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Nigel Shadbolt: Welcome To The Age Of Digital Enlightenment
In its next 25 years, the Web will drive a redefinition of the relationship between citizens and society, Sir Nigel Shadbolt tells TechWeek
Internet Needs Its Own ‘Bill Of Rights’ Says Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Founder of the World Wide Web speaks on the 25th anniversary of his creation
Eugene Kaspersky: Russia Ukraine Cyber Attacks Probably Not State Sponsored – CeBIT
Eugene Kaspersky criticises espionage and cyber warfare, saying that countries should be working together to fight cybercrime, but reckons it's hacktivists involved this time
Snowden Leaks Pit Technology Against Democracy, Says EU: CeBIT 2014
EU Commissioner Neelie Kroes says it is crucial that European data protection legislation is pushed through in 2014
Cameron Says UK And Germany To Work On 5G, Internet Of Things – CeBIT 2014
Prime Minister David Cameron joins German Chancellor Angela Merkel to open CeBIT, calling it an honour to be this year's partner country
NHS Under Fire Over Third-Party Handling Of Patient Data
NHS data sharing initiatives cause upset again after two third parties take down files that indicate they shared public data in places they shouldn't have
GCHQ Could Have Been Watching Your Webcam Feed
Snowden documents suggest GCHQ was collecting millions of images of law-abiding citizens obtained directly from their webcams during online chats to build a giant face recognition database
In Pictures: The History Of The Apple Mac On Its 30th Birthday
The Apple Mac celebrates its 30th birthday, but do you remember them all?
Bell Labs: We Will Need Billions Of Small Cells
Holger Claussen from Bell Labs envisions a future where we all have our own low-power radio access node
Man Jailed For Refusing To Reveal USB Password
Syed Hussain, already serving time for helping to plot attacks against UK targets, got another four months
Silent Circle And Geeksphone Create Privacy-Focused Blackphone
Secure Blackphone to debut at Mobile World Congress
Snowden Reveals NSA’s Classified Quantum Computing Project
The US agency is building a machine that could make all encryption obsolete
Open Data Institute Expands Its Vision Across Borders
The network of 13 international ‘Nodes’ could attract millions to the open data cause, says ODI CEO Gavin Starks
CAPTCHA Is Dead. Long Live CAPTCHA!
CAPTCHA has been broken many times before. Yet even an effective new method of cracking it will do nothing to dampen CAPTCHA's popularity, says Tom Brewster
Tech Makes Workers Five Times More Productive, Claims O2
A trip to the office of the past tells a somewhat different story
Michael Dell: Long Live The PC
Windows RT sucked, but Dell is focused on producing PCs for Windows 8 and other operating systems, CEO tells TechWeek
European Committee Votes For Strict Privacy Laws
Right to be forgotten, increased fines, in tough EU privacy draft
Samsung ATIV Q Tablet Hosts Both Android And Windows
Fancy using Android and Windows on a single device? No neither did we, but now you can thanks to Samsung
Springtown – A Hard Drive Factory Like No Other
Max Smolaks returns from Derry with a new fondness for hard drives and respect for people who make them
Cyber Cold War: US And Russia Set Up Emergency Hotline
Obama and Putin making like it's 1963
China’s Tianhe-2 Takes Top500 Supercomputing Crown
Superfast machine uses 48,000 Intel coprocessors, but is a Chinese design, says Top500 editor
Red Hat To Abandon MySQL In Favour Of MariaDB
Open source enthusiasts concerned with Oracle’s ownership of MySQL now have an alternative
Eurovision Big Data Researchers Predict Victory For Denmark
Microsoft researchers predict the likely outcome of Eurovision but don't bet on the UK
Quiz Of The Week: Amazon.com
How well do you know the retail and cloud giant, Amazon.com? Try our quiz!
iCITY Completes £1bn Olympic Tech Hub Deal
iCITY finalises deal to take over the Olympic press and broadcast centres
Labour: War On Cyber Crime Will Need More Government Money
Labour shadow minister for defence Russell Brown tells TechWeek more funds will be required
Tech Club: TechWeek Readers Want Tech Success
London Tech Club meeting discusses successful IT projects
Blurb Launches Print-On-Demand Magazine About 3D Printing
Two cutting-edge printing concepts give birth to Print Shift
HP Moonshot – One Small Step For Micro Servers
HP's Moonshot modules impress Peter Judge - but don't call them software-defined servers