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News Speaking at a Westminster e-Forum on data roaming on Monday, Fabio Colasanti said the Commission was hesitant to impose a cap on the wholesale price of data usage while abroad, and said greater transparency to the consumer would be more... [22 Jul 2008]
UK games industry needs to go back to uni
News The UK games industry needs to play a more active role in academia, helping to shape the syllabuses of university courses to ensure games development students graduate with the right skills for industry, a Westminster Media Forum Keynote Seminar... [08 Jul 2008]
NHS data handling: Calls for independent audits
News Speaking at a Westminster eForum meeting on information security she said: "Every trust must carry out an information governance assurance self-assessment. NHS trusts are being urged to introduce independent auditors to make sure they are keeping... [07 Jul 2008]
ICO: Data breach law moves closer
News Smith told a Westminster eForum meeting on information security: "What has changed today is the scale of the information being handled and the ease with which it can be lost. The UK's privacy watchdog says the country is a step closer to getting a... [03 Jul 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 23.05.08
Round-Up If the thought of ermine-clad Lords gliding gracefully up and down the hallowed corridors of the Palace of Westminster on Segways is your idea of a grand opening to an edition of the Weekly Round-Up - then you're in luck. [23 May 2008]
Warning: Web will run out of space by 2010
News Speaking at a Westminster eForum on web 2.0 this week in London, Jim Cicconi, vice president of legislative affairs for AT&T, warned the current systems that constitute the internet will not be able to cope with the increasing amounts of video and... [21 Apr 2008]
Legal Eye: Is encryption really the silver bullet?
Comment Earlier this month, Westminster's Joint Committee on Human Rights criticised the loss of 25 million child benefits records as typical of the government's "lax standards" on protecting personal information. [27 Mar 2008]
Photos: Zoom in on London from the air…
Photo This is an aerial view of the Clock Tower - Big Ben's home at the Houses of Parliament in Westminster - on 192.com's new Super Zoom application. The business listing company has launched a high resolution aerial photography service that covers the... [28 Jan 2008]
Westminster - The Wireless City: Improving Business and Services With WiFi
White Paper The Wireless City project aims to reduce the city's common social problems through the use of Wi-Fi technology, by improving efficiencies with the City Council and providing better services for the community. [07 Jan 2008]
Commercial WiMax on the council?
News ConnectMK's service is not the first commercial WiMax deployment in the UK (that was Urban Wimax's Westminster-based business network) but it does appear to be the first deployment in conjunction with a city council. [19 Dec 2007]
Broadband summit: Speed is the key
News This echoes the view of various industry speakers at a recent Westminster eForum conference on the future of broadband, who said public sector intervention is likely to be needed to ensure all areas of the country gain access to next-gen services... [27 Nov 2007]
ICO: HMRC breach - where were the tech safeguards?
News Bamford, speaking at a conference in Westminster, said: "Why are we not using our ingenuity and expertise to develop privacy-enhancing technologies? Security from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more. [23 Nov 2007]
Where next for broadband Britain?
News That's the warning from Ian Fogg, research director at JupiterResearch Europe, who was speaking during a Westminster eForum debate on the future of broadband Britain. UK web fans could miss out on the 'next big thing' on the internet if serious... [22 Nov 2007]
'Sentinels' to help fight climate battle?
News Speaking at a panel discussion in Westminster, professor Alan O'Neill, director of the National Centre for Earth Observation, said: "I think that the GMES could be a critical contribution to an earth information system. [12 Nov 2007]
IT skills 'vital for UK's future'
News Speaking at a Westminster eForum event and referring to non-manual skills such as those required in IT, Triesman said: "I'm not sure the government has been caught out but one thing we have let slip by is by concentrating on the change in the... [29 Oct 2007]
