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Bletchley Park's World War Two codebreakers in their own words
News Such was the secrecy in which the codebreakers operated many did not even realise the true importance of their work until Bletchley's wartime activities were made public in 1974. The work of the Bletchley Park... [05 Nov 2009]
Covert surveillance must be reserved for serious crimes, says government
News Ripa (the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act) granted public authorities the power to use surveillance to investigate crimes such as terrorism - but councils have attracted criticism for using them to detect petty... [05 Nov 2009]
£39m boost for London Olympics' emergency comms
News The contract will also help support public order policing activities involving several thousand officers within confined locations, and ensure Airwave can scale to cope with the risk of "a spontaneous major incident"... [03 Nov 2009]
'Incompetent': The verdict on gov't prisoner database
News Parliamentary spending watchdog the Public Accounts Committee has branded the implementation of the National Offender Management Information System (C-Nomis) a failure. For more, see Public Accounts... [03 Nov 2009]
'You're responsible for your own wi-fi security' say ISPs
News Their comments follow a demonstration of email accounts being hacked through a public access hotspot on the BBC's Watchdog programme. Customers are responsible for their own wi-fi security, according to hotspot operators. [03 Nov 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Uneconomics
Comment With each cycle of economic mayhem the experts are wheeled out to explain what's happened - then the politicians huff and puff and Joe Public picks up the bill. Compiled at the IoD, Pall Mall, London, and dispatched to... [29 Oct 2009]
Windows 7: Not perfect - but ready for prime time
Comment Windows 7 has been released to the public - to what response? Here, Google has been making some inroads, with media and public sector looking at the use of cloud-hosted productivity applications. The... [28 Oct 2009]
How will you use Google Wave? Recruiting, decision-making, dealing with complaints
News Google Wave is still not fully open to the public, with access restricted to those who have received invites from the search giant. The number of users is expected to grow to millions by early next year, he said, and, if... [28 Oct 2009]
Open source? No good for cost cutting, say CIOs
News If you are a CIO, CTO, IT director or equivalent at a large or small company in the private or public sector and you want to be part of silicon.com's CIO Jury pool, or you know an IT chief who should be, then drop us a... [23 Oct 2009]
Undressing In Public: Harnessing The Power Of Web 2.0 To Rebuild Trust In Banking
White Paper Banks have historically been trusted, valued members of the community, but globalization and new-age communications have combined to put distance between institution and customer. Rebuilding trust requires listening to customers and... [21 Oct 2009]
Blocked: BBC plan to share iPlayer with rivals
News The BBC Trust, the body that oversees the BBC, announced yesterday it thought the scheme "was not the best way to share the BBC iPlayer or to deliver increased public value to licence fee payers". The initiative was... [21 Oct 2009]
Windows 7: Who's adopting it, when and why?
News With the state of the finances in the public sector however I do not think there will be a big take-up at all. With software spending down 16.5 per cent year-on-year, Windows 7's launch tomorrow will see it enter the... [21 Oct 2009]
Photos: Windows 7 - getting inside security
Photo The main Firewall window separates network activity and settings into three categories: Domain networks, Private networks, and Public networks. If you use a laptop and jump between home or public... [20 Oct 2009]
Is Real-Time Defragmentation Needed in Today's Environment?
White Paper The dawn of the Information Age, the public's unquenchable thirst for information and the increased complexity of computer applications has caused an exponential growth in storage requirements. A side effect of this... [16 Oct 2009]
Troops in Afghanistan to get gadget gifts
News The fund will - for the first time - give troops the opportunity to decide what the money raised through public donations will be spent on. The project will enable members of the public to support the... [15 Oct 2009]
