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Could new internet routing chop 40 per cent off Google's electricity bill?
News The idea of the "smart grid" is to modernise the electricity industry by overlaying digital communications onto the grid. It then calculates the best option depending on the price of electricity and the distance that... [19 Aug 2009]
Voice, video, data: £1bn gov't telecoms contract up for grabs
News The systems under the framework will handle voice, video and data and include telecoms equipment and network infrastructure, call centre systems, unified communications, fixed to mobile... [10 Jul 2009]
Europe votes for net-neutrality reforms
News The digital rights campaigning group La Quadrature du Net said in a statement on Wednesday that the voting through of the Telecoms Package, including amendment 138/46, was "the final blow against three-strikes laws such as Nicolas... [07 May 2009]
Inside the government's Facebook monitoring plans
News Soca director general Bill Hughes, speaking at the same event, also said communications data were "essential tools" for fighting crime. Smith said on Monday that, if public authorities... [27 Apr 2009]
£12bn snooping database disappears from Queen's speech
News The Communications Data Bill was pushed back by the Home Office to allow more consultation on the controversial proposals next year. There is concern the bill will allow... [03 Dec 2008]
Super comms database ditched for next year?
News The unpopular Communications Data Bill may have been axed from the next round of parliamentary legislation, according to reports. According to the government, the Bill... [21 Nov 2008]
Snooping database has to happen says gov't
News Lord West of Spithead revealed the IMP and the Communications Data Bill, due for its first reading in December, are bound together when he told parliament in July 2008 that more details... [15 Oct 2008]
Privacy chief fights UK-wide database
News A database of all calls, emails and internet traffic, to be stored by the Home Office for at least 12 months, is thought to be included under proposals for "modifying procedures for acquiring communications... [15 Jul 2008]
Gov't data retention - how much is too much?
News He said the draft bill was unnecessary as government could gain access to all the communications data it needed from ISPs under the existing Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act. The... [10 Jul 2008]
HMRC and MoD face action over data blunders
News Bill Jeffrey, permanent under secretary for the MoD said: "We deeply regret the losses of personal data. The Poynter report said: "The data loss incident arose following a sequence of... [25 Jun 2008]
ID cards: The "surveillance society" risk
News ID cards: Latest news Secret ID card review: Judge quashes its release ID cards fuel £147m consultancy bill ID cards chief defends u-turn ID card u-turn by government ID cards... [09 Jun 2008]
Critics attack gov't email, phone database plan
News A spokeswoman for the Home Office described how the draft Communications Data Bill could broaden the scope of records demanded under the EU directive. Full details of the draft... [20 May 2008]
IT must be called to account over emissions
Comment Nowhere is this apparent break-down in communications between the corporate board and IT management more evident than in the data centre, where 55 per cent of managers did not even know how much the... [07 Apr 2008]
Hillary Clinton talks tech
News Not all candidates chose to respond: Republicans Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson declined, as did Democrats Joe Biden and Bill Richardson. Senate Republicans brought this legislation up for a... [03 Jan 2008]
Bill Maguire
AS Profile From a standing start, Bill Maguire has built a lightweight and flexible technology set-up for the new Richard Branson-backed US domestic low-cost airline, Virgin America, which took to the air in August this year. [12 Oct 2007]
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