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Gates to advise U.K. on globalization
News The Microsoft chairman is appointed to a panel to help the country compete with economies such as China and India.
Tags: Consulting, Government, International governments, Leadership
Father of the Web gets IT honor
News Sir Tim Berners-Lee receives the 'Freedom of the Information Technologists' award by the Information Technologists' Company.
Tags: Web sites, Web browsers
UK to monitor, store all social-network traffic?
News The U.K. government's proposed Interception Modernisation Programme would enforce tracking and retention of all U.K. citizens' Web communications, including IM conversations.
Tags: Privacy, Mobile platforms/communications, MySpace, Traffic Data, data retention, Tim Berners-Lee, Bebo, Government, Internet Service, IMP
UK officials going snoop crazy
News Officials made more than 500,000 requests to spy on private phone and Internet information in the United Kingdom last year.
Tags: Security, Request, Home Secretary, Sir, phone, London, Silicon.com, billing, Internet Service Provider, Internet
Microsoft explains seven-year patch delay
News The software giant says that fixing the flaw earlier would have broken customer network applications.
Tags: Security, Business applications, Server Message Block, Microsoft Corp., Sir, Server, program manager, Microsoft Security Response Center, network, researcher
UK public targeted by 1,500 monitoring bids per day
News Liberal Democrats claim the United Kingdom has "sleepwalked into a surveillance state" after public authorities make more than half-a-million interception requests in one year.
Tags: Network security, Authentication and encryption, Security, Home Secretary, Democrat, monitoring, technique, service provider, Network security, team
British PM calls on Berners-Lee in open-government drive
News U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown enlists father of the Web, Tim Berners-Lee, to help drive opening up of access to government data in the Web.
Tags: Web sites, Privacy, Tim Berners-Lee, Government, Internet Service Provider, Prime Minister, technique, WWW, Web, Web sites
UK police slash paperwork with mobiles
News From next week, law enforcers in the United Kingdom will use handheld devices to enter data during street searches, which can help cut each process from 20 minutes to 60 seconds.
Tags: Employee communications, State Government, Politics, Mobile, Home Secretary, Officer, Mobile Device, handheld computer, State Government, CIO
Report: Sony to cut 2,000 jobs, shutter two Japan TV factories
News Sony plans to close two television factories and shed 2,000 jobs in its home country of Japan.
Tags: Layoffs, Factory, TV, Bloomberg L.P., layoff, Japan, CEO, job, CNET Networks Inc., Pennsylvania
Berners-Lee: Semantic Web will have privacy built-in
News The Semantic Web will be able to enforce privacy policies set by Web users, according to Web pioneer Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
Tags: Web sites, Network security, Security implementation/standards, Semantic Web, data mining, Tim Berners-Lee, W3C, photograph, desktop, built-In
The Rise of the Lost
Product Reviews The Rise of the Lost
Tags: Apple Inc., IBM Lotus Notes, Apple Macintosh, Lost, Apple iPod, external hard drive, hard drive, Microsoft Windows, disk, desktop
Berners-Lee says no to Internet 'snooping'
News The inventor of the World Wide Web calls deep packet inspection the electronic equivalent of opening people's mail.
Tags: Data security, Diagnostics and monitoring, Privacy, Tim Berners-Lee, Government, Advertisement, Internet Service, Deep Packet Inspection, CEO, U.K.
UK police database: 'A major weapon in crime fight'
News A Logica-headed consortium has been awarded the US$113 million contract to deliver the first phase of the Police National Database.
Tags: Databases, Logica, Database, Michael Bichard, Impact Program, consortium, England, Silicon.com, U.K., information management
Tips to make your apps more secure
Techguide Find out what Microsoft's security chief says, developers need to do better to make their applications more secure.
Tags: Software engineering/development, Security Management, Data security, PC security, Microsoft Corp., Security, Training, Microsoft Windows Vista, Developer, operating system
Sony CEO stresses convergence to save CE industry
News The company's chief makes liberal use of celebrities to outline principles to help industry weather economic storm.
Tags: Consumer Technology, Digital media, Blu-ray, Convergence, entertainment, Consumer Electronics Industry, movie, Wi-Fi, CEO, industry
