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90,000 households face TV interference from 4G

The body tasked with protecting the Freeview TV service from interference from 4G mobile services says "no more" than 90,000 UK households are at risk. read more »

Gatwick Airport trials iris recognition system for boarding

Gatwick Airport is trialling an automated self-service boarding system using iris recognition technology. read more »

Glasgow City Council fined £150,000 by ICO over lost laptops

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined Glasgow City Council £150,000 after the loss of two unencrypted laptops, one of which contained the personal information of 20,143 people. read more »

Most mobile workers use their own gadgets to do their work

The majority of mobile workers now use their own devices to do their work, according to research. read more »

Spotify speeds music delivery times with Fusion-io

Spotify is souping up the music streaming delivery times from its data centres with application acceleration technology from Fusion-io. read more »

West Midlands councils sign £8.9m rural broadband deal

An £8.9 million rural broadband contract has been signed by public authorities to make sure homes and businesses can get faster fibre-based services across the West Midlands. read more »

Web companies summoned by government over illegal images and 'hate' content

Culture secretary Maria Miller has summoned Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Microsoft, ISPs and other internet companies to a meeting on 17 June to discuss ways in tackling widely available child abuse images, and online political and religious "extremist" material. read more »

Network Rail signs major framework to simplify computing relationships

Network Rail has signed framework agreements with five major suppliers to simplify its IT and computing relationships. read more »

Most civil servants unsure how to use government's CloudStore

Three-quarters of civil servants are still not confident about how to use the government's cloud procurement platform CloudStore, despite the G-Cloud now being on its third framework. read more »

Nottingham Building Society improves security with data ownership system

Nottingham Building Society has made a move to make its critical and sensitive data more secure. read more »

Centrica migrates to 26,000 users to Windows 7 with Fujitsu

Centrica, the parent company of British Gas, is migrating 26,500 users to Windows 7 from Windows XP. read more »

Supermarket gets rid of customer receipts and stores them in personal cloud

Booths, the 160 year-old north-west supermarket chain, is doing away with till receipts and is instead allowing customers to store them in a "personal cloud". read more »

UK youth believe they are more tech savvy than global peers

The UK’s young people are said to be "more tech savvy" than their global counterparts, according to research that questioned 12,000 18 to 30 year olds across 27 countries. read more »

London-based businesses see slump in Vodafone and O2 performance

Businesses using the "incumbent" mobile operators in London are being short-changed with their performance, with both Vodafone and O2 well behind the performance of Orange, T-Mobile and Three. read more »

Norfolk County Council tenders for £100m cloud IT services contract

Norfolk County Council is tendering for a cloud-based IT services contract worth up to £100 million over a seven year period. read more »

Vodafone pledges Capex hike as it delays 4G service

Vodafone has admitted it won't launch its 4G mobile data service "until the end of the summer". read more »

Chancellor backs campaign to get 100,000 kids creating digital tech

Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has helped launch the "Make Things Do Stuff" campaign, designed to give 100,000 kids the chance to create digital technologies this summer. read more »

Irish Life moves mainframe apps to Windows for easier development

Life assurance and pension group Irish Life has improved the performance of its mainframe apps by rehosting them in a Windows environment. read more »

Amazon brings more jobs to London with new 1,600 staff building

Amazon is opening a central London office this year that will house 1,600 new and existing employees. read more »

Suffolk council CIO to head up new O2 government unit

The former CIO of Suffolk County Council is to head up O2's new local government business unit. read more »


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