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Government identity banks start to take shape
- Editor in chief 15 Jun 2011 -
The start of an era
- Editor in chief 15 Apr 2011 -
Dear Phil Pavitt, this one is for you
- Editor in chief 31 Mar 2011
Here's a story that's going to run and run - and one I predict will start to make national news headlines once its significance sinks in to the consumer press. As part of its plans to create a ...
The article below is the editorial leader column from the last ever printed issue of Computer Weekly magazine. If you like nostalgia, you may want to treasure the magazine you hold in your hands ...
How often do you, as an IT leader, tell people in other parts of the business what you have achieved? For many IT folk, that sort of self-promotion doesn't always come naturally - and often that ...
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When is the new government IT strategy due?
- Editor in chief 02 Mar 2011 -
Will John Suffolk be the last government CIO?
- Editor in chief 07 Dec 2010 -
Stuxnet "most likely" to have originated from Israel
- Editor in chief 28 Sep 2010 -
"Up to now the use of IT in the NHS has not been a success story"
- Editor in chief 10 Sep 2010 -
Goodbye ID cards - is it time to say hello to identity banks?
- Editor in chief 20 May 2010 -
What Larry wants, Larry gets: what next for acquisitive Oracle?
- Editor in chief 08 Feb 2010
There's plenty of rumour and speculation doing the rounds over the timing and contents of the imminent government IT strategy, due to be released anytime soon by the Cabinet Office. I've been told ...
Government CIO John Suffolk effectively leaves his post at the end of this month - although I understand that he will still be on the public payroll until the end of March next year - but there ...
The cyber security world is alive with gossip about Stuxnet. The virus has been described as one of the most sophisticated yet created, containing an unprecedented four zero-day vulnerabilities in ...
Many thanks to Chris Potts for this wonderfully timely and ironic spot from the annals of Department of Health history. Click here to read a document published in 1998 by the Labour government, ...
As expected, the new government has scrapped the controversial and unwieldy identity cards project created as a flagship of Labour policy. Labour's problem was that it never properly explained why ...
Several years ago, I sat next to then-Oracle UK managing director Ian Smith at an industry event. At the time, the software giant was pursuing an aggressive and increasingly contentious purchase of ...