Can regulating Facebook and Twitter stop the spread of fake news?
A report by UK MPs has rejected the idea that tech companies are merely platforms.
A report by UK MPs has rejected the idea that tech companies are merely platforms.
The British government's National Infrastructure Commission has called for 'full fibre' in the UK by 2033 while the UK has just fallen to 35th in the world's broadband speed table, behind 25 other European countries....
HRMC is fighting an online war against fake websites and phishing emails intended to defraud taxpayers in the UK, and it is asking the public to help...
The Spring Budget included funding for 13 projects to provide gigabit fibre-to-the-premises broadband across the UK, with another £95m to come. But it's not going to make a significant difference to the UK's appalling record in providing FTTP connections.
The British government will publish a "statement of intent" to strengthen data protection laws, giving people the right to have their personal data deleted. Organizations that can't or won't delete data, or fail to report security breaches, can be fined up to £17 million or up to 4 percent of their global turnover.
US tech companies such as Facebook, Apple and Google have been channelling earnings through countries with lower corporate tax rates, such as Ireland.
The UK's Rural Payments Agency has stopped trying to make farmers use its new online service and gone back to paper forms. It's the RPA's second IT debacle, and its failure might have been predicted.
BETT2015 covered the whole range of educational technologies from toys for toddlers to enterprise-class laptops, with a good smattering of tablets and Windows 8.1 convertibles.
Following the widely publicised successes of some "sharing economy" companies such as Airbnb, the British government has commissioned an independent report with the idea of making the UK a "global centre" for sharing start-ups.
The Year of Code is supposed to teach all the UK's school children to code, but even if you support this fashionable American idea, this doesn't seem to be a useful way to do it