Computer science is to be included as part of the English Baccalaureate (EBacc), a performance indicator that measures the percentage of students in a school who achieve grades A* to C at GCSE level in specific subjects. The EBacc ...
MobileIron, a company that specialises in security and management for mobile apps, has introduced a suite of products for enterprise smartphones and tablets. To tackle apps provisioning, the company has developed the MobileIron ...
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A 10MW (megawatt) modular datacentre worth £60m will be built in Birmingham by March 2013 to provide storage services for high street banks, financial services firms, media companies, technology companies and small businesses. The ...
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IT professionals and teachers have expressed concerns over the government’s decision to remove ICT from the school curriculum for two years while a new computer science curriculum is devised. During the Reviewing the ICT Curriculum ...
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More than 120 students were awarded £200,000 in scholarships and awards this week, as the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) rewarded hard-working UK students that choose to study computer science and engineering ...
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Microsoft could have escaped the wrath of European Union antitrust regulators and the risk of potential fines in the billions if it had paid attention to an exchange on its own support site more than a year ago. The back-and-forth between ...
Technology is taking an ever more central role in the way we work, live and play. The future for the IT community is bright, and IT professionals have a unique opportunity to lead their organisations to a successful economic recovery. But ...
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Since the mid 2000s one of the prevailing trends in the IT world has been to move networks,data,operating systems and servers into an environment where they are not tied to a specific piece of hardware. In the early days the emphasis was ...
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Microsoft may face a huge fine for failing to offer millions of Windows users a choice of web browser, despite apologising to the European Commission (EC). A 2009 EU antitrust settlement required Microsoft to offer PC owners the ...
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On January 12 of 2012, the California Energy Commission (CEC) adopted regulations for battery charger system (BCS) and provided minimum energy efficiency requirements for the battery charger systems. The BCS defined by CEC covers all ...
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OAO Mechel of Russia's largest coking coal producer won a tender for 55% of OAO Vanino Commercial Sea Port on the Pacific coast outbidding investor Mr Oleg Deripaska's En+ Group. VTB Capital the sale organizer said that Mechel offered RUB ...
Vint Cerf–the founding father of the internet–is backing the BCS's call for computer science to be included in the English Baccalaureate(EBacc). In 2015,the EBacc is set to replace the current GCSE examination system in five ...
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RIA Novosti / Ruslan Krivobok reported that Russian tycoons Oleg Deripaska and Vladimir Potanin may reportedly put an end to a 4 year long conflict over control of Norilsk Nickel by the year end. Key shareholders of the world's largest ...
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Oleg Deripaska who controls a quarter of OAO GMK Norilsk Nickel, is urging fellow billionaire Roman Abramovich to buy a stake in the Russian mining company as shareholders feud over management Three people with the knowledge said that ...
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Computer Weekly has announced the third UKtech50, our annual definitive list of the real movers and shakers in UK IT - the CIOs, industry executives, public servants and business leaders driving the role of technology in the UK economy. ...
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