Hartlepool Borough Council has deployed a £750,000 Integrated Children's System (ICS) from Northgate Information Solutions to improve social care services.
Nokia has released a network appliance that uses two quad-core Intel Xeon processors with Intel's I/O Acceleration Technology to achieve raw processing speeds of 12gbps, or 5.3gbps with default settings.
IT security and control firm Sophos has reported on its blog that webpages of the US Consulate General in St.Petersburg, Russia, were attacked by hackers earlier this week. The infected pages have since been cleaned up.
An MP on the Commons' Health Committee has criticised a report by his colleagues on aspects of the National Programme for IT (NPfIT). He said the report of the Health Committee on the Electronic Patient Record - a central part of the NPFIT - was "very weak and a golden opportunity missed".
In the second part of our security special video, ComputerWeekly.com blogger and security expert David Lacey interviews Standard Chartered Bank's John Meakin.
Meakin is group head of information security at Standard Chartered and agreed to be interviewed at its head office in the City of London.