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[photo] Pre-Budget statement fails to boost IT training
The anticipated boost for IT vocational training in Gordon Brown’s pre-Budget speech has failed to materialise, although schools and colleges have been given cash to improve their IT facilities.
7 Dec 2006
Green Party shuns Microsoft Vista move
6 Dec 2006
Terminal emulators awaken from decadal deep freeze
5 Dec 2006
HP debuts ‘first’ Blade Workstation; Lloyds TSB deployment
4 Dec 2006
Worldwide News - 08 Dec 2006:
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Telestream FlipFactory v5.1 with MetaFlip Now Available
Byte and Switch - Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) - GTB Goes for Data Lockdown - Storage Networking News Analysis
Byte and Switch - Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) - Users Debate Backup Trends - Storage Networking News Analysis
E-voting testing gets go-ahead

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IT Professionals' Irks and Bugbears [image]
IT Professionals' Irks and Bugbears
What are the things IT folk really dislike about the job? It’s not the big challenges, the boardroom standoffs, scraps over budgets and end-user ingratitude that get techies’ maws foaming, but the little daily nuisances that drive you mad.
IT Compliance: Where does the buck stop? [image]
IT Compliance: Where does the buck stop?
It's not always clear who bears the compliance liability where the IT function is partly or fully outsourced. Of things are left undone, who ends up in the dock - the outsource provider or its clients?
Species of Information [image]
Species of Information
Not everyone likes standard ontologies but those with more sophisticated structures shoul dhelp with modelling the concepts that lie behind data and information on teh Semantic web.

Other features and articles can be found in the December/January edition of Information Professional, the Institution's magazine for your industry.

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