Leo King

The academy is being developed by sector skills council e-skills, alongside a number of businesses including British Airways, BT, Sainsbury's, EDS, IBM, Accenture, Oracle and Whitbread

If plans go through, arrested data thieves could face two years in the slammer

Atos Origin will work with IBM to provide support to the integration of systems for the new biometric passport database, and for controversial identity cards by U.K.'s Identity and Passport Service

Much has been said about the British fondness for tradition, but this borders on being trapped in a time warp. CREST, which stands for the Crown Court Electronic Support System, still needs data to be manually entered into the system causing huge backlogs as well as risks of error and duplication

Debt-ladened banking group has been attempting to reduce hundreds of millions of dollars in IT costs. But its plan to split up will under years of integration work

A report by members of Parliament also complains a consortium lead by EDS underestimated the complexity of the software they had to deliver for the multi-billion dollar defence project

Spymaster defends 'super database' of phone calls and e-mail with attack on VoIP

Prime minster says spending on Internet infrastructure will be vital in helping British economy recover from recession