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Nato fires up cyber defences

News A denial of service attack brought down key banking and state systems in the country effectively crippling the country and prompting Nato to carry out a thorough assessment of its approach to cyber defence.

Tags: security, training, estonia, cyber attack

[16 May 2008]

Health care records service delayed

News The National Audit Office has published a report on the progress of the Care Records Service that underpins the Connecting for Health programme, which found the software development on the Lorenzo database and associated applications that supports...

Tags: records, connecting for health, nhs

[16 May 2008]

Revealed: Cyber crimefighting successes

News The unit would provide leadership and expertise to co-ordinate investigations nationwide and collate reports from police forces across the country, as well as offering a central point of contact for reporting e-crime.

Tags: nhtcu, soca, cyber crime

[15 May 2008]

Sat-nav back seat drivers on their way

News A spokesman for TfL said: "This is the biggest scheme of its type in the country, we are working on a comprehensive map of every single road in the capital. Sat-navs that warn drivers not to speed or can even slow the car automatically could be as...

Tags: sat-nav

[15 May 2008]

TJ Hughes buys into email to slash admin costs

News The technology provides managers at the retailer's 49 stores around the country with a central digital repository where they can pick up information about fast-selling ranges or merchandising changes on a daily basis.

Tags: tj hughes, email, vodat

[14 May 2008]

'Hyperconnected' world grabs mobile over wallet

News The country with the highest percentage of hyperconnected respondents in the study was China. More than one-third of workers would choose their mobile phone over their wallet, keys, laptop or digital music player if they had to leave the house for...

Tags: laptop, mobile

[14 May 2008]

UK'should 'abandon' software market to China

News Sean Finnan, president of the UK trade association for technology Intellect and UK country manager for EDS, said it is time for Britain to forget any hopes of matching China and India in the low-cost software market.

Tags: uk, saas, software

[14 May 2008]

Skype drops open-source appeal

News Skype's appeal argued that the GPL licence was not valid in Germany, claiming GPL breaks the country's antitrust laws. Skype has abandoned its efforts to avoid complying with an open-source licence that requires it to provide source code with Linux...

Tags: skype, gpl, open source

[12 May 2008]

Lie detectors to hunt out benefit cheats

News The Voice Risk Analyser (VRA) system will be piloted by another 15 councils following its success in seven areas of the country. A lie detector test that has slashed benefit fraud by more than £330,000 is being rolled out in the UK.

Tags: dwp, benefits, lie detector

[07 May 2008]

Vodafone plugs iPhone gaps

News Mobile operator Vodafone has struck a deal with Apple to sell its iPhone smart phone in 10 markets around the world. Later this year, Vodafone customers in Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal, New Zealand, South...

Tags: italy, vodafone, iphone

[06 May 2008]

India edgy about outsourcing newbies?

News The finance minister for India, Palaniappan Chidambaram, decided to extend the tax holiday enjoyed by software companies in the country by one year to March 2010, although this decision must be ratified by parliament.

Tags: india, offshoring, outsourcing

[06 May 2008]

OOXML row continues

News Serious objections have been raised within the decision-making community about the approval vote - notably in Norway, by the head of that country's technical committee - but none yet have come officially from any country's national standards body.

Tags: bsi, microsoft, ooxml

[02 May 2008]

Indian techies snubbing US jobs in favour of home

News Most tellingly, 72 per cent of IITians predicted that in 10 years India would be the country holding the most promise of success, with only 17 per cent choosing the US and five per cent Europe. Indian tech graduates are increasingly turning their...

Tags: it, india, outsourcing

[29 Apr 2008]

EU healthcare reaps benefits of broadband

E-health areas identified by the Commission for improvement and further deployment include e-prescribing, practiced by just six per cent of GPs; the exchange of patient data across borders (currently done by just one percent of GPs); and...

[29 Apr 2008]

National fraud reporting centre to arrive next year

News The unit would provide leadership and expertise to co-ordinate investigations nationwide and collate reports from police forces across the country, as well as offering a central point of contact for reporting e-crime.

Tags: security, cyber crime, fraud

[28 Apr 2008]

Euro e-health getting the right attention

News E-health areas identified by the EC for improvement and further deployment include e-prescribing, practiced by just six per cent of GPs; the exchange of patient data across borders (currently done by just one per cent of GPs); and telemonitoring...

Tags: telemonitoring, healthcare, e-health

[28 Apr 2008]

Police e-crime unit set for green light

News The unit would provide leadership and expertise to co-ordinate investigations nationwide and collate reports from police forces across the country, as well as offering a central point of contact for reporting e-crime.

Tags: funding, government, police, e-crime

[25 Apr 2008]

Tech to tackle India's poverty

News Villagers in India are turning to technology to lift them out of the deprivation that keeps 280 million people in the country below the poverty line. Change is stirring in the heart of rural India as computer-filled business process outsourcing...

Tags: csr, india, outsourcing

[23 Apr 2008]

BT embraces NetSuite's on-demand software

News Nelson added that NetSuite - which currently generates 18 per cent of its revenue from outside the US - hopes the move will significantly expand its reach beyond its home country. BT is offering NetSuite's business management applications and will...

Tags: smes, saas, crm, bt

[22 Apr 2008]

Samsung chief steps down after tax indictment

News But analysts pointed out Lee Kun-hee and his family still control the country's largest conglomerate, sometimes dubbed the "Republic of Samsung", whose dozens of affiliates account for around a fifth of South Korea's exports.

Tags: ceo, samsung, tax

[22 Apr 2008]

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