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IT for government and public sector

  • November 23, 2011 23 Nov'11

    Government mutual will be a beacon for IT procurement

    The pension administration mutual being set up by the government will be the first of a wave of new business models that could shake-up central government outsourcing contracts.

  • November 21, 2011 21 Nov'11

    Government opens its procurement heart to IT suppliers

    The government has promised more openness with suppliers and published its first forward-looking pipeline of business, with £25.9bn of IT projects.

  • November 18, 2011 18 Nov'11

    Olympic volunteers to use virtual communication

    The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (Locog) is to deploy virtual meeting rooms to enable its 6,000 staff and volunteers to communicate during the Olympics.

  • November 18, 2011 18 Nov'11

    MIT scientists take a step closer to artificial intelligence

    Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed an analogue silicon chip with 400 transistors that emulates the activity of a brain synapse in the first step to building truly intelligent systems.