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U.K. government loses pensioner data

U.K. government loses pensioner datawow.. no backupmy career opportunities are looking better and better with each breach.network/data admin etc...yet another data loss - how can we trust them with ID cards?Yet another data loss.They want us all to have ID cards... how can we trust them to look after the...

Tags: data loss, pensioner data, U.K. Government

Discussion threads 2007-12-20

U.K. government loses data on driving-test candidates

U.K. government loses data on driving-test candidatesHuh?Why was a hard disk containing all of this information from Britain or where ever that was doing in Iowa City, Iowa? Now Geography was never my best subject in school but to the best of my knowledge there is no Iowa City,...

Tags: Outsourcing, Pearson, outsource, theory, U.K. Government

Discussion threads 2007-12-18

U.K. government reveals its 'biggest privacy disaster'

U.K. government reveals its 'biggest privacy disaster'Not arrived in the UK yet?Where do you live? The disease has been here for much longer than anywhere else.What is a Government? Even if it is prefaced by Her Majesty's. Can any unelected government be wrong ever? Ask George W not Washington, Bush!...

Tags: Biometrics, Financial services, privacy disaster, U.K. Government

Discussion threads 2007-11-21

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The taxman goes mainstream on YouTube

In an era of 200 TV stations offering a variety of specialty channels were "news" is ignored how to reach the masses and offer an ability to go when you please to view important information. The government in the U.K. has started to post on YouTube. by Doug Hanchard

Tags: YouTube Inc., Taxman, Government, TVs, Vertical Industries, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Doug Hanchard

Blog posts 2009-11-03

Government in action: 1.3M mobile plans; Mexico's Internet tax; England's crime map

Mobile plans for everyone with 1.3 million options; Mexico's new Internet tax will be 3 percent; and the U.K. has a new web site map showing were every crime has occurred for the last 3 years. by Doug Hanchard

Tags: Mobile, Internet Tax, Government, Mexico, Internet, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Doug Hanchard

Blog posts 2009-10-23

UK envisions zero waste: What about computers?

Recycling is part of our daily lives. We do it everyday with plastics, newspapers and other general household things. Cars are now recycled throughout North America and Europe at high efficiency rates. Everything seems to be covered, right? Computers and batteries face recycling problems. We already know that...

Tags: Landfill, Computer, Productivity, Monitors & Displays, Government, Hardware, Components, Doug Hanchard

Blog posts 2009-10-18

With AppSense, making sense of managing the virtual desktop user experience

As more enterprises turn to virtual desktop infrastructure to save money and leverage the infrastructure they already have, managing the user experience has become critical. But how do you maintain standardization across large organizations while keeping the user happy at each log on? AppSense...

Tags: AppSense, Virtual Desktop, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Desktops, Hardware, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-10-12

Works of Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol. FREE Author's biography & partial work in the trial (Mobile)

Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any poem from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Features Navigate from Table of Contents or search for words or phrases Make bookmarks, notes, highlights Searchable and interlinked. Access the e-book anytime, anywhere...

Tags: Mobile, Biology, MobileReference

Software downloads 2009-09-10

Works of Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol. FREE Author's biography & partial work in the trial 11.1 (Mobile)

Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any poem from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Features Navigate from Table of Contents or search for words or phrases Make bookmarks, notes, highlights Searchable and interlinked. Access the e-book anytime, anywhere...

Tags: Mobile, Biology, MobileReference

Software downloads 2009-09-10

Works of Aristotle. FREE Author's biography & partial work in the trial 10.3 (Mobile)

Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any poem from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Features Navigate from Table of Contents or search for words or phrases Make bookmarks, notes, highlights Searchable and interlinked. Access the e-book anytime, anywhere...

Tags: Mobile, Biology, MobileReference, Business Ethics, Leadership, Management

Software downloads 2009-09-10

Works of Aristotle. FREE Author's biography & partial work in the trial (Mobile)

Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any poem from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Features Navigate from Table of Contents or search for words or phrases Make bookmarks, notes, highlights Searchable and interlinked. Access the e-book anytime, anywhere...

