Attune Consulting; a premier global solutions provider to the fashion and lifestyle industries, announced the launch of its Business Transformation Services (BTS) and Managed Services Practices, offering a complete, end-to-end portfolio of ...
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The Unified Computer Intelligence Corporation announces the launch of the Project Ubi Odyssey. Ubi - The Ubiquitous Computer - is a device made to usher in the era of ubiquitous computing - when humans will be able to interact with ...
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Last week was an unusually quiet week in the land of IT-related snafus. Most of the snarls reported concerned existing tech issues that continue to fester without resolution. For example, late last week, Florida decided to pay unemployment ...
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North Carolina is famous for its high-tech Research Triangle, but lately it seems that state government IT projects are bound for IT's equivalent of the Bermuda Triangle. As you may remember from an earlier Risk Factor story on state ...
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Sony Professional Solutions MEA has announced the signing of a US $143 million project with Al Jazeera Media Network. The project involves building 3G broadcast infrastructure, including a network-wide Broadcast IT project, providing ...
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The NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) has selected IT services and solutions provider Mastek to develop an identity and access management service. The announcement comes as part of the NHS Spine re-procurement and ...
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The NHS has selected US developer Basho's open source database Riak to underpin its efforts to rebuild its Spine infrastructure. The new project, dubbed Spine2, will replace the existing infrastructure that was implemented as part of the ...
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A grand NHS patient record system that was intended to computerise every patient record - before being abandoned - has cost UK taxpayers £10bn so far. Furthermore, hundreds of millions of pounds more in costs are expected to emerge ...
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The BBC has invited suppliers to bid for the provision of newsroom computer system software to support more than 11,000 users. The BBC issued a tender in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU), stating that the software was ...
The Australian state of Queensland has said that it will not allow IBM to enter any new contracts with the state government "until it improves its governance and contracting practices". The ban was made in a statement today by Premier ...
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The state of Pennsylvania will not renew its services contract with IBM regarding the development of a modernized unemployment compensation system, after the project reportedly has gone 42 months behind schedule and $60 million over budget. ...
The BBC is to abandon a £98m digital production system and suspend its chief technology officer (CTO), John Linwood, after the organisation's chief executive Tony Hall said it had "wasted a huge amount of licence fee payers' money". ...
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Software defined networking (SDN) is generating a lot of buzz these days, but the technology will ultimately make itself useful in the enterprise largely because it will save enterprises time in deploying new applications, predicted Martin ...
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Many U.S. tech companies are pushing hard this year for an increase in the number of high-skill immigrants allowed into the country, but many veteran IT workers question their motives for wanting to increase the number of visas under the ...
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Scores of IT projects being conducted by North Carolina's government are racking up higher-than-expected costs and going far beyond their planned schedules, a new report by the state's auditor has found. Auditor Beth Wood's office ...
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