct 2008

176 government data breaches took place in the last year

Public sector beats private sector by more than two to one in reported security incidents 29 Oct 2008

Experts call for better security education in schools

Computing courses for kids need to provide more teaching on safe surfing 28 Oct 2008

NHS care record rollout grinds to a halt

London roll out of care records scheme to be halted will problems are ironed out 28 Oct 2008

Motorway telecoms procurement was three years late and five times over budget

Public Accounts Committee report reveals extent of over-run - but implementation project was a success 28 Oct 2008

Government in "delicate" talks with EDS over compensation payment

Hm Revenue & Customs expects to be paid outstanding amount from £26.5m fine 27 Oct 2008

Police to get mobile fingerprint scanners

Faster checks bring privacy concerns 27 Oct 2008

Somerset Council's controversial partnership deal identifies savings

Operations successfully streamlined in £400m deal that sees staff transferred to IBM joint venture 27 Oct 2008

NHS chooses Optenet for content security

URL filtering solution will save IT administrators time and could improve productivity 27 Oct 2008

Local authorities have growing involvement in schools IT

Three-quarters now part of IT learning strategy development 24 Oct 2008

BAE awards multimillion-pound submarine IT contract

Newcomer Carillion IT Services wins deal on grounds of flexibility 24 Oct 2008

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