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The National Programme for Information Technology (NPfIT), which is set for a large scale revamp following the announcement of radical changes to the NHS, managed to cost the taxpayer £1.06 Billion in the period. CSC, Fujitsu and Atos appear to have been the biggest beneficiaries from National Health Service IT spending, with CSC taking £232 […]

ReThink Recruitment Director, Michael Bennett, said that “London has a high concentration of financial services firms, which are heavy users of IT skills. Many of them responded to the downturn by cutting their IT departments to the bone. As businesses levels have picked up, many have found themselves understaffed and have had to replace a […]

Dave Pye of the Recruitment and Employment Confederations (REC) technology sector group said that “A lot of the growth we have seen has been for business technology skills, rather than just pure-play technology skills, for areas like financial services or pharmaceuticals, underlining demand for people that can get things done. The demand we have seen […]

Gartner recommends CIOs to: Act Now: The Company recommends senior staff to convene now as most official national recession declarations are only announced well after the actual start of a recession Focus on the current Financial Year: CIOs should determine which projects to approve, postpone or cancel Focus on the next Financial Year: Once all […]

Since November 2007 the National Health Service has reported: 116 incidents where equipment containing personal data was stolen 87 incidents where health service organisations lost hardware containing personal data 43 incidents where information was wrongly disclosed by health service organisations 17 incidents where data was \”lost in transit\” 13 cases involving the non-secure disposal of […]

The move will see the company consolidate its Enterprise Services commercial data centres, networks, management platforms  and applications in order to create a ‘scalable, modernised and automated IT Infrastructure’. Jim Hansen, National Officer at the Public and Commercial Services Union said that “The UK arm of Hewlett Packard had already suffered its share of cuts […]

Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, asked telecoms operators about the possibility of extending WI-FI across the capital at a London Organising Campaign of the Olympic Games (LOCOG) meeting last week. The Chief Executive of the Cloud, Steve Nicholson, said that “The Cloud has multiple networks similar to what Boris Johnson describes, such as in […]

A Cabinet Office statement on the formation of the efficiency and reform group said that it will \”implement an immediate freeze on all new Information Communication Technology (ICT) spending above £1 million (and) review the government\’s biggest projects, including ICT projects, to see where costs can be reduced or wasteful projects stopped altogether\”. The HM […]

There are three main contracts in place relating to the Identity Card system; one with CSC valued at £385 million, one with IBM for £265 million and one with Thales for £18 million. The only contract to be cut altogether will be the Thales contract which relates to the launch of Identity Cards nationwide, however […]

The company founder, Sir James Dyson, said on the recruitment drive “We employ 2,500 in total. By taking on another 350 engineers in the UK, our operations will be employing more than 1,600 people as we take on the people we need to grow our intellectual property rights and products. We are doing very well […]