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• November 29, 2012 29 Nov'12

  British Film Institute to launch version of the iPlayer

  The British Film Institute (BFI) is to launch its own version of the BBC's iPlayer in digitisation plans to give millions access to its film archive

• September 14, 2012 14 Sep'12

  GOV.UK to replace Directgov in October

  Government information services website Directgov is to be replaced by GOV.UK from 17 October

• June 20, 2012 20 Jun'12

  Interview: GDS head Mike Bracken on Estonia's digital services

  UK government IT could learn much from Estonia’s open source model, says head of Government Digital Services (GDS), Mike Bracken

• June 18, 2012 18 Jun'12

  Asian scientists call for government action on supercomputers

  Scientists in India, China, Japan, Korea and India have called on their governments to collaborate on supercomputer technology

• June 06, 2012 06 Jun'12

  Microsoft publishes its response to government open standards consultation

  Microsoft has become the first major IT supplier to publish its submission to the government's consultation on the use of open standards.

• May 29, 2012 29 May'12

  CIO interview: Lukas Oberhuber, CTO, Simply Business

  Lukas Oberhuber is CTO at Simply Business, where he is making IT at the insurance company more agile to meet business demands

• February 23, 2012 23 Feb'12

  OSSIM update enables cyber threat intelligence sharing

  The latest update to the Open Source Security Information Management (OSSIM) base system includes a mechanism for sharing cyber threat intelligence.

• February 10, 2012 10 Feb'12

  Government takes on proprietary software lobby in open standards battle

  The government wants to push through open standards against vested interests keen to maintain the dominance of proprietary systems.

• January 11, 2012 11 Jan'12

  European river managers delve into new knowledge management system

  The UK’s Environment Agency has procured a semantic wiki based knowledge management (KM) system to aid river restoration across Europe.

• January 03, 2012 03 Jan'12

  Hacktivists plan to use satellites to by-pass internet censorship

  Hacker activists plan to launch communication satellites to overcome the threat of internet censorship.

• January 31, 2007 31 Jan'07

  Open source ID projects link up with Microsoft

  Higgins-Bandit groups develop a new open source tool that could make independent ID systems compatible with Microsoft Windows CardSpace program.

• December 13, 2006 13 Dec'06

  Eclipse adoption rate on the increase

  The adoption rate of the open source Eclipse integrated development environment has more than doubled in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, industry analysts have revealed.

• August 22, 2001 22 Aug'01

  Intel's open source warning for Sun

  Intel, the chip manufacturing giant, has warned Sun Microsystems that the economic slowdown could drive many enterprises to use...