Infrastructure, Internet, Government
Berners-Lee To Head Institute For Web Science
Infrastructure Broadband Week Technology / Information Skills Government / Infrastructure Internet News st. [...] Berners-Lee, along with Amstrad-founder and The Apprentice star, Sir Alan Sugar, were appointed as special advisers to help the government better engage with the Internet and boost its business credentials. [...] Categories. Goverment IT, Infrastructure, News, Web Services & SOA. [...]
Government Aims to Tackle Online Fraud
Report Services Internet / Infrastructure Internet News / Internet Government System Plans st. [...] You are here. Home News Infrastructure Government Aims to Tackle Online Fraud. [...] According to a European Commission report on cross-border e-commerce in the EU, in 2008 32 percent of individuals ordered goods or services over the Internet. In the UK in 2008, 57 percent of individuals had ordered goods or services over the Internet. [...]
Inmarsat Pushes Ahead With Satellite Broadband Plans
Services Company Government Customers / Infrastructure Internet News / Infrastructure Broadband Week Technology st. [...] You are here. Home News Infrastructure Inmarsat Pushes Ahead With Satellite Broadband Plans. [...] Across Europe, roughly 10 percent of Internet subscribers can either not gain access to a DSL service at all, or are only able to achieve speeds of 1Mbps. [...]
Education ICT Quango Becta To Close
Infrastructure Internet News / Information Skills Government / Government Open source Policy st. [...] Naturally we are very disappointed at the Government's decision, said Becta's chairman Graham Badman and chief executive Stephen Crowne, in a joint statement. Becta is a very effective organisation with an international reputation, delivering valuable services to schools, colleges and children. [...] Absolutely the right thing to do. When you have high quality free learning websites out there like http.//www.lynda.com and http.//www.alison.com providing excellent tuition at no cost to the government, spending on inferior or similar resources makes no sense. [...]
EC Adopts Rules For Broadband Funding
Infrastructure Broadband Week Technology / Network Public Internet / Help Government European Commission st. [...] In June, the commission announced it is investigating the UK's proposed £6 levy on fixed telephony lines designed to fund further broadband expansion in the country. The EC is determining whether it contravenes European guidelines on state support of internet infrastructure. [...] You are here. Home News Infrastructure EC Adopts Rules For Broadband Funding. [...]
Coalition Eyes BBC Licence Fee For Broadband
Government Deal Support / Infrastructure Internet News / News Infrastructure Management st. [...] Categories. Goverment IT, Infrastructure, Management, Networking, News. [...] The final coalition agreement is also decidedly lax on detail and fails to make any mention of its time-scale or service performance targets, without which the goal posts could easily be shifted. Next Generation Access (NGA) services are absolutely vital to the continued growth of this country's economy and we call upon the new government to deliver a proper outline of its plans as soon as humanly possible, he added. [...]
RSA: US Cybersecurity Plan Declassified
Internet Security System / Internet Government System / Infrastructure Hardware Software st. [...] Each of the goals, Schmidt explained, forms an important component of the government's cyber-security efforts. Transparency and partnerships are concepts that have to go hand in hand, he told the audience. We can't ask industry to help the government, [and] the government can't offer to help industry unless we have that transparency. [...] Define the federal role for extending cyber-security into critical infrastructure domains. [...]
Cisco Tests Space-Based Internet Tech
President Infrastructure Internet / Tests Space Internet Tech / Government Infrastructure Networking Technology Data st. [...] You are here. Home News Infrastructure Cisco Tests Space-Based Internet Tech. [...] Cisco announced on 18 Jan. that the Department of Defense's IRIS (Internet Routing in Space) technology program successfully tested the radiation-tolerant router and the Cisco IOS Software's networking capability that was launched on 23 Nov, 2009, on a satellite built by Intelsat General. [...]
Hackers Steal US Strike Fighter Data
Internet Security System / Internet Government System Plans / President Infrastructure Internet st. [...] Currently, the United States has no centralised government or military office responsible for cyber-security. Shortly after taking office, Obama ordered his National Security and Homeland Security advisers to conduct a 60-day review of the U.S. government's cyber-security plans, programs and activities. [...] You are here. Home News Infrastructure Hackers Steal US Strike Fighter Data. [...]
Conservatives Pledge Investment In Cyber Security
Infrastructure Internet News / Security News Computer Government Plans / Accounts Chinese Rights st. [...] The news follows a recent spate of high-profile security issues, ranging from attempts to hack into the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists which some security experts have blamed on a zero-day flaw in Internet Explorer to attacks by the Iranian Cyber Army on Twitter, and the placing of anti-Semitic messages on The Jewish Chronicle's website. [...] You only have to look at the so-called Clickskrieg' against Estonia in 2007 which crippled the government and the banking sector and almost brought the entire country to a halt for a sign of how serious a major attack could be. [...]
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