3DX-RAY has collaborated with University College London (UCL) to deliver the proof of principle system for a project funded under the Innovative Research Call in Explosives and Weapons Detection (2007), a cross-government programme ...
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Brazil and Venezuela started the phase-out of incandescent light bulbs in 2005, and the European Union, Switzerland, and Australia started to phase them out in 2009. Likewise, other nations are implementing new energy standards or have ...
As many as 300,000 PCs and Macs will drop off the Internet in about 65 hours unless their owners heed last-minute calls to scrub their machines of malware. According to a group of security experts formed to combat DNSChanger, between a ...
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Hundreds of thousands of US public sector workers have access to cloud-based collaboration software from UK IT firm Huddle after two major US government departments sign up. A version of Huddle used by the UK government, which sits on a ...
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Phil Shoesmith, head of IT for the Alzheimer's Society charity, has called on Salesforce to keep its promise to build a datacentre in the European Union (EU). The Alzheimer's Society helps 100,000 suffers of dementia in England, Wales and ...
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The Cabinet Office must show strong leadership if it is to make shared services work, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has warned. The comments follow a PAC report, which echoes the National Audit Office’s findings in March that ...
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IDC Government Insights research arm has published a top 10 predictions list for 2013. The predictions are: 1. Consumerisation of IT and transformational cloud developments will continue to create more challenges than opportunities 2. ...
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The CEO of Linux-based software solutions company LinuxIT, Peter Dawes-Huish, slammed the public sector G-Cloud system this week, likening the current service level to a military mission "with an entry route and no exit route" that is "not ...
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TITUS,the leading provider of security and data governance solutions,has been selected for the second consecutive year as a finalist for the Microsoft Public Sector-Public Safety and National Security Partner of the Year Award. "We are ...
The CEO of Linux-based software solutions company LinuxIT,Peter Dawes-Huish,slammed the public sector G-Cloud system this week,likening the current service level to a military mission"with an entry route and no exit route"that is"not just ...
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The latest Manpower Employment Outlook Survey results show hiring sentiment for the start of 2013 will remain cautious, with Australian employers reporting a Net Employment Outlook of +8%, unchanged quarter-over-quarter and six ...
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Russian authorities have lifted a 16-year ban on British beef and lamb imports, a decision the UK government claims could provide a GBP80m boost to the UK meat industry. Moscow banned the import of British beef and lamb in 1996 following ...
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South African retailer Massmart has booked an increase in annual profits on the back of improved sales. The company, in which Wal-Mart Stores owns a majority stake, yesterday (22 August) filed an 8.9% increase in underlying headline ...
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A third of UK CIOs are more concerned with EU regulation–such as the data protection directive–than their own local laws,a study has revealed. Some 34%of UK CIOs and 30%across Europe regard EU regulation as more important than ...
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The majority(87%)of public sector organisations have no formal bring-your-own-device(BYOD)strategy,according to Freedom of Information research. Of the 41 local and central councils that responded to questions submitted by data backup ...
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