Leo King

Articles by Leo King

Britain’s grim catalogue of health data breaches

135 cases have been reported since 2006, including the loss and theft of diaries, briefcases, CDs, laptops and memory sticks with patient records

EDS rehired for London transport fare system

After being bounced in August over smartcard failures, the international consulting and outsourcing giant is back on the route under a new deal

U.K. gov’t urged to drop multibillion pound IT plans

Prime Minister accused of wasting huge amounts of money as bureaucrats start work on a communications database that hasn't been approved yet by parliament

U.K. government blows money on cancelled IT projects

At least US$462 million in projects have been killed in the last five years, causing an opposition member of parliament to denounce the government for poor planning

Unsold Lehman units face IT staff challenge

Industry analysts believe the administrator of the collapsed bank will have to walk carefully between reducing costs in operations it is selling and keeping IT functions running to support customers with contracts

Royal Mail in rollout of 25,000 mobiles

Post office customers will be able to track digitally signed-for packages in real time with the system, which will use devices from Intermec

Clear benefits to open source, UK survey says

Fifty four per cent of businesses in the U.K. said the benefits of open source outweighed any negative aspects, and Gartner predicts 80 per cent of software will have open source components by 2012

Upheaval in document management market: Datamonitor

According to analysts at Datamonitor, the documents and records management market is in for a shake-up

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