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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.
Prime Minister's tech advisor Rohan Silva resigns
The technology advisor to U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron is leaving Downing Street to explore the possibilities of online learning.
UK launches 'Fusion Cell' to head off cyber attacks
Public and private sector employees will come together to share information on cyber attacks directed at the UK from a new base in an undisclosed location.
UK intelligence agency stores passwords in plain text
Just the other week, we heard that the Australian Tax Office was storing passwords in plain text. This time, it's one of the UK's intelligence agencies.
Amazon corporation tax petition reaches 100,000 signatures
The U.K. doesn't appear too happy with Amazon's tax-related practices.
BlackBerry 10 suffers security approval setback by UK gov't
UPDATED: Despite a strong hold of the worldwide public sector market, the UK government doesn't believe the latest BlackBerry 10 software is safe enough for secure communications. For now, the only modern day smartphone capable of government use in the UK is the iPhone.
Use open source software - it makes things better, says UK
Open source gets the official seal of approval from the UK government in new guidelines that mandate its use over proprietary products.
UK scraps government CIO in tech project shake-up
IT bosses spend too much time managing contracts and not enough time thinking about public services. Time for fewer meetings and faster releases, according to the government's digital chief.
IT vendors scuppering Whitehall's cloud adoption with price-cut promises
The UK government's director of G-Cloud says she is furious that systems integrators are dropping their prices to dissuade government department's from switching to G-Cloud services.