Simon Moorhead began his career as the Bank of England’s CIO with a baptism of fire, having started in November 2008 – just two months after Lehman Brothers collapsed and a year after Northern Rock was rescued by the government. ...
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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
UK - A packed programme of sessions is now confirmed for the third annual PLASA Rigging Conference at the Earls Court Conference Centre in London on Monday 10 and Tuesday 11 September 2012. The PLASA Rigging Conference is delighted to ...
Southwark Council is upgrading all IT that supports the delivery of council services, with the biggest IT changes in over a decade planned. The London local authority has outsourced the upgrade and management of the IT to Capita for 10 ...
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Field workers at Family Housing will gain protection from conflict and potential assault with the help of Identicom lone worker protection systems Family Housing is helping to reduce potential risk to its lone working, front-line staff ...
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A ‘troll’ arrested on suspicion of aiming a torrent of abuse at a fellow Facebook user has been identified as a 32-year-old policeman from the UK, it has been revealed. Nicola Brookes, 45, from Brighton, UK was targeted ...
Tags: Arrested troll, Cyber bullying, Facebook abuse, Facebook troll, Facebook
Staffordshire County Council claims it has managed to save pound 1.5m by adopting the Cabinet Office framework for a public sector network. Staffordshire County Council was one of the first to embrace the public sector network (PSN) ...
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Asus has finally dropped the'Eee Pad'from its tablet line-up,and its latest Android tablet is the Asus Transformer Pad 300.We took a close look at the Transformer Pad 300. Asus Transformer Pad 300:Design The design of the Transformer ...
“Royal Mail wanted a CIO who is comfortable in a really volatile and changing environment to drive change. And I am. I joined because the scale of the challenge is huge and I would be mad to say no to that.” Catherine Doran ...
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This is the second tactical pen we have reviewed here, it is the Tuff-Writer Frontline Full Length Sanitized Tactical Pen. Thats a mouthful, huh? If you missed the other tactical pen we reviewed, it was the Schrade Tactical Fountain Pen. ...
Here is another great project that is going strong on Kickstarter. It is "The Ultimate Clicky Pen Project" which is a pretty descriptive name. This pen is from the same people that brought you the Tuffwriter line of tactical pens which I ...
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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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Chris Hetzer, CEO/Partner, Gilman USA If a spindle on one of your machines fails tomorrow, what's your backup plan? Do you have the time, equipment, and expertise required to rebuild the spindle yourself? You could purchase a new spindle, ...
Tags: Spindle, Spindle Service, bearings, spindle system
Steve Staedler, Dorner Manufacturing If something can break on a conveyor, Jeff Bonaparte has seen it . . . and repaired it. A maintenance technician at Sussex IM, a custom injection molding manufacturer for a variety of industries ...
Tags: Conveyors, rollers, modern-day conveyors
The Metropolitan Police Service's IT director talks to Computer Weekly about the Olympian challenges facing IT transformation at the Met now the London 2012 Games are over. Steve Whatson(pictured),director of ICT for the Olympics and ...
Tags: Metropolitan Police, ICT, Steve Whatson, cloud-based