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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)

• June 04, 2013 04 Jun'13

  Whitehall should use Twitter to engage public in open policy-making, say MPs

  Government should use Twitter for an ‘open policy’ approach, says the Public Administration Select Committee (PASC)

• May 10, 2013 10 May'13

  Case Study: Brent Council cuts costs with mobile tech

  Brent Council implements mobile technology to cut costs and involve more staff in the future running of the organisation

• April 22, 2013 22 Apr'13

  CIO interview: Mike Croucher, head of IT architecture and delivery, British Airways

  After changes in IT leadership two years ago, the IT strategy at BA is focusing on infrastructure modernisation and smarter use of customer data

• April 19, 2013 19 Apr'13

  Microsoft reports strong quarterly results for all divisions

  Microsoft reported profit of $6bn for the past quarter, up 17% from a year ago, despite a mixed response to Windows 8 and a decline in PC sales

• April 09, 2013 09 Apr'13

  CIO interview: Mary Hensher, IT director, Cancer Research UK

  Charity Cancer Research has felt the impact of recession on fundraising and the need to innovate through technology is more important than ever

• March 13, 2013 13 Mar'13

  John Lewis drops virtual mirror project as part of ‘fail fast at innovation' strategy

  John Lewis has canned its virtual mirror project as part of the company’s approach to ‘failing fast at innovation’

• March 06, 2013 06 Mar'13

  "Universal credit contractors told to down tools," claim MPs

  "Universal credit contractors told to down tools," claim MPs

• March 05, 2013 05 Mar'13

  Businesses must fundamentally change or 'die'

  Firms need to embrace technological change or face being left behind, according to executives from Amazon and Salesforce

• March 04, 2013 04 Mar'13

  Logicalis saves 2e2's UK managed services arm

  Logicalis has taken over the European business of defunct IT services supplier 2e2, which went bust in January 2013, owing millions to creditors

• February 14, 2013 14 Feb'13

  Grant Thornton uses Huddle for business support programme

  Grant Thornton is using Huddle to share information and content as part of the £200m government-backed GrowthAccelerator

• February 11, 2013 11 Feb'13

  CIO interview: David Matthewman, CIO, Open University

  Three years after joining the Open University, CIO David Matthewman continues to push a strategic programme to deliver value and innovation

• January 21, 2013 21 Jan'13

  UK citizens unwilling to embrace big data

  The public sector could improve services by imitating the private sector’s use of big data, but citizens are overwhelmingly against the idea

• January 18, 2013 18 Jan'13

  G-Cloud powers Huddle’s public sector sales growth

  Cloud collaboration firm Huddle saw its public sector sales double to 30% of all revenues this year due to uptake generated through the CloudStore

• January 16, 2013 16 Jan'13

  CIOs must hunt and harvest digital opportunities

  It is time for CIOs to focus on the outside world instead of internal IT, according to Gartner

• January 04, 2013 04 Jan'13

  Executive brings own software which is adopted by business

  Rochdale Development agency (RDA) has started using cloud based Huddle collaboration software after a development officer started using it at work.

• January 02, 2013 02 Jan'13

  Home Retail Group cuts call costs with SMS automation

  Home Retail Group, whose brands include Argos, Homebase and Habitat has cut telephony costs by rolling out an automated text messaging service across its three call centres.

• December 18, 2012 18 Dec'12

  Mott MacDonald rolls out Microsoft software globally

  Engineering firm Mott MacDonald is rolling out Microsoft products globally over the next year as it moves towards a Microsoft-centric business strategy

• 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

• November 27, 2012 27 Nov'12

  Poor design hampers gamification in the enterprise, says Gartner

  By 2014, 80% of current gamified applications will fail to meet business objectives, primarily because of poor design, according to Gartner

• November 19, 2012 19 Nov'12

  Emirates takes Windows 8 HP ElitePad 900 to the sky

  Airline Emirates is rolling out in-flight Windows 8 tablets to enable cabin crew to access core IT

• November 14, 2012 14 Nov'12

  NHS reiterates commitment to digitise patient records by 2015

  The Department of Health has reiterated its commitment to get all patient records online by 2015

• November 12, 2012 12 Nov'12

  Gartner: BYOD will encourage self-support

  Self-support communities will offset the cost and manpower of providing a helpdesk for staff who use their own devices, according to Gartner

• November 07, 2012 07 Nov'12

  Apple loses patent case to VirnetX

  Apple has been ordered to pay $368m in damages to VirnetX after a court ruled it had infringed on two of the software firm’s patents

• October 08, 2012 08 Oct'12

  How French Connection automated stock replenishment to cut costs

  Fashion retailer French Connection cut costs by deploying a stock replenishment automation system

• October 02, 2012 02 Oct'12

  Toyota uses Microsoft for global communications

  Toyota Motor Corporation is globally deploying Microsoft software through a mix of cloud and on-premise software for its 200,000 staff

