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Tech giants' talent poaching leaves Tech City's startups stranded
Small- to medium-sized companies around London's Old Street roundabout in Shoreditch are failing to achieve their full potential as tech giants are snapping up the best talent, according to a recent report.
UK heads towards paperless health service with £260m digital project
Cash from the Department of Health has been awarded to hospitals in England as part of an effort to help the NHS go paperless by 2018.
Google boss defends British tax affairs
Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt has defended the US internet giant's tax arrangements after claims that it has unethically dodged paying vast amounts of British tax.
'Unethical and devious': Google attacked by MPs over UK tax bill
The tech giant faced criticism from angry UK politicians during a hearing to why it only paid 1.5 percent corporation tax in 2011.
U.K. data watchdog joins global privacy policy compliance audit
The U.K.'s data protection authority is joining a global audit of website privacy policies in order to build a better picture of how U.K.-based websites are complying with the law.
Cautious UK government delays smart meter project by a year
The roll-out of smart meters across the UK has been delayed over fears that the technology required won't be up to standard in time.
Relaxed planning rules could accelerate UK's 4G rollout
The UK government is looking at ways it could speed up the rollout of 4G services in the country by relaxing the red tape required to deploy the high-speed mobile broadband service.
Cloud must now be your first choice for big IT projects, says UK government
The government has introduced its Cloud First policy that will require all Whitehall departments to prioritise public cloud services when buying IT.
Quarter of U.K. SMEs can't fend off cyberattacks, says research
According to the latest research, around one quarter of all U.K. small-medium sized enterprises do not have the resources to fend off cyberattacks or hackers.
Capita gets ITIL – but will people finally 'get' ITIL?
Forrester’s Stephen Mann shares his observations on today's ITIL/Capita announcement.
Big data firm Cloudera sets up shop in London's Tech City
Another bump for London's Tech City, the enterprise big data company is setting up shop at the Silicon Roundabout, likely much to the pleasure of the U.K. coalition government.
Whitehall's cloud portal hits all-time sales high
Sales through the UK government's CloudStore portal reached a new peak in March as take-up of cloud services continues to climb, albeit from a very small base.
Infosys, Irish uni collaborate on cybersecurity research
Indian outsourcing giant is the latest member of Queen's University Belfast's Centre for Secure Information Technologies, and will collaborate on research looking at combating malware, among others.
The British Library saves the .uk web, starting 20 years too late
The British Library and the UK's other legal deposit libraries have started archiving around 5 million websites in the .uk domain, but the past 20 years may well remain a digital black hole
Benefit cheat boon? UK universal benefit trial dogged by IT problems
Critical IT issues relating to the UK's universal credit system could leave benefit fraudsters better off. All part of the "digital by default" strategy, of course.