ID cards: Aviation workers being 'used politically'
News The British Air Transport Association says the government is using aviation workers to introduce ID cards incrementally and lend the scheme credibility [04 Jul 2008]
Comms managers: UK businesses need fibre
News The CMA has warned the UK could suffer unless broadband speeds are increased, while a European body claims fibre deployment leads to more web usage [04 Jul 2008]
YouTube user privacy at risk in Google-Viacom suit 
Video CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi and Dan Farber discuss whether YouTube users' privacy will be threatened as a result of a US ruling that Google must turn over user data to Viacom [04 Jul 2008]
Seagate invests £120m in Northern Ireland plant
News Investment in the Londonderry plant will allow it to remain 'the lowest-cost and biggest producer of read-write heads in the world', the company said [04 Jul 2008]
LiMo gets Openwave browser and messaging
News Purple Labs will supply its LiMo Foundation partners, like Vodafone and Orange, with Openwave's mobile browsing and messaging software [04 Jul 2008]
ID cards chief casts doubt on scheme security
News The head of the Identity and Passport Service has warned citizens should be concerned about the proposed National Identity Register [04 Jul 2008]
Google asks Viacom to respect YouTube user privacy
News The search giant has urged Viacom to allow the anonymisation of YouTube user data that must be handed over following a US court ruling [04 Jul 2008]
Museum of Computing seeks new home
News The Swindon museum has put its collection into temporary storage, having lost its previous home at the University of Bath Oakdale campus [04 Jul 2008]
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MoD tech scheme hit by major delays
News The Defence Information Infrastructure scheme has delivered benefits but key elements are 18 months late, says the National Audit Office [04 Jul 2008]
Adobe's PDF becomes ISO standard
News The Portable Document Format became the latest International Organization for Standardization standard as of Wednesday morning [04 Jul 2008]
Biometrics to speed travel between UK and US
News Fingerprint, iris and facial-recognition tech will be used to speed up frequent UK-US travellers' journeys through immigration control [04 Jul 2008]
ICO: UK may get data-breach notification law
News The Information Commissioner's Office has said draft EU legislation may prove the catalyst needed to get data-breach notification into UK law [04 Jul 2008]
Gartner: Hosted email to boost cloud-services uptake
News The analyst house claims increasing business use of internet-hosted email services will boost uptake of other IT apps provided over the web [04 Jul 2008]
Virtualisation seen as key for greener datacentres
News Speakers at the Energy Logic Symposium in Sydney have touted virtualisation's role in creating less power-hungry datacentres [04 Jul 2008]
Experts urge criminal charges for data breaches
News A former deputy information commissioner, among others, says data breaches should result in criminal penalties for both organisations and individuals [03 Jul 2008]
IBM buys mainframe maker, sparks antitrust fears
News An industry group has said the company's purchase of Platform Solutions will 'suck the life' out of the mainframe market [03 Jul 2008]
Google wins source-code ruling in Viacom lawsuit
News A US judge has ruled Google does not have to reveal its search source code, but must surrender YouTube users' details, to Viacom [03 Jul 2008]
Gov't: Terrorists increasingly exploiting tech
News The government and security bodies say terrorists are making greater use of tech and exploiting the growing information infrastructure to hide their activities [03 Jul 2008]
Cabinet Office launches mashup competition
News The Cabinet Office has set up a competition for people to develop their own mashups using previously unavailable public-sector information [03 Jul 2008]
Firefox 3 earns Guinness World Record
News Mozilla's browser has entered the book of Guinness World Records for the most downloads from a website in a 24-hour period [03 Jul 2008]
Report: India losing grip on outsourcing ecosystem
News The 2008 Black Book of Outsourcing claims Indian firms now account for only 10 of the top 50 global outsourcers [03 Jul 2008]
Internet Explorer 8 to get anti-malware protection
News Microsoft has announced new security features in the upcoming release of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, including anti-malware protection [03 Jul 2008]
EC expected to enforce SMS-roaming price cuts
News Informa Telecoms & Media says operators have failed to voluntarily reduce the cost of SMS roaming in line with an EC deadline of 1 July [03 Jul 2008]
Jobs, Apple directors face new stock-options lawsuit
News Chief executive Steve Jobs and several directors are being sued again over their role in the company's stock-options backdating affair [03 Jul 2008]
Google employees' details stolen in burglary
News Employees of Google and other companies had their computer records stolen in a burglary of HR firm Colt Express Outsourcing Services [03 Jul 2008]
