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Email and web snoop plans slammed - again
News The Labour chairman of an influential technology group has warned that government plans to monitor UK email and internet records could collect to much data to be useful. According to consultation papers released in August, the government wants to... [04 Sep 2008]
UK crime fighters grapple with iPhone wipe threat
News The government has committed itself to funding such a unit and indicated it could be part of the proposed National Fraud Reporting Centre, under the Attorney General's Office, while the Metropolitan Police Service and the Association of Police... [02 Sep 2008]
Home broadband gives kids better GCSE results
News Becta, the organisation that advises the government on educational IT, says six years of its research have established a strong link between educational attainment and access to technology - especially when it comes to broadband. [28 Aug 2008]
Online auction slashes gov't laptop costs in half
News The government's buying body has slashed the cost of procuring laptops and desktop PCs using online reverse auctions. The e-auction, facilitated by the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) and sponsored by OGCbuying.solutions, was for 5,000 laptops... [22 Aug 2008]
Ofcom: Copper capable of high-speed broadband
News Industry pressure group the Communications Management Association (CMA) has called for a £15bn government-led initiative to run fibre to all the nation's homes, and BT has begun a £1.5bn programme to take fibre to 10 million homes. [22 Aug 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Bordering on stupidity
Comment G is for Government IT Written in a coffee shop in Mountain View CA and dispatched the next day from a free wi-fi service in the hotel. What could be easier? Take that old paper passport and add some electronics to turn it into a super-secure means... [21 Aug 2008]
Manchester Airport begins biometric ID trial
News If successful these facial recognition gates could be rolled out across the country with the government promising checks against immigration and security watch-lists on 99 per cent of visitors from outside Europe by 2010. [20 Aug 2008]
Laying the foundations for evolving eGovernment: Why next generation Ethernet technology holds the key
White Paper The UK Government has committed to transform the public sector by making truly e-enabled delivery of public services a reality.This whitepaper demonstrates with real-life examples of successful projects how next generation Ethernet technology is... [15 Aug 2008]
£68m 'snooping' database: Little impact on serious crime
News Powers to snoop on the UK's email and internet records will be of limited use in tackling serious crime, the government has admitted. Consultation papers released this week show the government wants to keep the "who", "when" and "where" of... [13 Aug 2008]
Gov't battles EU to use passenger data
News The government is battling European Union (EU) proposals to restrict the way it uses air passenger data to monitor immigration. The government attacked the EU draft proposal on PNR saying there was a "real risk" it "would degrade e-Borders by... [08 Aug 2008]
Welsh Assembly signs e-procurement contract
News The portal, which supports the 'xchangewales' e-procurement programme, was ordered by Value Wales, the procurement arm of the government. Two hundred buyers for the government have been trained to procure goods and services online for central and... [06 Aug 2008]
Stolen ePassports 'worth £20m' on black market
News Professor of security engineering at Cambridge University Ross Anderson said: "This all goes to show how unwise it would be to rely on the UK government for all authentication. A van carrying about 3,000 blank ePassports and visas was hijacked on... [29 Jul 2008]
Questys Solutions Case Study: Mariposa County Building Department
White Paper The Department looked at several leading vendors and chose Questys Solutions based on its user-friendly interface and the ease of integration with their existing H.T.E.government information technology systems. [18 Jul 2008]
Whitehall IT to be carbon neutral by 2020
News The government has announced plans to make Whitehall's computer systems wholly carbon neutral by 2020 by adopting various green IT strategies, including automatically powering down PCs, configuring virtual servers and selective deployments of thin... [17 Jul 2008]
O2 considers high fibre rollout
News We will continue working closely with Ofcom and the government to achieve this. Following BT's Tuesday announcement that it was to plough £1.5bn into a fibre-access rollout to 10 million homes, an O2 spokesperson told silicon.com sister site ZDNet... [17 Jul 2008]
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