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RSS numbers in newsMinistry of Justice loses 45,000 records
News The largest loss in January 2008 saw an "inadequately protected" laptop containing the names, dates of birth, addresses, offences, and - in a fifth of cases - national insurance numbers, of 14,000 fine defaulters go missing from a "secured... [25 Jul 2008]
Credit crunch turns techies to second jobs
News It's little wonder increasing numbers of them are harnessing their experience and skills to offer freelance services outside office hours. Economic gloom and the rising cost of living in the UK is making IT workers in full time employment take on... [22 Jul 2008]
Whitehall IT to be carbon neutral by 2020
News The guidelines include: removing active screensavers from desktop PCs; switching monitors to standby after five minutes inactivity; automatically shutting down desktop computers outside working hours; reusing as much computer equipment as possible... [17 Jul 2008]
Apple OS gaining ground on Windows
News Microsoft is working on a multi-year, megamillion-dollar marketing push for Windows and, as the numbers show, it can't come soon enough. Apple's operating system is gaining ground on Microsoft Windows, with second-quarter results showing the... [17 Jul 2008]
Price hike for SAP's Enterprise Support
News Assuming SAP is successful in signing most of its customers by January 2009 then, based on the numbers so far released for 2008 and the company's projections going forward, the price hike should yield approximately $60m in additional revenue... [16 Jul 2008]
IT teacher applications continue to decline
News The latest stats from the Graduate Teacher Training Registry (GTTR) show total applicant numbers across all subjects for England, Scotland and Wales are 18 per cent down on 2007 - with IT showing the second worst decline of secondary school subjects. [01 Jul 2008]
Icann opens a can of worms
News On Thursday, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) voted to allow - in addition to more traditional top-level domains (TLDs), such as .com and .org - theoretically any TLD at all, as long as it is has no more than 64... [30 Jun 2008]
Icann waves in relaxed website naming rules
News The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) voted Thursday to relax rules for naming websites. At its meeting in Paris, Icann, a not-for-profit organisation that oversees the naming scheme for websites, voted to accept a... [27 Jun 2008]
‚¬100bn of consumer cash wasted on mobile termination fees
News Innocenzo Genna, chairman of ECTA, said in a statement: "Customers have for years faced excessive prices because of the very high termination rates being charged when they make calls to mobile numbers. [26 Jun 2008]
BCS warns over IT degree funding
News The BCS warned the funding cuts are likely to deter significant numbers of people from retraining in computing as they will have to fund their own study, or else rely on employers being willing to do so. [20 Jun 2008]
Universities blamed for games industry skills crisis
News Difficulty sourcing talent is a regular complaint of the UK tech industry - just last week a leading academic warned the IT industry is 'going to hell' as computing student numbers continue to drop year-on-year and the resulting calibre of grads... [19 Jun 2008]
"Boring" school IT curriculum slammed
News But as numbers of computing students continue to drop off, the question is where is the talent going to come from? The reality is that the IT industry needs more computing graduates than are currently being produced just to keep up with current... [17 Jun 2008]
Cotton Traders' site hacked: Thousands of details stolen
News She claimed it was only credit card numbers that were stolen. Hackers breached the company website in January and stole encrypted customer details. It was initially reported that 38,000 card details were stolen. [11 Jun 2008]
O2 offers business tariffs for 3G iPhone
News As with all O2 business tariffs, corporate iPhone users will get unlimited calls to any O2 mobile and to 10 UK landline numbers, it added. O2 has finally opened its arms to UK businesses large and small wanting to use the Apple iPhone. [10 Jun 2008]
Unveiled: The 3G iPhone
News The thing Jobs said he really likes is that users love their iPhones, quoting 90 per cent customer satisfaction numbers. Steve Jobs unveiled the long-awaited 3G iPhone at the company's World-Wide Developer Conference in San Francisco on Monday with... [10 Jun 2008]
