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MPs criticise government roadblocks to Open Source adoption in schools (PublicTechnology.net)
UK Members of Parliament have identified Department of Education and Skills (DfES) and Becta policies as favouring proprietary software vendors thereby blocking the adoption of Open Source software by schools and colleges.

Software is designed for travel agents. (ThomasNet)
Providing access to book live inventory, customer relationship management, and automatic commission tracking, Agent Power(TM) v5.0 web-based software serves as online community by enabling travel agents to communicate with each other. Enterprise Instant Messaging system offers unified view of customer follow-up and training items through America's Vacation Center University(TM), while My AVC

Royal Free Hospital launches text appointment booking (Computer Business Review)
The UKs Royal Free Hospital is launching a text messaging service enabling appointments for its genito-urinary medicine and sexual health clinics to be booked confidentially and out of hours.

Switch threatens health service IT suppliers (Daily Telegraph)
The Government has signalled a change of tack in the disastrous IT programme for the NHS as it shifts "ownership" of the project from central management to local NHS trusts.

ID Cards: SNP gets tough on new Home Office 'confessions' over costs (PublicTechnology.net)
SNP MP Stewart Hosie yesterday said that the Home Office?s claim that ID cards could save up to Ł1.7 billion of identity fraud in the UK economy was totally false, after he received a Written Parliamentary Answer.

PUBLIC SAFETY | Bomb hoax closes midtown streets (Kansas City Star)
KANSAS CITY | Police cordoned off four midtown blocks Wednesday morning while investigating a hoax. Someone left a duct-taped cardboard box outside a business at 10 W. 42nd St. Scrawled on the outside was the word ?Bomb.? A concerned caller alerted authorities about 8:30 a.m., and police blocked off the area.

Syscon Justice Systems Standardizes on AccuRev SCM for Global Software Development Collaboration (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
LEXINGTON, Mass.----AccuRev Inc. today announced that Syscon Justice Systems, the world leader in Offender and Community Corrections Management software, has standardized worldwide on AccuRev® for process-centric software configuration management .

Job vacancy: Servite Houses - Technical Support Analyst (PublicTechnology.net)
Servite Houses is one of the largest Housing Associations and we keep on growing. With 16,000 Homes and a turnover approaching Ł74m, we aim to be the best. Servite Houses is a charitable organisation committed to providing high quality housing options to a wide range of residents.

Tender: Oxford: medical software (PublicTechnology.net)
NAME, ADDRESSES AND CONTACT POINT(S): Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust, Churchill Hospital, Procurement Department, Block 10, Old Road, Headington, Attn: Mike Potter, UK-Oxford OX3 7LJ. Tel. 01865 226042. E-mail: mike.potter@orh.nhs.uk . Fax 01865 225623.