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50p broadband tax 'will leave 20 pc of UK without fibre'

Digital Britain can't fund 100 per cent coverage, says BT…

MoD inks £231m deal to boost comms
Take a Bowman

Tags: mod, comms, bowman, radios

Apple bonanza, crime breathalysers and broadband tax
Stories of the month - June 2009

Tags: iphone, india, iplayer, bt

ID cards: 'A project nobody wants and the nation can't afford'
Time to kill scheme once and for all?

Tags: id cards, trial, manchester, government

IT security training now the 'substantial' task of GCHQ
Cabinet Office passes the baton

Tags: gchq, assurance, arm, private sector

How realistic is Digital Britain's broadband plan?
Parliament investigates

Tags: broadband, fat pipe, digital britain, committee

ID cards U-turn: No compulsory cards for pilots
Airside workers plan ditched

Tags: id cards, pilots, airside, checks

£1bn cash for UK's tech start-ups
Let's have some funds

Tags: uk innovation investment fund , digital science, berr, funding

CIO Job Report: June's job moves and CIOs wanted
The latest news from the senior IT job merry-go-round...

Tags: tfl, talktalk, it director, hmrc

PayPal techies hit fraudsters where it hurts
Here comes the Fraud Sciences bit, concentrate...

Tags: security, two factor authentication, paypal, verisign

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Tags: silicon.com, opinion, discussions, panel

Parliamentary tech boss backs call for £1bn IT fund
Spend green to get green

Tags: green, westminster, shared services, committee

SMEs on target list for UK cyber attack group
"Small businesses are just as open to threats"

Tags: attack, cyber, government agencies, budgets

'Get the raw data out there ASAP': Berners-Lee
Web father reveals gov't data plan

Tags: berners lee, govt data, linked, published

Glastonbury: A festival of iPhone blogging and wireless webcams
BBC gives Worthy Farm an online remix

Tags: glastonbury, twitter, music, bbc

Europe's biggest IT schemes get new overlord
One agency to rule them all

Tags: visa, eurodac, agency, schengen

Britain to get official cyber attack dogs
"This is the first time we are saying publically we are not going to sit back"

Tags: csoc, security, cyberwarfare, ocs

End of the line for NHS IT agency?
CfH by any other name…

Tags: cfh, exec, nhs, doh

Whitehall IT to pack its bags for pastures new?
Gov't open to offshoring

Tags: government, back office, outsourcing, offshoring

Businesses lift the lid on virtualisation rollouts
Citrix users spill the beans...

Tags: virtualisation, costs, local government, law

Acpo: Police should go open source
Let's get compatible

Tags: police, open source, emergency, unisys

CIO finishing school set to open doors
Fancy the tech equivalent of an MBA?

Tags: cio, future, university, skills

Four years on, which NHS projects have failed to hit their targets?
Revealed: Who's on the critical list?

Tags: nhs it, national programme for it, npfit, summary

Recession-struck UK drops in 'e-readiness' rankings
ICT taking a hit

Tags: recession, downturn, ict, it

'Innovation, not cutbacks, is right prescription for NHS IT'
Tech investment, just what the doctor ordered

Tags: tech, nhs, it, innovation

How the £12.7bn NHS IT revamp came off the rails
The NPfIT in sickness and in health

Tags: nhs, gateway review, ogc, npfit

Web snooping plans unworkable, say critics
A protocol problem

Tags: isp, snoop, web, picture

Critics slam Digital Britain over file-sharers and tax plans
A "colossal disappointment", say Tories

Tags: isps, isp, laws, next generation

G-Cloud in the sky: The future home for gov't apps
Careful, not too hasty now

Tags: cloud, government, council, savings

Signing off a gov't IT contract? Don't move a muscle
Digital Britain: Get thee to the government CIO

Tags: government, oep, public sector, procurement

Ministry of Justice slashes IT bill by £110m
Six become two

Tags: prisons, ministry of justice, police, courts

Is it 999 for emergency services comms?
Learning from Sky News...

Tags: spectrum, mobile data, emergency services, emergency

'Digital Britain snubbing UK businesses'
Watching more telly is not the answer

Tags: digital britain, ethernet, broadband, cable

Delayed: Digital Britain report
And Lord Carter's step down date confirmed

Tags: broadband, digital britain, lord carter, summer

And the £400m biometric passport contract goes to…?
Fingerprints on buzzers

Tags: id cards, passport, biometric, cards

Business intelligence has downturn upturn
Riding the BI-cycle...

Tags: gartner, revenues, recession, economy

Police mobiles cautioned for bad behaviour
£75m well spent?

Tags: mobile, pda, police, deployments

BT calls for end of 'free ride' for BBC's iPlayer
…and admits "throttling" video traffic

Tags: bbc, video, iplayer, bt

Ageing probation tech failing to keep tabs on prisoners
Crams! It's crumbling

Tags: prisons, delius, oasys, nomis

Whitehall: DIY tech to protect against public service knife
"You do not win an election by telling people Armageddon is upon us"

Tags: public sector, cabinet office, web 2.0, redesign

Brown enlists web father to open up gov't data
Tim Berners-Lee on the case

Tags: brown, berners-lee, data, speech

SFO gets new CIO
PwC man gets the nod

Tags: sfo, fraud, cio, evidence

Airwave eyeing Olympic network legacy
Fun and Games

Tags: olympics, radio, airwave, events

Homeland Security hires ex-hacker
"The reality is he's as corporate as hiring someone out of Microsoft"

Tags: homeland security, hacker, homeland, council

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