Becta, the government's advisory body for IT in schools, has referred its interoperability complaint about Microsoft software to the European Commission.
Social networking technologies and the use of web mash-ups are among the top 10 disruptive technologies that will make headway in enterprises in the next four years, according to research firm Gartner.
As networks evolve, traditional views about security must change, creating new security paradigms that protect not only the integrity of knowledge capital but also the reputation and privacy of its users.
The government has, for the first time, admitted publicly that it cannot quantify in financial terms the expected benefits from its controversial £5.4bn National Identity Scheme (NIS).
Organisations that deliberately or recklessly commit serious breaches of the Data Protection Act can now be fined by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) following Royal Assent to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act today.
Detective Superintendent Charlie McMurdie of the Metropolitan Police E-Crime Project discusses progress towards establishing a national e-crime unit for the UK and her confidence that the project will soon get the go-ahead.