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Government to curb council 'snooping' powers

...promised. In 2008, Neville-Jones and the Tory party pledged to curb local authority surveillance, saying that an incoming Conservative government would "clean up Ripa... Read more

5 July, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Hunt pours scorn on Geordie broadband plans

Every local authority in England has met the deadline for submitting its initial super... Read more

9 March, 2012
Dell Consultants Help Portuguese Authority Expand IT in Schools and Improve Server Performance by Around 300 Per Cent

Dell Consultants Help Portuguese Authority Expand IT in Schools and Improve Server Performance by Around 300 Per Cent

Municà pio de Oeiras (CM-Oeiras), a local authority in Portugal, serves a population of approximately 172,000 residents. Two... Read more

1 June, 2010

BYOD is no money-saver, says council's IT chief

...ve got to factor in that if it all goes wrong, the local authority may fall foul of the Information Commissioner for a breach and... Read more

27 April, 2012 by Sade Laja

ICO to spot company data breaches through analysis

...course, it's a much bigger deal than it is for a local authority or a health service organisation, because they lose consumer confidence — there... Read more

26 April, 2012

CIO tips on how to survive losing your budget

...bulk purchasing. "One struggles to justify why every IT unit in every local authority in the country comes up with their own specification for a... Read more

1 June, 2011 by Nick Heath

Government warns Liverpool and Newcastle over fibre

...the deadline would lose their guarantee for getting fibre funding. The three local authority groups are: • Liverpool, Knowsley, St. Helens, Sefton, Wirral • Newcastle... Read more

27 January, 2012

Police and BT target cable thieves

...Monday, combines BT experts, Met Police officers, and members of the Bexley local authority environmental crime unit to investigate crimes that police estimate cost the... Read more

19 December, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Local authorities get broadband application deadline

...DCMS said it would publish details of the progress made by each local authority in January Read more

15 December, 2011

Communal Clouds

...terms of expertise, equipment and support. And who would provide this, a local authority or central government? If it came from within the community, for... Read more

14 December, 2011

Rural councils say fibre rollout is on track

...the chancellor". The group submitted a Freedom of Information request to each local authority in October, and said the results were "underwhelming", showing no one... Read more

9 December, 2011 by David Meyer

Local councils report only 55 of 1,035 data losses

...without their consent.As examples of incidents, the report noted Birmingham's local authority had lost a USB stick with the details of 64,000... Read more

23 November, 2011 by Tom Espiner
IBM sets students loose in the lab

IBM sets students loose in the lab

...identification they can use.The team came up with ways of linking local authority databases to external ones, such as those operated by the Driver... Read more

6 September, 2011 by Jack Clark

Photos: iPad accessories, Android apps for business and Sony's S1 and S2 tablets

...published an interactive map of the UK showing broadband data for each local authority. The city with the highest take-up of fixed broadband services... Read more

2 August, 2011 by silicon.com staff

Gap between broadband you get vs broadband ISPs promise set to shrink

ISPs sign up to new Ofcom code of practice for broadband advertising... Read more

28 July, 2011 by Tim Ferguson

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