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Minister: Government systems battle regular email attack

...Home Office minister Nick Herbert has concurred with GCHQ's estimate that government networks receive... Read more

16 December, 2010 by Kable

iPhones 'not approved' for minister use

...selling in its millions but it remains out of bounds to government ministers, it was revealed yesterday. According to a written answer to parliament by... Read more

16 June, 2010 by Nick Heath

Home Office: Police will retain data on innocent people

...a pledge by the government that they would be deleted, Home Office minister James Brokenshire has admitted. According to The Daily Telegraph, Brokenshire said in... Read more

27 July, 2011 by Sade Laja

Cameron weighs in on Twitter injunction debate

...Prime minister David Cameron has acknowledged that the government should review current privacy laws... Read more

23 May, 2011 by Ben Woods

Australian PM's computer hacked, reports say

...Hackers broke into the parliamentary email accounts of the Australian prime minister Julia Gillard, foreign minister Kevin Rudd and defence minister Stephen Smith, and... Read more

30 March, 2011 by Darren Pauli

EU ministers set revamped WEEE targets

...Ministers from EU member states have outlined their proposals for a revamp to... Read more

16 March, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Government scraps FiReControl network

...Fire minister Bob Neill has confirmed that the project to create a network of... Read more

22 December, 2010 by Kable

Twitter, Facebook and RIM 'look forward' to riots talks

...and the UK that started on Saturday. Photo credit: Nicobobinus/Flickr Prime minister David Cameron said on Thursday that the London riots had been "organised... Read more

12 August, 2011 by David Meyer

Fire service gets £81m to improve control systems

...National Audit Office. In a written ministerial statement published on Tuesday, fire minister Robert Neill announced plans to provide up to £1.8m for each... Read more

7 July, 2011 by Sade Laja

Online shoppers to get two-week right of return

...states within two years, if it gets approved by the Council of Ministers in July. "The new directive is... a good example of how more... Read more

24 June, 2011 by David Meyer

UK tech patents get peer review trial

...stronger, giving businesses better protection to grow their innovative ideas," intellectual property minister Baroness Willcox said in a statement on Wednesday. "This will give the... Read more

1 June, 2011 by David Meyer
Startup Britain site points to scareware

Startup Britain site points to scareware

...t know when the site was infected." Startup Britain and the prime minister's office had not responded to a request for comment at the... Read more

29 March, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Cisco pledges $500m to East London Tech City

...to develop a competitor to Silicon Valley in the British capital. Prime minister David Cameron has welcomed a $500m investment by Cisco in UK projects... Read more

31 January, 2011 by Jack Clark

Government plans data-sharing corporation

...Corporation to bring together data from government bodies in one organisation. Business minister Edward Davey has announced that the government plans to create a Public... Read more

14 January, 2011 by Kable

UK to join European fingerprint database

...of asylum seekers and some illegal entrants to the European Union. Immigration minister Damian Green said in a parliamentary written statement, published on Monday, that... Read more

13 January, 2011 by Kable

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BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

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

...... and PDP11s too

3 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...

4 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...

6 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...

8 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...

8 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...

9 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.

11 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...

11 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

12 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

13 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....

14 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...

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

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

16 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

16 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

20 hours ago by Mike Denton via Facebook on Security on the farm: Accounts and permissions
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...

22 hours ago by minzhu on RIM CEO: Time to squash BlackBerry myths
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