Blinds and curtains manufacturer Hillarys Blinds has rolled out a custom Android sales app to help its self-employed sales agents manage customer orders. The app is used by sales agents who visit customers' homes to take orders for ...
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Utility companies in Western Europe will spend $10.5bn on IT this year, of which over 62% will be invested in IT services. IDC Energy Insights expects IT spending by utility companies in the region to exceed $13bn in 2016, after average ...
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Public private partnerships are key to the UK’s cyber security strategy, says Cabinet Office minister for political and constitutional reform, Chloe Smith. “We are all in this together. The government recognizes that and ...
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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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IT professionals and teachers have expressed concerns over the government’s decision to remove ICT from the school curriculum for two years while a new computer science curriculum is devised. During the Reviewing the ICT Curriculum ...
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Whitehall must measure the progress of its IT strategy more effectively, particularly the use of agile methodologies,if it is to achieve its technology transformation agenda, the Institute for Government has warned. In its report, System ...
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Technology students are questioning the value for money they get from university as tuition fees in England and Wales continue to rise, according to research. The OnePoll Digital Campus report, commissioned by Adobe, revealed 89% of ...
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Technology students are questioning the value for money they get from university as tuition fees in England and Wales continue to rise, according to research. The OnePoll Digital Campus report, commissioned by Adobe, revealed 89% of ...
Tags: OnePoll Digital Campus, IT facilities, IT strategies, ICT facilities
MIRAGE - a new project supported by the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) of the European Commission (EC) - was launched recently with the goal of developing next-generation optical ...
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Five shared services arrangements have amassed £30m in savings through a variety of measures such as the integration of IT systems, a report from the Local Government Association (LGA) has found. The report, entitled Services ...
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The former chief technology officer at the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) Philip French has left the civil service to join Steria, a major provider of IT services to the department. French joined the Steria on 3 September in the role of ...
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Ailsa Beaton, director of information at the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), has stepped down. Beaton is to leave the MPS in mid 2013, having worked as director of information for 12 years. No details are yet available as to ...
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The University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB) NHS Foundation Trust was overloaded with case notes and referrals in paper form, resulting in misplacements of documents and unnecessary retesting of patients due to lost results. It decided to ...
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Fife Council will slash £2.4m from its network infrastructure costs over the next four years by moving to a public services network (PSN). The council signed the deal with Updata for a managed network services and expects to see a ...
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Rise in Stem A-level candidates No improvement in ICT grades Drop in female ICT students The number of students studying technology-based subjects at A-level has taken a sharp drop, as the number of computing and ICT exams dropped in ...
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