OFE World News Round Up

Senior civil servant Ian Watmore to leave Cabinet Office post

 

Google walks away from pioneering website linking Scotland’s schools

 

Why Patent Injunctions Are Even Worse For Open Source

 

Jimmy Wales Backs Government Scheme To Free Academic Research

 

Software functionality not subject to copyright: EU court

 

Internet needs no 'digital handcuffs', says Kroes

 

BSA Wants Business Software Licences To Be Checked in VAT Audits

 

EU Asks for Help on Regulating the Internet of Things

 

UK Gov IT: Whitehall announces Liam Maxwell as new deputy CIO

 

Motorola hit by two EU antitrust probes over patents

 

OFE INTERN 2012

 

Microsoft flees Germany over patent disputes

 

Google opens Campus's doors in London

 

Neelie Kroes Vice-President Of The European Commission Giving Europe's Scientists The Tools To Deliver

 

Top innovation expert launches European industrial forum

 

Urgent: Defend a Balanced UK Approach to Copyright

 

The new Portuguese strategy for ICT

 

Apple, Microsoft free to flex Nortel patent muscles

 

EU antitrust bigwig offers Apple, publishers ebook truce

 

ISPs and mobile operators regularly throttle traffic, report finds

 

European Commission Concerned About Android App Data Violations

 

The benefits of sharing new technology and networks across the public sector

 

A Digital Single Market by 2015 - European High Level Conference

 

Google revises privacy policy despite EU protests

 

The Research Works Act (RWA): why Scientific Publishing needs FOSS Methods

 

Microsoft Files Complaint Against Motorola in Europe

 

Eolas falls at first hurdle in bid to tax browser apps

 

Eolas claims royalties for browser apps and plug-ins

 

BETT 2012

 

On a lighter note - Adventures in Self-Publishing: eBook or Dead Tree?

 

Government not measuring whether its IT strategy is working

 

Europe Proposes New Conditions on Research and Development

 

EU Innovation: European Commission To Invest 80 Billion Euros In Research & Development To Drive Economic Growth

 

Copyright isn't working, says European Commission

 

So what might Digital Sustainability be?

 

Samsung patent use in Apple lawsuit investigated by EU

 

Governments must not censor internet, says William Hague

 

Government seeks to harmonise IT device strategy

 

European software shows good growth in delicate economic circumstances

 

Microsoft's Subtle Knife Through the Heart of EU Software Industry

 

European Commission greenlights Microsoft's Skype buy

 

Opening up Europe: from Common Standards to Open Data

 

NHS told to abandon delayed IT project

 

Google buys another 1,000 IBM patents

 

Quietly, cautiously, carefully, government IT may just be getting it right

 

Government spends a fortune on proprietary technology

 

European Commission blocks scrutiny of wasteful €500m IT spend

 

China Passes U.S. as World's Biggest PC Market

 

New GPL licence touted as saviour of Linux, Android

 

Four titans of tech are racing to be king of digital age

 

Restoring Bletchley Park, birthplace of modern computing

 

Time to Adopt the Brazilian Model of Public Software?

 

Government IT is 'appalling' and wastes 'an obscene amount of public money', say MPs

 

Judge: Oracle must cut Google damages claim

 

Britain's business bosses rail against 'risk-averse' public sector

 

Apple deals massive patent blow to HTC, Android in serious trouble

 

Google: The one trick pony learns a second trick

 

Apple takes second ITC potshot at HTC

 

In-depth: Steps to effective business in the public sector

 

Single European patent plan gets second wind

 

Liam Maxwell appointed to advise on government ICT

 

Microsoft loses Supreme patent fight over Word

 

Patent Researcher Turns Tables on Litigants

 

The world's most powerful join the digital revolution

 

EC concludes backroom deal with Microsoft

 

Planting the Flag: a Strategy for ICT-enabled local public services

 

Hargreaves Report: Patently Sensible Stuff

 

Groklaw 2.0: PJ Leaves Groklaw but legal news site to continue under new editor

 

Socitm to unveil shared services strategy

 

Access government in a way that makes sense to you? Surely not!

 

UK Seeks Digital Presence Using Alpha.gov.uk

 

Skype Deal Is Unlikely to Pay Off for Microsoft

 

Microsoft confirms takeover of Skype

 

Europe And The Internet Of The Future

 

US proposes online IDs for Americans

 

Groklaw to cease publishing new articles

 

E.U. Talks With Microsoft Called a Contradiction

 

EU Commission Enters Talks With Microsoft for New Licenses

 

Comment: Government ICT Strategy neglects councils

 

US gov 'transparency' websites targeted for big, fat budget cuts

 

UK Government Promises to Go Open - Yet Again

 

Vaizey wins cautious praise on net neutrality

 

FSF to Google: Free Gmail's JavaScript now!

 

UK Government ICT Strategy resources

 

Latest News

 

EU Bodies Plan Upgrade to Windows 7 Without Public Tender

 

Cutting the cost of innovation

 

EU Puts Standardization at Forefront of Cloud Computing

 

Validation of Potential Financial Savings Opportunity in Government Through Use of Open Source Software

 

Linus on Android headers: claims "seem totally bogus"

 

10 building blocks for securing the internet

 

Open Networking Foundation Pursues New Standards

 

GNU Free Call Announced

 

What Happened to the Obama Open Source Initiative?

 

Lawyer: Android may be open to Linux copyright issues

 

Google Apps for Government seeing UK interest

 

IT industry 'oligarchy' is 'ripping government off', MPs told

 

Sir Tim Berners-Lee lends support for net neutrality

 

British ISPs could "charge per device"

 

ISPs to be honest about traffic management policies