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Cutting down on e-waste and making WEEE work
Blog The organisation has launched a petition calling on the government to give the Environment Agency enough funds to be able to police the WEEE supply chain effectively - and fight dumping of e-waste in developing countries.
[September 24, 2008, 13:45]
IT vendors exposed over 'sweatshop' factories
News CAFOD, the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development, says it has uncovered "dire working conditions" at computer production sites in Mexico, China and Thailand. The agency has examined their respective codes of conduct for labour standards, and...
[January 27, 2004, 16:50]
IT managers get clarification on recycling duties
News Companies buying IT equipment should expect to negotiate with suppliers over whether to take on the recycling costs of new hardware, or simply pay a premium for the tech vendor to handle the process, according to the Environment Agency and DTI.
[January 24, 2007, 16:04]
US seeks super spying computers
News The grants, from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), are part of a program to ensure the United States has competitive supercomputers for military, intelligence-gathering and industrial purposes, the agency said in a statement.
[July 9, 2003, 7:59]
Bulldog users bite back over poor service
Talkback I received a nasty letter from bulldog finance department saying that I was getting cut off in 7 days due to non payment of my monthly bill, they also said I would be passed to a debt collection agency and a report sent to one of the credit agency's.
[September 8, 2005, 15:32]
Complex IT raises rural payments costs, says NAO
News In a report on the EU Single Payment Scheme, the NAO said the Rural Payments Agency spends £1,743 on administering each claim compared with just £285 in Scotland. It said little has been achieved by either the Department for the Environment, Food...
[October 16, 2009, 14:40]
BT shares hit by Moody's 3G gloom
News The report, issued by credit rating agency Moody's, cast doubt on BT's ability to support its huge debt. The company recently postponed an important meeting with credit rating agency Standard & Poor's, fuelling speculation that it is rewriting its...
[April 12, 2001, 15:03]
Spammers busted in Net fraud crackdown
News The agency said the sweeps have netted 63 official actions in the past six months, targeting people allegedly engaged in a variety of schemes, involving anything from anti-anthrax drug Cipro to work-from-home offers.
[April 3, 2002, 10:01]
State Attorney General's Office Uses New Technology to Improve Constituent Service
White Papers For years, the agency relied on an outdated system for constituent communication, which was difficult to use and lacked the capacity to meet future needs. In March 2007, Microsoft Certified Partner Smart Business Advisory and Consulting LLC (SMART...
[February 9, 2008, 0:17]
Organised e-crime targets students for recruitment
News As organised criminals move from more traditional crimes, such as armed robbery, towards e-crime, there is evidence that they are targeting university students, graduates and the tech savvy for recruitment, according to security experts and the...
[June 20, 2008, 17:54]
Contractors excluded from permanent jobs
News An advertisement placed by recruitment agency Progressive on jobs board Jobserve, requested: "A well-rounded Database Administrator for a very large, multinational, SAP user. Progressive consultant Colin Molyneux, who wrote the advert, has seen...
[August 20, 2002, 15:15]
Launching the Internet into outer space
News Researchers at NASA, the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, the British National Space Centre and Britain's Defence Evaluation and Research Agency are currently drawing-up plans for an interplanetary Net (IPN) that they believe will make...
[November 17, 1999, 11:25]
Bush security drive could include privacy czar
News A panel in the House of Representatives is scheduled to vote this week on a plan to add a chief privacy officer to the planned agency. A draft of the legislation seen by CNET News.com states that the Secretary of Homeland Security must appoint a...
[July 11, 2002, 10:08]
Hackers hit Japan for fifth time
News According to reports, officials reported several unsuccessful attempts by hackers to penetrate government sites after the Management and Coordination Agency (MCA) realised Thursday that it had been hit by a hacking exploit for the second time in a...
[January 27, 2000, 11:22]
Nintendo keeps new Game Boy under wraps
News The new product will be "surprising and unique," company president Satoru Iwata was quoted as saying in a report from the Reuters news agency. The firm also makes a set-top games console, the Game Cube, which has also seen lower-than-expected sales...
[August 8, 2003, 12:15]
Pentagon database to spy on Americans
News Nearly 200 corporations and universities submitted proposals to the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, according to government documents brought to light by a privacy group on Thursday. John Poindexter, who oversees the agency's Total...
[February 28, 2003, 11:36]
Serbia Ranked Top Country for Business Reforms With Company Registration System
White Papers The newly-created Serbian Business Registers Agency set out to create an electronic registration, which employs the Microsoft .NET Framework with Microsoft SQL Server 2000 as the database. The agency now has a single, easily-interrogated data...
[March 31, 2007, 1:00]
Lack of reporting hits cybercrime fight
News The industry points to confusion over just which police agency cybercrime should be reported to, together with a lack of follow-up by police when crimes are reported. If you get West African scam letters or discover paedophile activity, you can...
[April 25, 2002, 16:47]
'Vast majority' of youth ID cards delayed until 2011
News The schedule is outlined in A Strong New Force at the Border, a document issued by the department on Tuesday, detailing plans for the UK Border Agency. A Home Office spokesperson said that, while ID cards will be issued to students and young people...
[August 21, 2008, 9:00]
Reboot bandicoot!
Blog Recently I've been working in the Big Smoke at The Agency (no, not the CIA but a nameless creative agency, anonymised to protect the innocent). An old friend of mine, Download Dave, used to shout out "Reboot bandicoot!
[June 8, 2009, 8:52]
