http://www.computerweekly.com/Blog/Default.aspx Feed of content from all Computer Weekly blogs English Copyright Reed Business Information 2009 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:52:24 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification A dear friend and ex-colleague once told me, only half jokingly, that his main achievement in life was having reached mediocrity in everything that he did. Somehow this came back to me earlier this week when reading the summary report from McKinsey of their fourth global business technology survey results (www.mckinseyquarterly.com/ghost.aspx?ID=/business_technology/bt_strategy/IT_in_the_new_normal_McKinsey_Global_survey_results_2473). According to the survey, more than half of the IT leaders who responded regarded their own performance in managing their IT infrastructure as being less than fully effective. In addition 70% reported shortcomings in their governance of IT and almost 80% had doubts about targetting places in their enterprises http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/it-governance/2009/12/is-mediocrity-the-new-norm.html http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/it-governance/2009/12/is-mediocrity-the-new-norm.html Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:52:24 +0000 I have this dreadfully bad habit of leaving lots of tabs open in my browser. Since the day Firefox introduced tabs, they have been my default way of "managing" large numbers of articles that I want to read. Whether someone has sent me a link by email or IM, or I spot something on Twitter, I'd open it up in a tab, glance at the headline and think, "Oh, I'll read that later." Then it would sit in my browser for weeks, sometimes months, whilst I did other stuff. When Firefox grows to 60+ open tabs it becomes a http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/enterprise-social-software/2009/12/instapaper-managing-your-to-re.html http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/enterprise-social-software/2009/12/instapaper-managing-your-to-re.html Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:21:31 +0000 http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/when-it-meets-politics/2009/12/net-industry-told-to-adapt-or.html http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/when-it-meets-politics/2009/12/net-industry-told-to-adapt-or.html Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:13:58 +0000 Imagine if you can, for a moment, that you are Google. You have revolutionised the advertising industry. Billions of marketing dollars now flow your way. Traditional outlets for ads, such as newspapers and magazines, are facing disaster and many have already shut down. You are under fire from media titans such as Rupert Murdoch, fearful of their own dead tree empires collapsing. Meanwhile, you are also trying to revolutionise another industry - the Microsoft one - and your latest focus is the shiny new Chrome browser with which you hope to lure internet-savvy punters away from their reliance on Internet http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/it-downtime-blog/2009/12/print-advertising-is-the-futur.html http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/it-downtime-blog/2009/12/print-advertising-is-the-futur.html Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:26:40 +0000 Probably the hardest part of any social media project, whether it's internal or external, is figuring out whether or not the project has been a success. In the early days of social media, I worked with a lot of clients who were more interested in experimenting than in quantifying the results of their projects. That's incredibly freeing in one sense, but we are (or should be) moving beyond the 'flinging mud at the walls to see what sticks' stage into the 'knowing how much sticks' stage. Social media metrics, though, are a bit of a disaster zone. Anyone can http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/enterprise-social-software/2009/12/metrics-part-1-the-webstats-le.html http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/enterprise-social-software/2009/12/metrics-part-1-the-webstats-le.html Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:17:28 +0000 http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/tony_collins/2009/12/how-much-can-you-trust-what-hm.html http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/tony_collins/2009/12/how-much-can-you-trust-what-hm.html Mon, 14 Dec 2009 06:00:00 +0000 http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/david_lacey/2009/12/cloud_computing_security_devel.html http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/david_lacey/2009/12/cloud_computing_security_devel.html Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:02:50 +0000 http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/when-it-meets-politics/2009/12/who-trusts-who-and-what-over-t.html http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/when-it-meets-politics/2009/12/who-trusts-who-and-what-over-t.html Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:46:18 +0000 http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/david_lacey/2009/12/ssl_vulnerabilities.html http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/david_lacey/2009/12/ssl_vulnerabilities.html Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:17:26 +0000 One of the biggest bits of news from Le Web in Paris this week was news that Twitter is actively embracing the developer community by opening up its API to everyone. As Adam Tinworth's blog post (highlighted above) points out that Twitter had to embrace the developer community if it wanted to be a real time information source for the web. That's why there's already 50,000 Twitter apps out there. So it has started to build its own ecosystem... and that's where the business model is. Ecosystems are interdependent. The various forms that make it up require and need each http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/editors-blog/2009/12/twitters-ecosystem-points-to-r.html http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/editors-blog/2009/12/twitters-ecosystem-points-to-r.html Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:48:25 +0000 First we caused the twin evils of poor communication and inability to learn from each other through our systematisation and bureaucratisation of the world of work. We devalued relationships and trust as twin pillars of human endeavour. Then