Consumers worldwide are projected to spend some spend $2.1 trillion in 2012 on digital information and entertainment products, such as mobile phones, computing equipment, digital media and services, according to Gartner. The Gartner ...
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) CIO Philip Langsdale is overseeing a major overhaul of the department's flagship Universal Credit programme, according to senior Whitehall sources. The Universal Credit programme, which aims to ...
The government could see an exodus of IT contractors, as guidelines out next month will force freelancers earning more than 220 a day onto departmental payrolls. News site Exaro has obtained a copy of draft “assurance ...
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CIOs across Europe are predicting their IT budgets will increase by an average of 2% in 2013, despite the downturn. But investment on capital projects will slow, as operational spending assumes higher proportion of the IT budget, research ...
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The VMworld Europe 2012 winners are: Best virtualisation and server consolidation project: Tiger Wheel & Tyre Best virtualisation and server consolidation project: The National Trust Best virtualisation for disaster recovery project: ...
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CAL Business Solutions welcomes a new Dynamics GP Consultant & Application Support Specialist. HARWINTON, CT, December 21, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- CAL Business Solutions Inc, a Connecticut Microsoft Dynamics ERP software partner, is ...
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The number of IT contractors expecting growth in public sector job opportunities has doubled since last year, as public sector organisations turn to IT contractors for sudden spikes in workloads. A survey by employment provider Giant ...
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Innovation, consensus and anarchy in Welsh IT Wales as a networked nation Welsh datacentre rationalisation programme Aligning technology to the needs of Wales Balancing Wales's IT books In many respects Wales has a far better track record ...
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A long time ago, when Web 2.0 was just Web 1.0, we had to ask people for directions, copy them down, and hope we had a foldable map to help us find our way. Then along came MapQuest, followed by Google Maps in 2005. Today, it seems ...
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Key HMRC IT implementations have been delayed because of the Cabinet Office’s moratorium on spending, the National Audit Office (NAO) has found. The report called for a better understanding of the costs of benefits of the ...
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When economic times are hard there is always pressure on budgets in every area of business operations. Indeed justifying any spend at all has become subject to ever more intense scrutiny and in IT this has been reflected by vendors ...
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Seven firms have been chosen to provide the Identity Assurance service required for benefit applicants to the new Universal Credit welfare scheme. The Post Office, Cassidian, Digidentity, Experian, Ingeus, Mydex, and Verizon will deliver ...
1.Quick information: Basic qualifying criteria for nominations: IT projects directed by IT managers at user companies and individual IT users are eligible.Vendors,resellers and VARs can enter on behalf of a customer,but the customer ...
Computer Weekly has announced the third UKtech50, our annual definitive list of the real movers and shakers in UK IT - the CIOs, industry executives, public servants and business leaders driving the role of technology in the UK economy. ...
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Malcolm Whitehouse, programme director for the government's £2.2bn Cinitiative, has stepped down from the role. Whitehouse is to be replaced by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) benefits director Hilary Reynolds and will ...
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