Upgrade downs 80,000 U.K. government computers
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Staff at the United Kingdom's Department for Work and Pensions were unable to use their PCs this week after a routine software upgrade knocked out 80 percent of the computers in the sprawling department.
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By Douglass K. Daniel  The Commerce Department has lost 1,137 laptop computers since 2001, most of them assigned to the Census Bureau, officials said Thursday night.  The Census Bureau, the main collector of information about Americans, lost 672 computers.
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Bye bye to Buy! Buy! Another day, another silly survey, this time claiming that nearly two million UK small businesses are "putting their data and productivity at risk by using old technology to run their business". Why? because they replace their PCs rarely or never, and miss out on all sorts of good things, such as happy staff, cheaper running costs, and smaller "footprints" and lower repair bills.â¦
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Guardian survey reveals cost to the taxpayer of abandoned computer projects since 2000
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TechWeb - A British educational report suggests the upgrade would increase costs and create software compatibility problems while providing little benefit.
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80GB external hard drive is on offer at a 50% reduction.
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Staff at the United Kingdom&#39;s Department for Work and Pensions were unable to use their PCs this week after a routine software upgrade knocked out 80 percent of the computers in the sprawling department.
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Upgrade waiting list just too long The government's vision of an integrated computer system for the NHS is coming apart at the seams as NHS trusts are to start looking for alternative IT suppliers, The Guardian reports.â¦
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Power off Intellect, the UKâs trade body for the technology industry, has signed up to a government plan to phase out energy-guzzling consumer electronics products.â¦
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Phew! What a stink The British government has admitted to Parliament that its IT projects have over-run by more than Â£260m in the last five years.â¦
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WHITEHALL&#39;S biggest computer services contractor, Electronic Data Systems, has postponed its earnings announcement after auditors forced it into considering an investment writedown for its loss-making $8bn (Â£4.
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And then there were two The UK government is spending Â£208m per year on running websites but many of them are text heavy and crammed with policy information that citizens couldnât give a monkeyâs about.â¦
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HP World Free Alpha upgrades to stem defections
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The world&#39;s largest chip maker will shift research spending to a 3.8 GHz Pentium chip that will have twice the memory of the current version.
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EXPERTS were battling yesterday to deal with the biggest computer crash in British government history. Pension, child benefit and income support payments have been in crisis since a software upgrade ended in chaos on Monday.
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The Nationwide Building Society is fined Â£980,000 over security breaches following the theft of a laptop.
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The latest Government computer crash at the Department of Work and Pensions shows the folly of the Government plans to axe all existing emergency fire control rooms.