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Barack Obama
AS Profile US President Barack Obama entered the White House with a pledge to use technology to transform government. Obama and his tech team are committed to several challenging tasks, including the upgrading of out-of-date White... [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 UK government may have been slow to adopt open source software but there are signs that the tide may be turning. There has already been quite a substantial use of open source… about half of the... [29 Sep 2009]
Australian cops investigate 'anonymous' cyber attack threat
News The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has been called in to investigate a planned denial-of-service attack on Australian government web servers. The government considers cyber security to be one of... [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 Ian Herbert, vice chairman of the health informatics advisory panel for the British Computer Society and former consultant on the government's £12.7bn IT revamp, said: "Patient involvement is essential if we are going to... [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 Government proposals to monitor all web communications are technologically unworkable, according to the organisation that switches the majority of web traffic for the UK. The London Internet Exchange (Linx), which counts... [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 Progress on gender pay equality in the UK has stalled, says the government's Women and Work Commission (WWC) but senior female tech workers at least have reason to smile, according to new research. However wage and age... [30 Jul 2009]
MI5 plugs website flaw that left site open to hack attack
News However, the government service insisted the website had been secured quickly, and that at no time had any intelligence operatives been exposed by the hack. MI5 has closed up a flaw on its... [30 Jul 2009]
How realistic is Digital Britain's broadband plan?
News Many of the government's recommendations in Lord Carter's Digital Britain report, published earlier this month, require new legislation if they are to be put into practice. The committee will also attempt to find out... [01 Jul 2009]
Whitehall hires a Twitter tsar
News The government's deputy CIO has been named as the UK's first director of digital engagement. Andrew Stott, a Cambridge graduate with a degree in mathematics and law who has been deputy CIO since September 2004, started... [14 May 2009]
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