Neglecting maths education in UK schools will lead to a substantial decline in skills in the IT sector,according to Scott Fletcher,founder and chairman of ANS Group. Scott Fletcher responded to a study from The Sutton Trust,which found ...
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The government will spend £2m a year until 2014 on a cyber security advice centre that aims to improve international co-ordination, increase access to expertise and promote good governance online. The "Centre for Global ...
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In a bid to cut tension between mobile operators in the battle to bring 4G to the UK,communications regulator Ofcom and Culture Secretary Maria Miller are holding peace talks with the networks today that could result in 4G services becoming ...
Facebook has rejected claims that private direct messages sent between users of the social network were appearing publicly on the recently-introduced timeline feature. According to reports in France,private messages sent between 2007 and ...
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Iran has blocked access to Google search and Gmail in a move officials say is aimed at improving cyber security. The Islamic Republic has increasingly tightened cyber security after its nuclear programme was targeted by the Stuxnet worm ...
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Facebook will suspend its facial recognition photo tagging service in Europe by 15 October,following a privacy audit by the Irish Data Protection Commission(DPC). The technology,which suggests when registered users could be tagged in ...
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First Milk,a leading dairy farmer co-operative in the UK,has secured a£120m refinancing deal to fund its expansion into the food sector over the next three years. The deal was provided by Lloyds TSB Commercial Finance and ...
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Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg has admitted for the first time that the drop of his company's share price since its IPO in May was "disappointing", but claimed the tech giant would bounce back. The social media company was valued at more ...
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The Paralympic Games was the largest live broadcast undertaking for Channel 4, but also gave the IT team an equally complex project that presented a range of new challenges and had to be executed under very tight deadlines. To broadcast ...
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The foreman in the recent patent dispute between Apple and Samsung in a Californian court has hit back at criticism that the jury failed to do its job properly. The jury in the case found overwhelmingly in favour of Apple, awarding the ...
Tags: Samsung, Apple, patent dispute, Velvin Hogan, 4G technology
UK-CarFest South,the motoring and music festival organised by DJ Chris Evans and former Formula One World Champion Jody Scheckter was a sell-out success raising an estimated£750,000 for BBC Children in Need. Organisers approached ...
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IBM has announced a smaller, faster, more secure mainframe computer to compete with increasingly popular, lower cost, PC-based enterprise servers. The move is aimed at countering a long-term decline in the sales of mainframes and securing ...
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PC maker Dell has warned that it expects third-quarter revenue to be down between 2%and 5%on second-quarter levels because of the"uncertain economic environment". Dell also blamed"competitive dynamics"and"soft consumer business"for its ...
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During the Olympics, the BBC and NBC studios used PRG Trucolor HS fixtures with Intematix ChromaLit panels to deliver up to 98 CRI at color temperature of 3200K. If you watched any of the recent Olympics TV coverage and thought you noticed ...
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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