A piracy crackdown is to target companies in Glasgow after the city was pinpointed as being a hotspot for illegal software.
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Defra IT - blowing budgets and showing up late
07.02.2008 17:16 feeds.silicon.com
Major IT projects at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) are millions over budget and years late, it has been revealed.
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Fall in students applying to be IT teachers
07.02.2008 15:45 feeds.silicon.com
The skills shortage could be set to take a turn for the worse if an early year drop in the number of students applying for postgraduate IT teacher training courses continues.
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How to give tech to those on less than $1 a day
07.02.2008 13:46 feeds.silicon.com
How do you give underprivileged children around the world access to technology? New initiatives from an unexpected source let students and educators define their own needs, says Clive Longbottom.
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Locked in at the bank
07.02.2008 12:02 feeds.silicon.com
Written in a coffee shop at Wickham Market, Suffolk, and dispatched via a free wi-fi service in Woodbridge a day later.
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Dear silicon.com... Tax crash, mobile driving, eBay feedback, Vista woes...
07.02.2008 12:02 feeds.silicon.com
What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and views on the site...
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Video: Bill Gates bids London farewell
07.02.2008 12:02 feeds.silicon.com
On democracy of the web and touch technology...
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Isle of Man goes virtual to slash server farm
07.02.2008 12:02 feeds.silicon.com
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Google Apps hosts one big team talk over the web
07.02.2008 10:21 feeds.silicon.com
Google Apps Team Edition launches today and offers a way for workers to slip a hosted apps service into their workplace.
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Europe dishing out more spam than US
07.02.2008 10:21 feeds.silicon.com
European spam networks have pumped out more unsolicited mail than the US for the third month in a row, according to security vendor Symantec.
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BT wi-fi phones fail to light a fuse with consumers
07.02.2008 08:31 feeds.silicon.com
BT has reportedly abandoned, for the moment, attempts to market its dual-mode wi-fi handsets to consumers, despite the relative success of the device among business customers.
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NHS admits thousands of smartcards have gone walkies
06.02.2008 19:03 feeds.silicon.com
More than 4,000 NHS smartcards used to access a range of electronic systems and applications have gone missing since they were introduced two and a half years ago.
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Jaeger invests in data mining to cut stock loss
06.02.2008 17:34 feeds.silicon.com
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ID cards? One in four say no!
06.02.2008 17:34 feeds.silicon.com
Support for the UK's national ID card programme continues to plummet as one quarter of people say they are strongly opposed to the scheme.
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Home workers admit broadband hijack hi-jinks
06.02.2008 17:34 feeds.silicon.com
Companies are being exposed to risk online by bad behaviour among home workers - from hi-jacking the neighbour's wi-fi to opening unsafe emails.