The new minister for overseeing broadband development in the UK will face a challenge in deciding how the government should intervene to improve broadband access.
The government has said it will continue its increasingly controversial plan to make British citizens acquire identity cards despite documents coming to light that postpone the deadline to 2012.
China's air transport technology supplier Travelsky Technology has hired SITA to carry out major improvements to its disaster recovery facilities in time for this year's Beijing Olympics.
Swale Borough Council is improving the way it deals with public enquiries by bringing in Northgate Information Solutions to integrate its administrative management systems.
Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT), Scotland's biggest regional transport partnership has signed a contract with Arqiva's Wireless Solutions division to develop the UK's first subway mobile phone network.