Showing posts with label news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label news. Show all posts

Friday, 17 October 2008

News : Android comes with a kill-switch, 16 October 2008

Google has put itself in charge of policing Android devices. The search giant is retaining the right to delete applications from Android handsets on a whim.

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Sunday, 5 October 2008

News : Open Source makes historic UK breakthrough, 22 September 2008

OPEN SOURCE companies have been granted official permission to supply software to the UK public sector for the first time in British history.

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Tuesday, 30 September 2008

News : Bad software bursts £1bn NHS bubble, 2 June 2008

A KEY ELEMENT of the UK's gargantuan health IT scheme was exposed as a fallacy yesterday when Fujitsu, one of four original suppliers of patient systems, dumped its £1bn contract, becoming the second supplier to have jumped ship. The IT industry has taken Fujitsu's resignation as evidence that both its £1bn contract with Connecting for Health (CfH), the UK health IT quango, and the original aims of the National Programme, had become untenable.

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