BCS faces revolt Computer Weekly is reporting that the BCS (formerly the British Computer Society), the chartered institute for IT is facing revolt from amongst its ranks... One of the worst cock-ups Ive seen in Government In a week where we were told that the BCC would be halving its ... read more..

Computer Weekly is reporting that the BCS (formerly the British Computer Society), the chartered institute for IT is facing revolt from amongst its ranks. A former member of the BCSs Governing Board of Trustees claims to have the backing for a motion to call an emergency general meeting. Len Keighley ... read more..

One of the worst cock-ups Ive seen in Government Edward Leigh MP Public Accounts Committee In a week where we were told that the BBC would be halving its web content, Radio 4 uploaded an insightful edition of File on 4 to its iPlayer service... As ministers decide whether a ... read more..

From Computer Weekly, 2-8th March 2010 Measuring the business of IT investments is a long standing issue for IT decision-makers and hitherto there have been a multitude of approaches to this perennial problem. This week Computer Weekly revealed that Firms report big savings from IT-CMF. To the uninitiated ... read more..

From the National Computing Centre, Manchester UK. For issue: 5th March 2010 The use of data warehousing and business intelligence (BI) software has been gathering pace but businesses are critical of how well the technology is meeting their objectives. This is according to the National Computing Centres latest survey on ... read more..

The future of IT Department is a recurrent theme for employees and employers. One thing that is guaranteed is change, but the nature of that change is still unknown. Yesterday NCC ran a Think Tank session to discuss what the implications are, who would be affected and how, and what ... read more..

A National Computing Centre IT Department Accreditation case study. According to the Times Higher Education, Imperial College London is the fifth ranked university in the world. Not bad for a university that was established as late as 1907. Imperial is also unusual in that the syllabus is entirely science, business, engineering ... read more..

Macs grab top reliability and support slot for third year running It may not be a surprise for media luvvies, but Macs are more reliable than PCs , at least that is according to a survey by US based Rescuecom. Its Official Web Stress is Bad for Business Worlds ... read more..

Your website could be a historical artifact that will give researchers of the future an insight into our world today (good and bad). Yesterday the British Library launched the UK Web Archive which offers access in perpetuity to thousands of UK websites for generations of researchers to come. According to ... read more..

The outbreak of potential data breach reports in the UK prompts obvious and inevitable questions: How can these things happen in the first place? How many more times is personal information lost without anyones acknowledgement and, some would argue most importantly, what can be done to secure the corporate defences? ... read more..

This weeks news round-up from across the web: Microsoft gets green light for deal with Yahoo I Twitter, therefore please rob me Government drops jail for data thieves... again E-mail addicts losing sense of propriety, risk NCC Weekly News 19 Feb 2010 Perceptions of ... read more..

http://www.lumison.net/news/do-all-brits-really-work-home Recent research from Lumison looked at what people get up to when they say they're working from home. And in the main it's good news... even if some bosses remain unconvinced. They found that 73 per cent of office workers believe they would be more productive if ... read more..

The business world was slow to catch onto social networking, indeed many organisations still block worktime access to Facebook et al. However there is now a growing realisation amongst corporates that on-line networking (or collaboration in business speak) has a value, especially in these cash starved times. Whats more, their ... read more..

By Dr Andy Hopkirk, Head of Projects Programmes at the National Computing Centre Interoperability is a recurring theme in debates about how to get cheaper, more efficient and future proofed IT systems - outcomes of particular interest to all NCC members. Both proprietary and open source software suppliers say they have ... read more..

Toyota have had a bad week with quality concerns that have wiped millions of their share value, severely dented consumer confidence and put the quality of the Japanese economical output in question. Whilst many of the quality issues relate to mechanical problems, embedded software in braking systems has also been ... read more..

This weeks news round-up from across the web: Cloud shrinks IT costs by 90% Polling giant says technology is key to reaching out to younger generation Data demand putting strain on mobile networks Five reasons to love Google Buzz, Five reasons why not Adobe warns of new Reader, Flash ... read more..

The HSE has become the latest organisation to have their IT department accredited by the National Computing Centre under their IT Department Accreditation Scheme. Michael Dean investigates their journey to accredited status and the benefits realised. John Gould heads up the Business Services Division of HSE, the health safety regulatory ... read more..

As news of the iPad runs its course, we pick some other news items worthy of a mouse click... Nokias quiet comeback Who is winning the file sharing war? Office 2007 purchasers to get free update from 5 March? Tories pledge to cap IT worker immigration European Union defines ... read more..

Barely two months into the new decade and seismic shifts in IT are visible on the horizon - realistic and available cloud computing, greater adoption and interest in open source to make more reliable products and social software impacting on how organisations deliver core communication and collaboration services. Gartner have ... read more..

Amongst this week's headlines of statistics abuse emerged an interesting, even historical, event that is that in the US at least, women are on the verge of outnumbering men in the workforce. An historic reversal caused by long-term changes in women's roles and massive job losses for men during this ... read more..

The Symbian Foundation today completed the open source release of the source code for the worlds most widely-used smartphone platform. The Symbian platform, which has been developed over more than 10 years and has shipped in more than 330 million devices (mostly Nokia) around the world, is now completely open ... read more..

A study on the disposal of IT equipment might not ordinarily make interesting reading, but in this period of heightened concern on the environment and sustainability the results of this study do at least set a marker in the sand from which to monitor progress into the future. This new ... read more..

We are pleased to announce that two new organisations have now become accredited to the National Computing Centres Standard for IT Departments, the ITDA.The IT Departments of Imperial College London and the Health Safety Executive join the growing number of organisations who have achieved NCCs IT Department Accreditation. Case ... read more..

This weeks news has been dominated by the launch of the iPad, but some other stories are worthy of your attentionHR managers are looking at your on-line profile(Computer Weekly)Happy Data Protection Day(The Register)Virtualisation in two years time(The Register)Council IT chiefs struggle with doing more for less(Computing)Oracle finalises Sun buy, kills ... read more..

It takes time for technologies to work their way through into the mass market. Would anyone hazard a guess how long it will take before the new Apple iPad + iBooks store does for newspapers, magazines, professional periodicals, whitepapers and physical books what the Apple iPod + iTunes did for ... read more..

From the National Computing Centre, Manchester UK.Issued 28th January 2010Change is much in evidence for the HR department as it seeks to align its structure with the evolving business environment. In the past year alone 36% of HR departments have undergone a significant change in their structure with a further ... read more..

Back in December we reported on how the Government's proposed IT strategy found it way into the public domain. Well the government has now signed off the final version of this document and is awaiting ministerial approval report Computer Weekly.The plan is likely to identify 500m in annual savings with ... read more..

IT Assets disappear as cloud takes off(Information Age)Microsoft's top lawyer demands a cloud computing law(The Register)IE hole to be patched!(News in Tech)Hacking is easy when your password is 123456News FactorTim Berners-Lee launches new public data websiteThe GuardianAnd for a bit of light reliefTwitteratureAvailable at all good on-line bookshops NCC ... read more..

IT Departments are hunkering down to satisfy the needs of end-users, at the expense of other activity according to NCC's newly published Benchmark of IT Strategy 2010.No surprise that 53% of respondents said that the need or opportunity to increase business efficiency was a major driver of strategy, ... read more..

Hot news this week from Brussels is that EU Competition Commissioner, Neelie Kroes, the EU's top antitrust enforcer finally opened the door to Oracle's audacious takeover plans for the acquisition of Sun.... the announcement comes after a six month investigation.The $7.4 billion deal has been given unconditional approval in ... read more..