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RSS service in newsISPs join file sharing crackdown
News UK internet service providers have joined forces with the UK record industry to crack down on illegal file sharing. The agreement will see thousands of "informative" letters sent out by ISPs to customers identified as using their internet service... [24 Jul 2008]
Greek island gets wireless mesh network
News But today it plays host to Negroponte who owns a holiday home on it and has long had an interest in bringing internet access to the island, setting up local dial-up internet service provider 12Net in the 1990s. [24 Jul 2008]
Charity Commission saves a bundle with online returns
News The Charity Commission has revealed an online service to handle the submission of annual returns from 169,000 charities is saving the body £425,000 per year. The Commission, which acts as a regulator and registrar for charities in England and Wales... [24 Jul 2008]
Telegraph spreads the news on Google Apps
News Cheesbrough said: "A key part of our technology strategy is to try and purchase and deploy systems as a service predominantly in the cloud where we can, so that when you're out of the office you can access data and information in the same way as... [23 Jul 2008]
UK officials going snoop crazy
News Public bodies made 519,260 requests to phone and internet service providers under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, according to a report by the interception of communications commissioner Sir Paul Kennedy. [23 Jul 2008]
Orange plots Eee PC mobile broadband coup
News Both types of package - business and consumer - require users to sign up for 24 months of service. In a fight between an iPhone smart phone and an Eee PC netbook, which chunk of mobile hardware would win? [23 Jul 2008]
Contactless payments speeds up coffee drinkers
News The main advantage of contactless payments has been speeding up service by significantly decreasing the time taken per transaction, especially during peak retail hours. Coffee chain Coffee Republic is rolling out contactless payment technology... [23 Jul 2008]
Flight booking checks into mobiles
News The service is not entirely comprehensive though and not all airlines have signed up.silicon.com Retail & Leisure Flight bookings must be made in English and paid for with a credit card, although the company plans to widen this to other languages... [23 Jul 2008]
RIM patches PDF security hole
News The flaw affected the BlackBerry Attachment Service - a function within BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) that is used to process PDF attachments and make them readable by BlackBerry users on that network. [23 Jul 2008]
Kent signs £32m outsourcing deal
News The Kent Public Service Network will initially connect about 1,100 sites and provide extra bandwidth to Kent County Council, Kent schools, Canterbury City Council and Thanet District Council. Schools, libraries and council offices in Kent are to be... [22 Jul 2008]
BBC to take better care of web budget
News A total of £110m was spent on bbc.co.uk in the last 12 months - 48 per cent higher than the service licence baseline budget. The measures include a set of rigorous controls for financial performance and the appointment of a group controller for bbc... [22 Jul 2008]
Microsoft goes mobile with Live Mesh
News From a phone's web browser users can access the service via m.mesh.com. Microsoft has quietly released an update to its Live Mesh product to support mobile access. If using a Windows Mobile device, or any other phone that supports file system... [22 Jul 2008]
Is the UK an open source laggard?
News He said: "We are keen to exploit some of the opportunities that open source brings - not just for the obvious cost advantage but also to benefit from some of the innovative thinking - such as with Service Component Architecture - that we see in... [21 Jul 2008]
The £500k hunt for missing HMRC discs
News The Metropolitan Police Service mounted a months-long search for the data discs containing 25 million child benefit records after they went missing in October 2007. The taxpayer has been landed with a £473,544 bill for the hunt for the missing HM... [18 Jul 2008]
Online retail takes 20p of the shopper's pound
News We will be looking to cut the clutter from stores, which may mean less products on show, but with staff on hand who are able to give better service. Online shopping is poised to take 20p out of every UK consumer pound by the end of the year, a... [18 Jul 2008]
