Colorado Experiments with Telemedicine for Inmates

Bedroom tax leading to void skills gap

The Government’s ‘bedroom tax’ has led to an increase in the demand for void professionals as more social housing tenants downsize their property.

Labour proposes to give councils control of welfare spending

Labour policy chiefs are considering proposals to give local authorities and city regions control over billions of pounds of welfare spending, it has emerged.

Fire services could save £200m says review

Fire authorities could save or reinvest £200m annually if rescue service spending was reduced to a national average, a far-reaching report by the country’s top fireman has found.

Pickles renews attack on 'council propoganda'

Leeds to bring housing ALMOs back in-house

Leeds City Council is set to bring its arms-length housing bodies back in-house saving more than £2m.

BlackBerry 10 platform gets developers excited

BlackBerry SDKs make it quick and easy to build apps, developers say

What the NHS can learn about integration from charities

Charities have been involved in providing and improving health and wellbeing services since well before the creation of the NHS

Apple iOS gets clearance for US military use alongside Android and BlackBerry

US government will allow soldiers to wield iPhones

Adobe's Creative Cloud fails at being a cloud

Sync feature suspended by Adobe FOR TWO WEEKS

US military welcomes Apple iOS 6 kit onto its networks

The battle with BlackBerry, Samsung marches into the cloud

Amazon, Google and Apple won't need to pay tax, despite goverment threats

Governments won't have the courage or power to get a fair deal from big tech companies, argues V3 editor Madeline Bennett

Telefonica deploys Office 365 across 130,000 strong cloud

Telefónica, the owner of the O2 mobile brand in the UK, is deploying the cloud-based Microsoft Office 365 productivity suite and Yammer social networking platform across its operating businesses worldwide, covering 130,000 staff in 24 countries.

Half of youngsters would swap PRIVACY for... cheaper insurance

Only old fogies care who knows where they were last summer

'Evil' Google slammed by MPs over tax

Firm forced to yet again deny accusations of selling ads from the UK

DWP's online JSA goals likely to need boost

Trailblazer report says extra methods may be needed to meet digital 80 per cent take-up target

Barnet, Islington and Hounslow councils to offer free WiFi in next six months

10 London councils plan to follow Camden and Hammersmith and Fulham in deploying free WiFi to residents

‘Government must be militant about interoperability standards,’ says Maude

Government must be militant about interoperability standards, says Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude

DfT awards Azzurri £1m IP telephony contract

Five-year contract through PSN framework to establish network at three DfT sites

Windows Blue will be free upgrade for Windows 8 customers

Windows Blue, Microsoft's Windows 8 update, will be formally released as Windows 8.1 and will be free for customers who have the new OS installed.

Survey finds doctors making greater use of IT, but cost benefits in doubt

More doctors in England use healthcare IT and over three-quarters report improvements in effectiveness, according to research from Accenture

GPS issues pre-tender for assisted digital services

Government seeking to help people get online as part of digital by default agenda

Case study: Horsley ITU brings iPads to patients

The intensive therapy unit at the Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust helps seriously ill patients communicate with consultants and relatives using tablet devices from Apple

Alder Hey children's hospital seeking ICT strategic partner

Partner to also help develop future ICT requirements for new site due to open in 2015

Government must 'redouble' efforts to meet SME target, says enterprise advisor

Government must raise its game to achieve its target of 25% of public sector procurements from SMEs by 2015, says Lord Young

Suffolk university dumps failing IBM DS SAN and gets Fujitsu DX-80s

University Campus Suffolk couldn’t go on when IBM “washed its hands” of a failing DS4700. After disastrous pitches from numerous storage suppliers it went with Fujitsu

Arqiva wins government rural mobile contract

Arqiva is awarded £150m to boost mobile coverage in rural areas as part of the government’s Mobile Infrastructure Project (MIP)