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 BBC has launched a new service that allows viewers to watch live TV programmes from suitable Wi-Fi connected mobile phones. BBC Live TV is available in a beta test form, offering a limited number of the broadcaster’s channels, plus its radio stations.

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IT services supplier Logica has won the £75m contract to deliver a new national police database to improve intelligence sharing among forces across the UK.

The Police National Database is part of the Impact programme that  will finally allow police forces to electronically share, access and search existing local intelligence and operational information nationally.

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The Royal Navy is having to take delivery of new anti-missile destroyers without the missiles, radars and computer systems needed to detect and counter attacks because of delays and cost over-runs that have added £1.5bn so far to the original £5bn estimate.

A National Audit Office report blames over-optimism in earlier years, inappropriate commercial arrangements and poor project management, but said there have been no further delays or cost increases since the project was re-negotiated in 2007.

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Research In Motion (RIM) has hit the 50 million sales milestone for its BlackBerry smartphone almost exactly 10 years after the first handset was launched in January 1999.

In the years that followed, RIM grew from making two-way pagers to add phone, email and web browsing support to its products as the BlackBerry name became synonymous with the business smartphone market.

Since then, the company estimates that it has amassed a user base of 21 million subscribers who transfer an estimated three petabytes of data over the handsets each month.

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The government has published the responses to a consultation on illegal peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing which shows that none of the proposed solutions to the problem received widespread support.

The government's preferred solution to the problem of unlawful P2P file sharing is a co-operative approach to pursuing illegal downloaders. But it is difficult to regulate as ISPs say they are not responsible for the content of what passes through their connections.

"We received some opposing views on other issues - including regulation - reflecting the fact that this is a complex and challenging problem," said Stephen Carter, minister for technology, communications and broadband.

"We are now examining what the best way forward is and will set out the next steps in the interim Digital Britain report later this month."

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Bill Gates is currently in the process of setting up what appears to be a new company. So far details are scarce about the newly named and trademarked bgC3.

The company has apparently been around since March, and had its name established only a few weeks ago. The only concrete details to have emerged come from public documents which describe bgC3 as a "think tank".

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Internet giant Google celebrated its 10th birthday this week.The firm was started by founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin in a Stanford dorm room, and then run out of a suburban garage.

From these lowly beginnings Google has come to dominate the web search market, expanding into enterprise search, messaging, blogging, social networking and recently the Android mobile phone platform.

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Most IT professionals have heard of the cloud computing concept, but relatively few truly grasp what it is supposed to deliver or understand the technology behind it.

What is clear, however, is that vendors are betting big on cloud computing being the next-generation platform of choice for users.

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Police officers will not have a single digital identity for secure access to national IT systems until two years after originally planned.

Contract tenders have been cancelled for the original multimillion-pound project, which aimed to give a single log-on method for officers accessing applications such as the Police National Computer (PNC).

The scheme, ­ first scheduled to be finished in April 2007, ­ has undergone a change in core strategy.

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