Indian IT services firm Tata Consultancy Services(TCS)is to be awarded a contract to support the government's Disclosure and Barring Service(DBS),according to the Public and Commercial Services Union. The DBS has resulted from the coming ...
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HM Revenue and Customs(HMRC)is implementing disk encryption as part of a laptop refresh programme following a pilot rollout using 300 laptops. HMRC will use Becrypt Disk protect,which has been certified by the CESG,the UK Government's ...
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) claims the IT behind its flagship Universal Credit (UC) project is being developed using agile principles. But just how agile is the £2.2bn seven-year project? Universal Credit is a complex ...
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The UK has fewer internet freedoms than seven other countries, including Estonia and the Philippines, according to a report by Washington-based NGO Freedom House. The ranking is based on digital freedoms, such as access to the internet ...
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Tesco expects the lighting system at its first all-LED store to produce 30 percent energy savings compared to other Tesco Express stores. The UK's largest retailer opened the doors to its all-LED store in Loughborough, England this week. ...
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Big data and intelligence-driven security are to be the focus of the RSA Conference Europe 2012 in London next month. Three of the keynote sessions are related to these topics and they are represented in just about every time slot of the ...
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The Cabinet Office has blacklisted Fujitsu and another IT supplier from tendering for government IT contracts because they constitute too high a risk. According to FT.com, Fujitsu will not be considered by the Cabinet Office for new ...
Claims that 12 million unique device identifiers(UDIDs)of Apple iPads were hacked from the laptop of an FBI agent have been rebutted by the US law enforcement organisation. The FBI–which has its own Twitter feed–initially ...
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TWO million people in the UK face increased risk of health problems, campaigners have warned, following a European ban on incandescent bulbs starting today. While the move to energy-saving bulbs has been widely welcomed, there are ...
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A European ban on incandescent bulb takes effect in the UK since 1, September, despite the move to energy-saving bulbs has been widely welcomed, campaigners have warned that there are concerns about the impact on people who are sensitive to ...
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Phased ban on the sale of incandescent lightbulbs is completed following EU directive to reduce energy use of lighting. Incandescent lightbulbs have been phased out in Europe from September 2009 and September 2012. After ...
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The Hertfordshire Police website has been hacked by a supporter of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, with data about members of the force published online. Information about officers in Hertfordshire's Safer Neighbourhood Teams, including ...
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Google says the number of requests by copyright holders to have content removed has doubled in the past month to 1.5 million a week. Under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act,copyright holders have the right to demand that websites ...
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Tesco has announced plans to add traffic-light labels to the nutritional information it puts on products. The decision, revealed today (22 August), is a major change in strategy from Tesco, which has favoured labels that show guideline ...
Jeremy Hunt today claimed the UK government would achieve its goal of having the best broadband in Europe by 2015, but mobile would have to play a major part. Speaking this morning at Google's recently opened Tech City premises, the ...
Tags: broadband, mobile, 4G network, 4G products