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[photo] EC-supported Open Source franchise scheme launches
A consortium of European companies has launched an Open Source Software business franchise model. Called Open Forum, it will offer competitive Open Source products and services to the wider business community and governments, enabling SMEs to participate fully in the business market.
2 Feb 2007
‘Change fear’ barrier to Local Government efficiency – survey
1 Feb 2007
Data centre offshoring to explode by 2012
31 Jan 2007
Transformational Gov’s next phase revealed at conference this week
29 Jan 2007
Worldwide News - 02 Feb 2007:
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Byte and Switch - Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) - Managed Email: Who's Watching? - Storage Networking News Analysis
Byte and Switch - Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) - Olixir Gets Tough on Tape - Storage Networking News Analysis
Kasperskys on cybercrime: Don't blame the Russian mafia and why we need anti-anti-anti virus software
German police again the target of cybercrime

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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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IT professionals may be flustered by the findings of a report that flags-up looming boardroom conflict as IT depts are challenged over control of compliance systems budgets by 'internal regulatory watchdogs', says James Hayes
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