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U.S. judge postpones PeopleSoft decision

News Oracle's efforts to remove PeopleSoft's anti-takeover measures via a court order will spill over into December.

Thursday, November 25 2004 10:25 AM

Tags: Business applications, Mergers

Humor amid the HP testimony

News If you want entertainment, listen to a witness' cross-examination. If you want to know their major in college, pay attention to the questions from their own side.

Thursday, April 25 2002 11:08 AM

U.K.'s lost CD data not filtered due to cost

News Sensitive details were not stripped from the data on two missing CDs due to cost, an e-mail exchange published by U.K. National Audit Office reveals.

Monday, November 26 2007 11:47 AM

Tags: Security, Security Management, Policy and management

Europe urged to hasten book digitization

News Europe could pull ahead of Google in the digitization of books as long as it acts swiftly, information society and media commissioner Viviane Reding has said.

Wednesday, October 14 2009 10:04 AM

Tags: Web 2.0, Data Management, Digital rights management (DRM), Commission, Google Inc., Books Digitization, European Commission, Web 2.0, Copyright Protection, Europe

UK budget: US$1.1B cash injection for tech

News Digital technologies will share a US$1.1 billion fund to stimulate growth in the United Kingdom's "industries of the future".

Thursday, April 23 2009 09:02 AM

Tags: Funding, Green IT, Pound, Investment, Telecommunications, Training, Manufacturing, Broadband, chancellor, financial

Over 600 HMRC staff disciplined for data infractions

News HM Customs & Revenue has reprimanded over 600 staff since 2005 for data-protection breaches, including 11 'major' incidents.

Friday, May 02 2008 01:19 AM

Tags: Data security, Security, customer information, chancellor, financial, bank, Microsoft Office, data protection, data security, secretary

UC Berkeley computers hacked, 160,000 at risk

News Attackers access public health center Web site, then break into secured databases on the same server, stealing some 97,000 Social Security numbers.

Monday, May 11 2009 10:30 AM

Tags: Hacking, University, Database, health service, computer, Server, insurance, health insurance, Web Site, health care

Investment in tech could help the UK reinvent itself

News A London School of Economics report suggests that a 15 billion pound (US$22.1 billion) investment in broadband, smart grid and intelligent transport technology could create 700,000 jobs.

Thursday, April 30 2009 10:51 AM

Tags: Investments, Business broadband, Report, Investment, Author, Spokesperson, Information And Communication Technology, Broadband, Government, job

Fewer students opting for IT: India

News Universities in India's most IT-intensive state are seeing seats in computer science classes go empty as more students opt for general science and engineering degrees.

Monday, October 27 2003 10:23 AM

Nokia, Cambridge forge research alliance in U.K.

News Finnish researchers set up shop at Cambridge University for 'long-term' partnership, starting with work on nanotechnology.

Thursday, March 08 2007 10:21 AM

Tags: R&D, Nanotechnology

U.K. reviewing intellectual-property laws

News As patents, IP violations dominate IT sector, British legislators investigate whether legal changes are needed.

Sunday, December 04 2005 04:15 PM

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Legal, Patents, International governments

IBM M'sia, local varsity collaborate to develop e-biz skills

News IBM Malaysia is committing over RM5 million in a collaboration with Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) under the IBM Premier University Program aimed at developing e-business software skills and building a knowlegde-based society.

Friday, June 01 2001 04:17 PM

U.K. government in massive personal data loss

News The U.K. government has admitted that its Revenue & Customs department has lost the details of 25 million individuals after two disks went missing in the mail.

Wednesday, November 21 2007 10:55 AM

Tags: Government