The Conservative Technology Forum focused on online crime. Shadow home affairs minister, James Brokenshire, said, "There is a lack of any real urgency within government about tackling online crime, or obtaining any proper data on the true scale of the problem.
Businesses need to be more proactive when it comes to managing their reputation online, as criminals find new ways to attack them, says analyst Gartner.
IT professionals' method of learning and absorbing ideas should become a "model" for learning in other areas, according to Donald Clarke, board member of the University for Industry, which set up Learn Direct.
Unite, the UK's biggest trade union, has today announced an overwhelming vote for industrial action at Siemens over plans to close its final salary pension scheme.
Some 64% of key decision makers in UK companies with more than 1,000 employees have huge piles of unfiled paper on their desk, according a survey by research house Vanson Bourne.