Open-source tools wrest control of personal data
Q&A Adriana Lukas explains how the open-source Mine project will help people regain control of data held about them on the web [16 Nov 2009]
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Think tank calls for national policing agency
News Centre-left think tank the Institute for Public Policy Research recommends that existing police organisations and their IT systems should be transferred to a new body [26 Nov 2009]
Oracle proposes new MySQL plan to EU
News The company takes measures designed to prop up the competitiveness of MySQL, in an attempt to grease the wheels of the European Commission's inquiry into its takeover of Sun [14 Dec 2009]
Oracle taps into Sun tech for faster Exadata
News The database giant has used Sun FlashFire technology in a version of the data-warehousing appliance [16 Sep 2009]
BIS moves closer to web rationalisation
News The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills signs a deal with Eduserv for the Sitecore CMS on an unlimited user licence [12 Nov 2009]
BakBone moves into data-archiving software
News The company's NetVault: Archive, a software only-distributed system, is targeted at the growth of unstructured data [30 Oct 2009]
Amazon puts SQL in the cloud
News The company has made MySQL available on demand, going head-to-head with Microsoft's Azure [28 Oct 2009]
Four steps for sharpening up data management
Analysis The scale of the task stops many firms imposing order on their data, but a few simple steps could help start the process [16 Nov 2009]
MoD report calls for better information management
News A Ministry of Defence report says the armed forces need to 'significantly improve' their use of information [18 Nov 2009]
Public archives should be online, says gov't report
News The Ministry of Justice recommends online catalogues are created to enable citizens to access publicly funded archives [26 Nov 2009]
