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Recession hitting low paid IT jobs
News The average graduate salary for computer science grads last year was just over £21k, according to a Higher Education Careers Services Unit (Hecsu) report published earlier this month, while the starting... [24 Nov 2009]
5 Steps Every Business Can Take to Guard Against Botnets
White Paper Robot networks and zombie armies may sound like names from science fiction. By secretly invading business Internet connections, hackers and spammers can download harmful software, including spyware and... [13 Nov 2009]
SecSip: A Stateful Firewall for SIP-Based Networks
White Paper SIP-based networks are becoming the de-facto standard for voice, video and instant messaging services. Being exposed to many threats while playing an major role in the operation of essential services, the need for dedicated security... [12 Nov 2009]
Tech grads finding it harder to land job in IT
News Computer science graduates continue to be sought-after as employers recognise that, in an increasingly competitive market, IT is a vital tool for commercial success. The number of tech graduates landing... [12 Nov 2009]
UK software industry - alive and kicking
News The analysts said improvements to teaching of science, technology, engineering and maths needs to be improved in order to create the next generation of software developers, while better tax incentives for investment,... [23 Oct 2009]
Naked CIO: Put more business in IT education
Comment Firstly, as IT is as much an applied art as it is a science, the practical elements that prepare students in other disciplines are absent in IT education. As a result we are preparing a new generation of... [12 Oct 2009]
Karen Price
AS Profile She has been vocal about a national IT skills gap - flagging up how there are 140,000 IT vacancies each year yet only 12,000 computer science grads: numbers that don't stack up. As CEO of e-skills UK,... [29 Sep 2009]
Intel takes aim at clever TVs as the gogglebox gets connected
News We've got sonic immersion down to a good science. Intel argues that there's more that can be done to augment the experience of watching TV-drilling down into details about particular shows, using... [28 Sep 2009]
Are dinosaur managers and poor teaching holding back Digital Britain?
News A recent report by the CBI blamed poor teaching in schools for contributing to a shortage of graduates in science, technology, engineering and maths. A panel assembled by the British Computer Society... [23 Sep 2009]
Tech skills: UK Plc told to get its hands dirty and help students
News IT skills are an issue of perennial concern for the UK which creates fewer IT graduates annually than UK industry requires - only around 12,000 computer science grads are produced yet around 140,000... [21 Sep 2009]
Google grabs ReCaptcha for security and book-scanning
News ReCaptcha is an offshoot of Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, and puts a twist on the traditional captcha: a string of letters in squiggly text meant to confuse spam bots and other... [17 Sep 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.09.09
Round-Up That 2:2 in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering doesn't seem so special now, does it? The computer that was first used in 1951 for atomic research. The device is not the oldest... [04 Sep 2009]
Apple tablet, Windows 7, Nokia mini laptop, 3D printers and future mobiles
Photo August saw this futuristic-looking machine, the ULTra personal rapid transit (PRT) vehicle, on display at London's Science Museum. This printer was on display at the Science Museum in London last month... [02 Sep 2009]
Efficient Forest Fire Detection System: A Spatial Data Mining and Image Processing Based Approach
White Paper The drastic ascent in the volume of spatial data owes its growth to the technical advancements in technologies that aid in spatial data acquisition, mass storage and network interconnection. Thus the necessity for automated detection of... [29 Aug 2009]
Microsoft IT Academy Program Helps Malaysia Narrow ICT Skills Gap
White Paper Computer science departments at 20 public universities. To help address an acute and growing shortage of workers with strong Information and Communications Technology (ICT) skills, Microsoft is... [25 Jul 2009]
