Start-up companies should focus more on their customers than on raising finance, the CEO of British computer chip designer ARM has said. read more »
Just 12 percent of government contracts are awarded to SMEs, the Cabinet Office has revealed. read more »
Google is offering a travel grant to female computer scientists in a bid to encourage more women to attend and participate in conferences. read more »
Bolton College is rolling out desktop virtualisation to give its students and staff flexible access to computers and laptops. read more »
The UK government needs to set out a clear timetable for the implementation of its cyber security strategy, former security minister Baroness Pauline-Neville Jones has said. read more »
Consumerisation of devices has contributed to a three-fold increase in the Wellcome Trust's personal computing costs, its CIO has revealed. read more »
IT is becoming a victim of its own success, according to the Wellcome Trust's head of IT Mark Bramwell. read more »
The UK needs to significantly bolster its cyber security skills to fight against cyber threats, according to former security minister Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones. read more »
Lloyds Banking Group has revealed plans to make 990 redundancies across the company and close four offices, according to a trade union. read more »
Francis Maude, Cabinet Office Minister, has announced plans to set up an academy to give lessons to senior civil servants on how to manage large government projects. read more »
A new, Brussels-based association for CIOs has launched today. read more »
Ofcom has proposed new charge limits that will reduce BT Openreach's wholesale rental prices. read more »
EMC has launched VFCache, a product that combines flash and caching technology to improve the performance of applications. read more »
The Government Procurement Service has announced its plans to create a £4.8 billion framework contract for IT hardware and solutions. read more »
Defence company BAE Systems has awarded a contract for outsourced HR services to Logica. read more »
The IT industry is losing out on new talent because schools and universities are not providing the information that students need to make informed career choices, a survey has found. read more »
Google is looking to gain higher security accreditations that would enable wider use of Google Apps by the UK government. read more »
The Post Office is looking for a new IT solutions provider to support its transformation agenda read more »
NHS Greater Manchester has proposed to standardise its financial systems across 10 primary care trusts (PCTs) at nearly three times the cost of the existing systems. read more »
The Metropolitan Police Service has confirmed that it "inadvertently" shared the email addresses of more than a thousand victims of crime with other victims. read more »