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Public sector procurement set to change

By The National Outsourcing Association (NOA), August 18, 2008 at 5:14 pm

In the press this past week we see that the UK Government will make the process of procurement fairer and easier. It has long been obvious that outsourcing deals in the public sector..

Through the looking glass? What lies within Ofcom's Comms Market Report?

By The Broadband Stakeholder Group (BSG), August 18, 2008 at 5:00 pm

Last week saw the publication of what has become a bit of a bible in the TMT sector – Ofcom’s Communications Market Report for 2008. Perhaps some of you who are more diligent than me and..

Nominet announces Best Practice Challenge shortlist

By Nominet, June 19, 2008 at 1:15 pm

We have announced the shortlist for our annual Best Practice Challenge, a competition that recognises British organisations, groups or individuals who have embraced the challenge of making the Internet a secure, open, accessible or diverse..

Is complexity always a bad thing?

By Information Security Group (ISG), Royal Holloway, June 16, 2008 at 3:32 pm

In my life, I’ve studied hundreds of papers on complex cryptographic algorithms and protocols; the type of academic papers that take five days to fully understand how much you don’t understand the described protocol. I’ve..

Taking stock

By dotMobi, March 19, 2008 at 3:23 pm

With the dust settled on Mobile World Congress and the current ramp up to CTIA, the mobile world is in a good place to take stock and make sense of the many predictions, hopes and..

Small firms can safeguard data without paying a fortune

By The Forum of Private Business (FPB), March 8, 2008 at 3:37 pm

Over the past year, there have been many high-profile incidents of government departments, banks and multinational businesses losing sensitive data containing the personal details of millions of people. It could well be that the issue of data protection, or a lack of..

Internet security, Oscar Wilde and Facebook

By National Computing Centre (NCC), February 5, 2008 at 12:57 pm

I was recently involved with a road show telling people on the streets of Manchester about the Getsafeonline website (http://www.getsafeonline.org) which advises people about how to secure their web interactions. About half of those..

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