IT is on the way to becoming a profession with the same ethical and professional standards as medicine and the law, MPs and IT practitioners heard recently.
IBM is this week launching social networking software for businesses so their employees can get the same kind of networking benefits seen in MySpace and Facebook.
Council employees want faster speed of access to applications more than training or mobile working, according to a survey of employees at the UK’s largest local authority.
Councils should not assume that the private sector knows best when they start projects involving key IT systems, a public sector shared services conference was told last week.
The Confederation of British Industry and the Trades Union Congress have joined forces to promote flexible working as a way of helping the UK economy, as well as making it easier for staff to achieve a healthy work/life balance.
UK computer science undergraduates have failed to qualify for the final phase of a competition that offered high-flying jobs at BT, venture capital money and access to technological expertise.