IRS wants more tax cash from Facebook, while Europe's tax collectors target US tech
US tech companies such as Facebook, Apple and Google have been channelling earnings through countries with lower corporate tax rates, such as Ireland.
US tech companies such as Facebook, Apple and Google have been channelling earnings through countries with lower corporate tax rates, such as Ireland.
Samsung is already piloting its Smart School technology in 24 countries, and unveiled its Android-based Smart Classroom Solution at last week's BETT show at ExCel in London
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....
Today, government minister George Osborne promoted the UK's 225 percent tax breaks on R&D, and its new Entrepreneur Visa. He also trumpeted the success of London's Tech City in attracting investment.
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.
The British government is spending £42.6 billion on a new west-coast railway line when it could spend the same amount or perhaps less on providing the whole nation with superfast broadband with Fibre-to-the-home (FTTH).
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.
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
President Obama claims the US government invented the Internet so companies could profit from it. In fact, the US government mandated support for a rival networking system, OSI, and tried to avoid adopting the Internet's protocols
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.