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'No lost memory sticks' shocker for gov't dept
News While seemingly a week doesn't go past without another government data loss as a result of a mislaid memory stick, one government department has made a shocking revelation: it hasn't lost any for several years. [18 Nov 2008]
BT's Ribbit opens up to developers
News But now Ribbit is offering developers the chance to go behind the curtain and use its network to develop new applications. BT's Ribbit released its long-awaited web telephony platform Monday to developers, which BT hopes... [18 Nov 2008]
High fashion gets high tech with SaaS embrace
News The vast majority of UK clothing and footwear retailers - over 65 per cent - expressed an interest in SaaS, citing the benefits of having no capital costs, low financial risk and the SaaS pay-as-you-go model. [14 Nov 2008]
37,000 women quit tech for family
News Regaining the lost pool of female talent would go a long way to relieving the UK tech skills crisis, according to the BCS. Thousands of women are leaving the IT industry due to a lack of flexibility on the part of their... [14 Nov 2008]
Council trio tighten grip on public data
News We will know if someone is new to the council and we can then go out to them proactively for additional services," he said. Three councils have inked a new deal to clean their data and improve public services.silicon.com... [14 Nov 2008]
3 does facebook phone for Generation Data
News On 3, the pay monthly tariff will be £15, while the device will cost £79.99 on pay-as-you-go. Mobile operator 3 has unveiled a phone designed for accessing web 2.0 services such as Facebook that it hopes will do for data... [13 Nov 2008]
Bye bye BlackBerry, hello Moto in £1m deal
News The data is guaranteed, the data is auditable by every bit and every byte… They even know what time the engineer charged their device and how charged the device is so we know exactly whether an engineer's charging it properly, what time... [12 Nov 2008]
Britain's £28m Xmas shopping lunchtime
News Deloitte head of retail Tarlok Teji told silicon.com: "This year, the number of people expecting to go online to shop hasn't gone up significantly, suggesting last year was when the channel matured. While high street... [12 Nov 2008]
'Downturn? What downturn?' say SMEs
News The lion's share of the budget will go to security, including encryption and firewalls technology the survey found. While the credit crunch has claimed banks and thousands of technology jobs, the UK small and medium... [11 Nov 2008]
The 10 projects at the heart of NHS IT
News Patients can choose to go to any hospital in the UK and the system is geared around allowing patients to choose their outpatient appointment according to their own priorities - whether that is the first available date,... [10 Nov 2008]
IT illiterates 'hold back business'
News One in 20 workers responded to IT problems by leaving their desk, in the hope that the issue will go away by the time they return, the study found. The UK is losing millions of working hours a week due to a lack of basic... [10 Nov 2008]
Row over high street biometrics
News Get rid of the ID cards scheme and all the issues go away. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has insisted biometrics taken from people in high-street businesses will be secure. While anti-ID campaigners have said it will be... [10 Nov 2008]
ID card costs rise - but is the security weakening?
News Cards will only be checked against biometric details on the National Identity Register (NIR) in a "minority of cases" according to Home Office documents, prompting accusations it has been relegated to a "flash and go" card. [07 Nov 2008]
Broadband speeds going down toilet without fibre
News With the right level of community buy-in from the get-go, he said there is therefore "no need for a price premium" for deploying fibre. The UK needs to get its act together over next generation broadband networks or risk... [06 Nov 2008]
Seagate: We won't do flash, it doesn't pay
News I won't go into [details] because it's kind of proprietary but a lot of us are looking at different technologies at chip level," he added. The world's largest hard drive maker Seagate is planning to bring out an... [05 Nov 2008]
