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    Federal Government agencies to adopt UK ICT self-assesment tool 12 October, 2009 16:34:00

    Federal Government agencies are likely to adopt a self-assessment tool created by the UK Office of Government Commerce to evaluate their ICT capabilities within the month as part of Gershon Review changes.
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    Computers Off spreads the green message 08 October, 2009 08:13:00

    Tech companies are switching off computers and putting on their ‘green hat’ as part of the successful Computers Off Australia (COA) campaign.
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    Equipping the Project Executioner 05 September, 2008 11:25:00

    Matt Eventoff, a US-based messaging and communications strategist, spends much of his time working with lamenting CIOs, CTOs and other IT executives labouring to hammer that final nail into the coffin of failed IT projects
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    Gartner: Low-Hanging Fruit Largely Plucked 17 April, 2008 11:08:46

    Gartner vice-president Asia Pacific Richard Harris says the government's review of ICT managemen should focus on mid-sized agencies
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    Wanted: ITIL 3.0 champions 13 February, 2008 09:23:12

    The Internet was defined in 1974, but, in 1995, Bill Gates wrote a book called 'The Road Ahead' and failed to mention how it would transform our lives. Similarly, Informational Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) first saw light of day in the UK in the mid 1980s. Today there is hardly a serious CIO who has not embraced this set of concepts and techniques for managing IT infrastructure, development and operations. However, it has taken a long time to gain traction and is only now gaining significant support in the US.
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    Watch Out for Training Costs in IT Infrastructure Library Version 3 08 January, 2008 12:34:00

    The latest version of ITIL emphasizes knowing how an organization will service a system before it's built. But to get the full benefits of these best IT practices takes a lot of training.
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    UK government CIOs agree action plan for failing IT projects 30 October, 2007 08:12:15

    The U.K. government's CIO Council has agreed a procedure to intervene in major public sector IT projects where whistleblowers raise concerns.
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    Increasing adoption of ITIL is making resistance futile 19 September, 2007 14:18:43

    David Farris, IT manager at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal Plant Health Inspection Service, has been working for five years to change some of the processes within his 300-employee organization. He hopes the changes will lead to significant savings in the IT department, which now spends about US$100 million annually.
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    CIO Group Instructed to Play Key Role In UK Gov't IT 06 June, 2007 12:17:10

    The role of the UK government's Chief Information Officer Council is not clear and the top-level IT body needs to "raise its game", MPs have warned
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    From Inception to Implementation — IT That Matters 07 May, 2007 14:22:38

    The new update to the IT Infrastructure Library could help you improve IT-business alignment and change your focus from fire fighting to service delivery
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    Why Public Sector IT Projects Fail 03 October, 2006 15:44:47

    What makes big-ticket public sector IT projects so uniquely predisposed to fail? Two new recent reports from the UK highlight political expediency and the constant state of flux within governments and government departments as sharing a big part of the blame.
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    Facebook users targeted in massive spam run 19 March, 2010 06:50:00

    The messages try to get users to dowload a malicious attachment
    Facebook's 400 million users have been targeted by a spam run that could infect their computers with malicious software designed to steals passwords and other data, according to security researchers at McAfee.
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    Using Biometric Access Systems: Dos and Don'ts 18 March, 2010 06:41:00

    For biometric access systems, the devil is in the details. Here are implementation strategies from users and analysts.
    Considering a biometric access system? Experts offer practical advice in these dos and don'ts.
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    Seven Firefox Plug-ins That Improve Online Privacy 18 March, 2010 06:18:00

    It does help the more nerdy among us ascertain what's going on under the hood of a website
    As strange as it might sound, there are times when I wish for the old days of the Internet circa the early 1990's. The days of Mosaic and Lynx, where there was no Flash, no Javascript and no Java. A simpler time where protecting your privacy and security wasn't as essential as it is today.
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    Law enforcement push for stricter domain name rules 18 March, 2010 05:04:00

    The changes would make it more difficult for criminals to register under false details for domain names
    Law enforcement officials in the U.K. and U.S. are pushing the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to put in place measures that would help reduce abuse of the domain name system.
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    Indian security startup offers free software 17 March, 2010 06:01:00

    The company hopes to make money by selling services to small companies
    Wep Solutions, an Indian security software and services startup, is offering its unified threat management appliance software free to small businesses around the world.

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