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Childnet helps parents get web savvy

Case Study The resource, which is available on a CD ROM or downloaded over the charity's website, is designed to help parents acclimatise themselves to the internet, so that they have the confidence to help their own children do the same in a safe manner.

Tags: parents, children, education

[08 May 2008]

People are mugs over identity theft

Comment According to the Directgov website, "Identity theft affects more than 100,000 people every year" and victims are invariably ordinary people who are less likely to be aware the theft has happened or take swift action to deal with the problem until...

Tags: social networks, fraud, identity theft, security

[08 Apr 2008]

Microsoft's OOXML wins 'standard' stamp

News The OpenDoc Society - which had argued Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) format was unripe for ratification by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) - published the results showing Microsoft's win on its website.

Tags: ooxml, microsoft, iso

[02 Apr 2008]

The high-tech road to happiness

News In addition, the HA is opening up its network of traffic cameras - still images from 1,200 cameras are available on the HA website and on partner websites and streamed images from the cameras will soon be used in TV travel bulletins.

Tags: cars, highways agency, traffic

[01 Apr 2008]

ITN consortium in frame for Teachers TV

News Programmes can be viewed over Sky, Virgin Media, Tiscali TV or through the service website, www.teachers.tv. A consortium led by ITN is in final negotiations over a £50m, five-year contract from the government to provide on-demand video content to...

Tags: teaching, itn, tv, public sector

[14 Mar 2008]

Internet shoppers clueless on web security

News A survey conducted by hosting specialist NetBenefit revealed 80 per cent of consumers are concerned about internet security when buying online but 70 per cent of them did not understand the significance of the green internet browser bar (a signal...

Tags: netbenefit, fraud, ssl, enter

[26 Feb 2008]

Mobile operators hit back over EU data roaming threat

News But the threat of regulation was welcomed by consumer price comparison website MoneySupermarket.com. The biggest mobile roaming cost for users is downloading data, according to the price comparison website.

Tags: gsma, roaming, operators, website

[11 Feb 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 01.02.08

Round-Up Instead, the latest cock-up by everyone's favourite government department is to do with its website, or rather the lack of it. During yesterday morning and early afternoon, users trying to access the Self Assessment Online section of the HMRC...

Tags: hmrc, broadband, pc, windows

[01 Feb 2008]

Self-assessment tax site crashes out on deadline day

News Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has been forced to extend the deadline for filing self-assessment tax returns online after the website crashed due to the number of people trying to file their returns before the 31 January deadline.

Tags: hmrc, deadline, government gateway, tax

[31 Jan 2008]

Geography lessons for online retailers

Comment The technology determines the geographic location and network connection data for each IP address accessing a website. For businesses, this geo-targeting can improve click-through rates and increase revenues from website traffic.

Tags: geolocation, sales, customer loyalty, online retail

[09 Jan 2008]

Downing St responds to silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign

News As part of the campaign silicon.com launched an online petition on the Downing Street website calling for the Prime Minister to improve the reporting of information security breaches in the public and private sectors.

Tags: full disclosure, government, data breach, data protection

[10 Dec 2007]

Rupert Murdoch

AS Profile The Australian-born, Oxford-educated media mogul was slow to come round to the potential of online publishing but was praised last year for buying social networking website MySpace, making up for lost time in the internet arena.

[12 Oct 2007]

Stories of the Month - September 2007

News And finally, the controversy around the BBC iPlayer was again in the news this month with the government responding to an e-petition on the 10 Downing Street website, signed by more than 16,000 people.

Tags: iplayer, europe, contactless payment, vista

[28 Sep 2007]

Customer data breach at UK loans website

News The loans website will not reveal how many customers have been affected or how the breach happened but admitted the names, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, loan applications and mortgage details of people applying for loans were passed to...

Tags: id fraud, data, data breach, full disclosure

[13 Sep 2007]

Is this the malware mother of all botnets?

News Peter Guttman, a computer sciences security researcher wrote in an email posted on insecure.org's website: "This may be the first time that a top 10 supercomputer has been controlled not by a government or mega-corporation but by criminals.

Tags: supercomputer, storm worm, botnet, worm

[12 Sep 2007]

16,000 back iPlayer petition

News The deadline for the e-petition on the 10 Downing Street website passes today - and then it is up to the government to issue a response. A response to the petition will be made by Downing Street officials or by another relevant government...

Tags: deadline, downing street, bbc, iplayer

[20 Aug 2007]

Know your data rights, says watchdog

News The latest data warning from the data protection watchdog follows the launch of silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign - which is aiming to persuade the UK government to change the law on data breaches so that companies have a legal requirement to...

Tags: full disclosure, data, ico

[08 Aug 2007]

Help plug the data leaks - sign the e-petition

News One way readers can participate in this campaign is by signing an e-petition on the 10 Downing Street website. Earlier this month silicon.com launched its Full Disclosure campaign, calling for a rethink of existing government policy on when...

Tags: data security, full disclosure

[30 Jul 2007]

Massachusetts moots opening door to Microsoft

News The proposed changes were included in a draft proposal posted to the state's Information Technology Division website, as part of a periodic revision to its overall technical architecture, and will be under review until 20 July.

Tags: open office, microsoft, massachusetts

[03 Jul 2007]

Exclusive: UK's top CIO revealed

News BA's Coby's achievements include cutting IT costs by almost half, overhauling the BA.com website, introducing online check-in and print-your-own boarding passes and building state-of-the-art systems for the new Terminal 5 building at Heathrow.

Tags: paul coby, cio50

[07 Jun 2007]

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