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By Tom Jowitt The U.K. government has revealed that a number of well-known players in the technology field will back its drive to teach computing skills in primary schools in England. The idea is that the firms will help prepare primary school teachers for the new computing curriculum. Expert Help The £3.6m drive was revealed […]

By Michael Moore Starbucks has announced the launch of wireless charging facilities for customers in some of its busiest U.K. branches. From today, 10 stores in central London will support wireless charging for smartphones and tablets with users simply needing to collect a charger at the till to use the facility. The ‘Power Ring’ chargers, […]

By Michael Moore British businesses’ cyber-security provisions are so lax that more than half of them could be hacked in less than an hour, according to a leading data security specialist. Despite several high-profile hacking attacks in recent months, Walter Rossi from IT service provider Daisy Group has warned that the majority of businesses are […]

By Steve McCaskill Vodafone UK CEO Jeroen Hoencamp has defended the operator’s rollout of 4G, saying the company’s priority is on creating a strong, reliable network rather than making the headlines with speed and coverage. Since launching August 2013, Vodafone 4G has amassed 1.4 million customers and its network covers 50 percent of the U.K. […]

By Steve McCaskill The start of 2015 marks the 30th anniversary of the first mobile phone call ever made in the U.K., changing the way people and businesses communicate. Two companies, the monopolistic BT, which operated the Cellnet joint-venture with Securicor, and the newcomer Vodafone, had been awarded spectrum licenses to offer mobile services, but […]

By Duncan Macrae U.K.-based online retailer, distributor and designer of game room equipment, Liberty Games, is said to provide the most comprehensive online catalog of amusement equipment in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1989, Liberty Games grew from a company that focused primarily on the rental of coin-operated amusement equipment to pubs, clubs and youth […]

By Matthew Broersma A total of 11 government digital services are planning to adopt the identity assurance service GOV.UK Verify by March of this year, with three services already adopting the program on a trial basis, according to the government. GOV.UK Verify aims to improve identity assurance for government digital services, replacing the checks currently […]

By Tom Jowitt The Web is becoming less free and more unequal, with computer users increasingly at risk of censorship, surveillance and cyber violence. This is the stark warning issued in a new annual Web Index report from the World Wide Web (WWW) Foundation, which is controlled by the founder of the Web, Sir Tim […]

By Ben Sullivan Data centers have returned as a top priority in the U.K. IT space and are seen as the key to IT architecture, cloud plans and the moves to outsourced offerings. The claim comes from consulting firm BroadGroup, which was speaking at the first-ever International Colocation Club, which took place in mid-December in […]

By Ben Sullivan Gatwick Airport has boosted its runway capacity to 55 flights an hour with the help of a new cloud platform that has improved efficiency at other airports around the world. Supplied by Amadeus, the cloud-based Airport-Collaborative Decision Making Portal (A-CDM) will improve the collaborative decision-making processes needed to get planes off the […]

Identity and payments specialist, Dashlane has announced the acquisition of PassOmatic, the French American startup that has created automatic password change technology, and the release of a beta version of Dashlane which integrates this automatic password change technology. Internet users were left in the wild following Heartbleed, CyberVor and the never-ending stream of security breaches. […]

By Steve McCaskill The GSMA says it wants to “reset” the discussion surrounding 5G development and how such networks should be defined, but says there is plenty of life left in 4G, which is providing a boost to European mobile operators and the wider economy. A number of different projects around the world are working […]