Fundamentally reshaping our IT organisation

The Resources Board met this morning in East Ham Town Hall. The main business was finalising services’ Service Plans for 2008/9. Planning Guidance was previously agreed. Today we agreed an approach to quality assuring plans based on pairing services to QA one another’s plans using a standard template. The ICT Service is “paired” with Customer Services.

Cherish the AIR? Just because you can doesn’t mean you should

Buy Happy Flowers on the way home

Should you consider your impact on the environment when you’re rushing home this evening, hoping to gain a few late brownie points? Grumpy Old Man asks the question.

Lotus Notes 8.5 to fully support Ubuntu Linux 7.0

IBM believes Linux on the enterprise desktop finally ready for widespread adoption. To meet future demand it is preparing to deliver its next versions of Lotus Notes enterprise collaboration software and Lotus Symphony office productivity applications for the first time with full support for Ubuntu Linux 7.0.

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xG claims to be making a profit

Wireless start-up xG has generated plenty of headlines in its short existence but it’s claim to be a thousand times faster than WiMax has probably been the one that has got most people agitated. Now, it has finally launched its product and has some customers lined up, we’ll be able to assess whether the company can do all that it claims.

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How to Use Mahalo Social

Detailed instructions on how to use Mahalo Social

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Torvalds calls OS X ‘utter crap’

Linus Torvalds tells it as it is: There have been a few criticisms of OS X but few so damning than that of the creator of Linux.

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