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Government in YouTube blunder

News The UK Cabinet Office has been forced to pull one of the public service videos it published on YouTube due to copyright violation. COI Television is actually part of the Cabinet Office and the further irony of the video being about transformational...

30 August 2006, 9:04

Watmore to start in September

News The Cabinet Office announced the appointment of Ian Watmore, currently UK managing director of Accenture, on 25 May, 2004. He will be accountable to Douglas Alexander, minister for the Cabinet Office, and report to Sir Andrew Turnbull, the cabinet...

26 May 2004, 11:15

Windows-based cashpoints at risk of hijack

News Cabinet' cashpoints, commonly found in shops, pubs and restaurants, potentially face an even greater danger -- with researchers from Information Risk Management (IRM) able to open their safes and take them over.

Tags: machines, cash, face, encrypted

5 March 2008, 9:16

Broadband Britain set for upgrade?

News The government has also asked industry lobbying association the Broadband Stakeholders Group to look at the economics of fibre deployment -- specifically whether laying fibre to the home is viable without first deploying fibre to the cabinet.

Tags: networks, communications, generation, broadband

26 February 2008, 8:13

UK government gives YouTube a shot

News But the fact the government is embracing such channels at all is a sign of great progress, according to a Cabinet Office statement, which hailed the move as evidence the government is keeping pace with current consumer trends and "always looking...

22 August 2006, 8:56

Photos: Futuristic home appliances

News The Cubios prefabricated cabinet system houses a massive plasma TV and stereo components. National, one of the subsidiaries of the Matsushita conglomerate, recently opened a technology centre in the Shiodome area of Tokyo to showcase a growing area...

10 October 2007, 10:11

ID cards 'very much on the political agenda'

News It means the Cabinet's deal to delay the introduction of ID cards seems to have been thrown out of the window and that Blunkett will be given the go-ahead to fast-track the project. The terrorist threat to the UK will lead to ID cards being...

2 April 2004, 15:20

UK e-unit Web site goes live

News A Cabinet Office spokesperson could give no further details on the website but said that the transition to the new unit is now underway. A new website for the UK's e-Government Unit, replacing the e-envoy's homepage, is now available

2 June 2004, 14:20

News.blog: A royal Nintendo addiction

News We suppose it's good that Her Majesty is raiding Prince William's videogame library rather than Prince Harry's liquor cabinet. Queen Elizabeth II is apparently quite the videogame diva. The undoubtedly reputable publication The People reported...

Tags: console, songs, wii, videogame

10 January 2008, 11:03

YouTube and texts to sway the vote?

News Earlier this week the Cabinet Office was forced to pull one of the public service videos it published on YouTube due to copyright violation. MPs are trying to get young people interested in politics by using photo, text and video messages and...

1 September 2006, 9:23

Government to fund security tech

News The National Security Committee, unveiled by Brown on 3 July, comprises cabinet ministers, senior police and military personnel. More government funding will be pumped into security technologies, the prime minister has announced.

Tags: protection, role, threats, intelligence

20 March 2008, 9:01

Photos: Cardboard furniture keeps it green

News At first glance, it would be hard to tell that this elaborate corner cabinet from the workshop of Eric Guiomar uses castoff cardboard. What does cardboard furniture have to do with technology? As prices rise for oil and raw materials (even sawdust...

Tags: interest, designs, material, shapes

10 March 2008, 9:37

Rock history, available to download

News The charred and twisted remains of Graham's ever-present megaphone and walkie-talkie, burned when his office was firebombed in the 1980s, sit atop a filing cabinet. In 1970, 20-year-old student Bill Sagan had his first real brush with rock and roll...

20 February 2006, 10:05