Technology visionaries Ian Livingstone and Martha Lane Fox have been recognised in the New Year Honours List this year. Livingstone,author of the'Fighting Fantasy'series of books,and also chairman of video games company Eidos,will be made ...
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MI5 chief Jonathan Evans says the intelligence agency is working against"astonishing"levels of cyber-attacks on UK industry. In his first public speech in two years at London's Mansion House,Evans warned that internet"vulnerabilities"were ...
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As UK pupils studying core science,technology,engineering and maths(STEM)subjects continue to decline,exam board figures have revealed that grade boundaries of some GCSE science examinations were changed halfway through 2012,placing many ...
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A judge has approved the text of a letter that is to be sent to O2 customers suspected of illegally sharing adult films made by Ben Dover Productions. In March, the film company won a court order forcing O2 to identify the users of more ...
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MI5 chief Jonathan Evans says the intelligence agency is working against"astonishing"levels of cyber-attacks on UK industry. In his first public speech in two years at London's Mansion House,Evans warned that internet"vulnerabilities"were ...
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Direct Marketing firm Tempest Elite Marketing know the importance of brand awareness in a competitive market. The firm reveals startup businesses in Kenya have developed an innovative twist on loyalty cards for Africa's mobile generation ...
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The roll-out of the cloud and virtualisation across the BBC is an urgent priority to cut costs and maintain daily technology operations, a BBC technology head has said. Roger Crothers, head of technology at BBC Wales, said his ...
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Cambodian police have arrested one of the founders of file-sharing website The Pirate Bay,which claims 30 million users despite efforts by authorities in Sweden to shut it down and other countries to block access. Gottfrid Svartholm Warg ...
Government may appoint 200 digital managers to work across Whitehall departments,as part of its transition to transactional digital services,Computer Weekly has learned. According to a presentation by Government Digital ...
The UK is to offer around 100 18-year-olds training in advanced IT skills to bolster the expertise of intelligence agencies in fighting cyber crime. The scheme was announced by foreign secretary William Hague during a visit to Bletchley ...
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Google's share price fell after disappointing third quarter financial results were released early by mistake and trading in shares was suspended for two-and-a-half hours. The internet company's quarterly profits fell 20% from a year ...
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O2 is the latest UK internet service provider(ISP)to block access to file-sharing site The Pirate Bay in line with a High Court order issued at the beginning of May. The move means customers of Be Broadband,a subsidiary of O2,will also be ...
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The Open University (OU) has launched a new company to increase UK students' access to some of the country's top universities. Futurelearn, an independent company but majority owned by the OU, will offer free, online courses from UK ...
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The UK's Information Commissioner's Office is to re-open its investigation into the collection of Wi-Fi data by Google's Street View vehicles as they collected images for Google Maps. The UK's Information Commissioner's Office(ICO)is ...
The hacker group that recently infected Israeli police computers with the Xtreme RAT malware has also targeted government institutions from the U.S., U.K. and other countries, according to researchers from antivirus vendor Trend Micro. ...
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