Man with half a brain exposes Foxconn
Apple's number one chum in China, Foxconn, continues to suffer from a bad case of PR disaster over its handling of Zhang Tingzhen. Zhang lost half his brain in an industrial accident at one of...
View ArticleUK Highways technology useless
The advanced snooping technology of the UK Highways Agency has proved so useless that not a single motorist has received a ticket for speeding on the M25. While many users of the world's largest...
View ArticleUS techies out of work
The US is facing an increase in the unemployment rate for people at the heart of many tech innovations, even while IT companies claim they are short staffed. Unemployment among electrical engineers...
View ArticleCabinet Office delays answers on lost IT
Labour MP for Harrow West, Gareth Thomas, is struggling to get the details of lost IT equipment from the Cabinet Office. Although he says he has received "interesting replies" from every other...
View ArticleNasty security bug spotted in IE8
Microsoft wants people to upgrade to IE10 but is having a job because IE8 is still fairly popular. It has become a suitable tool for those who did not like the changes Vole made during the Windows 8...
View ArticleObama plans internet wiretapping law
While the British Labour Government is going to go down in history for its extensive use of CCTV cameras, it appears that Barack Obama will become known for his internet wiretapping laws. According to...
View ArticleCrown Prosecution Service bought nearly 5,000 HP tablets
An MP has asked the UK Attorney General about a Crown Prosecution Service decision to buy 4,700 HP tablets from Logica.Tory minister Oliver Heald, the Solicitor General, told Emily Thornberry, the...
View ArticleGoogle might go to jail
A committee of the House of Commons summoned a Google executive to give testimony again today and raised the possibility that the corporation might find itself in contempt of parliament. The Public...
View ArticleMore Foxconn suicides reported
Just as it seemed the Foxconn suicide saga was winding down, reports have emerged that three more workers have killed themselves over the past three weeks. According to China Labour Watch, the first...
View ArticleLabour MP asks Treasury about missing laptops, Blackberrys
Gareth Thomas, Labour MP for Harrow West, has asked questions about lost or stolen computers, mobiles, Blackberrys and other IT equipment to the Treasury and other government departments. Thomas asked...
View ArticleDamian Green's digital courtrooms delayed
The Department for Justice minister Damian Green has said the cancellation of a computing contract will lead to a delay in acquiring said services. Andy Slaughter, Labour MP for Hammersmith, asked if...
View ArticleDavid Cameron's porn law an all-around disaster
David "tough on masturbation, tough on the causes of masturbation" Cameron has admitted that his crack-pot crusade to purge the net from porn is about as effective as a chocolate teapot. According to...
View ArticleBritain detains Glenn Greenwald's partner under Terrorism Act
The British government now thinks it is acceptable to harass members of the press who publish exposés about Edward Snowden, but rather than take them on directly, they are going for their family...
View ArticleUK councils sell voter data to businesses for as little as £4.50
Personal data from the edited electoral register is being sold on to private companies by local councils for as little as £4.50 a pop. In the last five years, over 300 councils sold information from...
View ArticleMinistry of Justice loses 164 Blackberrys in a year
Over the past year, the Ministry of Justice has had 164 Blackberry devices lost or stolen. Harrow West Labour MP Gareth Thomas asked the Secretary of State for Justice how many computers, mobiles,...
View ArticleUniversal credit plagued by bloated IT disaster
British Secretary for Work and Pensions, Iain Duncan Smith, is blaming a "Titanic" IT failure of his own pet project - the universal credit system - on civil servants. A National Audit Office (NAO)...
View ArticleMinister orders review after NHS computer chaos
Health secretary Alex Neil has ordered a review of NHS computer systems after a cock-up in Scotland. More than 500 appointments and operations were postponed after servers at NHS Greater Glasgow and...
View Article93% of UK households have a computer
A parliamentary answer has revealed that a staggering 93 percent of households in the UK own a computer.That’s according to the director general of the Office for National Statistics (ONS), replying to...
View ArticleTories try to delete history
The UK Conservative Party appears to have had a gutsful of smart arse reporters quoting the promises and statements at the past back at it. For a while now if you wanted to find out how many promises...
View ArticleOpen source is the last bastion of white supremacy
For those who feel the US white Anglo-Saxon male has become an endangered species, it appearshe has found a niche where he reigns supreme. The US open sauce programming movement has opened its eyes...
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