we made it worse by sticking plaster on the wound, adding layers of "professional" intervention on top in the form of "internal communicators" and "knowledge managers" in our attempts to make things better. We buried the people trying to do things under increasingly collusive layers of "grown ups" pretending that this is the way things have to be. And then... (Euan http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/enterprise-social-software/2009/12/professionalism.html http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/enterprise-social-software/2009/12/professionalism.html Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:40:37 +0000 http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/it-fud-blog/2009/12/why-we-should-like-teenagers-i.html http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/it-fud-blog/2009/12/why-we-should-like-teenagers-i.html Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:23:10 +0000 BT is giving away some 6,700 iconic red phone booths for a pound, provided local parish councils find an alternative use for them. To encourage lateral thinking it is offering prizes for the most creative ideas. This year's winner is Great Shelford in Cambridgeshire. Local primary school children will install a mannequin, whose identity will change every so often, in the booth and write about the phone calls they think character might make. First up is Guy Fawkes. Downtime presumes this is the original rather than Guido Fawkes, the political blogger.In case BT is watching, Downtime would like it to http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/it-downtime-blog/2009/12/new-uses-for-old-phone-booths.html http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/it-downtime-blog/2009/12/new-uses-for-old-phone-booths.html Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:19:43 +0000 So we conducted some random vox pop videos at Le Web in Paris about think the biggest developments in the real time web in 2010. As we pull together the video footage into a nice neat video package, I've picked out some people's views as "food for thought" as it were. These were ones that we didn't capture on video, but seem interesting points of view.Queen Rania of Jordan said that real time is becoming prime time and called for real time online activism to lead to real action. Sociologist Danah Boyd said that the real time web made parts http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/editors-blog/2009/12/le-web---whats-going-to-be-the.html http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/editors-blog/2009/12/le-web---whats-going-to-be-the.html Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:25:44 +0000 Is it possible to make money from mobile apps? Yes, according to Le Web's panellists on the question - but there are plenty of potential pitfalls and obstacles.It may not be all that easy, but what's most important is the fact that the market is growing - in five or six years' time, Team Europe Ventures co-founder Lukasz Gadowski predicted, "it will be hard for us to imagine how we could ever live without the mobile medium".The growth of the market means even big telecom companies can't afford to ignore it, according to Gadowski. He said, "The sheer growth of http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/editors-blog/2009/12/how-to-make-money-from-mobile.html http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/editors-blog/2009/12/how-to-make-money-from-mobile.html Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:11:36 +0000 I had to point to this advert for Accenture services. A colleague was greeted by it in an airport when returning from a press trip. Also financial services blogger Chris Skinner drew it to my attention in his Financial Services Club blog. http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/inside-outsourcing/2009/12/tiger-woods-still-a-good-role-model-for-accenture.html http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/inside-outsourcing/2009/12/tiger-woods-still-a-good-role-model-for-accenture.html Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:24:06 +0000 There's a great interview with digital anthropologist danah boyd in The Guardian. I love danah's work. We so desperately need more people like danah who take a calm and evidence-based view of the way the internet and social tools are changing society (or not, in some cases). She proved to be an essential source for my work on digital natives earlier this year, and her work should be essential reading for everyone in recruitment and HR. The article says: Lately, [boyd's] work has been about explaining new ways of interpreting the behaviour we see online, and understanding that the http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/enterprise-social-software/2009/12/danah-boyd-and-digital-anthrop.html http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/enterprise-social-software/2009/12/danah-boyd-and-digital-anthrop.html Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:01:16 +0000 http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/editors-blog/2009/12/will-real-time-web-work-for-e-.html http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/editors-blog/2009/12/will-real-time-web-work-for-e-.html Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:17:50 +0000 http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/inside-outsourcing/2009/12/another-busy-week-in-outsourcing-round-up-10-december-2009.html http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/inside-outsourcing/2009/12/another-busy-week-in-outsourcing-round-up-10-december-2009.html Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:06:03 +0000 Does Google's announcement that it will add a stream of real time content from across the web into its search results validate the value of real time search. This is how Google put its announcement earlier this week: Now, immediately after conducting a search, you can see live updates from people on popular sites like Twitter and FriendFeed, as well as headlines from news and blog posts published just seconds before. When they are relevant, we'll rank these latest results to show the freshest information right on the search results page.It's a big difference to users, who will now get http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/editors-blog/2009/12/real-time-web-validated-by-goo.html