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Skills slump eroding UK's top tech talent

News The report says technology-related education is declining rapidly and that UK tech companies cannot recruit enough engineering, maths, science and technology graduates. The UK will lose its base of highly skilled technology workers unless training...

Tags: intellect, technology, skills

[14 May 2008]

Microsoft users surf the skies from the web

News Bill Gates, Microsoft's chairman, said in a statement: "The WorldWide Telescope is a powerful tool for science and education that makes it possible for everyone to explore the universe. Our hope is that it will inspire young people to explore...

Tags: google sky, space, microsoft

[14 May 2008]

Satyam spices up silver screen with latest effects

News The division has already teamed up with 4K to make Marvi Hämmer, a bilingual science magazine programme for children starring a 3D computer-animated rat. The glamour of Hollywood and the Indian outsourcing industry will collide on the big screen...

Tags: hollywood, bpo, india

[29 Apr 2008]

E.ON powers down to cut carbon and costs

News It's not rocket science. Although it may sound counter-intuitive, energy giant E.ON has been setting its sights on reducing the power consumption of its non-energy generating business. Its goal is to shrink its corporate carbon emissions, and save...

Tags: green, e.on, carbon emissions, travel

[25 Apr 2008]

Second Life avatars meet lawmakers

News Science fiction novelist and inventor of the word 'cyberspace' stopped in with silicon.com for a chat… click here for the full Q&A. Second Life founder Philip Rosedale and a handful of other virtual-reality experts, testified yesterday at a House...

Tags: court, second life

[02 Apr 2008]

Winner: Apple voted brand with biggest impact

News The poll does not take account of economic brand value, the murky science of assigning a financial value to brand, which regularly puts Coca-Cola Co's Coke in first place. The Apple brand has the biggest impact on the world's consumers, while...

Tags: us, microsoft, apple

[31 Mar 2008]

India's Wipro to create hundreds of UK tech jobs

News Key factors in the choice of location will be local access to science and engineering graduates and government tax breaks. And when I say education facilities I don't mean arts colleges I mean science and engineering colleges.

Tags: wipro, premji, tax, consultancy

[20 Mar 2008]

UK 'seriously underestimating' tech skills crisis

News Azim Premji, chairman of Bangalore-based Wipro, said poor maths education from primary school onwards is one of the fundamental causes of the shortage of science and engineering graduates in Western countries.

Tags: premji, wipro, education, engineers

[18 Mar 2008]

Invest in staff training, businesses told

News Intellect said its primary concern is the lack of support and funding for computer-science students. Tackling the skills shortage is key to turning the UK into a successful 'innovation nation', according to the government - which has set out its...

Tags: skills, training, innovation, education

[17 Mar 2008]

Budget 2008: Tech companies fight for contract windfall

News A £10m boost to the science and innovation teaching budget over the next five years. Intellect, the trade association for the UK technology industry, said it would lobby for strong technology representation on an advisory committee for SME access...

Tags: budget, public sector, sme, innovation

[12 Mar 2008]

e-Crime Crackdown: Timeline

News House of Lords Science and Technology Committee says UK government must do better on e-crime and calls for a central reporting body UK citizens and businesses have weathered unrelenting attacks from online phishers and hackers in recent years...

Tags: cyber crime, nhtcu, e-crime, crime

[12 Mar 2008]

Are foreign imports hurting the UK tech industry?

News Swain said there has been a lot of soul searching about the recent decline in the number of computer science graduates from UK universities but added: "Is it any wonder so few students are choosing IT when entry-level jobs are being sent offshore...

Tags: skills, graduates, offshore, eu

[12 Mar 2008]

Lords take fresh look at data security

News Disappointed with Whitehall's response to its Personal Internet Security report of last year, the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee is following up with a new inquiry. Lord Sutherland, chairman of the House of Lords Science and...

Tags: data, law, lords, breach

[22 Feb 2008]

Mobiles on the moon? Nasa prepares trial for takeoff

News Director of space science at the BNSC, David Parker, said the early lunar system will be comparable to the "satellite phone network of the 1980s and 1990s on earth". The MoonLite mission proposal is undergoing a review of its science goals and...

Tags: moon, space, nasa, message

[19 Feb 2008]

Sun breaks through supercomputer haze with Constellation

News The whole system will fit inside a mid-size conference room but provide more computing power than all of the supercomputers the US' National Science Foundation has today. After a slight delay a new, somewhat unusual, supercomputer from Sun...

Tags: sun, ibm, supercomputer, chips

[14 Feb 2008]

World's finest tech sites immortalised

News If the framework is adopted it will take several years before it helps lead to the creation of new science and tech WHS. Christopher Young, head of world heritage and international policy for English Heritage and member of the culture committee of...

Tags: tech, unesco, global, science

[22 Jan 2008]

Top 10 skills stories of the year

News As the year progressed, the Blair years took on a Brown hue and government placed new emphasis on skills: replacing the Department of Trade and Industry with a new Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills - aiming to turn Blighty into...

Tags: skills, flexible working, wfh, techies

[17 Dec 2007]

Stories of the year

News Q&A: William Gibson, science fiction novelist The comments were made after Frank Abagnale, the one-time confidence trickster turned security expert (who also inspired the film Catch Me If You Can), said the scheme should be scrapped if the...

Tags: christmas, google, apple, revealed

[14 Dec 2007]

Experts tip six technologies to watch

News The Council for Science and Technology (CST) has named six technologies which should be in line for additional government funding. The UK should focus on six key technologies over the next five years according to an independent government advisory...

Tags: carbon, climate, plastic, healthcare

[05 Dec 2007]

UK-India grad school get networking virtually…

News The Indian side of the collaboration will involve the technology institutes of Delhi, Madras and Mumbai, the Institute of Science in Bangalore and companies including BT India, Infosys, Midas Communications, NMSWorks Software, Sasken...

Tags: networking, uk, india, initiative

[04 Dec 2007]

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