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BT Openreach boasts fibre deployments on track for 2014 completion

Firm to recruit 520 further engineers to finish rollout a year ahead of schedule

Cloud computing use is a major government IT strategy

Government CIOs concerned by IT skills shortage in Whitehall

National Audit Office report highlights budget constraints as key anxiety

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Sacre bleu! French snooped on British government emails

Home Office did not encrypt emails 10 years ago

Copyright holders attack BT and TalkTalk for their continued resistance to DEA

Firms defend stance, arguing Digital Economy Act is unclear and unfair

Government working to attract highly skilled IT staff for cyber defence

GCHQ regularly reviewing pay structures to stop staff being tempted by big business

Everything Everywhere to merge Orange and T-Mobile 3G networks

Benefits of merger continue to filter through for customers

BT wins right to appeal High Court ruling on Digital Economy Act

Second request for an appeal granted as debate rumbles on

Everything Everywhere and BT begin Cornwall 4G trial

About 200 customers to test fixed and mobile connections

UK government to host global cyber crime meeting in November

Governments must address the challenges posed by cyber space, says William Hague

US contractor CSC repays NHS £174m for NPfIT failures

NHS says it will continue to work with CSC despite project failure

Government to invest £150m in boosting mobile phone coverage

Chancellor announces move to bring coverage to 99 per cent of UK

ICO accused of burying bad news

Information commissioner dismisses FoI release by Privacy International as a 'publicity stunt'

EC member states told to open public datasets by 2013

European Commission to make information accessible by 2012 to drive digital agenda

Government to speed up dismantling of NHS National Programme for IT

Ministers want rapid end to failed £11bn project dreamed up in 2002

Labour's FiReControl project 'wasted £469m' with poor IT project management

Regional control centres sit unused as government considers pumping in another £84m

ICO investigating education secretary Michael Gove over use of Gmail for government business

Civil servants unable to find emails after minister urged advisors to use Google service

German pirate party wins 14 seats in Berlin state parliament

Success in Deutschland could boost UK arm of rising political movement

Trade body UK IT Association plans first nationwide technology census

Digital Nation project aims to seek out innovative IT companies

Government unveils plans to shake up GCSE and A-Level ICT courses

Focus on coding and programming to replace training on basic software use

Government urges internet stakeholders to reach agreement on BT duct and pole pricing

Jeremy Hunt unhappy with slow progress around physical infrastructure access

Hyperoptic enters broadband market with claims of UK's first 1Gbit/s connections

Firm promises upload and download speeds 140 times faster than UK average

BT to upgrade 114 more exchanges to superfast broadband

A million more homes and businesses could benefit from speeds up to 40Mbit/s

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