IT legislation and regulation

Compliance shouldn't be a primary security driver

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• Shawna McAlearney, News Editor

LogicaCMG on Met payroll

The Metropolitan Police Authority has selected LogicaCMG to provide a £31m fully-managed payroll and pension administration... Continue Reading

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• Antony Savvas

Spike ** LogicaCMG to manage Met payroll

The Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) has selected LogicaCMG to provide a £31m fully-managed payroll and pension administration... Continue Reading

Met Police gets LogicaCMG on payroll

The Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) has selected LogicaCMG to provide a £31m fully-managed payroll and pension administration... Continue Reading

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• Antony Savvas

HIPAA causes data security problems for small businesses

If your local dentist isn't complying with HIPAA's security rules, he's not alone. Experts say most doctors' offices aren't getting it. Continue Reading

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• Bill Brenner

HIPAA security rules apply to firms with healthcare plans

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• Bill Brenner

Report finds computer system likely culprit in Chinook crash

A former air commodore - one of the highest ranks in the RAF - has questioned the airworthiness of the Chinook Mk2 helicopter... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Chinook 10 years on

This week sees the 10th anniversary of the Chinook ZD576's crash, as former top military officers cast doubt on the finding that... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Ex-RAF chief says no to blame on Chinook

A former RAF air commodore has questioned the integrity of systems and the airworthiness of the type of Chinook helicopter which... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Is the national programme for NHS IT set to be 'the biggest gamble in the world'?

The private concerns of clinicians and IT professionals about the national programme are not being addressed, despite the front... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Best practices for enabling and maintaining compliance

As part of our Storage Decisions conference preview series, Shaun Mahoney, senior storage engineer for Citigroup, Randy Wilson, assistant vice president of IT at Essex Investment Management Company and Enterprise Storage Group's Peter Gerr discussed the best practices for enabling compliance. Continue Reading

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• Mark Lewis, Editor

MPs slam Libra as one of UK's worst PFI deals ever

Costs more than double and Whitehall shoulders risk on magistrates IT. Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Court blocks former ICL solicitor's Pathway claim

Fujitsu has won a court ruling to stop a former solicitor for the company pursuing allegations about the government's disastrous... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Fujitsu won £800m Post Office contract after misrepresenting itself, says lawyer

High Court claim by ex-employee makes damning accusations Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

NHS £5bn IT procurement finally begins

The Department of Health (DoH) has launched the formal procurement process for its £5bn restructuring of NHS IT. Continue Reading

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• James Rogers

MoD's Chinook tactics spark a constitutional row

Chinook: The MoD's actions over the crash of Chinook ZD576 could have legal ramifications Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

MPs from all parties unite in fight to clear Chinook pilots

This week the Tories led an unprecedented all-party move to get the Government to clear the names of the pilots blamed for the... Continue Reading

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• Parliamentary reporter

Lessons to be learned from Chinook tragedy

Since 1997, Computer Weekly has studied the IT-related lessons from the crash of Chinook helicopter ZD576 on the Mull of Kintyre... Continue Reading

Lords prepare to release Chinook verdict report

The House of Lords will publish a report next Tuesday on whether pilot negligence or a possible technical malfunction was the... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

RAF Chinook pilots could be vindicated

Details of an RAF Board of Inquiry report into the crash of a Chinook helicopter on the Mull of Kintyre in 1994 were revealed for... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Top Chinook test pilot reveals unease over engine software

A campaign by Computer Weekly and Channel Four News has sought to show that a computer problem not pilot error could have led to... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Chinook pilots feared onboard software

RAF pilots refused to fly the Chinook Mk2 helicopter for even short journeys before the fatal Mull of Kintyre crash due to... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Chinook hearing begins

A new inquiry into the crash of a Chinook helicopter on the Mull of Kintyre in June 1994 is due to begin this week in the House... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Now Via sues Intel to block sales of Pentium 4

Via Technologies is seeking to stop sales of the Pentium 4 family of microprocessors through a lawsuit filed on 10 September... Continue Reading

Via ups the Intel ante

Via Technologies has hit back in its war with Intel by issuing the chip giant with lawsuits relating to patent infringement, fair... Continue Reading

Intel sues Via over P4 chipsets

In a move that has been anticipated for months, Intel has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Via Technologies in the US.... Continue Reading

