However, John Hague, national safety representative for NAPO, was adamant that the system was a failure: "This has been an immense waste of public money which people are right to be very angry about. Harry Fletcher, assistant general secretary for...
Last month US judge Marilyn Patel issued an injunction ordering Napster to prevent access to all files of copyrighted music. However, this decision also laid the onus on the record companies to provide the names of the files that should be blocked.
Tfl has admitted that Capita has paid contractual penalties because of performance failures. These included problems with Capita distinguishing between the letter O and the number zero and the letter I and number one on number plates, and a failure...
Of course it's absolutely right that politicians and newspapers should be questioning any 'waste' of taxpayers money on botched projects, especially given the government's track record when it comes to IT.
A failure, however, could irreparably damage the reputation of the IT industry. While we wouldn't wish to tar the entire UK IT supplier community with that brush, we have seen with previous large government IT projects that over-promising and under...
Yet what is surprising is that many arrangements do not have the control processes in place to prevent failures such as data leakage. Secondly, the number of data and control risk failures appears to be increasing as technology advances and firms...