Teaching engineers cyber security skills is vital in order to protect the UK's critical national infrastructure, according to cyber expert at the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET), Hugh Boyes. The IET is trying to raise ...
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Textile exporters in Pakistan are experiencing severe financial crisis as much of their money is blocked with different Government departments, which are delaying refunds for sales tax, customs, local taxes and federal excise duty, Asghar ...
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Big data is not yet being embraced, according to Adrian Asher, chief information security officer (CISO) of the Skype division at Microsoft. Asher told delegates at Infosecurity Europe 2013 that big data is currently just a buzzword used ...
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The government is failing to promote UK manufacturing, according to a new industry and public poll conducted by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE). Thumbs up for the financial sector? David Cameron’s government is ...
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BlackBerry's upcoming American launch of the Z10 smartphone on 26 March has received a blow, with reports suggesting one of its biggest customers, the US Department of Defense, is looking to replace staff BlackBerry phones with iPhones and ...
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German business process outsourcing (BPO) provider Arvato has been selected to operate the first independent shared service centre (ISSC1) on behalf of the government. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. London councils ...
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HMRC is trawling the internet, including social media and other websites in which people share information, in a bid to find potential evidence of tax fraud that it can feed into its new Connect data warehouse. Although HMRC is reluctant ...
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Victoria’s $1.6 billion Port Capacity Project has been given the go-ahead following a decision by Planning Minister Matthew Guy to provide the planning approval for works to commence at Melbourne’s Webb Dock. The planning ...
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HMRC is trawling the internet, including social media and other websites in which people share information, in a bid to find potential evidence of tax fraud that it can feed into its new Connect data warehouse. Although HMRC is reluctant ...
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The Cabinet Office website has become the latest departmental site to move across to the gov.uk domain as the government continues to push its "digital by default" scheme. Eventually, information about all central government corporate and ...
The UK’s leading trade association for oil and gas supplies and services on Thursday concluded its first mission to the Kurdistan Region. Dr Ashti Hawrami, the Kurdistan Regional Government’s Minister of Natural Resources, met ...
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Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) saved about £74m on IT costs between 2011 and 2012, according to the National Audit Office (NAO). In its report, the NAO found that HMRC had saved a total of £296m over the period, with ...
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According to the related information, the preliminary accounting results of GDP in 2012 are as follows: Preliminary Accounting Results of GDP in 2012 The Q/Q Growth Rate on GDP Annotations: Quarterly GDP Accounting ...
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UK charity Action for Children has chosen cloud provider Rackspace to tackle its big data challenges and scale up its IT infrastructure on demand. SAS launches academy to tackle demand for "52,000 a year" big data specialists Analysis: ...
Staff at the United States Department of Defense (DoD) could soon be using Pentagon-issued Windows 8 smartphones as part of a joint enterprise licensing agreement (JELA) with Microsoft. The Department of Defense, which oversees the US ...
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