http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/editors-blog/2009/12/real-time-web-validated-by-goo.html Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:04:47 +0000 Companies are failing to keep up with the pace of change on the internet and need to follow three steps to keep up, according to Jeremiah Owyang, a partner at the Altimeter Group who spoke at Le Web conference in Paris today. He said the real time web is no longer quick enough, and that the next stage would involve web users talking about what they plan to do in the future. He said, "Most companies can't keep up with the slow web, let alone the future web." He said there are several examples of companies whose adverts or marketing http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/editors-blog/2009/12/three-tips-for-keeping-up-with.html http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/editors-blog/2009/12/three-tips-for-keeping-up-with.html Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:10:42 +0000 Last month, a study by Fat Free Fitness revealed that IT workers have the unhealthiest lifestyles of all professional workers in the UK. Now you can see the effects of poor diet, smoking and drinking on your future appearance by using a free online tool.MirrorMe is a Facebook application developed by Middlesbrough-based games studio Ideonic. Users upload an image of their face and answer a few simple questions relating to their lifestyle and habits. The application then scours for more than 86 points on the face, generating a new image based on how the person might look in the future http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/it-downtime-blog/2009/12/face-your-future---it-wont-be.html http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/it-downtime-blog/2009/12/face-your-future---it-wont-be.html Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:48:23 +0000 Social networking site Facebook is in the headlines again for all the wrong reasons. A user was killed off as part of a prank by a friend. The 'friend' created a memorial site for Dan Evans, which soon had 600 sad members. Downtime is a bit upset because a story that recently appeared said Facebook had 350 million members and Downtime had to go back and change this to 349,999,999 million. And then back to 350 million when it turned out to be a hoax. http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/it-downtime-blog/2009/12/facebook-kills-man-in-prank.html http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/it-downtime-blog/2009/12/facebook-kills-man-in-prank.html Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:47:24 +0000 http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/editors-blog/2009/12/googles-answer-to-the-publishe.html http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/editors-blog/2009/12/googles-answer-to-the-publishe.html Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:21:28 +0000 Google said it respected the copyright of publishers and doesn't want to lose any from its index. Marissa Meyer, VP at Google, told delegates at Le Web conference in Paris, that it respected publishers' copyright. "Google wants to be as comprehensive a search as possible, so have to respect the copyright... we have to do that. For the quality of the search engine we would hope to keep all publishers in Google," she said. But she warned publishers that they needed to do more to engage users in online news. She said that online search reduced the amount of content http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/editors-blog/2009/12/google-wants-publishers-to-sta-1.html http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/editors-blog/2009/12/google-wants-publishers-to-sta-1.html Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:31:40 +0000 http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/it-downtime-blog/2009/12/1-in-4-men-pull-a-sickie-to-pl.html http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/it-downtime-blog/2009/12/1-in-4-men-pull-a-sickie-to-pl.html Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:50:06 +0000 http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/it-downtime-blog/2009/12/tiger-woods-cited-by-fbi-in-co-1.html http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/it-downtime-blog/2009/12/tiger-woods-cited-by-fbi-in-co-1.html Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:30:04 +0000 I found myself explaining to a client the other day why incentives don't work very well for encouraging people to get involved in social media. Indeed, incentives can have the very opposite effect so must be handled with extreme caution. This excellent video from Dan Pink explains very succinctly why incentives do not work for anything other than simple mechanical tasks, and goes on to examine the importance of autonomy. You should also read Johnnie Moore's blog post Incentives, innovation, community which adds yet more flavour and context, including lots of quotes from and links to studies in the http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/enterprise-social-software/2009/12/incentives-in-social-media.html http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/enterprise-social-software/2009/12/incentives-in-social-media.html Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:14:30 +0000 So the government wants all children from 5 to 17 to get driving lessons to make them safe on the information super-highway. This will cut the time teachers can spend on something really useful, like English grammar or maths.Downtime reckons that if the kids then go looking for online porn, they'll soon learn about economics and fiscal responsibility too. Perhaps if Gordon and Alistair had spent more time learning those lessons, they might have made a better fist of it. http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/it-downtime-blog/2009/12/online-safety-literacy.html http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/it-downtime-blog/2009/12/online-safety-literacy.html Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:36:51 +0000 Most iPod owners are paying more for downloaded music than necessary. Ignorance is costly, but TuneChecker.com saves the day. The music price comparison site helps find tracks at the cheapest price. Not all iPod users know there are, sometimes cheaper, alternatives to the iTunes Store, says Martin Lewis, consumer champion and owner of TuneChecker.com. http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/it-downtime-blog/2009/12/knowledge-is-power.html