NHS Connecting for Health is terminating its £896m contract with Fujitsu, which formed part of the UK health service's National Programme for IT. Computer Weekly's executive editor Tony Collins has been following the NPfIT since 2002. In this podcast he tells Computer Weekly's chief reporter, Warwick Ashford, what he thinks of this latest news.
Cliff Saran speaks to Paul Michaels, director of consulting at Metri measurement consulting, about how to steer a software development project in the right direction.
The internet is arguably evolving as an operating system in its own right, with IP, HTML, SMTP and other underlying protocols combining with online application frameworks such as SOAP, web services, Ajax, Ruby on Rails and mash-ups. Added to this are remote web-based storage services, and increasingly sophisticated online applications. The result looks like an OS operating in the 'cloud'.
The Home Office is considering radical plans to develop a centralised surveillance system to track in real-time every kind of electronic activity undertaken by citizens.
The IT sector is to get a share of £200 million of government capital to be invested in new training facilities. The investment, to be made over the...