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Bletchley Park WWII codebreakers honoured
News His announcement follows the recent award of £460,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund to Bletchley Park and the apology by Prime Minster Gordon Brown to Alan Turing, the gifted Bletchley Park mathematician. [13 Oct 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 25.09.09
Round-Up However, given the minister responsible for launching it stepped down, and that time is running out for Gordon Brown's government, it looked as if time was running out for another tax. Every once in a... [25 Sep 2009]
Bletchley Park's Alan Turing gets official apology
News Alan Turing, the mathematician and cryptographer whose work played an essential role in the efforts of codebreaking-centre Bletchley Park during WWII, received a posthumous apology from Prime Minister Gordon... [14 Sep 2009]
iPhone 3.0, holograms and the shed birthplace of Silicon Valley
Photo From shiny new phones to a shiny new cabinet, as June saw PM Gordon Brown reshuffle his deck. June saw plenty of activity on the hardware and software fronts - including a peek at prototypes of a new... [03 Jul 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 12.06.09
Round-Up UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown might be as popular as Steve Ballmer in a Mac developer workshop but he knows how to tap into the populist vibe to detract attention from the state of his government.... [12 Jun 2009]
Brown enlists web father to open up gov't data
News Gordon Brown is bringing in the inventor of the web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, to help open up government data. Brown made the announcement in Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday, during... [10 Jun 2009]
Compliance with Data Handling Procedures in UK Government
White Paper The Report was drafted at the request of Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, in response to HMRC's loss of 2 compact discs containing 25 million child benefit records in November 2007. The UK Data Handling... [17 Apr 2009]
You Are the Weakest Link - Goodbye
White Paper Prime Minister Gordon Brown recently stated that the government cannot promise the safety of personal data entrusted by the public, citing human error as the reason, so that's okay then isn't it? Human... [12 Feb 2009]
Satyam scandal, police search row and Apple without Jobs
News With Prime Minister Gordon Brown setting aside £18bn for investment to help UK plc get through the recession, silicon.com also took a look at what tech investments the PM should be spending the UK's cash... [02 Feb 2009]
Nasa hacker says will plead guilty in UK
News Prime Minister Gordon Brown in November spoke publically about McKinnon, boosting hopes he would serve any sentence in the UK. Self-confessed hacker Gary McKinnon has told UK prosecutors he will plead... [13 Jan 2009]
Inbox: Who's to blame for snail's pace broadband?
Comment Readers were back in full swing following the Christmas break, and quick to respond to a story regarding Gordon Brown's latest economy-fixing plan: spend £17bn. Prime Minister Gordon... [12 Jan 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 09.01.09
Round-Up That's the upbeat, can-do spirit that Gordon Brown has been talking about. And finally, Gordon Brown has come up with a great wheeze to pull the UK out of the... [09 Jan 2009]
Thumbs down for Brown's broadband pledge
News UK heads of IT have cast a vote of no confidence for Prime Minister Gordon Brown's proposals to beef up the digital economy in the latest silicon.com CIO Jury. Jurors voted 11 to one against the... [09 Jan 2009]
Dear Gordon, here's how to spend that £17bn
News Prime Minister Gordon Brown has earmarked £18bn for investment to help UK Plc get through the economic downturn - and with only around £1bn spent so far there's still plenty of cash on the table.... [06 Jan 2009]
PM's 100,000 job plan to mean broadband spending spree?
News Prime Minister Gordon Brown looks to have given the go ahead to a recession-busting programme of investment that could see super-fast broadband rolled out across the UK. Speaking to The Observer... [05 Jan 2009]
