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Police map out crime online
News Sir Norman Bettison, policing futures lead for the Association of Chief Police Officers, said the organisation supports the national roll out of the tech as it fulfils "the key responsibility to give information to communities in order that they... [29 Jul 2008]
Berners-Lee and friends promote web science study
News The Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI) is being led by Sir Tim Berners-Lee - widely regarded as one of the founding fathers of the web - along with colleagues from MIT and Southampton University in the UK. [14 Jul 2008]
MoD IT - late and over budget
News Sir Bill Jeffrey, permanent under secretary of state for the MoD, said in a statement: "As the report brings out, we still have some problems to overcome in rolling out the system completely, but we are working hard to overcome these, and will be... [04 Jul 2008]
Berners-Lee bigs up the 'semantic web'
News Sir Tim Berners-Lee, recognised as the founding father of the world wide web, claims the work of companies like Google has made the web a much more powerful tool. Speaking at the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce... [13 Mar 2008]
Photos of the month - January 2008
Photo Sir Richard Branson unveiled the latest vehicle with which he hopes Virgin Galactic can make space tourism a viable pastime. Picture credit: Tim Ferguson Bill Gates gave his last speech at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas in which... [30 Jan 2008]
Photos: Zoom in on London from the air…
Photo This may look like the side of a spaceship but it's actually Sir Norman Foster's Swiss Re tower - dubbed the "Gherkin" - in the City of London. The instantly recognisable dome of Sir Christopher Wren's St Paul's Cathedral. [28 Jan 2008]
Driver e-services save £33m
News Sir John Bourn, head of the NAO, urged the department to "continue to evaluate current pilots and investigate ways of using the technology to further improve the services offered". The Department for Transport and its agencies, including the Driver... [16 Jan 2008]
A third of gov't data systems need improvement
News Head of the NAO, Sir John Bourn, said good quality data is essential for the effective operation of targets for public sector accountability. A third of public sector data systems are not sufficiently robust for the demands they face. [20 Dec 2007]
Berners-Lee attacks "stupid" male geek culture
News The inventor of the world wide web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has called for an end to the "stupid" male geek culture that disregards the work of capable female engineers, and puts others off entering the profession. [24 Sep 2007]
Video: What's exciting Sir Tim Berners-Lee?
Video silicon.com sister site ZDNet executive editor David Berlind interviews Tim Berners-Lee, director of the World Wide Web Consortium, at the Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange Technology Awards in Boston. [08 Jun 2007]
BT names new chairman
News BT's next chairman will be Sir Michael Rake, the telco announced today. Currently the chairman at accountancy firm KPMG, Rake will take over the BT post from Sir Christopher Bland in September this year. [19 Feb 2007]
Southampton FC tackles internet security
Case Study The club is making more use of IT than ever before following the opening of an academy hostel and the introduction of the cutting edge sports science methods employed by performance director, Sir Clive Woodward. [08 Jan 2007]
Can you trust what you read online?
Comment A week ago Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the world wide web, told The Guardian newspaper that the internet could be corrupted by unseemly elements. As the web matures, it is becoming less and less trusted as a source of information, says... [08 Nov 2006]
Web science: Sir Tim plugs new subject
News Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the basic software of the web and is director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards group, as well as being one of this year's silicon.com Agenda Setters, said: "The web is basically a web of people. [03 Nov 2006]
Editor's Blog: Post-CIO Forum
Comment He follows Sir Terry Matthews and Sir Tim Berners-Lee as the winners of the past two years. OK, so I knew where the gongs were going, having been a judge way back at the start of the summer, spanning the judges' day in July, right up to catching up... [28 Sep 2006]