Tags: Mobile, Biology, MobileReference, Business Ethics, Leadership, Management

Software downloads 2009-09-10

UK caves to Hollywood, orders net cut-off for 'hardcore' downloaders

In June, the U.K.'s Digital Britain report rejected the Draconian demands of Hollywood to cut off "hardcore" downloaders from the Internet. Now the British government has changed its tune: Stephen Timms, the minister for Digital Britain, said that proposals previously considered by the Government to...

Tags: Watson Co., Mandelson, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-25

Google Books sued by a pig, cat and dog

LosersThis just underlines how pathetic these lawsuit-hungry companies are in hoping to cash in on what Google has created. They couldn't come up with a business model to monetize these works so they sue someone who has figured it out.Anti-capitalism at its best.4 legs good; 2 legs betterRight, Amazon?Bunch of...

Tags: Strategy, Litigation, KARMA, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Archive.org, Google Book

Discussion threads 2009-08-21

EU ombudsman slaps antitrust regulators over Intel case

No, evidence has no place in the EU investigations[i]Ultimately, the Dell conversation wasn?t going to sway the ultimate outcome.[/i]Exactly right. Before starting the investigation, the EU has already decided on the outcome. The investigation is merely the process they follow to justify their pre-determined outcome.RE: EU ombudsman slaps antitrust regulators...

Tags: Government, Corporate law, Intel Corp., antitrust, antitrust regulator

Discussion threads 2009-08-10

Poll: Did Microsoft and Yahoo do the right thing?

Poll: Did Microsoft and Yahoo do the right thing?SuccessfulI think that this agreement has the potential to be huge. When you combine all of Microsoft's and Yahoo's page views, you have a lot of people viewing a lot of pages. As an advertiser, having one platform to get...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed hosting, cloud computing, SEARCH, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-07-29

Microsoft to change default browser setting option in IE 8

Microsoft to change default browser setting option in IE 8I hope FireFox follows suitAfter installing FireFox 3.5, not only did it hijack the default browser setting - but even after setting it back, it's STILL the browser being selected when clicking on a link in Trillian.The ONLY reason I have...

Tags: Web browsers, Government, Microsoft Internet Explorer, default browser setting, university education, IE8, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-07-17

Assassination of Neda, played and replayed on the Web, marks turning point for Iran

Could one bullet take down the Iranian regime? When that bullet kills an innocent young woman and her last minutes are captured on cellphone and played over and over again on YouTube, it's possible. Especially if the Iranian government continues to act with...

Tags: Web, Bullet, Video, Corporate Communications, Government, Marketing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-23

ISP spying begins in UK, as Universal, Virgin ink a deal

In a first-of-its-kind deal, Universal and Virgin Media have agreed on a U.K. plan that makes Universal's entire catalog available - DRM-free - for a monthly subscription price, while Virgin will take a more active role in identifying unauthorized downloading of the label's music, The New York Times reports. ...

Tags: Internet Service Provider, Monthly Subscription, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Piracy, Internet, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-15

EU fines Intel record $1.45 billion in AMD antitrust case

EU fines Intel record $1.45 billion in AMD antitrust case10 percent of it's global turnover?Since when has any country the right to fine on a percentage of sales NOT made it's country?To allow something like that opens the door to countries to arbitrarily fine a company looking to get 10%...

Tags: Corporate law, Processors, antitrust, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-05-13

EU slams Britain over Phorm

In surveillance-happy Britain scroll down, letting Internet providers install Phorm's tracking tools without customers' consent is just peachy. Not so for the E.U., as the Times reports. The European Commission on Tuesday threatened to sanction the UK for the practice. “European privacy...

Tags: U.K., Britain, Phorm, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-04-14