Over a quarter of adults (28%) have admitted they wish they had pursued a career in technology, a survey has found. Polling 2,000 people (1,000 adults and 1,000 children aged 8-15) across the UK, the online travel company found that 44% ...
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The Royal Free Hospital has implemented SAP's Business Objects dashboarding technology to enable staff to fathom more efficiently its own workings. Will Smart, director of information management and technology at the Royal Free Hospital, ...
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There's going to be a battle in overcoming resistance to the government's Open Standards Principles for IT,according to an advisor to the Cabinet Office. Launched at the start of November,the standards are designed to make government IT ...
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Parliament's ICT office is concluding a two-year review of whether its democratic responsibilities and technical ambitions will force it to purge Microsoft's Silverlight multimedia technology from its computer systems. As part of a root ...
Government bodies must now comply with Open Standard Principles for IT, minister for the Cabinet Office Francis Maude has announced. The Open Standard Principles are an agreed set of standards designed to make government IT more open, ...
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Whitehall has launched its long-awaited response to the open standards consultation, which will force government bodies to comply with its list of "Open Standards Principles" when purchasing technology. Departments must use the principles ...
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The government has put all new IT frameworks on hold,as part of its review into the efficacy of framework agreements for SMEs. All planned Government Procurement Service(GPS)ICT procurements will be paused during the review to determine ...
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The government is to test the feasibility of moving to a single enterprise resource planning(ERP)platform across Whitehall. In a GBP100,000,four-month tender as part of the Next Generation Shared Services programme,the government said it ...
Tags: single ERP, Services programme, emergency services, Oracle
The British Computing Society(BCS)has made the first draft of the reformed ICT curriculum available to the public. Available on the BCS website,the first draft has been unveiled to enable the BCS and the Royal Academy of ...
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Taipei, Oct. 23, 2012 (CENS)--Taiwan’s Industrial Development Bureau (IDB) recently announced a plan to help Taiwan's machine tool industry with developing intelligent design and manufacturing to increase the industry's revenue to ...
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The text on Amazon's newest Kindle reads top-to-bottom and right-to-left. The massive online retailer announced its first Japanese-language e-reader on Wednesday, a version of its Kindle Paperwhite that will go on sale in mid-November. ...
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Open source services provider Sirius Corporation has provided a combination of OpenSource and proprietary software for Ysgol Maesydderwen school, near Swansea. Funded by Powys County Council, the Welsh school received installation of a ...
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The Department for Education(DfE)has announced scholarships to encourage graduates into teaching computer science. The British Computer Society(BCS)is managing the project for the DfE,with the department providing the funding alongside ...
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Partners of the European "Solutions for Energy Efficient Lighting (SEEL)" project achieve decisive research successes with HID and LED lamps Partner companies of the "Solutions for Energy Efficient Lighting (SEEL)" project supported on ...
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Partners of the European "Solutions for Energy Efficient Lighting (SEEL)" project achieve decisive research successes with HID and LED lamps Partner companies of the "Solutions for Energy Efficient Lighting (SEEL)" project supported on ...