http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/it-downtime-blog/2009/12/knowledge-is-power.html Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:46:49 +0000 Lancashire Council paid £1,500 to move PCs and other office equipment across a road in Preston, which works out at £150 a metre. Why? The removal firm said health they could not carry boxes across the road because of health and safety regulations. http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/it-downtime-blog/2009/12/expensive-pc-move.html http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/it-downtime-blog/2009/12/expensive-pc-move.html Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:44:57 +0000 One of the potential business impacts that should be factored into any risk assessment for a data breach of customer information is the possibility of a class action for damages. It's interesting therefore to note that a federal court in Missouri has recently dismissed a claim against a pharmacy benefits company over a data breach in which millions of customer records were believed to have been illegally accessed. The plaintiff contended that he and other victims faced an increased risk of becoming the victims of identity theft. The case was dismissed because he failed to prove that his information had http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/david_lacey/2009/12/law_suits_and_data_breaches.html http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/david_lacey/2009/12/law_suits_and_data_breaches.html Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:48:07 +0000 This is not the first Storm that I've got to know intimately, I had something of a hate/hate relationship with the original model. Actually, there were only three things I really loathed about it: the lack of WiFi, the slow web browsing and the godawful touchscreen on a spring that RIM seemed to think everyone would love. Ding! Wrong! Unsurprisingly these were the first three things I looked at when the Storm 2 arrived.See also:Review: HTC HD2 - Time to smash Windows!Palm Pre vs the iPhone - The big debateVideo: I'm an iPhone and I'm an N97Photos: Top ten http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/inspect-a-gadget/2009/12/review-blackberry-storm-2---more-of-a-drizzle-than-a-storm.html http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/inspect-a-gadget/2009/12/review-blackberry-storm-2---more-of-a-drizzle-than-a-storm.html Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:11:50 +0000 IT that sparked Student Loans chaos may still be faulty - ComputerWeekly.com http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/tony_collins/2009/12/another-state-it-related-disas.html http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/tony_collins/2009/12/another-state-it-related-disas.html Wed, 09 Dec 2009 07:20:00 +0000 Just a quick post to flag up my colleague Faisal Alani's (AKA Inspectagadget) latest gadget review where he pits the Palm Pre against the iPhone in his own witty way. Take a look and let us know what you think. http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/editors-blog/2009/12/palm-pre-v-iphone---what-a-gre.html http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/editors-blog/2009/12/palm-pre-v-iphone---what-a-gre.html Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:41:05 +0000 So tomorrow (Wednesday 9 Dec) we head off to Le Web in Paris to cover the biggest real time web conference in Europe. For a change we are departing mob handed, well three of us, (that's me, Faisal Alani and Rebecca Thomson) to see whether we can cover the conference in true multimedia fashion through blogs posts on this blog and the Social Enterprise blog, video, pictures, tweets and news stories. I really hope that by covering the conference in this way we can give you a really good experience of all the goings on at Le Web in Paris. http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/editors-blog/2009/12/computerweeklycom-at-le-web.html http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/editors-blog/2009/12/computerweeklycom-at-le-web.html Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:13:41 +0000 http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/tony_collins/2009/12/post-14.html http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/tony_collins/2009/12/post-14.html Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:30:00 +0000 Davey Winder writes for Inspect-a-Gadget.Ever since I spent a fortune on a Nokia Communicator back in 1996 my wallet has been on a hiding to nothing as far as my smartphone habit is concerned. Which is why I jumped at the chance to try the HTC HD2 for a couple of weeks courtesy of a Vodafone loaner. Software I wouldn't normally touch a Windows Mobile powered device with a barge pole these days, even if Microsoft calls it Windows Phone. But this is no ordinary device; not only has the resistive touchscreen and stylus combo been replaced by a capacitive http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/inspect-a-gadget/2009/12/review-htc-hd2---time-to-smash-windows.html http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/inspect-a-gadget/2009/12/review-htc-hd2---time-to-smash-windows.html Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:30:06 +0000 I finally got my hands on a Palm Pre (officially released on 16 October) to play with and, on the whole, I was quite impressed. I know it's been out for a while now but I had to perfect my video!! Software:If you end up buying a Palm Pre, the software will be the reason why. The operating system is, in case you didn't know, web based similar to Google's Android.The software including is, in one word, slick. You have a launch bar at the bottom of the homescreen that looks and acts like a Mac launch bar. You simply http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/inspect-a-gadget/2009/12/palm-pre-review.html http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/inspect-a-gadget/2009/12/palm-pre-review.html Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:14:37 +0000 Google has announced that it is going to be indexing the web in real time: Now, immediately after conducting a search, you can see live updates from people on popular sites like Twitter and FriendFeed, as well as headlines from news and blog posts published just seconds before. [...] You can also filter your results to see only "Updates" from micro-blogs like Twitter, FriendFeed, Jaiku and others. [...] Our