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It's Not About Apple vs. Microsoft, Or Apple vs. Google. It's About Freedom.


30 Aug 2011

Big opportunity, big dilemma

Gartner's Stephen Prentice
Big data will offer all kinds of business opportunities to those prepared to take it on
18 Aug 2011

StreetView review finds Google has upped its privacy game

Google Streetview Red Car
ICO audit of search giant's privacy safeguards show signs of improved privacy practices
16 Aug 2011

Human Rights Commission calls for transparency on personal data

The Equality and Human Rights Commission wants the government to bring in changes that will better protect people's personal information
16 Aug 2011

Lush signs undertaking with the ICO following data breach

Company only allowed to store the minimum amount of data necessary to receive payments
10 Aug 2011

RIM likely to hand over data to the police and government

A lawyer explains where the police stand legally in terms of accessing information from BlackBerrys
09 Aug 2011

Two thirds of businesses have lost data through careless use of USB sticks

With 55 per cent of incidents linked to malware-infected devices that introduce code onto corporate networks
09 Aug 2011

Intel Labs invests £18m in cloud computing and embedded tech research

The research will be based at Carnegie Mellon University in the US
05 Aug 2011

Government launches consultation on open data

Government wants to hear how it can stimulate enterprise through open data
04 Aug 2011

Poor data management costs UK firms £8bn

Experian QAS research suggests that better management of data could improve the bottom line for companies by between £431,000 and £9.3m
04 Aug 2011

How to conquer the ‘big data’ mountain


02 Aug 2011

Science body reveals how it manages big data

The Science and Technology Facilities Council processes 10TB of data each day from the Large Hadron Collider
26 Jul 2011

DWP and HMRC set to jointly develop a data analytics hub for fraud prevention

The cost of the agreement could total £45m
25 Jul 2011

University of York leaks student details

ICO makes professor sign an undertaking after 148 student records were wrongly made accessible to classmates for more than a year
21 Jul 2011

Study reveals Android apps leak private information

As more enterprises allow consumer devices to access and store corporate data, new research reveals the dangers of this strategy
20 Jul 2011

BA improves BI with software package

British Airways invests in Trillium Software solution to improve data quality
20 Jul 2011

Opinion: "I was hacked, so why am I being sued?"

Why organisations must take data security seriously
19 Jul 2011

UK IT Industry Awards: Get your entries in by 5 August

As the deadline for 2011 entries is extended, Derek du Preez catches up with Grid-Tools, winner of 2010’s IT Achievement award
19 Jul 2011

Intellect calls for radical change to the way financial data is reported

Industry needs a single, uniform data standard so regulators can spot danger signs more quickly
18 Jul 2011

Booming silicon roundabout 'owes nothing to government'

Founder of East London startup says government plans to attract giant tech companies to local area risk damaging startup industry
18 Jul 2011

Startups have the edge in data management says Oracle panel

Older, larger organisations are falling behind newer companies because of inefficient data management
15 Jul 2011

Leading vendors collaborate for records management scheme

Records management specification MoReq2010 adds momentum to interoperability of disparate records systems
14 Jul 2011

European Commission set to consult on data breach rules

ISPs and Member States will provide information
14 Jul 2011

Companies are losing revenue by not exploiting data

Oracle argues that many companies are guilty of data mismanagement
14 Jul 2011