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Open Data Institute pours golden £10m shower on upstarts

Taxpayer-funded teams to tackle public info dumps

MPs wrestle slippery bureaucrats in intellectual property Jell-O

Analysis'Evidence base weak' for IP, says UK's IP top cop

Dole Office staff snooped into private data 992 times in 10 months

And that's just the times they were caught...

Next UK.gov CloudStore lumbers online

Digital Dunkirk spirit

UK.gov: ICT in schools ain't dead, it's just resting

And there'll be tech contracts for the kids when they grow up, honest

Iran threatens to chuck sueball at Google over missing gulf

State unhappy that 'Persian Gulf' name is gone

Facebook's Eduardo Saverin: I'm not a tax-dodger

Meanwhile, US senators try to get him banned from the US

Senator probes NASA airfield deal for Google's jets

Is space agency giving Larry a break on government's jet fuel?

Scotland considers dishing out more iPads to schoolkids

Maybe, if it's 'promoting new teaching behaviours' elsewhere

Will UK.gov crack down on itself for missing Cookie Law deadline?

In other news - Pope actually Jewish

Governments may hit social networks with cyber attacks

Arab Spring alerted governments to power of Facebook, Twitter et al

Child support IT fail: Deadbeat mums 'n' dads off the hook

NAO: Child maintenance computers unable to keep tabs on payments

Speaking in Tech: The worst government IT deal of ALL TIME

PodcastThe one about the oversized Cisco routers

Pints under attack as Lord Howe demands metric-only UK

Weights and measures a 'uniquely confusing shambles'

Only global poverty can save the planet, insists WWF - and the ESA!

AnalysisWindfarms for all, but without using steel or concrete

IT bungle left dole office unable to check benefits for months

Tech delay hit DWP's Work Programme

Indian government to buy in tech for social good

Acquisition fund could start on farming tech next year

Europe must shift R&D from car gizmos to infrastructure, honks wonk

Trying to constipate people's 'movements' is WRONG

Cameron's F-35 U-turn: BAE Systems still calls the shots at No 10

CommentThreat of cheap, powerful kit for UK forces warded off

MPs: Unified EU patent court framework would hurt small biz

Good in theory, but extra red tape will choke Blighty's SMBs

NHS rolls out open-source test results service for renal patients

UK-wide system lets kidney patients see results before doctors do

Budget cash for online services trials

Australia funds MOBILE MUSEUM ROBOTS, data mining, e-health, OLPCs

NHS's chances of getting world's best IT: 80% ... maybe*

*Assuming its CIO meant 8 in 10, not 8 in 100

UK's big-spender councils shovel IT workers into a skip

West Sussex County Council axes 9-in-10 techies

'ACTA is dead,' says Europe's digital doyenne

Until the next ACTA, that is...

.eu is a Euro domain, for Euro people - top legal bod

Only businesses within boundary can claim to be part of European market

Hunt tosses 27 cities into broadband cash bunfight

Only 10 will be selected to receive paltry £50m

Copyfighters jumpstart MPs' probe into Blighty's IP law

CommentGoogle man tells Parliament what small businesses need

Cameron hardens stance on UK web filth block

PM to hold talks with broadband barons on 'default' smut filters

UK Border Agency servers go titsup, thousands grounded

Good thing there's no Olympics coming up

NAO: 1 in 5 of Whitehall's mega projects at risk of failure

£89bn at stake from 39 programmes with 'high or fairly high' chance of tanking

Oz asks how much personal data should telcos keep?

Obligations for carrier security, spook access also up for disucssion

London Olympics 'not immune' to cyber attack

Blighty puts together crack team to guard against intrusion

Hampshire council throws BYOD party, hires extra security

Just in case a mobe gets lost - with your info on it

NHS trust goes 100% over IT budget in patient records rollout cockup

A £1m here, a £1m there ... it adds up after a while

Britain prepares for government by iPad

Fondleslab rule as MPs offered free fruitware

Google finally wins DoI cloud apps contract

Two years of battling against Redmond bears fruit

How politicians could end droughts FOREVER: But they don't want to

AnalysisThey'd rather ration your water than do some simple sums

Public sector exempted from swingeing Microsoft UK price hike

Redmond keen to avoid another Maude handbag

UK plc 'needs a chief engineer' - also a chief trick-cyclist

Plonk technical bods in Blighty's driving seat, say MPs

Google, PayPal protest against Brits' pay-by-bonk threesome

Why should UK telcos have a monopoly when we could?

Google Street View Wi-Fi data slurper named

Unmasked 'rogue engineer' worked on wardriving app

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