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RSS uk in newsID cards project adds implementation chief
News Cards will be compulsory for "airside workers" from autumn next year, with staff at London City and Manchester airports being the first UK citizens to receive the card. The government agency in charge of the impending ID... [18 Nov 2008]
Qualcomm Brews up an SDK for mobile OS
News Brew Mobile Platform (MP) was unveiled in 2007 as part of the Open Screen Project, an Adobe-led organisation whose members also include UK-based mobile chipmaker ARM, and whose aim is to bring a consistent application... [18 Nov 2008]
Yahoo!'s Yang steps down as CEO
News John Suffolk UK government Gordon Lovell-Read Siemens UK The UK's leading CIOs revealed… Yahoo! under fierce financial pressure, has begun a search to replace company co-founder Jerry... [18 Nov 2008]
All-seeing I-Ball gives troops remote skinny on the enemy
News The I-Ball has been picked as the winning entry in the Ministry of Defence's Competition of Ideas, a competition which asked UK industry to come up with technology to solve the MoD's "most pressing problems". [17 Nov 2008]
Lords: 'Do we really need £12bn super comms database?'
News The Lords have questioned the value of a '£12bn super database' to collect all UK communications. Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer asked whether, with three billion emails and 57 billion texts sent every year, it... [17 Nov 2008]
Recession won't hit BT £1.5bn fibre broadband plans
News BT's plans to roll out next generation super-fast broadband across the UK won't be affected by the economic situation, despite concern from some shareholders. If plans to build new homes and offices around the... [17 Nov 2008]
UK consumers worth £14k each to cyber criminals
News Each adult in the UK is worth about £14,500 to internet criminals according to the UK's online security guardians. The value of the average UK person's salary and credit card details to... [17 Nov 2008]
Shared services spend to reach £4bn by 2012
News By 2012, the UK public sector will be spending £729m on shared services, analysts predicts, as shared service expenditure enjoys a compound annual rate of eight per cent. Shared services, where government department... [17 Nov 2008]
Ubuntu comes to netbooks with chip deal
News ARM's vice president of marketing, Ian Drew, told silicon.com sister site ZDNet UK on Thursday that the collaboration between ARM and Canonical will extend to such elements as drivers and graphics support. [17 Nov 2008]
Microsoft web store kills off Windows Marketplace
News Meanwhile, according to a Microsoft team blog, the Microsoft Store is also accessible to folks in Germany, the UK, and Korea. Microsoft is doubling down on retail, with the launch of a second online store at the start of... [17 Nov 2008]
Are you the new Q? MoD wants to hear from you
News Vendors can make requests for research contracts through the Centre's site - science.mod.uk - through which the MoD has awarded £1.7m of contracts to date. The Ministry of Defence is on the hunt for "budding Qs" to keep... [14 Nov 2008]
High fashion gets high tech with SaaS embrace
News The vast majority of UK clothing and footwear retailers - over 65 per cent - expressed an interest in SaaS, citing the benefits of having no capital costs, low financial risk and the SaaS pay-as-you-go model. [14 Nov 2008]
37,000 women quit tech for family
News According to data from IT sector skills council e-skills, there were 229,440 women working in IT - 33 per cent of the UK's computing profession - in 2001. The fall came in spite of the number of UK tech... [14 Nov 2008]
UK kids shopping online behind parents' backs
News One in five under-16-year-olds are raiding their parents' purses without their knowledge to shop online - landing unwary relatives with a potential shopping bill of £191m per year. According to a survey of 500 adults and 500 children by... [14 Nov 2008]
Europe gets OLPC's Give One Get One $100 laptops
News Nicholas Negroponte, founder and chairman of the OLPC project, told silicon.com sister site ZDNet UK on Wednesday that version two of Give One, Get One (G1G1) will enable European users to participate in the scheme. [13 Nov 2008]
