Funded ICT training take-up falls by half
News According to the report, which outlines why digital life skills have an important role to play in the wellbeing of citizens and the wider UK economy, the number of people taking up funded ICT training has fallen by half since 2004-05.
[June 18, 2009, 10:49]
VC-funded start-up takes on MS Sharepoint
News Jive Software, which has been self-funded and profitable until now, is expected next week to announce a $15m (£7.6m) investment from Sequoia Capital. Fuelled by a round of venture capital, Jive Software is pushing into the corporate technology...
[August 21, 2007, 13:33]
SME associations call for EC-funded IT training
News Benassi stressed that while there were private-sector-funded programmes, the funding of formal qualifications by proprietary companies should not be exploited by those companies to market their products.
[March 7, 2008, 10:30]
Report: Orange to offer ad-funded mobile services
Blog The ad-funded virtual mobile network operator Blyk is to transfer its users and technology over to Orange after the two companies signed a partnership deal, according to a report in New Media Age. Orange, in turn, will start offering some kind of...
[July 24, 2009, 12:40]
Ofcom lets Intel-funded firm offer mobile WiMax
News Ofcom has allowed an Intel-funded UK company to offer mobile WiMax services on the 3.6GHz frequency. Freedom4, which is co-owned by the Daisy Group, already offers fixed WiMax services to businesses in Milton Keynes, Manchester and Warwick, as a...
[October 23, 2009, 16:44]
Government-funded Linux software arrives
News KDE, one of the major interfaces designed to make Linux slick looking and easier to use, has been upgraded, an effort that includes the first results of work funded by the German government. Germany's agency for information technology security...
[January 31, 2003, 10:04]
Strengthening Information Sharing - How to Get Your Homeland Security Project Funded
White Papers This webcast explains how CA is assisting customers in defining the appropriate infrastructure level technologies needed for the availability, security and sustainability of IT systems supporting information sharing and fusion center efforts.
[November 16, 2006, 0:00]
Enterprise Data Management Provider Sees Sales of $1.2 Million From Microsoft-Funded Marketing
White Papers Solix is a leading provider of enterprise data management solutions. The company adopted support for SQL Server, and it found a ready market among its many customers who have heterogenous environments.
[September 5, 2007, 1:00]
Blyk to fold into Orange
News The ad-funded mobile virtual network operator Blyk will cease to run its service and instead provide advertising technology to Orange, the companies announced on Monday. The company launched as a completely ad-funded mobile virtual network operator...
[July 28, 2009, 13:32]
EC approves new BBC fees
News Commercial providers of digital television programming are concerned that the BBC will continue to launch new channels funded through license fee revenues, following European Commission approval of public funding for BBC News 24.
[September 30, 1999, 16:06]
Re: Channel 4 also guilty
Talkback Channel 4 are not funded by a mandatory license and do not have all sorts of fair play and public service mandates. Ch4 are funded by advertising. I pay them nothing. I pay the BBC the licenses fee. I object to paying for a service that requires me...
[July 24, 2007, 15:08]
'Critical' open source initiative to crack public sector
News A UK government-funded initiative aims to accelerate the use of open source software within the public sector, through various activities including the creation of a government-specific code repository and a directory of open source providers.
[April 5, 2005, 17:10]
Industry group fights SCO with Linux education
News The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), a Linux consortium funded by most of the computing industry's major companies, has launched the open-source industry's latest counterattack to the SCO Group's attack on Linux: an education campaign designed...
[November 27, 2003, 13:05]
Open source consortium wins EC funding
News A European Commission-funded consortium has raised over three million Euros to fund a project testing the quality of open source software. Known as the Software Quality Observatory for Open Source Software (SQO-OSS), it is half funded by its...
[October 23, 2006, 17:10]
Wikipedia, Ubuntu founders back 'open education'
News Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales and Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth are backing a scheme to make publicly funded education materials freely available on the internet. According to the declaration, publishers and governments should make publicly funded...
[January 22, 2008, 16:39]
Microsoft: 'Harden your environment'
Talkback Well funded criminal organizations are out there trying to get a hold on your environment one way or another. Why is it that these well funded criminal organizations we're all warned about simply ignore such juicy targets for years on end now?
[April 9, 2006, 23:28]
Large public-sector Linux project flops
News A publicly funded Linux project which cost UK taxpayers half-a-million pounds has flopped. Birmingham's project was funded through the £1.3m central government-backed Open Source Academy (OSA), which has itself faced mixed fortunes.
[November 13, 2006, 11:35]
Who pays???
Talkback This typifies thinking in government, both political and civil service, that programmes can be funded by various different organisations rather than tax payer funded government purse. The rather shuttered view that this displays clearly reveals...
[March 18, 2008, 14:54]
EU prefers 'computer-aided' patents
Talkback Oke so now we have to wait for the "EC-funded study on software patent". And what about the dinner for politicians in Ireland funded by Microsoft ? Great, smashing, very impresive! However the European Parlement already has a report about the...
[June 15, 2005, 9:26]
Alaska Native Corporation Saves Nearly $1 Million With Unified Communications
White Papers Alaska-based Alutiiq offers services such as construction, security, and training for government-funded and privately funded projects around the world. The company has 6,200 employees operating out of multiple locations that span the globe.
[May 30, 2009, 1:19]



