January 2011

Diageo CIO Brian Franz discusses the evolving role of IT

Brian Franz, CIO at beverages giant Diageo, discusses the challenges of global business processes, consumer technology and digital marketing. Diageo,...  Continue Reading

Identity card plan ignored fatal flaws

Ministers and civil servants swept fundamental problems with the ID card database blueprint under the carpet and approved a development plan that would prove so unfeasible it had to be torn up after government IT experts had worked on it for three ...  Continue Reading

DWP CIO Joe Harley appointed as government CIO

Joe Harley, the CIO at the Department for Work and Pensions is also to take on the top job in public sector IT as the new government chief information officer.  Continue Reading

ID cards flaws - yet again government needs to learn from its mistakes

When a major government IT project goes wrong, one of the most frequent causes is the mismatch between political necessity and technological reality. If a minister needs to hit a date to enact a ...  Continue Reading

Google Android overtakes Nokia Symbian as top smartphone platform

Google's Android operating system has overtaken Nokia's Symbian platform to become the world's leading smartphone platform.  Continue Reading

Analysis: How the IT behind ID cards was never going to work

Ministers involved with the ID card system were told the plan was feasible, but recently released documents reveal key issues that were never addressed  Continue Reading

Network operators must find new partners for LTE, says analyst

Network operators should seek new partners to make the most of high-speed mobile transmission technology, according to a market analyst.

International...

What Lancashire should learn

But one must ask whether BT is trying to make us believe that what's good for BT is good for UK plc.  Continue Reading

Genius/fail

Which means, in the end, FTTP.  Continue Reading

Staffordshire Council rolls out £23m public sector network

Staffordshire County Council is to implement one of the country's first Public Sector Networks (PSN) in a £23m contract with communications provider Kcom.  Continue Reading

Google UK chief joins Sainsbury's board

Supermarket chain Sainsbury's has hired Google's director for UK and Ireland to join its executive team.  Continue Reading

Public sector outsourcing grows in the UK as commercial deals fall again

Public sector contracts accounted for 77% of the total outsourcing spending in the UK in 2010, according to the latest report from consultancy TPI.  Continue Reading

Staying connected at conferences

I was a bit surprised to see a tweet today from Gartner analyst Merv Adrian where he mentioned that he is at the Gartner BI conference in London and a delegate in the audience had asked him to stop ...  Continue Reading

Strathclyde Partnership for Transport signs deal for financial software package

Scottish transport authority the Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT) has signed a deal with enterprise software provider TechnologyOne for a financial reporting package.  Continue Reading

Salesforce.com makes Chatter social tool free for all

Enterprise cloud computing firm Salesforce.com has introduced a free version of its social collaboration tool, Chatter, for non-Salesforce.com users to accelerate...

Cloud opens security testing to all developers, says Veracode

Cloud computing puts the security testing of applications within the reach of all developers, says application risk management firm Veracode.  Continue Reading

Toshiba Q3 profits boosted by smartphone surge

Increased sales of smartphone components pushed Toshiba profits to 12.4 billion yen (£95m) for the third quarter of fiscal year 2010 compared to a loss of 10.6 billion yen (£81m) in the same period last year.  Continue Reading