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UK government appoints new CIO

 23 January 2012

Ministry of Justice CIO Andy Nelson will take over top IT job when Joe Harley steps down in March 

New site brings price comparison to NHS procurement

 17 January 2012

New procurement portal Peto.co.uk takes cue from consumer price comparison sites to help NHS Trusts compare suppliers

Barclays to cut over 400 IT jobs

 12 January 2012

Bank to axe 422 positions in restructuring of IT department, as RBS announces 4,500 job cuts

UK scraps ICT curriculum to make computers 'inspiring'

 11 January 2012

Education secretary Michael Gove is scrapping the ICT curriculum, allowing schools to decide how they teach computing

European IT spending will fall in 2012, says Gartner

 06 January 2012

Analyst company downgrades IT spending predictions in light of Euro crisis and Thai floods

Govt failing to measure outcomes of IT strategy – NAO

 21 December 2011

National Audit Office commends government ICT strategy, but notes that the CIO Delivery Board is not measuring progress

Revealed: How CIOs spend their time

 02 December 2011

Project planning and delivery dominates CIOs' time, Deloitte poll reveals, but if they had an extra day many would spend it on strategy

Standard Life to cut 69 IT and facilities jobs

 30 November 2011

Having scrapped IT and operations director role, Scottish insurer plans to axe around one in five IT and facilities jobs in £100 million cost cutting drive

Government CIO to retire next year

 22 November 2011

Two weeks after deputy CIO announces his departure for EMC, government announces that Joe Harley will retire in March 2012

Deputy government CIO leaves to join EMC

 09 November 2011

Having helped develop government IT strategy, Bill McCluggage leaves to join information management giant

Govt IT hampered by low pay, CIOs tell NAO

 31 October 2011

Pay constraints are stopping public sector IT leaders hire and retain the best people, CIOs tell National Audit Office

Government unveils action plan for IT strategy

 21 October 2011

Cabinet Office publishes targets, risk factors and accountability structure of cloud, Agile and open source IT reinvention

VMware unveils CIO management tool

 18 October 2011

Infrastructure software vendor launches interface for managing the IT department alongside new “CloudOps” and “DevOps” tools

RBS has frozen IT spend, memo reveals

 17 October 2011

Royal Bank of Scotland has introduced 11 new cost cutting initatives, a memo leaked to the BBC has revealed, with IT spending freeze at the top of the list

Google leases London property for start-up launchpad

 28 September 2011

Web giant joins "Tech City" initiative by leasing seven-storey property "to provide a launchpad for new London-based start-ups and developers"

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