July 2010

New FSA rules push financial data quality management efforts at banks

UK banks are working to improve their financial data quality management processes to comply with new FSA regulations. Read about the data quality improvement challenges they face.  Continue Reading

Latest UK information security salary survey notes sharp pay increases

Both information security recruitment and salaries were up in Q2 2010, notes the most recent information security salary survey data from SearchSecurity.co.UK and Acumin Ltd.  Continue Reading

The solid facts about immigrant workers in the UK

There are always heated debates when it comes to the number of immigrant workers in the UK. This is particularly true in the IT industry, where thousands of workers enter the UK through the ...  Continue Reading

Webinar Registration: Using Windows 7 to transform IT Systems Management

Thank you for registering for the Kaseya Webinar "Using Windows 7 to transform IT Systems Management" on Thursday 12th August at 2:30pm (BST).  Continue Reading

The Spy who Liked me

The frictionless consumer experience is gaining momentum and shape. IT leadership, and the CIO in particular, should be leading the charge and setting the strategies and the corporate agenda to ...  Continue Reading

Has the private sector caught the public sector IT disease?

This is a guest post by Steve Burrows, principal consultant at Isle of Man-based Business & IT Consultancy SBA. He is a chartered Fellow of the British Computer Society (BCS) and a member of ...  Continue Reading

Wi-fi mobiles threaten 3G revenues

Most consumers will be using mobile handsets with chipsets that provide Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS (Global Positioning System) within the next five years, says market researcher ABI Research.  Continue Reading

Six considerations to help avoid outsourcing disasters

Robert Morgan, director at Burnt-Oak Partners, has followed up his ten point guide to cutting costs in the public sector with a six point guide to avoiding the biggest outsourcing mistakes. He goes ...  Continue Reading

ORG blasts Ofcom's three strikes code on copyright pirates

Civil rights campaigner the Open Rights Group has blasted Ofcom proposals on the "initial obligations code" that would effectively introduce a "three strikes and out" regime to control online piracy.  Continue Reading

The Spirit of Nortel Networks Lives On In Avaya...

Had the opportunity this week to catch up with an old IT mate, Nigel Moulton - recently of D-Link, anciently of 3Com with several stops in between - now installed at Avaya,Avaya, that is, who spent ...  Continue Reading

I am a software developer; therefore I am a mobile developer

All applications logically migrate to mobile platforms, software developers should think about the cross-device and cross-platform compatibility issues of their apps before they build them.  Continue Reading

Internet access key to £8bn bundle market

Half of UK households will be using a communications bundle by the end of the year, pushing the bundle market value to £8bn, says market researcher Mintel  Continue Reading

UK domain name .uk turns 25

The .uk domain name turns 25 on Saturday.

With more than 8.5 million domain names registered, Nominet, the national registry, is the world's fourth...

Dell fined $100m for accounting fraud that misled investors

PC maker Dell and its chairman Michael Dell will pay fines of $100m (£65.2m) and $4m respectively to settle US Securities and Exchange Commission charges that it misled investors through false accounting to meet Wall Street expectations, the stock ...  Continue Reading

ICO toughens up on Freedom of Information Act compliance

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is to get tougher with public authorities that are slow or unco-operative in responding to Freedom of Information Act requests.  Continue Reading

Consultants working for the government for free, but for how much longer?

I was with an IT consultant to the government yesterday and he told me that the government is currently benefiting from free consultancy.He said consultants within government don't want to lose ...  Continue Reading

PC demand pushes Microsoft to record sales

Microsoft produced record fourth quarter sales of $16.04bn (£10.47bn), 22% up on the same quarter 2009, as demand for PCs running its new operating system, Windows 7, improved worldwide.  Continue Reading