Sally Howes, IT director at the National Audit Office, has extensive experience in the IT sector and was brought in to boost the government watchdog's technical skills. Under her guidance the NAO is expanding its role beyond project ...
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A US court has ordered Twitter to release old tweets and other details of a user arrested during an Occupy Wall Street protest in New York. The micro-blogging firm refused at first, saying the tweets were owned by users and not Twitter. ...
Tags: Twitter, US court, old tweets, Occupy Wall Street, micro-blogging firm
Reuters reported that LUKoil had decided not to join the development of Iraq's West Qurna-1 oil field,citing high risks,paving the way for Chinese companies to enter the project. LUKoil oversees the largest share of oil reserves in ...
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The G-Cloud looks set to become the future model for the way government buys its IT – with a new framework in the pipeline that will include secure email services for the NHS – and calls for it to become a blueprint for all new ...
Tags: G-Cloud ramps, secure email services, user device services
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 ...
Tags: IT contractors, freelancer, IT industry, computing
The government has put a £1bn tender for IT services on ice because of hardware problems with the tender process. The four-year Applications Development, Delivery and Support Services (ADDSS) framework was issued in June and open to ...
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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Significant investments and subsidies have enhanced Chinese companies’ capabilities to produce not only LED chips and packaged devices, but also materials and equipment used in LED manufacturing, as TOM HAUSKEN explains. There has ...
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With approval from the Canadian government granted on Friday, China National Offshore Oil Corp. has crossed the biggest hurdle to its $15.1 billion takeover bid for Nexen and the deal should close by the end of the year, analysts said in ...
Tags: Cnooc Nexen, LNG export facility, Oil
The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has stuck with old ways of working and will contract a single outsourcing giant for its desktop management services contract. DCLG has been given the go-ahead to refresh its IT ...
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The government's CIO,Andy Nelson(pictured),has spelled out his future wishes for the ongoing G-Cloud project,which include a structure more like Apple's App Store,and a service contract that can be shifted easily between suppliers. ...
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Reuters cited Mr Abdul Kareem Luaibi oil minister of Iraq as saying that top oil trader Vitol has apologised to the Iraqi government for buying Kurdish oil that was exported via Turkey without Baghdad's permission. Baghdad is in dispute ...
Indian Express reported that the Indian steel companies' consortium that won the bid for the Hajigak iron ore mine in Afghanistan will have to finance the INR 40,000 crore to explore the mine and set up a steel plant from their own pocket ...
Tags: steel, project, finance ministry
The government's CIO, Andy Nelson (pictured), has spelled out his future wishes for the ongoing G-Cloud project, which include a structure more like Apple's App Store, and a service contract that can be shifted easily between suppliers. ...
Tags: App Store, Andy Nelson, Salesforce, G-Cloud, HMRC
Out of India's total use of electrical power, over 60% in domestic and commercial area is for lighting. As India continues to sleep, China is today lighting up many Indian homes and commercial premises through Indian LED trading businesses ...
Tags: China LED