Rambus faces second fraud case

A lawsuit has been filed against Rambus in the US, less than four months after the company was found guilty of fraud and fined... Continue Reading

Rambus cleared of standards-setting charge

A US district court has set aside a jury verdict against Rambus, clearing the memory chip designer of allegations that it set... Continue Reading

Lords vote to undertake limited Chinook enquiry

The House of Lords, in an historic step, has voted to hold an independent inquiry into the RAF's verdict of gross negligence... Continue Reading

Lords call for Chinook crash inquiry

Former Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher was one of 132 peers who voted for a new inquiry over the fatal crash of Chinook ZD576 on... Continue Reading

Fraud Squad investigates Hackney benefit systems

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• David Brown

Chinook probe: MPs join Lords

In an extraordinary move, the House of Commons' most powerful committee is to seek the help of the House of Lords as part of its... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Government's Gateway guidelines delay NHS IT contract

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• Chris Mugan

Digital scent idea granted patent

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BCS fights for patient data

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Think before you link

Laws governing the Net remain a grey area, even for such issues as deep linking, while discrimination laws also apply to the Web Continue Reading

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• Elsa Booth

IT directors: build bridges or be swept away

Old-style IT directors are doomed, says Chris Rawson at Lloyd's of London. Rod Sweet reports Continue Reading

Sema troubles deepen

IT services company Sema yesterday postponed an analysts briefing into its disastrous performance and ordered an internal inquiry into share dealing by a... Continue Reading

Chinook response sends "wrong signal" to software industry

As defence secretary Geoff Hoon rubbished the Public Accounts Committee report into the 1994 Chinook disaster, an MP at the centre of the case...

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Mull of Kintyre MPs call on Blair to end Chinook deadlock

Mull of Kintyre Group of MPs calls on the prime minister to clear the pilots of blame for the 1994 Chinook crash Continue Reading

Chinook tragedy demands reform

The Public Accounts Committee report into the Mull of Kintyre helicopter crash vindicates Computer Weekly's three-year campaign for justice. It... Continue Reading

MPs boost Chinook fight

At first glance, today's report by MPs of the PublicAccounts Committee (PAC) tells the story of flawed engine control software on the Chinook Mk2 helicopter Continue Reading

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• Computer Weekly Staff

Caught red handed by latest police IT

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• James Rogers

Independent inquiry into Chinook crash

Tony Collins

An independent inquiry into the Chinook helicopter crash in 1994 is likely to be launched by the House of Lords. It will...

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• Tony Collins

Did MoD deceive RAF inquiry?

New information shows that the Ministry of Defence withheld information from an air chief marshal about software flaws that could... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Blair criticised for failure to meet Chinook campaigners

Tony Collins

The prime minister was criticised in the House of Commons this week for not meeting a delegation of senior MPs and peers over the...

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• Tony Collins

MoD admits uncertainty over Mull Chinook crash

The Ministry of Defence has altered its stance on the fatal Chinook helicopter crash on the Mull of Kintyre in 1994, and now admits to uncertainty over the precise events leading up to accident Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

MPs fight on for independent Chinook inquiry

As peers and MPs rally to the cause for a new independent inquiry, former defence minister Malcolm Rifkind is among those to criticise the reasons for the... Continue Reading

Bosses welcome security warnings from outsiders

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• Daniel Thomas

Blair steps into Chinook battle

Tony Collins

The Prime Minister, Tony Blair, will personally look into the circumstances of the crash of a Chinook helicopter on the Mull of...

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• Tony Collins

Defence minister misleads Commons over Chinook

Independent MP Martin Bell secures the first debate in the House of Commons over the causes of Chinook crash Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Bell champions 'mass of new evidence' on Chinook crash

Tony Collins

Independent MP Martin Bell has told the House of Commons that a mass of new evidence has emerged over the possible causes of...

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• Tony Collins

Air chief marshall attacks Chinook evidence

Tony Collins

Air Chief Marshal Sir William Wratten has criticised evidence suggesting that the 1994 Chinook helicopter crash could have...

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• Tony Collins

Scotland backs Chinook crash report

The Scottish Executive has found that Computer Weekly uncovered new evidence over the reliability of the Fadec (Full Authority Digital Engine Control)... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins