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The Weekly Round-Up: 20.11.09
Round-Up Workers in jobs such as website design, development and technical support exercise the least out of all the professions nationwide, according to a new survey, with fewer than one in five meeting... [20 Nov 2009]
UK ID cards rollout hit by delay as launch date revealed
News The missed deadline is laid out on the ID cards section of the government's public information website, Direct.gov.uk, which reads: "Identity cards will be issued in selected locations first, starting in... [16 Nov 2009]
State of the Web: Application Security Trends Over 6 Years
White Paper As a result, the impact of a poorly built website or application is no longer limited to defacement and brand-damage, but typically now leads to costly and embarrassing exposure of private personal data on clients,... [13 Nov 2009]
Barack Obama
AS Profile Obama and his tech team are committed to several challenging tasks, including the upgrading of out-of-date White House computer systems and making official data available on the data.gov website. US President Barack... [08 Oct 2009]
Vivek Kundra
AS Profile The administration is also already publishing raw government data on the data.gov website. Kundra also recently announced his commitment to cutting the $19bn that the administration spends on running its... [30 Sep 2009]
Tom Steinberg
AS Profile Steinberg is the director of mySociety, a not-for-profit, open source organisation that set up the TheyWorkForYou website, which uses the official parliamentary record to chart what MPs say and do.mySociety's portfolio... [30 Sep 2009]
Is open source software finding a home in Whitehall?
News The benefits of open source software are clear to Jeremy Tuck, CIO of Islington Council, which uses open source software to power its document management system and runs its website off a content management system... [29 Sep 2009]
Australian cops investigate 'anonymous' cyber attack threat
News Earlier this year, the AFP was called in by the AGD to investigate the hack of the Classification Board's website, which occurred shortly after the Australian minister for communications Stephen Conroy appeared on an... [09 Sep 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Can tech end bloody wars?
Comment For some interesting timelines of wars and technology, see this website. The potential for disrupting utilities providers, government and industry systems is huge and could turn out to be far more... [28 Aug 2009]
Future of the NHS: Medical records online could transform healthcare
News Most NHS patients can currently only access a limited amount of healthcare information online using the NHS website HealthSpace, such as blood pressure readings and blood sugar levels. At the Haughton Vale Surgery and... [21 Aug 2009]
Largest hack and ID theft in US: Three suspects charged
News In an SQL injection attack, a small malicious script is inserted, exploiting a vulnerability in the database layer of an application that feeds information to the website. Formerly a federal government... [18 Aug 2009]
General Motors to start selling cars on eBay
News It will be available at the co-branded website, gm.ebay.com. The site will allow people to compare prices, arrange financing, and check a used car's eligibility for the Cash for Clunkers trade-in program, a US... [11 Aug 2009]
'Completely unworkable': The plans to track your web habits
News While it is relatively trivial to reverse-engineer web communications in order to pinpoint a single website that one individual has visited, monitoring the browsing habits of an entire country is a different matter, he... [05 Aug 2009]
CIOs, consultants, IT pros: How much are you worth?
News IT recruitment website The IT Job Board has published its 2009 salary survey which benchmarks the earning power of 16 job titles, from entry level positions such as IT support and database administrator through to... [31 Jul 2009]
Pay gap: UK female execs better off in IT
News However wage and age gap figures released by executive jobs website Experteer show IT is the most female-friendly sector when it comes to pay and promotion - with women paid two per cent more than men, and progressing to... [30 Jul 2009]
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