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 silicon.com: Green light for UK IT skills school to arrive next year
The opening of a National Skills Academy for IT in the UK has moved a step closer, after the government announced it has approved the business plan submitted by sector skills body e-skills UK.In October 2008 the government gave the green light to a tech academy on account of IT's "critical" role in growing the national economy, and because of strong and grow ...
silicon.com: Full steam ahead for plans to cut off file-sharers
Secretary of state for business, innovation and skills Peter Mandelson has reiterated the government's 'three strikes and you're out' plan to cut off illegal file-sharers' internet access.Speaking at a cabinet creative industries conference yesterday, the business minister said proposals made back in August will feature in the Digital Economy Bill expected b ...
silicon.com: Amazon's Kindle ignites legal upheaval
Amazon's Kindle e-book and Google's Book Search will change the way we read books forever. And that will keep the lawyers plenty busy, says Callum Sinclair.The internet, as the daddy of all disruptive technologies, heralded a new era of litigation. Now with Amazon's Kindle e-book reader available internationally - in the UK and some 100 other countries - and ...
silicon.com: Illegal downloaders crackdown: Digital Economy Bill to cut them off
Internet users who illegally download copyrighted content could have their connection cut off as part of the Digital Economy Bill unveiled on Friday.The bill - a major overhaul of the UK's technology legislation - will mean ISPs must send notices to those customers suspected of infringing copyright. They must also hold a record of how many notifications a cu ...
silicon.com: Doing business with citizen developers: Beware the legal pitfalls
Citizen developers represent an innovative new way of creating software - just be mindful of the legal complications, says lawyer Mark Crichard.One quarter of business applications will be created by citizen developers by 2014, according to analyst Gartner. Whether these predictions turn out to be true or not, there is no doubt the barriers to individual dev ...
silicon.com: Nokia sues Apple, claims patent infringement
Nokia is suing Apple over the alleged infringement of 10 of its patents.According to the Finnish mobile maker, Apple's iconic iPhone device infringes on the patents relating to wireless handsets. Nokia said it is suing Apple because of the iPhone maker's refusal to licence the patents.
silicon.com: eBay's Skype sale gets green light
eBay has announced today that the sale of its controlling stake in VoIP service Skype will go ahead, following the settlement of litigation over the proposed transaction.The settlement restructures the deal with an investor group led by Silver Lake and puts an end to a dispute with software maker Joltid over the licensing of software that underlies Skype's i ...
silicon.com: 'UK must up privacy safeguards following Phorm'
The European Commission has said the UK government doesn't have adequate communications privacy legislation and must step up its efforts.The announcement follows complaints by UK citizens and privacy groups over the government's lack of action after telco BT conducted trials of the Phorm behavioural advertising service without getting consent from its customers.
silicon.com: Microsoft wins U-turn in $388m lawsuit
A federal court on Tuesday reversed an earlier ruling that Microsoft's product activation technology infringed on a patent held by Uniloc, overturning a $388m verdict in the case.In a ruling on Tuesday, the court vacated the earlier decision and decided the case in Microsoft's favour.
silicon.com: Bletchley Park lands £460,000 funding boost from lottery
After prolonged debate over its future, Bletchley Park - home of the World War II codebreakers who cracked the Enigma code used by the Nazis - is to receive lottery funding.Bletchley, which houses the National Museum of Computing, has won £460,500 from the Heritage Lottery Fund to help fund its restoration and could receive a further £4.1m to transform it ...
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