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Novell throws open GroupWise beta
News A 'mash-up' style personal productivity dashboard allows users to customise their workspace, providing a comprehensive, single overview of the folders, e-mails, appointments, tasks, collaboration and Web tools that matter most to them," Novell said. [05 Sep 2008]
Email and web snoop plans slammed - again
News There is then the matter of data mining that information you have retained," he told silicon.com. Home Office proposals that will see records of phone, email and internet communications - including VoIP - to be kept for 12 months are expected to... [04 Sep 2008]
One million bank customers' details sold on eBay
News We take this issue extremely seriously and are working to resolve this regrettable loss with Graphic Data as a matter of urgency. One million bank customers' details have turned up on a second hand PC sold over online auction website eBay. [26 Aug 2008]
Prisoner data breach firm paid £100m
News PA Consulting refused to confirm this, stating only: "We are collaborating closely with the Home Office on this matter. The management consultancy firm at the centre of the latest government data breach storm has been paid almost £100m over three... [22 Aug 2008]
Home Office loses data on 84,000 prisoners
News PA Consulting - which is also working with the Home Office on the government's ID cards scheme: back in 2004 it was selected to help with design, feasibility testing, business and procurement elements for ID cards - said in a statement: "We are... [22 Aug 2008]
Apple iPhone gets Google Translate service
News According to the firm's spokesperson, Hutchison built it "in a matter of weeks". Google has released a version of its translation service that is specifically tailored to Apple's iPhone. The Google Translate mobile service came about as the result... [11 Aug 2008]
Police shame 999 time wasters on YouTube
News Losing your glasses or forgetting the answer to a quiz question could hardly be classed as a matter of life or death. But that did not stop some callers in Somerset from hitting 999 and berating exasperated emergency operators about their wife's... [29 Jul 2008]
Microsoft, Yahoo! chatting up old flames?
News to create a more formidable advertising and media player, but they are no closer to a deal, a source close to the matter said. Microsoft and Yahoo! have been holding separate talks with other potential media partners after their negotiations with... [03 Jul 2008]
Femtocells to speed arrival of next-gen mobile networks?
News Saunders added: "It isn't a technology that we think is specific to just one of the flavours of mobile air interface - UMTS or GSM or CDMA or WiMax, for that matter - we actually think femotcells bring things to all those technologies. [30 Jun 2008]
NHS data left lacking encryption
News A spokesman for the DoH defended the time taken saying: "The roll-out of encryption is a complex matter. A number of health trusts are expected to be months late meeting a target to encrypt all data on non-secure machines by 31 March. [24 Jun 2008]
BT gets chatty with business customers
News He added: "It's not a matter of converting phone to live chat. BT is using instant messaging (IM) technology to allow its business customers to contact its customer service team. The company has started to use RightNow's Chat application so... [23 Jun 2008]
Google Android facing delays?
News Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile USA expects to deliver an Android-powered phone in the fourth period but Sprint Nextel will not be able to, a person familiar with the matter said, according to the Journal. [23 Jun 2008]
Open source group fights OOXML standard
News The matter will now be heard in open court. A group of UK open-source advocates is seeking donations so it can continue its fight against the approval of Microsoft's Office Open XML document format. At the end of April, the UK Unix and Open Systems... [23 Jun 2008]
Google looks to the cloud to woo business
News It shouldn't matter what OS people use, or in what geography they're located. Rishi Chandra, product manager for Google Enterprise, speaking at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in the US, said: "The next 10 years of innovations are going to be in the... [11 Jun 2008]
Ofcom: Digital dividend up for grabs to highest bidder
News Ofcom's consultation on the matter opened on Friday, and will close on 15 August. Ofcom has formally laid out its proposals for auctioning off the spectrum that will become available with the analogue switch-off. [09 Jun 2008]
