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CESG appoints security skills certification bodies

A government scheme to accredit public sector IT security professionals has got a boost... Read more

23 September, 2011

£100m fund to boost superfast broadband in UK cities

...of the £100m investment. The six other cities to benefit from the government scheme will be selected from a UK-wide competition with the winners... Read more

30 November, 2011 by Shelley Portet

ID card bill could reach £15bn

The estimated cost of the government's proposed identity card scheme keeps rising, with a single card now tipped to cost almost £250 Read more

27 June, 2005 by Kable

Free web-access scheme rolled out across England

The rollout of a £300m government scheme to provide free computers, software and broadband for 270,000 low... Read more

13 January, 2010 by Natasha Lomas

Site-build checklist

...I have been indulging in some Community Payback. No, not the bedevilled government scheme to mete out justice to ne’er do wells. Rather, I... Read more

14 August, 2009
Building Windows into free home PCs

Building Windows into free home PCs

...Ray Fleming talks about the software the company is supplying for the government scheme to provide low-income families with free PCs Read more

18 January, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Home laptop scheme leaps out of the gate

A government scheme to provide free laptops for home educational use has already had... Read more

14 January, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Gov't mobile working project saved from axe

Project Nomad, the local government scheme to support mobile and flexible working, has been protected from closure... Read more

5 November, 2009 by Kable

Tories: ID cards need 28m sign-ups to break even

...the British population would need to pay ID card fees before the government scheme becomes self-financing, according to the Conservatives Read more

27 October, 2009 by Tom Espiner

Microsoft pitches cut-price Windows at Malaysia

...XP Home Edition by bundling it with PCs sold under a Malaysian government scheme Read more

2 March, 2004 by Winston Chai

Government gives further boost to employee-PC scheme

Employers are still being slow to take up a government scheme aimed at increasing the number of people with a PC at... Read more

20 January, 2004 by Jo Best

Broadband road-digging row heats up

Thus has attacked a Government scheme that makes utility firms pay to dig up the roads, claiming... Read more

28 May, 2002 by Graeme Wearden

Parents and kids educated on the threat of web paedophiles

New government scheme cracks down on grooming... The UK government has launched a new... Read more

6 January, 2003 by Will Sturgeon
Building Windows into free home PCs

Building Windows into free home PCs

...Ray Fleming talks about the software the company is supplying for the government scheme to provide low-income families with free PCs Read more

18 January, 2010

General election could affect gov't iT projects

...keeping quiet about the future of the Interception Modernisation Programme (IMP), a government scheme to allow interception of web communications. Initially put forward as a... Read more

6 April, 2010

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