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Westminster computing put on size-zero diet
News Chant, who is also the CIO for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), believes the government has now laid the groundwork to trim the 460,000 tonnes of CO2 pumped out by Whitehall IT each year. [13 Nov 2009]
Keeping IT green in tough times
News For companies who have made sustainability and green issues a major part of their culture - and brand - making it a lesser priority would be counterproductive. It's never been easy being green, especially when it comes... [22 Oct 2009]
It's a dog's life for police BlackBerrys
News There's a lot of culture to overcome. Getting chewed - and eaten - by dogs. Getting run over by cars. And Land Rovers. It's not an easy life being a police BlackBerry out on the mean streets. Nothing is copper-proof,"... [20 Oct 2009]
Google seeks to appease Europe with digital books copyright deal
News Representing France at the hearing, Nicolas George of the country's Ministry of Culture said the deal presents "a clear and evident risk for cultural diversity", according to The New York Times. In a move to assuage... [08 Sep 2009]
Can Yahoo! facelift help it ditch the 'peanut butter'?
News s engineering and marketing culture. finally got to the point where it's exchanging peanut butter for WD-40? Three years ago, Yahoo! executive Brad Garlinghouse wrote the famous "Peanut Butter Manifesto", designed as a... [25 Aug 2009]
No phone, no internet, no electricity: This is no ordinary IT job
News I think it is the soft skills that will make the best volunteers: people who have got ability to facilitate, to negotiate, people who can work with others and - because you're going to be in a different environment and a different... [25 Aug 2009]
Is Facebook's FriendFeed acquistion all about talent?
News As this shows, our culture continues to make Facebook a place where the best engineers come to build things quickly that lots of people will use. FriendFeed co-founder Paul Buchheit, another ex-Googler who was... [11 Aug 2009]
Amazon goes online shopping with Zappos buy
News Amazon has agreed to a stock takeover of Zappos.com, a Las Vegas-based online retailer that has become famous for its unusual corporate culture. We think that there is a huge opportunity for us to really accelerate the... [23 Jul 2009]
Conservatives: 'Ofcom as we know it will cease to exist'
News And the policy-making functions it has today will be transferred back fully to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. If elected, the Conservative Party would take away Ofcom's policy-making functions, David... [07 Jul 2009]
Critics slam Digital Britain over file-sharers and tax plans
News Shortly after its publication, Jeremy Hunt, the Conservative Party's shadow secretary of state for culture, media and sport, called Digital Britain a "colossal disappointment" and lambasted the plan's proposal for a... [18 Jun 2009]
Delayed: Digital Britain report
News Previously to this however, a Department for Culture, Media and Sport spokeswoman told VNUnet that the government "will not be speculating on who would replace [Carter] if he is to be replaced". The government has said... [15 Jun 2009]
Windows 7 won't mean massive hardware sales
News As a culture we've got to go through and really make the hard trade-offs. I think it's a wonderful thing for the company, for the culture. Microsoft's top Windows business executive said Monday that for... [08 Jun 2009]
Funding snub for historic Bletchley Park
News Could he [the government spokesman Lord Davies] encourage his friends at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport to reconsider their willingness to support this project? The government has refused to stump up more... [19 May 2009]
Five ways Gen Y will change the way you work
News Understand that in their age group there is a new culture of work: the social network is the new operating system for business. We do the opposite of what we should be doing, which is learning from this... [26 Mar 2009]
Recession making techies do more unpaid overtime
News When people understandably fear for their jobs employers still have a responsibility to organise work properly and ensure their workplaces don't get gripped by a long-hours culture. Overworked techies are putting in even... [27 Feb 2009]
