U.K. government hit with another large computer failure
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LONDON -- IT system failures continued to plague the U.K. government this week, when as many as 80,000 civil servants working for the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) had to deal with what is being described in the local press as the biggest computer crash in government history.ADVERTISEMENTSolaris 10(TM) OS: Position your business ten moves ahead.Solaris 10 OS has arrived and provides even more reasons for the world's most demanding businesses to operate on this, the leading UNIX platform. Like the fact you can run Linux and Solaris applications side-by-side and run the same OS on SPARC(R), AMD Opteron(TM), and Intel processor-based systems. Discover more reasons and how Solaris 10 OS can move your business ahead today.
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By Channel NewsAsia&#39;s Europe Correspondent Catherine Drew. LONDON : Britain has suffered its second major security breach in less than a week after some protestors at the House of Commons, managed to break
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A huge systems crash causes delays in processing some claims at the work and pensions department.
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EIGHTEEN civil servants have been sacked and 147 got official warnings after porn crashed the DVLA's computer network.   Colleagues complained they were driven mad by sex snap pop-ups on their screens.
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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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And a very happy new year to you too... The economic outlook for the UK is looking as bad as at any time since the dot-com crash of 2001.â¦
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Many second and third year students have been left penniless after the failure of the Student Loan Company's new 300m computer system.
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Further savings expected for public sector The UK government has smashed its previous record for cost savings achieved from a reverse e-auctionâ¦
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Large swathes of Asia, the Middle East and north Africa had their high-technology services crippled today after a widespread Internet failure that brought many businesses to a standstill and left others struggling to cope.
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Computer failure points to the challenge of aging equipment.
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A laptop containing the details of 600,000 people has been stolen, the Ministry of Defence announced Friday, in another staggering loss of personal data in Britain.
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ENGINEERS were today tackling a massive computer failure which has caused chaos at the Department for Work and Pensions. Up to 80 per cent of the ministryâs systems for processing millions of pension and benefit payments collapsed on Monday.
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MPs are demanding action after a routine software upgrade at the Department for Work and Pensions left 80% of desktop PCs unable to link to core mainframe-based social security systems.
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Union leaders today called for an inquiry into a massive computer crash which disabled the government&#39;s benefits system, forcing civil servants to write out giro cheques by hand.
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Â· Government failed to follow up patients at riskÂ· Danger of wider infection a 'serious problem'
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The personal details of up to 600,000 people were lost when a Royal Navy officer's laptop was stolen in the latest embarrassment to hit British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
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Comment is free: Simon Jenkins: Over-centralised, over-sized and overbearing, public administration in Britain is rendered exhausted and incapable