• September 19, 2012 19 Sep'12

  Activision uses Salesforce to serve gaming community

  The Call of Duty designers use the Service Cloud and Chatter Communities to solve customer queries

• September 19, 2012 19 Sep'12

  Government spends £638m on universal credit IT, says minister Mark Hoban

  Government has spent £638m on universal credit IT, with £441m going on design and development, employment minister Mark Hoban reveals

• September 05, 2012 05 Sep'12

  Irish environment department goes green with Polycom

  Around 900 government workers will be able to use the unified communications system for video and content sharing

• September 04, 2012 04 Sep'12

  NHS claws back £1bn as CSC negotiations come to an end

  The Department of Health claws back £1bn from CSC as negotiations with the troubled supplier come to an end.

• August 06, 2012 06 Aug'12

  Putting innovation on the outsourcing menu

  Cliff Saran investigates what happens when systems integrators are asked to innovate

• August 01, 2012 01 Aug'12

  Microsoft to revamp and rename Hotmail

  Microsoft has announced it is revamping and renaming its free webmail service, which analysts say may be aimed at winning over users of Google's rival Gmail service

• July 27, 2012 27 Jul'12

  Facebook share price falls after Q2 results announcement

  Facebook shares fell 11% in after-hours trading on the NYSE to a record low of $23.94 after announcing second quarter financial results

• July 23, 2012 23 Jul'12

  Heads of business bank on IT to boost business

  Top-level business managers regard IT as a competitive advantage, according to Gartner

• July 17, 2012 17 Jul'12

  Skype works to fix privacy bug as instant messages leak

  Internet telephony service Skype has confirmed that a bug in its software has been sending copies of instant messages to unintended recipients

• June 29, 2012 29 Jun'12

  Key HMRC IT plans delayed due to spending freeze, says NAO

  Key HMRC IT plans have been delayed because of the Cabinet Office’s moratorium on spending, the National Audit Office (NAO) says

• June 21, 2012 21 Jun'12

  The future of Autonomy – one year on

  Recent moves to subsume Autonomy into HP have lent increasing irony to the name. Nearly a year after the £7.1bn acquisition, we examine Autonomy's future

• June 13, 2012 13 Jun'12

  South Lanarkshire moves to IBM XIV disk storage platform

  South Lanarkshire council has invested in an IBM XIV disk storage platform as part of its move to virtualisation.

• June 07, 2012 07 Jun'12

  Nasdaq offers $40m compensation for Facebook confusion

  The Nasdaq stock exchange in New York is to pay $40m compensation for technical problems that caused confusion on Facebook's first day of share trading

• June 01, 2012 01 Jun'12

  Microsoft softens July licence blow

  Microsoft has lowered the price hike planned for July, but businesses still face paying up to 25% more for their software.

• May 24, 2012 24 May'12

  Huddle gets $24m second-round funding as CIOs wake up to cloud collaboration

  UK software firm Huddle has received $24m second-round funding to support its global expansion as CIOs wake up to cloud collaboration

• May 23, 2012 23 May'12

  Overrun in big IT projects leads to one in three failures

  One-third of big IT projects are likely to get derailed after they have been running for two years, according to research.

• May 08, 2012 08 May'12

  HP and F5 team up for virtual application delivery

  HP has announced a partnership with F5 to speed up deployment of applications within virtualisation technology.

• April 18, 2012 18 Apr'12

  Government unaware how much it pays for e-mail services

  Government departments do not know how much they are spending on e-mail services, according to research by Computer Weekly.

• April 05, 2012 05 Apr'12

  Department of Health and CSC in deadlock over Lorenzo records system

  The Department of Health and CSC failed to meet the deadline to agree new terms for the troubled electronic records systems Lorenzo

• April 04, 2012 04 Apr'12

  South West police roll out £1.1m central data repository

  Police forces in the South West of England are going live with a £1.1m data sharing system across the region

• March 16, 2012 16 Mar'12

  Hampshire and Oxfordshire councils sign SAP ICT partnership

  Hampshire County Council and Oxfordshire County Council have signed an ICT partnership to save £1m, focusing on SAP systems for HR and financial services

• March 05, 2012 05 Mar'12

  NHS trusts to be freed from CSC contract commitments

  The Department of Health has proposed a deal with CSC to release trusts in the National Programme for IT from their contractual obligations to use software from the troubled supplier.

• February 29, 2012 29 Feb'12

  Does the PSN need to happen before the cloud?

  The deployment of public services networks (PSN) will need to happen before widespread uptake of CloudStore services occur, IT heads said at a roundtable meeting.

• February 19, 2012 19 Feb'12

  Government launches CloudStore and names G-Cloud suppliers

  The government has launched its CloudStore, a catalogue of 1,700 cloud-based, pre-approved IT services now available for the public sector to buy.