The South West RDA has achieved full licence compliance for its software, and establishedd ‘best practice’ process for ICT service delivery including Software Asset Management.

These days, all big companies — and most medium-sized companies — are software companies. By this I mean that the company’s software (particularly custom software they’ve made) and associated data is integral to the success of their business. And: The fact that every company is a software company has implications. The most important is that software is something companies have to understan...

The first user reviews of China’s Green Dam PC censorship software are in. It appears to be utter shite. The true purpose of this software is to get money from the government. This software company obviously has some kind of...

Slightly later this afternoon the Government, orchestrated by Tom Watson MP, is planning to slip out an announcement that it will to stop discriminating against open source software in its procurement in an apparent attempt to look hip. When George Osborne advocated the change, the Government briefed that open source was bad for security. Most geeks seemed to disagree with the position of the Gove...

Slightly later this afternoon the Government, orchestrated by Tom Watson MP, is planning to slip out an announcement that it will to stop discriminating against open source software in its procurement in an apparent attempt to look hip. When George Osborne advocated the change, the Government briefed that open source was bad for security. Most geeks seem to disagree with the position of the Govern...

Fortify Software, a software security assurance specialist, says that the Conservative party is misguided in its criticism of the UK government over its lack of support for open source software.

Despite some limited success, isolated pockets of bottom-driven informal pilot projects are not the same as a coordinated top-down effort to determine appropriate government uses for social software. Such broad uses include balancing security with transparency, writing policies for use of social software, training personnel to be ready to use the tools, conducting research and acquiring private se...

As it seeks new ways to prevent overspending in IT projects, the government says it will accelerate the use of open-source software, which will involve a change in procurement policy

Computer company IBM has been awarded a grant of £1 million to carry out research into the development of new software by the Scottish Government.

I did an interview this morning with my friend Phillip Ewing of Navy Times, which was posted online today... on the new Navy Times blog Scoopdeck. It looks like the site is still under development, but it is an interesting development (some might call it an evolution) in the industry to see one of the more popular Navy news websites expand into social software. Now I doubt Chris Cavas would ever a...