Berners-Lee sketches out plan for gov't data
News Raw government data should be published using open formats to enable mash-ups, according to the inventor of the world wide web [26 Jun 2009]
Tories vow to publish more data online
News A new Conservative government would find the most useful data in 20 areas and publish it online for the public to mashup and use, according to David Cameron [26 Jun 2009]
NHS IT agency faces restructure
News Consultation will take place over the future of the Connecting for Health name [25 Jun 2009]
Whitehall gives nod for increased IT offshoring
News According to the Cabinet Office, sending some tech work abroad could result in cheaper IT services [25 Jun 2009]
Private companies to be subject to FoI law
News The Freedom of Information Act will be extended to companies in the private sector doing work for the government, Justice Minister Michael Wills says [14 May 2009]
Autonomy begins integration of Interwoven
Blog On Tuesday, Cambridge-based infrastructure software company Autonomy completed the purchase of Interwoven, the US content management company. The sale was due to be completed for £560m. The... [18 Mar 2009]
Rambus victorious in US gov't antitrust case
News The US Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal by the Federal Trade Commission in its seven-year antitrust battle with Rambus [24 Feb 2009]
Vodafone cuts 500 UK jobs
News The operator is shedding hundreds of employees as part of a cost-cutting drive to help it 'compete more effectively in the UK market' [24 Feb 2009]
Socitm: Cloud's more revolutionary than the PC
News Cloud computing could have a greater effect on public-sector IT than the advent of the PC in the 1980s, according to Socitm [24 Feb 2009]
Microsoft lets laid-off staff keep excess severance
News The software maker has said 25 laid-off workers who were accidentally paid too much will be able to keep the excess [24 Feb 2009]
Vodafone exec warns against tech regulation
News Government regulation of the technology industry can have unforeseen consequences, a Vodafone public-policy expert tells a Westminster e-Forum audience [11 Feb 2009]
Financial firms unsure where personal data is held
News More than half of financial-services organisations have no accurate inventory of where their employees' and customers' personal data is stored, a survey has found [13 Jan 2009]
Gov't gives free laptops to Norfolk children
News Norfolk County Council has been given £310,000 to supply 400 children with laptops, under the Home Access ICT scheme [31 Dec 2008]
Shared-services project makes DfT tech bill soar
News A late-running shared-services programme has raised the cost of the Department for Transport's IT projects from £300m to nearly £400m [29 Dec 2008]
Verizon wins largest-ever cybersquatting damages
News A US court has awarded $33.15m to the company in a cybersquatting case a domain registrar, but Verizon may have difficulty collecting the damages [29 Dec 2008]
Privacy Abuse by Technology
Blog The RIAA using Internet Service Providers to hunt down IP "pirates" are going to do it without search warrants. There is no way for the RIAA or any other copyright owner to know when piracy is... [26 Dec 2008]
Apple TV draws patent lawsuit
News A US maker of wireless set-top boxes has filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against the tech giant over Apple TV [19 Dec 2008]
European IT market to defy credit crunch
News The European Information Technology Observatory forecasts that the area's IT market will grow by two percent, to £298bn, next year [18 Dec 2008]
Transport for London seeks £400m IT savings
News As part of a £2.4bn efficiency drive, TfL is aiming to save £400m by restructuring its IT systems [18 Dec 2008]
Motorola to cut staff benefits, freeze salaries
News The troubled phone maker says it is taking steps to trim employee and executive compensation and benefits, as the recession takes its toll [18 Dec 2008]
Microsoft settles patent case with mouse maker
News Taiwanese mouse maker Primax is entering into a non-exclusive licensing agreement to use Microsoft tech as part of the settlement [18 Dec 2008]
MP admits core NHS IT system has just 24 users
News Health minister Ben Bradshaw has revealed that, so far, only 24 people are using the Lorenzo patient-administration system [18 Dec 2008]
Compliance - 2b Forensic readiness planning, really, you nee...
Blog Most businesses are aware of the need to keep personal and other data secure, and to have a disaster recovery plan in place, but haven't even heard of, let alone considered a forensic readiness... [12 Dec 2008]
ManageSoft tackles virtual licences
Blog An upgrade to software from software asset management company, ManageSoft, offers tools for possibly reducing the cost of software licenses on virtual systems and addresses the issues raised. ... [03 Dec 2008]
EC calls for IT help in the energy battle
Blog The European Commission has said that it sees climate change as an issue which IT organisations and managers around the world should do their bit to tackle and it now has a plan to make a start on... [20 Nov 2008]
When does Copyrighted Software cease to be Copyrighted?
Blog Assume I have the source code for the Linux 2.6 kernel. Suppose I want to use just a piece of it. How small a piece does it have to be before I'm no longer violating the GPL? What my question is... [20 Sep 2008]
Steve Jobs looks very thin
Blog Although it was good to see that Apple might finally be staging a significant assault on the enterprise with the 3G iPhone, the one thing that struck me immediately from Steve Jobs's latest product... [10 Jun 2008]
Should the EU refuse to buy Microsoft?
Blog A Green Party member of the European Parliament has formally requested that Microsoft be excluded from EU public procurements, because it is in breach of EU competition law. It's been suggested... [14 Apr 2008]
Open Source is Gay?
Blog I can imagine Steve Ballmer casting aspersions on Linux' manliness back in the days when Microsoft didn't like open source. But actually, my headline is a tease lead in to a more serious issue -... [17 Mar 2008]
Wikileaks taken offline
Blog On Monday, the main site of Wikileaks was ordered to be taken offline by a California judge. According to a press release from Wikileaks, which provides an anonymous, encrypted online... [18 Feb 2008]
