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Dole office to roll out digital benefits to north-west – 6 months early

Greater Manchester and Cheshire testing ground for universal credit

Government 29 May 08:59

Google now gets 250k copyright takedown requests EACH WEEK

More than all requests made during 2009, Choc Factory says

Law 29 May 07:32

Shanghai cops set for online 'crime' crack-down

Only 800,000 sites to keep an eye on officer...

Public Sector 29 May 05:19

NSW gov orders two new green data centres

Metronode creates 250 jobs

Public Sector 28 May 23:10

UK High Court split over Twitter airport bomb joke

New hearing ordered to discuss fate of Paul Chambers after judges disagree

Law 28 May 15:29

EU set to smack Chinese telcos over state subsidies

Getting money off gov is not playing fair, kettle tells pot

Government 28 May 10:02

NHS axes HealthSpace: 'Just too difficult' to use

Secure personal health record project canned from March 2013

Government 25 May 07:02

Police cuff hundreds in £7.3 MILLION phone scam

Two plane-loads of crooks flown to China, amid suspicions of high-level Police corruption

Public Sector 25 May 03:48

Australian government kicks off IT price discrimination inquiry

‘Oz tax’ under scrutiny

Public Sector 24 May 23:19

Bigger, longer deals dangled at G-Cloud 2.0 launch

UK.gov buffs incentives in revamped tech bazaar

Government 24 May 15:59

Met cops get new pocket-sized fingerprint scanners

Mobile print-takers identify perps in seconds

Policing 24 May 12:22

Google quizzed AGAIN by French data watchdog

CNIL unhappy with previous answers on privacy

Government 24 May 10:44

Biz law reform: Bad news for lawyers, good news for hippies

Eco-tech funds in, tribunals out in draft bill

Government 24 May 10:33

'Six-eyed' robot to tour National Museum of Australia

Wi-Fi-guided bot will test NBN scenarios, augment reality for virtual visitors

Public Sector 24 May 05:09

Obama orders gov app deluge

Developers cheer as every US government agency to release two mobile apps inside a year

Public Sector 24 May 04:53

Open Data Institute pours golden £10m shower on upstarts

Taxpayer-funded teams to tackle public info dumps

Government 23 May 13:27

MPs wrestle slippery bureaucrats in intellectual property Jell-O

Analysis 'Evidence base weak' for IP, says UK's IP top cop

Government 23 May 13:19

Dole Office staff snooped into private data 992 times in 10 months

And that's just the times they were caught...

Government 23 May 07:27

NSW gov backs mobile apps

Seven projects for govt get cash

Public Sector 22 May 23:59

Apple's trial experts are 'slavish fanbois who believe in magic'

Samsung wants witnesses tossed out of patent battle

Law 22 May 12:38

Kim Dotcom resists password grab

Megaupload founder demands ‘judicial process’

Law 22 May 02:34

Google snubs Euro watchdog's 'abuse of dominance' claims

Happy to have a chat about 'concerns'

Law 21 May 15:37

IP law probe MPs hunt for smoking gun, find plenty of smoke

Analysis The IPO whodunnit continues

Public Sector 21 May 13:32

Brussels throws antitrust settlement lifeline to Google

Almunia urges Schmidt to offer quick fix or face possible 'abuse' charges

Law 21 May 12:28

Another NHS trust coughs up £90k fine for lax fax acts

Patients' privates sent to wrong address for months

Public Sector 21 May 12:03

NHS car-crash spatters CSC accounts with red ink

'Very poor' results, blubs CEO

Public Sector 21 May 08:19

Creatives spin copyright licence that sticks to web

Using baton of new technology to enforce rights

Law 21 May 07:02

Call of Duty hacker behind bars after college burglary

18 months' porridge for banking malware-spreader

Law 18 May 16:34

Next UK.gov CloudStore lumbers online

Digital Dunkirk spirit

Channel Register 18 May 16:01

ICO on new Cookie Law: 'Don't expect torrent of enforcement action'

Plans to wait for user complaints as the law comes into effect

Law 18 May 13:31

UK.gov: ICT in schools ain't dead, it's just resting

And there'll be tech contracts for the kids when they grow up, honest

Government 18 May 13:19

UK prosecutions for hacking appear to be be dropping

But plenty of caveats apply

Law 18 May 13:02

Iran threatens to chuck sueball at Google over missing gulf

State unhappy that 'Persian Gulf' name is gone

Government 18 May 12:01

Facebook's Eduardo Saverin: I'm not a tax-dodger

Meanwhile, US senators try to get him banned from the US

Government 18 May 11:04

Senator probes NASA airfield deal for Google's jets

Is space agency giving Larry a break on government's jet fuel?

Government 18 May 10:32

Scotland considers dishing out more iPads to schoolkids

Maybe, if it's 'promoting new teaching behaviours' elsewhere

Government 18 May 08:33

Will UK.gov crack down on itself for missing Cookie Law deadline?

In other news - Pope actually Jewish

Law 18 May 07:03

Anonymous turns its DDoS cannons on India

Takes out government, court and political party sites

Public Sector 18 May 03:28

Governments may hit social networks with cyber attacks

Arab Spring alerted governments to power of Facebook, Twitter et al

Government 17 May 23:50

Council fined £70k after burglars nick vulnerable kids' files

Second data law breach in two years

Public Sector 17 May 13:32

UK.gov IT slasher axes himself - after 5 months in new job

Ian Watmore follows horde of civil servants streaming out the door

Public Sector 17 May 10:37

Child support IT fail: Deadbeat mums 'n' dads off the hook

NAO: Child maintenance computers unable to keep tabs on payments

Government 17 May 07:03

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