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News We welcome the Home Secretary's recent grant of £50m to fund PDAs in 19 English forces and her promises of a further £25m but recognise that many forces were disappointed not to win funding bids. Despite calls for more... [10 Nov 2008]
Codebreaking Bletchley given help to fill in the cracks
News World War II codebreaking centre Bletchley Park is to receive a £330,000 grant from English Heritage. The cash from the conservation body will pay for urgent repairs to the roof of the Grade II listed mansion and prevent... [06 Nov 2008]
Opera mobile gets Symbian support
News When Opera Mobile 9.5 beta 1 came out in July for Windows Mobile Pocket PCs, Opera promised future releases would branch out to languages other than English. There's been a lot of activity recently in the world of mobile... [20 Oct 2008]
Beeb spreads the news on YouTube
News The BBC, which announced BBC, BBC Worldwide and BBC World channels on YouTube last year, has revealed its latest slew of channels aimed at non-English speaking viewers. Auntie has extended its love-in with YouTube adding... [03 Oct 2008]
Home broadband gives kids better GCSE results
News Educational use of ICT at home by young people also has a positive impact on national tests for maths and English GCSEs results, according to Becta. The research also shows the humble interactive whiteboards can help... [28 Aug 2008]
Free wi-fi for Scottish market town
News The technology is being brought to Jedburgh, 10 miles from the English border between Newcastle and Edinburgh, by Thus. A small market town in the Scottish Borders is to offer free wi-fi across the whole of its town centre. [13 Aug 2008]
Flight booking checks into mobiles
News Flight bookings must be made in English and paid for with a credit card, although the company plans to widen this to other languages in the near future, and is planning to adapt the service for corporate customers. [23 Jul 2008]
Icann waves in relaxed website naming rules
News The group also voted to open public comment on a proposal that would allow countries to use non-English script. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) voted Thursday to relax rules for naming... [27 Jun 2008]
Prisoners to gain IT skills
News Wandsworth prison already offers various training options to prisoners, including industrial cleaning, bricklaying, carpentry, tailoring, electrical, painting and decorating, and plumbing - along with educational services such as... [11 Jun 2008]
Broadband Blighty gets a rural flavour
News England The English spend more time on the internet than in any of the UK's other nations, going online for an average of 12.4 hours on the internet, and 77 per cent of their time online is used to send emails and... [22 May 2008]
The future, in 3D
News I talked to her in English, she heard me in German and vice versa. The mobile phone is already revolutionising societies around the world but its impact is accelerating as phones become more powerful and find their way... [19 May 2008]
OpenOffice 3.0 beta gets an airing
News The software is available for public download in US English on Linux, OS X, Solaris and Windows but Sun warned it is not considered suitable for production use. The first beta-test version of the OpenOffice.org 3.0... [09 May 2008]
Geographic database opens doors to private sector
News A national geographical electronic database is now available for commercial use after all 376 English and Welsh local authorities signed up to supply data. The National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG) was initiated in... [30 Apr 2008]
UK 'seriously underestimating' tech skills crisis
News The difference is our engineers can learn English easily or they speak English. Chinese engineers do not speak English, or they find it difficult because of the phonetics of the... [18 Mar 2008]
Podcast: The Weekly Round-Up 14.03.08
Round-Up Podcast Up for discussion this week are the French language purists fighting back against the 'invasion' of English words such as email and podcast, and the 'smart goggles' invented by Japanese boffins that can find your lost keys. [14 Mar 2008]
