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News Back in May, policing minister Tony McNulty announced £50m to furnish 27 police forces with 10,000 mobile computers. The government is to spend an extra £25m to put thousands more mobile devices in the hands of police to further reduce paperwork... [22 Jul 2008]
Photos: How to destroy your hard drive
Photo Here Tony Roberts (left), Computer Aid International CEO, cuts the ribbon on a shipment of PCs delivered to Kenya and hands over the first piece of kit to a pupil at Starehe Boys' Centre. Disposing of computer hard drives in a secure and safe way... [17 Jul 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.07.08
Round-Up After all, Tony Blair left John Prescott in charge when he went on holiday and that always went well. This week the Round-Up is weaving its words of wisdom while nursing a sore head after a week of hard partying to celebrate 10 years of silicon.com. [11 Jul 2008]
Mentoring: Tech charity's recipe for success
Comment There are several charities that bring together the tech sector with good causes and, as Tony Hallett learns, tapping your experience might be just as important as tapping your wallet. The Prince's Trust's Technology Leadership Group (TLG) arm has... [09 Jul 2008]
Microsoft launches into virtualisation
News Tony Lock of analyst firm Freeform Dynamics said he expects users to welcome the launch of Hyper-V, which, he said, was "probably ready for the market". Microsoft has announced that its Hyper-V hypervisor is finally available, but analysts have... [27 Jun 2008]
Oracle pumps up prices, BEA takes the hit
News Trying to find other prices in order to check 'like for like' can be challenging for users, as analyst Tony Lock, programme director at Freeform Dynamics, explained on Monday. The company's core software has risen in price by around 15 to 20 per... [24 Jun 2008]
Tony Mather
CIO Profile Tony Mather joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) as CIO in May last year as a board member reporting directly to the department's permanent under secretary (equivalent to a private sector CEO). [11 Jun 2008]
When is a supplier gift/junket inappropriate?
News Tony Johnson, IT director, Zavvi Entertainment Group, agreed, saying: "I am not naive enough to think the invites to rugby/cricket/football etc are purely down to my sparkling company! Tony Johnson, IT director, Zavvi Entertainment Group [06 Jun 2008]
£50m mobile funding to keep police on the beat
News The funding was announced by policing minister, Tony McNulty, and will see around 10,000 handheld computers distributed to 27 police forces across the UK. Police across the UK will receive mobile data devices to be used on the beat as part of a... [27 May 2008]
Caption Competition: It's behind you
Photo The winning caption from reader Tony Sibley was "It was a novel approach to finding the needle but Derek had his doubts. This competition is now closed. Photo Credit: Rackspace Hosting [23 May 2008]
Dear silicon.com... File-sharers, women in tech and the price of 'experts'
Comment Sorry, Tony, wrong argument. Tony, Romford This week, readers had a thing or two to say about the Home Office consultancy bill and were not best pleased by the mounting cost of ID cards. The latest in the debate over music downloaders and sharers... [17 Apr 2008]
Who's on the wrong side of the UK digital divide?
News It's several years since former Prime Minister Tony Blair pledged to have achieved "universal internet access for all who want it" in the UK. Unfortunately, these statistics show that huge numbers of people on low incomes do not have internet... [07 Apr 2008]
Computing museum at risk of being thing of the past
News For an exclusive peek at Bletchley Park's National Museum of Computing and an interview with former-spy Tony Sale, click here. The UK's first museum dedicated to the history of the computer is facing homelessness after receiving no firm offers to... [01 Apr 2008]
Photos: Flying robots, Colossus codebreaker, virus art
Photo See more pictures here and check out the video of former spy Tony Sale who rebuilt Colossus, explaining how it all works. Security software firm MessageLabs turned cyber threats into art using code from various malicious programmes. [27 Mar 2008]
Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine
Photo Computer expert and former spy, Tony Sale, demonstrates the mighty codebreaker Colossus - WWII's top secret weapon. The machine pictured here was painstakingly rebuilt over 14 years by computer expert and former spy Tony Sale, who collected valves... [18 Mar 2008]
