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Liberata axed from school grant contract
Capita is set to take over after the Learning and Skills Council axed Liberata following complaints that thousands of students were not receiving their EMA grants.
Public Sector Roundup: Smart tech upgrades
Civica’s Spydus boasts smartcards for libraries, Yotta maps roads using 3D technology, Capgemini is digitally glued into Welsh Water while Steria partners with Land Registry.
TfL’s Oyster gets new contract
But the new deal to replace TranSys keeps it in that consortium’s family, going with Cubic and EDS – the two leading private investors in that PFI group.
UK ‘most open in Europe’ to biometric testing
UK consumers are much happier to use biometric tech than their European neighbours.
Virus shuts down systems at three London hospitals
Engineers still in the process of fixing virus affected computer systems which have forced activities to be scaled back.
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Latest Industry & Public Sector Features
Lessons to learn from a year of data breaches
In the year since the HMRC data breach, many more have been made public – here’s a roundup of 11 lessons (we should have) learned.
- IT proves its point as killer brought to justice
- Big IT for CERN's particle smashing experiment
- IT around the world: Russia
- SOS Bletchley Park
- NHS IT - something to celebrate?
- Becta, open source and education: Too little, too late?
- Europe's not finished with Microsoft
- Demand for tougher data breach legislation
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