ALL 650 UK Members of Parliament will be offered a brand-new iPad Air 2 and laptop after the general election as part of a £1MILLION hardware refresh.
The Canadian government is basing its approach to officials’ private text messages on the honour system. A newly released document shows the department grappled with an unforeseen technological hurdle that could have scuttled the whole plan.
The UK Chancellor has confirmed, in his final budget before the election, that 'Google Tax' will come into effect next month, from April 1. Companies that move their profits overseas to avoid tax will be subject to a "diverted profits tax" from April.
The British Chancellor is set to close a number of tax loopholes used by Google, Amazon and other multinationals who have headquarters in Ireland.
The architects of G-Cloud, the UK public sector procurement framework for information technology services that use cloud computing, are calling on government, departments, the Government Digital Service (GDS), buyers and sellers to do more to encourage its adoption four years after its initial launch.
The Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) has issued its second judgment on challenges to the lawfulness of (i) the UK’s bulk interception powers and (ii) the intelligence-sharing arrangements between the UK and the US National Security Agency (NSA).
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British intelligence services acted unlawfully in accessing millions of people's personal communications collected by the NSA, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal ruled today.
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While the North Korean government has been blamed for the attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment's network, Russian hackers also breached Sony's network last fall and continued to have at-will access well into January 2015.
BlackBerry CEO John Chen has taken to the Inside BlackBerry Blog to share his thoughts on Net Neutrality and is asking Congress to widen what net neutrality means to include applications, what Chen calls 'App Neutrality'!
Under 18% of undergraduates studying computing are women, according to research just released by Information Age.
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As part of his plans for new surveillance powers, announced in the wake of the recent shootings in Paris, David Cameron wants to block WhatsApp, iMessage, Snapchat and other encrypted messaging apps if he wins the next election.
BlackBerry is teaming up with Boeing on a secretive, self-destructing smartphone developed for use by U.S. defence and homeland security employees and contractors.
