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Google donates £550,000 to Bletchley Park

Google donates £550,000 to Bletchley Park

...7m needed to unlock the lottery funding, said Greenish. Google launched a fund-raising appeal for Bletchley Park in August, and donated funds of around... Read more

15 December, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Government details £158m pot for science IT

...chemistry and climate science. The government had previously earmarked £145m for the fund in October.Known as Archer, the supercomputing project will get £43m and... Read more

5 December, 2011 by Staff

England and Scotland land £363m broadband windfall

...Hunt said in a statement. The investment comes from the £530m government fund set aside to modernise the infrastructure, which has already seen cash allocated... Read more

16 August, 2011 by Ben Woods

Visa to offer person-to-person payments

...customers can now use any eligible Visa account to send and receive funds, or make person-to-person transactions, placing the credit card giant in... Read more

18 March, 2011 by Jamie Yap

University cloud services get £12.5m injection

...announced the cloud investment, which will be made under the University Modernisation Fund, on Monday. At a time of pressure on university resources, it is... Read more

7 February, 2011 by Jack Clark

Wales gets £40m for supercomputing project

The Welsh HPC project will set up supercomputing infrastructure, networks and training facilities in Wales to boost commercially-focused research by businesses and universities Read more

15 July, 2010 by Jack Clark

Geo attacks BT as it quits UK fibre-funding process

The company says BT has an unfair advantage in the rollout of fibre-based broadband to rural Britain, and it should be compelled to take a local-loop unbundling approach to dark fibre Read more

17 November, 2011 by David Meyer

Bletchley Park Trust gets £4.6m lottery grant

...further £1.7m itself before the £4.6m from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) can be accessed. Bletchley Park launched a fund-raising campaign on... Read more

5 October, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Scotland unhappy with broadband cash

...The Scottish Parliament has criticised its share of the broadband infrastructure fund allocated by the Department of Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, saying it... Read more

17 August, 2011 by Ben Woods

Microsoft sets up $250,000 security research prize

The software giant has set up a prize fund worth $250,000 called the BlueHat Prize, which seeks to promote innovative... Read more

4 August, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Gove earmarks £2bn fund for school buildings and IT

Education secretary Michael Gove has announced a £2bn privately funded programme to build schools and equip them with IT equipment Read more

21 July, 2011 by Staff

Investigators bust suspected tech R&D fraud ring

...Wullt told ZDNet UK. The bogus companies allegedly used to siphon EU funds had deliberately opaque organisational structures and used techniques similar to those found... Read more

6 May, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Wikileaks loses access to MasterCard payments

...payments to Wikileaks, a move that will dry up another source of funds for the embattled document-sharing website, ZDNet UK's sister site CNET... Read more

7 December, 2010 by Declan McCullagh

Budget brings broadband cash for 'smaller' cities

The government has put aside £50m in the UK Budget to improve broadband and Wi-Fi infrastructure in smaller UK cities, in addition to the £100m promised to 10 large cities in the country Read more

21 March, 2012 by Ben Woods

Google funds Raspberry Pis, Arduinos for UK teachers

Google is to provide more than a hundred trainee computer science teachers in the UK with Arduino or Raspberry Pi kits... Read more

24 May, 2012

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BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

4 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Horace Ontalhold

...... and PDP11s too

4 hours ago by Horace Ontalhold on Fusion-io lays minefield with a billion IOPS
BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

6 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
bobandroid

496,999 BT Fon Hotspots lovingly situated in your next door neighbours garden, no matter how you dress that up its still a pup... Not where I need...

7 hours ago by bobandroid on London Olympics: BT needs 25,000 more Wi-Fi hotspots
apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

9 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Smilig Eddie

2 – 4 more weeks of waiting: how many buyers are going to decide instead to see what the iPhone 5 offers? Consumer trust in the brand has also...

9 hours ago by Smilig Eddie on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
SRist

So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

10 hours ago by SRist on Photoshop users attack Adobe upgrade policy change
Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

12 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

13 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

13 hours ago by debsmk on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
Atangana

I would like a job for me and do good to their tackiness vellent my help I will do my best to help you mercie for all

15 hours ago by Atangana on UK's 15-year-old World Excel champion offered £100k job
BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

15 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

17 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

17 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
mrbigdong

@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

17 hours ago by mrbigdong on A minor Bitcoin miner injury?
Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

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minzhu

Don't blame CEO, they want RIM win. RIM has strange culture and self distruct political environment. In RIM if a new hired person figure out...

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Thomas Gellhaus

I've been very pleased with Mageia 2. My review went up on Sunday. My only issue is that my particular wireless printer hasn't been detected on...

1 day ago by Thomas Gellhaus via Facebook on Scorecard - Linux Mint 13 and Mageia 2
knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

1 day ago by knapper on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

1 day ago by JohneKerr on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry