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Category: Other News

The news items published under this category are as follows.

BT to upgrade 200 further cabinets to ADSL2+ in Wales, Cornwall and Scotland

Aug 30, 2010 - 09:03 AM
BT has said that it will upgrade a further 200 cabinets by spring next year to bring ADSL2+ speeds of up to 20Mbit/s to regions across the UK.

Bristol Arnolfini - Old Media season

Aug 30, 2010 - 09:02 AM
Contemporary arts centre Arnolfini will present three exhibitions as part of its Old Media season, exploring the history of software art and the impact of technology set against progress, consumerism and globalisation.

Small ISPs fuming over changes to fibre tax

Aug 30, 2010 - 09:00 AM
Small internet service providers (ISPs) hoping for wholesale changes to the way fibre deployments are taxed have reacted angrily to new rateable values issued by the Valuation Office Agency (VAO).

IT job vacancies up in first quarter

Aug 30, 2010 - 08:59 AM
The number of advertised vacancies for ICT staff in the first quarter of this year rose for the third consecutive quarter to 86,000 positions, despite a slump in recruitment activity across the economy as a whole, according to the latest analysis by e-skills UK.

Gender pay gap in IT widens to a chasm

Aug 30, 2010 - 08:57 AM
Female workers entering the IT industry still face huge discrepancies in pay in comparison to their male counterparts, according to a new study by the Chartered Management Institute and human resources firm XpertHR.

Web 2.0 could drive evolution in government and citizen relations

Aug 30, 2010 - 08:56 AM
Web 2.0 technologies are changing the way government operates and interacts with the public worldwide. They present an opportunity for government CIOs to slash IT costs and transform internal collaboration using social technologies, a new report has found.

Design Council offers £100,000 to help promote designers

Jun 29, 2010 - 07:59 AM
The Design Council has announced new support to help designers get the message across to clients about the benefits of design and hopefully drive up demand for design services.

New Coalition Government Budget

Jun 29, 2010 - 07:50 AM
Following the recent election, the newly introduced Coalition Government, lead by David Cameron, presented an emergency Budget on 22nd June.

New UK data protection laws could burden business

Jun 29, 2010 - 07:49 AM
The European Commission has asked the UK to strengthen its data protection laws, bringing it in line with the EU’s Data Protection Directive.

Budget likely to increase demand for cloud services

Jun 29, 2010 - 07:46 AM
With Chancellor George Osborne’s announcement that there will be an increase in savings expected from each government department, commentators are arguing that the IT industry will begin to see significant traction in the move towards cloud services.

Bing popularity means companies might need to rethink SEO approach

Jun 29, 2010 - 07:45 AM
Companies could be forced to alter their search engine optimisation (SEO) strategies as Microsoft’s Bing search service gains ground on the market leader Google.

Tax relief for gaming industry scrapped

Jun 29, 2010 - 07:43 AM
George Osborne has scrapped Labour’s proposal to aid the gaming industry, stating that the new government will not offer tax breaks for game production companies in today’s emergency budget.

Breakthrough heralds step towards quantum computing

Jun 29, 2010 - 07:41 AM
Results released by three top universities following experiments within the field of quantum mechanics could be the first step towards the creation of an affordable quantum computer, according to a paper released in science journal Nature.

IT jobs market "bouncing back"

May 11, 2010 - 11:52 AM
Figures from IT recruitment specialist web site IT Job Board show a 16 per cent jump in vacancies quarter-on-quarter for Q1 2010.

UK slips from outsourcing top spot

May 11, 2010 - 11:50 AM
The UK is in danger of losing its crown as Europe’s largest outsourcing market, despite reports from channel players of an uptick in “co-sourcing” deals.

UK makes the 'dirty dozen' of global spam-relaying countries

May 11, 2010 - 11:48 AM
Security firm Sophos has released its latest top 12 list of the worst countries for relaying spam, placing the UK at ninth.

Google reports huge rise in fake anti-virus software

May 11, 2010 - 11:26 AM
Google researchers have warned of a huge rise in fake anti-virus software that tricks users into paying for a useless software suite.

Study suggests public bodies are paying too much for web site services

May 11, 2010 - 11:12 AM
Private sector businesses are spending on average 10 times less on their web site services than UK local councils, according to research from freelance jobs site PeoplePerHour.com. Skip related content

Cloud computing vital to UK future

May 11, 2010 - 11:10 AM
Cloud computing is causing the biggest structural change in the IT industry since the 1960s, and will account for 15% of the UK software market by 2012, according to analyst firm TechMarketView.

Business Link: April 2010 regulation changes

Apr 13, 2010 - 12:17 AM
Tax returns & Payroll / Data protection / Employing People / Health, Safety and Premises

UK designers: white, (mostly) male, 38 and multiplying

Apr 13, 2010 - 12:08 AM
The Design Council has published its latest survey of the UK design industry. Numbers of designers have grown nearly a third since 2005, are 60% male, 93% white and most likely to be 38 years old.

Small firms demand better broadband speeds

Mar 19, 2010 - 07:21 AM
Internet service providers (ISPs) should be "obliged" to deliver speeds of 8Mbit/s to smaller firms, according to the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).

BCS says Digital Economy Bill needs 'softly, softly' approach

Mar 19, 2010 - 07:19 AM
The Chartered Institute for IT, also known as the British Computer Society (BCS), has called for more time to be spent on considering the implications of the Digital Economy bill currently passing through Parliament.

Less than a month left to claim backdated business rates

Mar 19, 2010 - 07:18 AM
The FPB (Forum of private Business) is warning small firms that there is less than a month left to lodge an appeal about their business rates over the past five years. Business owners who believe they have been overcharged have until 31st March to register their appeal.

People happier voting on the web

Mar 19, 2010 - 07:16 AM
More than three-quarters of the electorate would vote via the internet if they could, according to a major survey conducted last week.
 
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