Profile of Gary Flood
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Articles by Gary Flood
posted in March 2013
3/28/2013
National Audit Office study finds 17% of citizens don't use the Internet and may be unable to access services under "Digital by Default" plan.
3/28/2013
After four years of low scores, the games creation business is regaining strength thanks in part to lure of possible tax relief.
3/26/2013
In deal reported to be worth $30 million, 17-year-old mobile app developer Nick D'Aloisio will join Yahoo's London staff while he continues his secondary education.
3/25/2013
Drive to offer all government services via the Internet sparks
Parliamentary fear that millions of non-Internet users will be left
behind.
3/25/2013
Early sketch for a programmable computing device beats out DNA, the Mini motorcar and 97 other innovations of the past century.
3/25/2013
Google invites British charities to compete for £2 million pot in its latest Global Impact Awards, the search giant's way of rewarding innovative technology that will "change the world."
3/22/2013
U.K.'s upcoming $17 billion project to re-wire British homes with smart meters will fail if regulated too much, say conservatives.
3/22/2013
Microchip maker's CEO, Warren East, attempts to allay concerns about the company's long-term viability without him at the helm.
3/22/2013
British grassroots campaign aims to force Amazon to stop "unfair practices" and pay more local tax.
3/21/2013
Concerned citizens contribute £1 million to reinstate projects cash-strapped local councils can't afford.
3/20/2013
Dictation system intended to cut administration costs has some patients waiting up to 60 days for important letters.
3/19/2013
Main production of the inexpensive build-it-yourself Raspberry Pi computer has been switched back to the U.K. to meet rising demand.
3/19/2013
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Kahn, Vinton Cerf, Louis Pouzin and Marc Andreessen will share the inaugural £1 million Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.
3/18/2013
British state eliminates chief information officer role; says it's more productive to instill greater digital expertise in individual departments.
3/18/2013
U.K. was one of few bright spots in dismal global IT services market in 2012, Ovum says.
3/13/2013
London chosen as one of four global sites for Johnson & Johnson "innovation centers" to develop technologies to fight disease.
3/12/2013
SEGA chooses U.K. firm Huddle's collaboration tool over SharePoint to link its California- and British-based teams.
3/12/2013
Direct Line Group finds the cloud its safest bet to quickly establish a separate HR system before separating from its parent company.
3/11/2013
U.K. business school uses Tableau Software's visual analytics tool, now free for students, to help undergraduates find stories hidden in opaque data.
3/11/2013
Venture capitalist investments in Britain and Ireland are the highest since 2001, say analysts.
3/8/2013
Information Commissioner points to risks from employee-owned devices, releases guide to help businesses avoid data breaches, fines.
3/7/2013
Britain has set steep goals for broadband adoption; Ofcom study aims to see how well it's doing compared to other European countries.
3/7/2013
The first-ever 100 gigabits per second pipe across the North Atlantic could link U.S. and European research and education communities, but more partners are needed.
3/7/2013
Corporate wellness program challenges IT pros to get more active as part of a national project to improve fitness of U.K. workforce.
3/6/2013
British capital studies more integrated approaches to its systems and more support for tech entrepreneurship.
3/5/2013
"Grand coalition" taps schools and high-tech companies to address the problem of 900,000 unfilled high-tech jobs, starting with tech education reform.
3/5/2013
IT firm Eduserv finds public and nonprofit organizations ready to roll out SaaS, but reluctant to deploy other cloud services.
3/4/2013
Former rival Logicalis pays $31 million for 2e2's non-U.K. businesses, as the firm's six-week collapse comes to an end.
3/4/2013
New recycling service, CashForLaptops, offers to pay British businesses for old laptops and monitors.
3/1/2013
Toyota Financial Services U.K. uses Sopra Group contract management system to boost customer service and employee satisfaction.
3/1/2013
British arms of major Internet firms back weekend hackathon to disguise complex cancer DNA analysis in a smartphone game.