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Mike Simons is the Editor of ComputerWorldUK and Techworld. He joined IDG in 2006 after almost a decade at Computer Weekly. An award winning IT and business journalist, Mike has a particularly focused on major IT projects and public sector IT. His fascination with the business and social impact of technology began at university, where he obtained an MSc at the Science Policy Research Unit of Sussex University.

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Wal-Mart goes green. What about you?

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When Wal-Mart says jump, its supply chain asks how high. We saw the process with Wal-Mart’s decision to mandate its top 200 suppliers to start putting RFID tags on pallets, and now it is asking some 60,000 of its...

September 27, 2007 4:51 PM Read Full Post

NHS IT: spot the difference

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A tale of one IT project: “By 2005, it is planned that there will be an electronic patient record system for all acute hospitals, integrated primary and community care records, and 24-hour emergency care access to patient records.” “National...

September 11, 2007 3:40 PM Read Full Post

A pleasant Vista?

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Richard Steel’s CIO blog should give pause for thought to Microsoft. It reveals that Newham council will not be deploying Vista yet because too few of its core applications have been fully tested on the new operating system. No...

September 5, 2007 5:54 PM Read Full Post

Life in the Green Zone

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Green rhetoric is all the rage, but cutting through the verbiage surrounding the issue is almost as hard as delivering cost effective, environmentally sound IT. Computerworld UK’s new Green Zone, is designed to help you do just that. We...

September 4, 2007 3:42 PM Read Full Post

A better read....

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If you have not started reading the IT’s torch bearer on Computerworld UK, I suggest you do. It contains a fascinating look at the working life of Richard Steel, CIO of Newham Council in east London, where the 2012...

August 6, 2007 4:01 PM Read Full Post

A right royal...

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We’ve covered a lot of lost and stolen laptop stories recently at ComputerworldUK – a handy round-up of some recent ones is available here – and our journos do like a tasty news story. So a frisson of excitement...

June 26, 2007 6:13 PM Read Full Post

Let's talk about sex.com

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“I’m sex.com, you’re not sex.com.” That's my selection for quote of the week. It’s only one of many choice tidbits in IT journalist Kieren McCarthy’s amazing tale of deceit, skullduggery and the internet, which describes how the sex.com domain...

June 22, 2007 6:32 PM Read Full Post

A question of quality

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Today I am one one the judges at the SAP Quality Awards 2007, and it promises to be a fascinating process. Some of my early forays into IT journalism involved covering major ERP implementation failures - and the SAP...

June 11, 2007 7:57 AM Read Full Post

The importance of being encrypted....

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What do you make of the data protection scandal at HBOS banking group? To send confidential customer data in the post is ridiculous. To send it on an unencrypted CD is unspeakable. To claim that there was no link...

June 6, 2007 5:12 PM Read Full Post

Don't believe in climate change? Try asking the IT department

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It is World Environment Day today and the headline in the Financial Times states “Climate change is not a priority”. It left me wondering what it takes to get through to some people. The FT reported the results of...

June 5, 2007 2:04 PM Read Full Post

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