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RSS school in newsWho do you trust when you're spending your IT budget?
News While UK businesses may be social media whizz kids, when they're choosing their supplier for a new product or services, old school is best. When it comes to deciding how to spend a hard-won portion of the IT budget, who... [28 Oct 2009]
UK lagging in 25th place in global broadband stakes
News The figure was revealed as part of the Broadband Quality Score study, carried out by the Saïd Business School and the University of Oviedo on behalf of Cisco. In a study of broadband quality and penetration across the... [02 Oct 2009]
Are dinosaur managers and poor teaching holding back Digital Britain?
News But if UK kids are technophiles in their spare time, they are technophobes at school - and this is another looming problem for UK Plc. Global Future and Foresight's Smith noted some 70 per cent of the workforce of 2020... [23 Sep 2009]
Former eBay CEO vies to become Arnold Schwarzenegger's successor
News Another GOP rival is expected to be Tom Campbell, a former US congressman and dean of the business school at University of California at Berkeley. Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman is expected to officially declare her... [22 Sep 2009]
Google grabs ReCaptcha for security and book-scanning
News ReCaptcha is an offshoot of Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, and puts a twist on the traditional captcha: a string of letters in squiggly text meant to confuse spam bots and other nonhuman web pests. [17 Sep 2009]
Google: Fast Flip to let publishers in on the ad action?
News Google is testing a service that will let newshounds read web pages of magazines and newspapers as though they were flipping through an old-fashioned paper copy. Marissa Mayer, vice president of search products and user experience,... [15 Sep 2009]
Facebook turns on the Lite
News It also pushes the old-school Facebook apps off a cliff, which is just as well for the newest Facebook-connected services. Facebook is slimming down with the launch of a new Lite version. The new version of the site... [11 Sep 2009]
Google Apps: Five million students getting a cloud education
News In the UK, educational institutions using Apps include Leeds Metropolitan University, Kingston College, and the School of Oriental and African Studies, which recently estimated it has saved £650,000 by choosing the... [09 Sep 2009]
Ad-free Google Apps for 30,000 uni students
News Portsmouth University has started offering its 30,000 students ad-free access to Google Apps. So far 4,300 students have signed up to the free service - despite it still being the summer break - giving them access to webmail, online... [04 Sep 2009]
Singularity University: Where today's tech titans teach the next generation
News She's a former medical school student who had previously designed her own emerging technologies major at Harvard University and who has a deep interest in health care and public health. Sitting in a classroom, listening... [21 Aug 2009]
PayPal goes plastic with debit cards aimed at students - and their parents
News PayPal on Tuesday introduced a new service for parents with kids who are in high school or college. A good example of this is that these students will one day have the option to "graduate" to having their own full PayPal... [12 Aug 2009]
Revealed: £12.4m cost of pilots' ID cards project
News Edgar Whitley, reader in information systems at the London School of Economics and co-author of two LSE reports on the ID card project, said it is hard to justify the spending on the CWIC project. The government has... [23 Jul 2009]
'Post Office workers can't spot ID card fraudsters'
News Dr Edgar Whitley, reader in information systems at the London School of Economics and co-author of two LSE reports on the ID cards scheme, said the argument that high street biometric enrolment could be both secure and... [08 Jul 2009]
Microsoft wants to be teacher's pet with new software deal
News In addition, the specification of devices that Microsoft includes as part of a school's eligible ICT estate has been increased to allow schools to avoid paying subscription fees on obsolete machines. Some UK schools may... [08 Jul 2009]
More privacy choices in Facebook revamp
News Users will be introduced to this through "transition tools" that allow them to toggle how open everything on their profile will be - totally public, friends-only, restricted to company or school networks, etc. [02 Jul 2009]
