February 2009
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Fewer jobs for IT graduates
IT graduate vacancies are expected to fall 7.1% between 2008 and 2009, according to a report by the Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR).
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February 11, 2009
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BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5 'Argon' out this summer, with over the air upgrades
BlackBerry RIM's forthcoming BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5, ‘Argon’, will be available in Q2 2009 with built-in high availability. Continue Reading
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February 11, 2009
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Microsoft Patch Tuesday: 64 core Windows components affected
Microsoft's latest patch includes a major update to Windows that could cause application compatibility problems, says Windows compatibility testing firm...
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February 11, 2009
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Minutes of Blair meeting which sparked £13bn NHS IT scheme
With the general interest in the media and elsewhere in how the world's largest civilian IT programme came about, Computer Weekly is republishing the minutes of a meeting at Downing Street in February 2002 which sparked the NHS's £12.7bn National ... Continue Reading
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February 11, 2009
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Patch Tuesday impacts 64 core Windows components
Microsoft's latest patch includes a major update updates to Windows affecting 64 Windows component files. Click here to download report >> Continue Reading
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February 11, 2009
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Government IT savings a 'conjuring trick'
The government's plan to cut IT spending by billions of pounds is a conjuring trick, says Vince Cable, the Shadow Chancellor for the Liberal Democrats.
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February 11, 2009
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Guardian News rolls out Google Apps
Guardian News and Media is rolling out Google Apps to its 2,400 users. Continue Reading
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Child safety takes precedence in internet regulation debate
The safety of children online, more than any other issue, is driving the growing move to censor the internet in the UK, but international...
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Gartner advises businesses on how to cut costs in recession
Analyst Gartner has identified four discrete levels at which IT organisations can help their businesses optimise business costs in the face of the recession. The... Continue Reading
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February 11, 2009
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More than half of UK population does not shop online
More than half of the UK population still does not shop online, with security fears putting off many. Continue Reading
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February 11, 2009
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CIOs shine light on public IT project successes
CIOs in the public sector say that transformational government is starting to succeed, making it quicker and easier for people to file tax returns online, claims benefits and get, or exchange, information. Continue Reading
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February 11, 2009
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E-records may be banana skin for Obama - SCR expert
Trisha Greenhalgh, professor of primary health care, University College London, has given a less than ringing endorsement of plans in the US and UK for a national database of health records. ... Continue Reading
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February 11, 2009
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BT to resume roll out of Cerner Millennium system
BT is to resume the roll out of Cerner "Millennium" systems in London after go-lives were halted last October because of serious problems at the Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust and at Barts and The London NHS Trust. Continue Reading
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February 11, 2009
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Summary Care Record opt out - some challenges
Health officials want to dissuade patients from opting out of the Summary Care Record, but are unsure how to go about it. If too many patients opt out of a national database of summary health ... Continue Reading
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February 11, 2009
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Huddle offers conferencing link with InterCall
Huddle , the collaboration platform that uses... Continue Reading
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February 11, 2009
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BT relief as NPfIT roll-outs in London due to resume
Roll-outs in the London area of the Cerner LC1 Millennium Care Records Service are due to resume, Computer Weekly has learned. The resumption makes it less likely that BT and the Department of ... Continue Reading
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February 11, 2009
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Prescott gets blogging and twittering against RBS bonuses
The Labour Party is using a range of web services to shame the Royal Bank of Scotland into cancelling £1bn of potential bonuses for bankers and traders.
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February 11, 2009
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Google CEO to advise tories on economic recovery
Tory leader David Cameron has appointed Google CEO Eric Schmidt as an advisor on his new economic recovery committee.
Schmidt, who also previously...
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Swindells: NPfIT needs to change
Matthew Swindells, the former interim NHS CIO who led a review of NHS Informatics, says that the NHS's National Programme for IT [NPfIT] should cease being presented as "The Solution" for the ... Continue Reading
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Government has little idea what public sector spends on IT
The government has little idea what the public sector spends on IT. The disclosure comes from Martin Read, a former chief executive of computer services... Continue Reading