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Open source software
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July 24, 2014
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Jul'14
CIO interview: Rorie Devine, CTO, Hailo
A technology overhaul is taking place behind the scenes at cab-hailing smartphone app Hailo as the company extends its international reach
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June 18, 2014
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Jun'14
Interview: John Swainson, president of Dell Software
Dell Software president John Swainson's aims to make Dell Software a $5bn business
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April 30, 2014
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Apr'14
Oracle updates Solaris, but is its server strategy sound?
Oracle has released a beta versdion of Solaris 11.2. But does Solaris and the Sparc server platform have a future?
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April 25, 2014
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Apr'14
Heartbleed prompts tech firms to pledge open-source support
Top tech firms have joined forces to support open-source software to help prevent future bugs like Heartbleed
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February 07, 2014
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Feb'14
Met Police releases ‘Total Technology’ IT strategy
The Metropolitan Police Service has released a three to four-year plan on how to transform the use of technology in the organisation
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January 31, 2014
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Jan'14
WIll open source save the datacentre industry?
IT rivals stand cheek-by-jowl to praise Facebook’s Open Compute Project, but is the love-in a Damascene conversion or just damage limitation?
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January 29, 2014
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Jan'14
Microsoft joins Open Compute Project
Redmond giant makes server specs public in bid to influence future datacentre design
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January 28, 2014
28
Jan'14
BBC failed to get "sufficient grip” over failed DMI project, says NAO
The National Audit Office has slammed the BBC over its failed Digital Media Initiative (DMI), project saying the broadcaster was “too optimistic” and the BBC executive “did not have sufficient grip of the programme"
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December 09, 2013
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Dec'13
DWP writes off £40m on Universal Credit but insists the IT is working
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is scrapping £40.1m of IT work on Universal Credit, and a further £91m will be written off over five years
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December 05, 2013
05
Dec'13
700,000 benefit claimants miss out on Universal Credit deadline
The secretary for work and pensions has admitted the Universal Credit benefit scheme will miss its 2017 deadline
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October 10, 2013
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Oct'13
NHS to replace NPfIT Spine system with open-source technology
The NHS is rebuilding its Spine platform using open source software
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September 27, 2013
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Sep'13
Software acquisition is risk acquisition, says industry panel
New software often means new security vulnerabilities, panel tells the (ISC)2 Security Congress 2013
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August 08, 2013
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Aug'13
Bloomberg signs up to Ubuntu Edge hybrid
Financial analytics service Bloomberg has bought into Mark Shuttleworth’s Ubuntu One vision for a hybrid PC/mobile device.
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July 11, 2013
11
Jul'13
OpenCorporates makes company data public
Company data is being made available as part of an initiative to place more government data in the public domain
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July 02, 2013
02
Jul'13
NHS IT to embrace open source
A new report from NHS England promises open source will be at the heart of the plans to digitise the health service
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June 13, 2013
13
Jun'13
NPfIT legacy: NHS yet to spend £600m on CSC Lorenzo patient records
The NHS has still to spend £600m on CSC's Lorenzo patient record system as a legacy of the defunct National Programme for IT (NPfIT)
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May 23, 2013
23
May'13
Interview: Government CTO Liam Maxwell
Government CTO Liam Maxwell has driven Whitehall’s IT agenda for years, previously as deputy government CIO and director of ICT futures
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April 08, 2013
08
Apr'13
Vendors form OpenDaylight Project for SDN
Networking industry's big names form OpenDaylight Project - an open source framework for SDN - under Linux Foundation’s umbrella
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March 15, 2013
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Mar'13
Government mandates 'preference' for open source
The government has, for the first time, mandated a preference for using open source for future developments
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February 28, 2013
28
Feb'13
UK teams up with Estonia to develop digital public services
The UK government has signed an agreement with Estonia to work together on developing digital public services
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February 24, 2013
24
Feb'13
Mozilla announces handsets for Firefox OS
Alcatel, LG and ZTE will be the first mobile manufacturers to bring Firefox OS handsets to the market
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February 07, 2013
07
Feb'13
Interview: Phil Smith, CEO of Cisco UK & Ireland
Cisco's UK CEO talks about innovation, wireless vs wired and software defined networking at the company’s annual Cisco Live event in London
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January 07, 2013
07
Jan'13
Barclays' Linux programme not a snub to suppliers
Barclays says it is not snubbing any supplier by developing a private cloud infrastructure and using Linux to cut software development costs by 90%.
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January 03, 2013
03
Jan'13
Ubuntu Linux adapted for Android smartphones
The open source Ubuntu operating system, a distribution of Linux, has been adapted to run on smartphones
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November 30, 2012
30
Nov'12
G-Cloud success depends on champions and a change in attitude
G-Cloud director Denise McDonagh has called for public sector champions to push forward adoption of the service.
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November 29, 2012
29
Nov'12
British Film Institute to launch version of the iPlayer
The British Film Institute (BFI) is to launch its own version of the BBC's iPlayer in digitisation plans to give millions access to its film archive
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September 14, 2012
14
Sep'12
GOV.UK to replace Directgov in October
Government information services website Directgov is to be replaced by GOV.UK from 17 October
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June 20, 2012
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Jun'12
Interview: GDS head Mike Bracken on Estonia's digital services
UK government IT could learn much from Estonia’s open source model, says head of Government Digital Services (GDS), Mike Bracken
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June 18, 2012
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Jun'12
Asian scientists call for government action on supercomputers
Scientists in India, China, Japan, Korea and India have called on their governments to collaborate on supercomputer technology
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June 06, 2012
06
Jun'12
Microsoft publishes its response to government open standards consultation
Microsoft has become the first major IT supplier to publish its submission to the government's consultation on the use of open standards.
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May 29, 2012
29
May'12
CIO interview: Lukas Oberhuber, CTO, Simply Business
Lukas Oberhuber is CTO at Simply Business, where he is making IT at the insurance company more agile to meet business demands
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February 23, 2012
23
Feb'12
OSSIM update enables cyber threat intelligence sharing
The latest update to the Open Source Security Information Management (OSSIM) base system includes a mechanism for sharing cyber threat intelligence.
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February 10, 2012
10
Feb'12
Government takes on proprietary software lobby in open standards battle
The government wants to push through open standards against vested interests keen to maintain the dominance of proprietary systems.
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January 11, 2012
11
Jan'12
European river managers delve into new knowledge management system
The UK’s Environment Agency has procured a semantic wiki based knowledge management (KM) system to aid river restoration across Europe.
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January 03, 2012
03
Jan'12
Hacktivists plan to use satellites to by-pass internet censorship
Hacker activists plan to launch communication satellites to overcome the threat of internet censorship.
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January 31, 2007
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Jan'07
Open source ID projects link up with Microsoft
Higgins-Bandit groups develop a new open source tool that could make independent ID systems compatible with Microsoft Windows CardSpace program.
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December 13, 2006
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Dec'06
Eclipse adoption rate on the increase
The adoption rate of the open source Eclipse integrated development environment has more than doubled in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, industry analysts have revealed.
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August 22, 2001
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Aug'01
Intel's open source warning for Sun
Intel, the chip manufacturing giant, has warned Sun Microsystems that the economic slowdown could drive many enterprises to use...