IDG News Service - Turktrust, the Turkish certificate authority (CA) responsible for issuing an intermediate CA certificate that was later used to generate an unauthorized certificate for google.com, claims that the bad Google certificate ...
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Olympic CIO Gerry Pennell and Lastminute.com co-founder Martha Lane Fox are included in this year’s New Year honours list Martha Lane Fox, who advises government on digital strategies, including the move to a single domain for ...
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Government plans for next generation shared services in the public sector will save taxpayers up to pound 500m a year, the Cabinet Office has claimed. In a new document dubbed the Next Generation Shared Services Strategic Plan, the ...
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Specialist charities such as housing associations and social enterprises face paying nearly four times as much for Microsoft software due to licensing changes to be introduced by the software giant in September. The changes will see ...
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Mutualisation will be the future model of public sector services,Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has said. Speaking at Intellect's World-Class Public Services conference,he said digital delivery was important to the open public ...
Apple and Facebook this month each filed plans to expand data center operations in Prineville, Ore., a small community that's on its way to becoming one of the top data center locations in the U.S. Once the latest projects are completed, ...
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Liam Maxwell, formerly the deputy government CIO, has been appointed as the first Whitehall chief technology officer (CTO), in the latest stage of a major shake-up of the government IT leadership organisation. As revealed last week by ...
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PSN contracts need to be long-term in order for public sector bodies to actually benefit from the joined-up network. That's according to Nick Roberts, IT group manager of Surrey County Council, speaking at a roundtable event discussing ...
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New trends in computing, including social media and cloud computing, are challenging traditional approaches to computer security that will force organisations to adapt – or to risk marginalisation and extinction, according to Gartner ...
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Capita has won the race to take over a number of key Barnet Council services in an outsourcing deal valued at GBP 320m over 10 years. The business-process outsourcing specialist will take over the running of the Council's "new support and ...
Barnet council has recommended Capita as its preferred bidder for a £32m-a-year contract to run its back-office services. The 10-year deal would see the outsourcing company operate London Borough of Barnet's new support and customer ...
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A succession of 'top-down' initiatives to improve public services have been general, time consuming and unnecessarily expensive and disruptive according to Colin Coulson-Thomas author of a new report Transforming Public Services on better ...
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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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Suffolk County Council has rolled out a next generation network, which it expects will cut costs by up to 30%. The high speed, next generation network (NGN) will provide connectivity to over 300 schools and 300 council premises and will ...
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The G-Cloud should be held up as a model for how to do frameworks in government, deputy government CIO Liam Maxwell has said. The comments follow moves by the Cabinet Office to freeze all new procurement frameworks, as part of its review ...
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