The Metropolitan Police Service has signed a identity and access management deal with BT's Global Services division. Under the contract, BT will integrate elements from existing systems to create a comprehensive identity and access management system.

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The Woolworths brand has been resurrected online by home shopping firm Shop Direct following the bankruptcy of the high-street retailer earlier this year.

Popular product categories such as toys, children's clothing, party and entertainment goods are available on the web site, as is an online version of the famous “pic n’mix” sweets.

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The European Commission has announced plans for Europe to play a leading part in developing and managing interconnected networks formed from everyday objects with radio frequency identity (RFID) tags embedded in them - the so-called "internet of things". The EC expects there will be a progressive connection of a variety of physical objects, such as food packaging that records temperature along its supply chain, or prescription drugs that warn patients of a possible incompatibility.

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Hamleys has had to slash its IT budget and reduce the department’s headcount as part of a restructuring plan at the world-famous London toy store. Technology spend has been cut by about five to 10 per cent, while about 30 per cent of the firm’s IT staff were made redundant

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More than 80 per cent of UK consumers believe it is everyone’s right to be able to have broadband access at home, according to research.

And nearly three-quarters of home broadband users now say they could not live without the service, says the survey by influential advisory group the Communications Consumer Panel.

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Scientists are reporting successful tests of a new memory device that could allow terabytes of data to be stored without corruption for a billion years. The device is an iron nano-particle that measures 1/50,000th of the width of a human hair, enclosed in a hollow carbon nano-tube.

US officials are worried that the 20-year-old global positioning system (GPS) that sat-navs and other navigation devices rely on could begin to fail by next year. A report from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO), said that a lack of investment in satellites means that some are close to failing.

The GPS network is run by the US military and used by a number of commercial firms internationally for sat-nav systems.

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The International Energy Agency (IEA) has warned that the growth of IT could ruin attempts to halt global warming. The organisation's Gadgets and Gigawatts report said that the energy consumed by information and communications technologies will double by 2022, and increase threefold to 1,700 Terawatt hours (TWh) by 2030.

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As many as a third of UK jobs at multinationals are at risk as businesses prepare to migrate major functions overseas, with IT firmly in the crosshairs.

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The government will confirmed that in future IT skills are to be given equal importance as reading, writing and numeracy in primary schools as part of a comprehensive curriculum overhaul.

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