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- Worker suspended over loss of data on all English prisoners
- An employee at Home Office contractor PA Consulting has been suspended after the loss of a memory stick holding the unencrypted details of every prisoner in England and Wales. A staff member at PA Consulting Group has been suspended after the contractor lost details on all prisoners in England...
- Tags: Data Loss, Data, Worker, Spokesperson, Government Department, Government, Memory, Flash Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk, security, UK, memory stick, Home Office
- News items 2008-08-22
- Gmail takes on Australian Ed
- PCWorld is reporting that Google, along with a local integrator, will be rolling out it's Gmail application (and, presumably, Google Apps) for all of the student email accounts in the public schools and colleges of New South Wales. This translates to roughly a million students, but a...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, USA PATRIOT Act, E-mail Providers, Cloud Computing, Regulations, Internet, Government, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-06-25
- Time to blow up the software industry
- Vinnie Mirchandani's post, Call to Steve Jobs: Please reshape the enterprise software market was bound to get a reaction out of my Irregular chums. 70 reactions to be precise as at the time of writing this post. That's the number of posts to our Google Group on the topic with...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Financial, Software Company, SAP AG, Vinnie Mirchandani, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Management, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe
- From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframeumm, good pointI'll change it to electro-mechanical.Thanks!possible error?[i]It was the first successful system designed “from the ground up” to advance automated data processing by replacing the physical cards and associated electro-mechanical gear with purely digital processing and magnetic tape or disk storage,...
- Tags: Content management, Enterprise software, Mainframes, data-processing, IBM mainframe, mainframe, content management system, IBM Corp., IBM O/S, zVSE, memory, MVS
- Discussion threads 2008-06-13
- So just what is this RTI thing anyway?
- So just what is this RTI thing anyway?RTIGood morning Christopher, I trust you are keeping wellI am an assessor for UWIC in South Wales UK.I assess students with all types of disabilities, as part of their Disabled Student Allowance process.This RTI has great potential.The earlier DS are spotted the better.This...
- Tags: RTI
- Discussion threads 2008-06-10
- Wikia gives the little guy image control
- Wikia gives the little guy image controlWatch out for your enemiesWikia Search may be a nifty little toy, but we should all be mindful that while it's nice to be able to link to pages that you want to represent yourself, your enemies will be working two times as hard...
- Tags: Wikia Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-04
- Wikia gives the little guy image control
- The new features added to Wikia Search give everyone the power that until now only big companies have had, the ability to control what people learn first about you. It's very likely you have even more power than Microsoft in this regard, because everyone can theoretically edit every...
- Tags: Google Inc., Wikia Inc., Wiki, Blogging, AJAX, Online Communications, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-03
- A sailing robot to cross the Atlantic
- The Times of London reports that seven robotic craft will compete in a race across the Atlantic Ocean in October 2008. One of them, 'Pinta the robot sailing boat,' has been designed at Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK. Pinta is expected to sail for three months at a maximum speed of...
- Tags: Pinta, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-11
- HRH Prince Penguin
- HRH Prince PenguinHis eyes are set too close togetherIs this the real Prince?A Different Kind of AuthorityPeople may ask why the opinion of the Prince of Wales is worth more than an ordinary mortal's.Or why his son the second-in-line to the throne is entitled to commandeer elements of the nation's...
- Tags: Linux, Prince, HRH Prince Penguin
- Discussion threads 2008-05-09
- Environment Agency Becomes More Efficient by Integrating Financial and HR Systems
- The Environment Agency's role is to protect the environment in England and Wales and ensure that air, land, and water resources are used in a sustainable manner for the benefit of future generations. The Environment Agency relied on disconnected inherited systems and multiple regional data centers to manage its back...
- Tags: Human Resources, Oracle Corp., Financial, Environment, Environment Agency
- Case studies 2008-05-01
- Environment Agency Creates Business-Focused Culture Through Integrated Back Office
- The Environment Agency is the leading public body for protecting and improving the environment in England and Wales. It wanted to improve efficiency and educe costs. The challenge was to meet government performance targets. The Environment Agency commissioned Oracle Consulting to build "One Business One System " (1B1S), an enterprise-wide...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Environment, Back-office, Environment Agency
- Case studies 2008-05-01
- A 100-million-year dragon killer
- Komodo dragons are one of the largest living species of lizards, growing to a length of up to 3 meters and weighing around 70 kilograms. They're living on several central Indonesian islands for more than 100 million years. Why are they still alive? According to an international team of researchers,...
- Tags: Researcher, Species, Komodo, UNSW, Productivity, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
- On the (mis-) use of DNA
- Fascinating piece in the Wall Street Journal recently about the English/Welsh DNA database. We'll sneak up on it. The movie GATTACA always bugged me, or rather people's reaction to it did. Whenever I'd mention biometrics, people would say, "Have you seen GATTACA? Isn't that a frightening view...
- Tags: DNA, Analysis, Employee Discrimination, Biotechnology, Ed Gottsman
- Blog posts 2008-04-11
- Laser scanning robot 3D-R1 used to map mines
- A UK-based company, 3D Laser Mapping, has developed robots equipped with lasers to automatically scan mines. Its latest mission was to create a 3D map of the San Jose silver mine in Mexico. The remote survey vehicle RSV 3D-R1 weighs about 135 kilograms and is 0.6 meter high. It...
- Tags: 3D, Laser, 3D-R1, 3DLM, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-04-10
- Changes to British law will affect computer security industry
- Ivan Ristic pictured to the right posted a story today on his blog that highlights some changes that are to go into effect in England sometime this year. The changes to the Computer Misuse Act CMA would appear to put security researchers and consultants in the UK at risk of being considered criminals. Ristic mentions the key...
- Tags: Computer Security, Commission, Industry, Hacker, Tool, Computer, Ristic, Guidance, Productivity, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-04-01
- Did Microsoft beat Apple to dual-sided touch technology?
- Did Microsoft beat Apple to dual-sided touch technology?SideShowIt's not Windows Slideshow - it's Windows SideShowRE: Did Microsoft beat Apple to dual-sided touch technology?yawnYou misunderstand Apple's patent...The way I read it, it's nothing like the Microsoft examples you mentioned.Picture a clamshell laptop, with one half transparent. Closed, it would look like...
- Tags: Keyboards, Notebooks, Apple Inc., dual-sided touch technology, touch technology, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-03-17
- Wikimedia Foundation Defends Wales
- During her guest appearance on CNET Live, Sue Gardner, executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, defended Wikipedia co-creator Jimmy Wales. He's under fire for allegedly misusing foundation funds.
- Tags: CNET Live, Wikipedia
- Videos 2008-03-06
- UK Police Authority Supports Investigations With Powerful Solution and Reduces Expenditure by 90 Per Cent
- The Kent Police Authority is one of 43 police authorities in England and Wales established by Parliament for the governance of policing at a local level. The Kent Police had IT infrastructure that was five years old running its serious crime database system. The authority needed a scalable and powerful...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Authority, Kent Police Authority, Linux, Servers, Databases, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Data Management
- Case studies 2008-03-04
- 2009: The year of enterprise social networks
- While some companies are trying to keep Facebook and MySpace out of the office, Research In Motion co-chief executive Jim Balsillie thinks that the social networking phenomenon is coming soon to an enterprise near you. "Once social networking becomes a B2B phenomenon--not unlike IM and texting--I believe every single social-networking...
- Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Network, Forrester Research Inc., Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
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