Technology firms including Facebook and Microsoft have welcomed government plans to provide funding for improving the teaching of computer science in schools. Education minister Elizabeth Truss announced £2m will be set aside to ...
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How important are toys to Argos? What are your ambitions in this sector? Argos is the UK's number one toy retailer (by value) and toys is an incredibly important category to our business. Many people will remember flicking through the ...
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Wikileaks' latest release is billed as a transcript of a "secret meeting," but it may more accurately be termed a promotion. The site on Friday released a five-hour transcript of a June 2011 meeting between Julian Assange, one of the ...
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Google received an ultimatum Thursday from German consumer organizations that want it to start answering questions from its users via email. The Federation of German Consumer Organisations (VZBV) has asked Google to sign an undertaking ...
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Indian outsourcing and services company Infosys has teamed up with Queen's University Belfast to conduct joint research into the global cyber security threat. The partnership brings together Queen's University Belfast's Centre for Secure ...
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Visitors can build their own programme from over 30 sessions across all three days of the event, while still allowing time to explore the technologies and services being demonstrated on the show floor. The show runs from 14-15 May at teh ...
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ADT is introducing its latest feature for its home automation solution ADT Pulse? – remote door locks, putting a "master key" at consumers' fingertips. ADT Pulse users will now be able to lock or unlock any door in their home using ...
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According to a study, nearly 50% of shoppers who purchase products online first go to brick-and-mortar locations to see the product, a tactic coined 'showrooming.' With US Census retail shopping data for Q4 of 2012 revealing marginal ...
Character Options is teaming up with Entertainment One for a special nationwide Peppa Pig Twitter party. The event will take place on March 26th, and will be hosted live from UKMums.tv, with a second party hub on-site at Peppa Pig World ...
A cyber-security company was the big winner at a new awards event. The awards were part of a three day event called Innovate UK 2013, which is a joint venture by the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) and UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) aimed ...
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A graduate student at MIT has developed a 3D computer interface that could radically alter the way we interact with personal technology. As Wired reports, Jinha Lee's SpaceTop 3D desktop breaks the two-dimensional barrier within which ...
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There will come a day in the not-so-distant future when physicians take a back seat in healthcare, and where patients will have the mobile tools to diagnose, and in some cases, treat themselves. That was the summation of a keynote speech ...
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On February 25, the new contemporary Wendy's logo will begin appearing in Wendy's advertising, on product packaging, crew uniforms, new restaurant signage, menuboards and digital assets. The evolved logo is contemporary and iconic, as it ...
The Next Gen Skills campaign for the introduction of computer programming in schools has announced the appointment of a Next Gen Talent Development Co-ordinator to help implement the scheme's recommendations. Kim Blake, education liaison ...
Google's donation of 15,000 Raspberry Pi computers and last week's decision by Education Secretary Michael Gove to add computer science to the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) are a mere "diversion" from the UK's real problems in IT education, ...
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