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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 likelihood of the PM's... [09 Jan 2009]
CIOs back call for common skills scheme
News Rob Neil, head of ICT services, Ashford Borough Council said: "It's a yes vote for a common accreditation scheme but no to a National Skills Academy. CIOs have broadly set themselves behind the call for a common... [13 Oct 2008]
Distributed Data Mining: Why Do More Than Aggregating Models
White Paper These results are made possible by lifting the disjoint cover constraint on the aggregated model and by the use of a confidence coefficient associated with each rule in a weighted majority vote. This paper deals with the... [19 Sep 2008]
Ad gurus called in to help ID cards
News ID cards will now be voluntary from 2010, with a parliamentary vote on whether to make them compulsory by 2015 having been postponed. Adverstising gurus will be employed to spread the word about the first wave of the... [09 Sep 2008]
EU law to end file-sharers time online?
News The telecoms package will, however, need to pass a vote in the European Parliament in September before it can be enacted. Edwards had told silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk ahead of the vote that the... [09 Jul 2008]
ID cards chief defends u-turn
News Hall said the decision to delay a Parliamentary vote on making ID cards compulsory for British citizens until 2015 was an example of the government "listening to people" and to the recommendations of a wider report into... [10 Mar 2008]
ID card u-turn by government
News Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is also expected to reveal today that any Parliamentary vote to make ID cards compulsory for British citizens will now be delayed until 2015. Silicon.com's A to Z of ID Cards [06 Mar 2008]
How fans can grab a slice of the music pie
Comment You also get more stars as a scout so you also get more influence - your vote is worth two or three times that of a less reliable scout. Slicethepie has been running since June 2007 and gives music fans the opportunity... [18 Feb 2008]
PM: Parliament to decide ID cards fate
News Brown replied: "Because there has to be a vote of Parliament. The Prime Minister Gordon Brown has reiterated his backing for ID cards this week in the face of accusations his support for the controversial scheme is... [10 Jan 2008]
Poll: The most expensive gadgets lost are...
News Digital cameras came third with 16 per cent of the vote. PDAs and laptops came in at joint fifth, both taking 10 per cent of the vote. Security from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more. A is... [27 Nov 2007]
Stop e-voting trials, government told
News Thirteen local authorities - including Sheffield, Shrewsbury, Stratford-on-Avon and Warwick - ran trials for electronic voting, vote counting and voting in advance.silicon.com Public Sector In some locations where... [02 Aug 2007]
Call for e-voting to be scrapped amid security fears
News According to the report, the system could potentially allow hackers to steal authentication details, monitor how someone had cast their vote or change the contents of the online ballot paper. All of this was compounded... [25 Jun 2007]
E-counting under scrutiny in election shambles
News She said: "No one explained the process, so voters were rating all 10 candidates, when they only needed to rate the candidates they actually wanted to vote for, which slowed up proceedings. The Electoral Commission is... [04 May 2007]
Chiltern Railways extends mobile barcode ticket trial
News Cast your vote in our latest two-second poll. Chiltern Railways is to extend the use of SMS mobile phone ticketing for passengers, following the success of a three-month trial. The technology allows electronic barcode... [13 Apr 2007]
E-voting pilots on the way
News These included electronic vote-counting at Epping Forest District Council and the London Boroughs of Lewisham and Newham, as well as electronic signature-checking technology that uses optical character... [17 Oct 2006]
