Governement-IT

Ofcom Wants Total Superfast Broadband Coverage As Average Speeds Reach 23Mbps

Ofcom says cost and complexity should be no barrier in rolling out superfast broadband to homes and businesses, many of…

10 years ago

Human Error Blamed For Increasing Number Of Data Breaches

ICO figures obtained in a FoI reveal that humans not machines are responsible for 93 percent of data breaches

10 years ago

Government Deal Paves Way For ‘Digital ID’ System

Dutch firm Digidentity looks to give UK citizens more secure access to online company and government services

10 years ago

Government Extends Super Connected Cities Broadband Scheme Until 2016

Chancellor's Autumn Statement also reveals that the number of northern cities in the Super Connected Cities will be 'doubled'

10 years ago

NHS Trust Gets More Efficient With Vodafone Patient Mobile Platform

District nurses can spend more time with patients thanks to Vodafone deployment which reduces amount of travelling and paperwork

10 years ago

BT Wants UK To Embrace History Of Innovation On ‘National Inventors Day’

BT research reveals that most children and adults don't consider themselves to be inventive

10 years ago

Estonia Officially Welcomes Its First E-Residents

New scheme allows access to online services such as banking and healthcare, even if applicants aren't Estonian citizens

10 years ago

Superfast Cymru Connects ‘Most Remote’ Location In Wales With 16km Of Overhead Fibre

Homes and businesses in the most remote location in Wales earmarked for superfast broadband can now access FTTP services

10 years ago

Ineffective National Roaming Would Slow 4G Rollout ‘By Two Years’

EE and the GSMA voice opposition to government national roaming plans as consultation ends, saying it would reduce network investment…

10 years ago

UN Resolution Warns of ‘Intrusive’ Digital Spying

Privacy concerns highlighted by UN Committee in wake of mass surveillance and data interception revelations

10 years ago

Doubts Raised Over Global Internet Governance Body

Is the NetMundial Initiative, which seeks to create a world governing body for the Internet, in trouble?

10 years ago

Network Rail Could Offer Wholesale Fibre Services To Telecoms

Network Rail applies to Ofcom for powers that would allow it to extend its fibre infrastructure

10 years ago

Industry Group Says BT And Ofcom Are Stifling Broadband Competition

Ofcom and BT deny claims that current communications policy isn't creating a competitive market

10 years ago

Home Office Set To Introduce New Data Surveillance Plan

Measures to be introduced this week will require ISPs to retain IP address data and make it available to police…

10 years ago

Fibre Arrives In The Isles Of Scilly

First superfast broadband customers on the islands are connected after an unused undersea cable was diverted

10 years ago

White House Advisory Group: Governments Have Five Years To Secure IoT

Report identifies limited window of time for all governments to secure Internet of Things

10 years ago

Amnesty International Launches Anti-Spying Tool To Combat State Snooping

Want to know if a government has been spying on your computer? Amnesty offers a detection tool

10 years ago

RBS Is Fined £56m For Massive 2012 IT Failure

RBS gets penalties from the FCA and PRA for not having resilient IT systems and testing procedures in place

10 years ago

WhatsApp Turns On End-To-End Encrypted Texts

Fully encrypted Whatsapp messages a potential terrorist tool or just protection from GCHQ/NSA spying efforts?

10 years ago

MIT Lands Major Cyber-Security Funding Injection

American academic centres land the largest ever private funding deal for cyber-security research

10 years ago

Scottish BDUK Project Reaches 150,000 Properties

BT and Scottish Government praise the fastest BDUK rollout in the UK

10 years ago

New SMS-Based System Can Track Mobile Phone 999 Calls To Within 30 Metres

BT, EE and HTC say Advanced Mobile Location (AML) is 4,000 times more accurate than current methods and could save…

10 years ago

UK Data Centre Cuts Emissions After Green Investment Bank Funding

Green Investment Bank congratulated by Prime Minister on it’s 2nd anniversary - reveals data centre funding

10 years ago

Sir Nigel Shadbolt: Free Data Can Be ‘As Valuable As You Can Imagine’

The co-founder of the Open Data Institute talks about analytics and how to raise a new generation of data scientists

11 years ago

When Britain’s Green SMEs Go To China, Knowledge Goes Both Ways

When British cleantech companies visit the socialist state, Max Smolaks asks if they go to learn or to teach?

11 years ago