real-time search features are based on more than a dozen new search technologies that enable us to monitor more than a billion documents and process hundreds of millions of real-time http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/enterprise-social-software/2009/12/googles-real-time-search-ups-t.html http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/enterprise-social-software/2009/12/googles-real-time-search-ups-t.html Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:13:05 +0000 The IT industry's bruises from fighting the downturn in 2009 are still pretty raw, but as the year approaches its end many will be applying the ointment with a bit more of a smile. The mood of cautious optimism among IT directors was confirmed by Accenture research showing UK and Ireland businesses as the most likely in Europe to increase spending next year. Not only that, but two of the top three items on their wish list were e-business and CRM systems, both technologies focused on growth, rather than retrenchment and cost cutting, which have been the watchwords of late. http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/editors-blog/2009/12/time-has-come-for-it-to-heal-a.html http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/editors-blog/2009/12/time-has-come-for-it-to-heal-a.html Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:52:12 +0000 I've noticed a somewhat grumpy trend in my blogs over recent months: the problem is that there's so much to grumble about. Public sector appears to be in meltdown with accusations of ministers pursuing a 'scorched earth' policy in the build-up to the election, vendors milking the last drops they can before the government finally notices the money's run out, and the Chancellor trying to paper over the cracks with tiny little budget cuts here and there. Outside of government we also see privacy, security and identity failures, but market forces tend to correct them pretty quickly. All these problems http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/the-data-trust-blog/2009/12/good-news-week.html http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/the-data-trust-blog/2009/12/good-news-week.html Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:52:43 +0000 http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/inside-outsourcing/2009/12/eds-boost-to-hp-results-masks-inner-turmoil.html http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/inside-outsourcing/2009/12/eds-boost-to-hp-results-masks-inner-turmoil.html Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:42:04 +0000 Article on ComputerWeekly.com's homepage http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/tony_collins/2009/12/accenture-loses-2-pre-trial-ju.html http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/tony_collins/2009/12/accenture-loses-2-pre-trial-ju.html Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:23:34 +0000 Stephen Baker writes an interesting piece over on Business Week sounding a note of caution about social media snake oil (and publishes some paragraphs that didn't make the final cut on his own blog). The comments take Baker to task about the case studies he selects, but I think the point he makes still stands: It's very easy to become a well-known name in social media regardless of your actual knowledge and experience, and quite a different thing to achieve results. The problem of social media carpetbaggers is something I've mentioned before, but it's a topic worth revisiting regularly http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/enterprise-social-software/2009/12/notes-of-caution-and-notes-of.html http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/enterprise-social-software/2009/12/notes-of-caution-and-notes-of.html Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:22:51 +0000 Gordon Brown's speech today on smarter government:"And I can announce today that we will actively publish all public services performance data online during 2010 completing the process by 2011. Crime data, hospital costs and parts of the national pupil database will go on line in 2010. We will use this data to benchmark the best and the worst and drive better value for money."[But will Labour be in power in 2011 to be held to account over this claim?]Link: Overview of today's efficiency announcements - Read all about it http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/tony_collins/2009/12/brown-we-will-publish-all-perf.html http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/tony_collins/2009/12/brown-we-will-publish-all-perf.html Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:00:00 +0000 http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/inspect-a-gadget/2009/12/motorola-milestone-shipping-now.html http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/inspect-a-gadget/2009/12/motorola-milestone-shipping-now.html Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:31:04 +0000 http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/tony_collins/2009/12/is-npfit-essential-to-nhs-fron.html http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/tony_collins/2009/12/is-npfit-essential-to-nhs-fron.html Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:28:00 +0000 After years in the wilderness, technology really has become a bit of a buzzword in government.Today's Putting the Frontline First report provides technical answers to the all important question of how to improve services while cutting costs.The government wants everything to go online - all public transactions, including benefits, tax returns and changing your address. By 2014, it expects nearly all services to be available via the internet.And next year it's making a huge amount of public data available for free. It hopes all those enterprising techie types floating around the web will be able to make use of the http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/read-all-about-it/2009/12/after-years-in-the-wilderness.html http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/read-all-about-it/2009/12/after-years-in-the-wilderness.html Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:23:37 +0000 http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/inspect-a-gadget/2009/12/apple-to-start-streaming-from-itunes.html http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/inspect-a-gadget/2009/12/apple-to-start-streaming-from-itunes.html Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:08:28 +0000