Staff at the United States Department of Defense (DoD) could soon be using Pentagon-issued Windows 8 smartphones as part of a joint enterprise licensing agreement (JELA) with Microsoft. The Department of Defense, which oversees the US ...
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In accordance with the accounting procedures of the gross domestic product (GDP), according to the 2011 Statistical Yearbook and departmental accounting, financial accounts data, on the basis of the preliminary verification, the NBS made ...
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Over 2,000 pieces of IT equipment went missing from government departments in between 2011 and 2012, according to data released by the House of Commons. The information came to light after Gareth Thomas, Labour MP for Harrow West and ...
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Under the Corporate Social Responsibility Scheme,the Public Sector steel companies namely Steel Authority of India Limited and Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited are allocating funds for the CSR activities as per the guidelines prescribed by the ...
Government plans for next generation shared services in the public sector will save taxpayers up to pound 500m a year, the Cabinet Office has claimed. In a new document dubbed the Next Generation Shared Services Strategic Plan, the ...
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Mutualisation will be the future model of public sector services,Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has said. Speaking at Intellect's World-Class Public Services conference,he said digital delivery was important to the open public ...
The Government Procurement Service has published a£1bn tender for IT services. The request said the maximum number of participants in the four-year framework was 680,which will include central government departments and their ...
BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion (RIM) has issued a statement apologising for yet another service outage across the UK, Europe and the Middle East. RIM said: "We are currently experiencing a BlackBerry service issue affecting some ...
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Undoubtedly 2012 has been another big year for mobile. From high-profile launches to security scares, from hot tablets entering the enterprise to huge players trailing with their tails between their legs, mobile is certainly the direction ...
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Why the Product Owner holds the key to public sector and government Agile development success - and how to find or be a great one. Agile development experts Unboxed Consulting have launched a new White Paper on the effective use of Agile ...
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1. How to protect trade secrets and processes? The best thing your company can do is to only disseminate trade secrets to those who have a need to know the information. When outsourcing manufacturers you may consider separating your ...
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Chief information security officers (CISOs) have an important role in moving their organisations, whether they are public or private, to a cloud computing environment, according to professional certification body (ISC)2. The move is ...
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) estimates that total benefit overpayments due to fraud and error in 2011-12 were GBP3.2 billion, equating to 2% of total benefit expenditure of GBP 159bn. Total underpayments in 2011-12 are ...
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The government must force NHS suppliers to list their prices on a comparison website in order to drive out £500m of overspend caused by price variation, according to research. The study from Ernst & Young found that discrepancies in ...
The suspension of bidding for the Thameslink rail franchise acted as a proof of concept for operator Go-Ahead's decision to move to a cloud-based collaboration platform. The incompetent handling of the bidding for the West Coast rail ...