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Met Office forecasts blue skies for green IT

News Since moving to its headquarters in Exeter the weather forecaster has embraced the green ethos, replacing energy guzzling mod-cons with natural alternatives. It seems fitting that after the Met Office helped open the eyes of the world to global...

Tags: met office, energy, green it

[09 May 2008]

MoD fights data losses with encryption

News The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is to protect 20,000 laptops using encryption software. A spokesman for the MoD said: "There was a feeling there was a need for stringent security standards and the reason we chose BeCrypt was its ability to deliver...

Tags: security, army, mod

[08 May 2008]

Photos: Robot warriors engage in battle

Photo The Grand Challenge is a science and technology competition set up by the Ministry of Defence to address military challenges faced by the UK armed forces. The challenge is to create a system with a high degree of autonomy that can detect, identify...

Tags: military, sensor, robot

[06 May 2008]

Backseat driver keeps armed forces in line

News Ministry of Defence (MoD) road safety officer Major Shepherd said: "As part of our commitment to duty of care, we have an obligation for the safety of all MoD personnel - whether they are drivers or passengers.

Tags: road, mod, army

[04 Apr 2008]

Photos: Eye in the sky to spot 'friendly fire'

Photo Photo credit: MoD Photo credit: MoD A spokesman for the MoD said: "It will build up a picture of what is going on in the air. Photo credit: MoD UK troops on the ground are to get an eye in the sky that will help save lives by reducing 'friendly...

Tags: defence, army, mod

[03 Apr 2008]

Data breaches: Don't blame 'stupid' employees

News Ashenden's speech made reference to several recent high-profile security breaches, including the exposure of 25 million individual's records by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) in November last year, and the loss of an MoD laptop containing the records...

Tags: education, breach, data

[03 Apr 2008]

More than 1,000 gov't laptops lost since 2001

News Secretary Des Browne also admitted that three MoD laptops containing around 600,000 details of servicemen and recruits have been stolen since 2005. Government departments have misplaced more than 1,000 laptops and almost 500 mobile phones - either...

Tags: stolen, mobiles, laptops, lost

[01 Apr 2008]

Photos: Flying robots, Colossus codebreaker, virus art

Photo Photo credit: MoD Security software firm MessageLabs turned cyber threats into art using code from various malicious programmes. This creation pictured is from a phishing program. See our photo story for more weird and wonderful creations.

Tags: supercomputer, robots, viruses, military

[27 Mar 2008]

Photos: Talons, Eagles and Enforcers - the tech behind war

Photo Photo credit: MoD Photo credit: MoD Photo credit: MoD Photo credit: MoD Photo credit: MoD Holographic quantum technology and acoustic sniper sensors may sound like the stuff of science fiction films - but they are actually new defence technologies...

Tags: soldier, army, mod, credit

[26 Mar 2008]

MoD admits to losing 11,000 ID cards

News The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has admitted that more than 11,000 military ID cards have been lost or stolen in the past two years. In a statement, the MoD said: "We take the loss of military ID cards very seriously and we are taking steps to...

Tags: data loss, mod, full disclosure, cards

[13 Mar 2008]

Steve Ballmer: Yahoo! bid still 'makes sense'

News Photos: MoD tracks with deadly accuracy Microsoft still considers its takeover offer for Yahoo! currently valued at about $40.9bn, to be reasonable despite Yahoo! s rejection of the bid, Microsoft's chief executive Steve Ballmer said.

Tags: steve ballmer, yahoo, bid, microsoft

[04 Mar 2008]

'Data guardians' keep a watch over HMRC

News MoD losing hundreds of laptops. A Whitehall-wide ban on the movement of unencrypted data was imposed in the wake of the MoD losses. Scores of "data guardians" have been employed to protect HM Revenue & Customs from a repeat of the child benefit...

Tags: full disclosure, data loss, hmrc, details

[29 Feb 2008]

Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 gets cautious welcome

Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 gets cautious welcome

News Photos: MoD tracks with deadly accuracy Microsoft's newly-launched Windows Server 2008 has been given a cautious welcome by customers. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer launched Windows Server 2008 this week, calling it the most significant Windows...

Tags: microsoft, cio jury, windows server 2008, cio

[28 Feb 2008]

EC monopoly warning after record Microsoft fine

EC monopoly warning after record Microsoft fine

News Photos: MoD tracks with deadly accuracy Competition commissioner for the EC, Neelie Kroes, has issued a stern warning to any company planning to blow off the regulatory agency and European antitrust laws.

Tags: microsoft, antitrust, ec, compliance

[28 Feb 2008]

Skin-detecting CCTV keeps an eye on motorists

News Photos: MoD tracks with deadly accuracy A company that has developed a CCTV system which counts people in cars by detecting human skin claims the London Congestion Charge could benefit from the technology.

Tags: congestion, cars, cctv, schemes

[26 Feb 2008]

Top of the class for online ads? Search and social networks

News Photos: MoD tracks with deadly accuracy For online advertising, the word is portals are out but search, entertainment and social network sites are in. Photo stories Check out silicon.com's latest photo stories here…

Tags: ads, search, social networking, microsoft

[25 Feb 2008]

Open source gains business credibility

Open source gains business credibility

News Photos: MoD tracks with deadly accuracy The use of open source is on the rise in the corporate IT environment as organisations look to cut the cost of developing and using software. Three-quarters of silicon.com's 12-strong CIO Jury IT user panel...

Tags: cio jury, microsoft, linux, open source

[22 Feb 2008]

Microsoft to embrace open-source and says won't sue

News Photos: MoD tracks with deadly accuracy Microsoft has announced changes in its business practices to work better with software from other providers, including open-source communities. Photo stories Check out silicon.com's latest photo stories here…

Tags: microsoft, sue, open source, licence

[22 Feb 2008]

Dear silicon.com... Laptop losses, mobile ads, gas-guzzler charge, Vista backtrack…

Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ silicon.com Classics: The Peeping Tom phone filter ¦ How fans can grab a slice of the music pie ¦ The Naked CIO: Innovation - same old story ...

Tags: vista, data, anpr, sp1

[21 Feb 2008]

IBM to use DNA to shrink chip size

News Photos: MoD tracks with deadly accuracy Scientists at IBM are conducting research into arranging carbon nanotubes - strands of carbon atoms that can conduct electricity - into arrays with DNA molecules.

Tags: ibm, chip, dna, grid

[21 Feb 2008]

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