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RSS power in newsBCS warns over IT degree funding
News IT is suffering from a well documented skills shortage - and industry bodies have warned thousands more tech and telecoms workers will be needed in the coming years to power the knowledge economy. The government is gambling with the UK economy by... [20 Jun 2008]
ISPs face fresh threat from file-sharing laws
News P is for Power lines But the Internet Service Providers' Association (ISPA) has hit back, warning the government that legislation could result "in cumbersome regulation". Malcolm Wicks, business, enterprise and regulatory reform minister, told... [18 Jun 2008]
NHS prescribes germ-resistant keyboards
News The Medigenic keyboards were designed by a team at University College London Hospital (UCLH), then manufactured by an US company called Esterline and sold back to the NHS by Esterline's UK distributor, Advanced Power Components (APC). [18 Jun 2008]
"Boring" school IT curriculum slammed
News Companies already have difficulty sourcing skilled IT staff - and government and industry bodies have warned thousands more skilled staff will be needed over the coming years to power the so called 'knowledge economy'. [17 Jun 2008]
Stolen music still big with MP3 generation
News P is for Power lines Record industry artist and publisher group, British Music Rights (BMR), claims the average 14- to 24-year-old now has almost 900 illegal tracks each on their MP3 players. Broadband from A to Z [16 Jun 2008]
Latest Asus Eees announced
News Both based on Intel's low-power 1.6GHz Atom processor, the Eee 901 and 1000 should have better battery life than their predecessors, especially as they feature six-cell 6600mAh batteries as opposed to the Eee 900's much-derided four-cell 4400mAh... [16 Jun 2008]
IBM puts money on solar power
News IBM has joined forces with semiconductor process company Tokyo Ohka Kogyo (TOK) to develop more efficient solar power technologies to cut the cost of the clean energy source, the companies said on Monday. [16 Jun 2008]
Prisoners to gain IT skills
News The skills minister said in a statement: "The academy is a demonstration of the power of partnerships coming together to benefit employers, transform offenders' lives and make society safer by reducing reoffending. [11 Jun 2008]
Google looks to the cloud to woo business
News Another trend, he said, is the rise of the "power collaborator" within companies. In the enterprise, things are still built for the power user. Enterprise software is not going away but there is a transition taking place. [11 Jun 2008]
Brics demand feature-packed mobiles
News Chia was announcing the release of a mobile TV-out processor targeted at emerging markets, which he claimed is more suitable for low-end devices than current similar processors because of its low-power consumption and ability to optimise low... [09 Jun 2008]
Microsoft readies "Quebec" embedded Vista OS
News Microsoft's Windows Embedded family of products, which Microsoft sells to device makers, is designed to power thin client terminals, point-of-service terminals, gaming devices, medical-imaging systems, DVRs and industrial-automation systems, among... [06 Jun 2008]
Mobile market booming: But there's room for all
News Pulskamp said that while wi-fi integration is gaining in popularity, this is blunted by the chipsets' cost and power-hungriness. Although SSDs have garnered attention for being "greener", consuming lower power than traditional rotating hard disks... [06 Jun 2008]
BT to cut CO2 emissions by 80 per cent
News BT will rely on wind farms to produce a quarter of its UK power by 2016 as part of a major drive to cut CO2 emissions. The telecoms giant will build the largest wind power project outside of the energy sector as part of a push to slash its 1996... [03 Jun 2008]
UK plc 'needs more skilled migrants'
News The Work Foundation report notes that up-skilling native workers, while important, will not in itself be enough to power the UK's 'knowledge economy' - pointing out that employment in knowledge industries in the EU grew by 24 per cent between 1995... [02 Jun 2008]
Microsoft walked away not us, says Yahoo!
News chief executive Jerry Yang said on Wednesday a potential deal with Microsoft has tremendous power but the software giant appears no longer interested in a full merger. He said he felt a combination with Microsoft would have a "tremendous amount of... [29 May 2008]
