2 November 2009 — Difi, the Norwegian Agency for public sector management and eGovernment, has signed a four-year agreement for IBX to operate its e-business platform called Ehandel.no. Through this project, public sector entities and their providers can track spend and purchase goods in a more secure, user-friendly and cost-effective manner. The four-year contract [...]

Softpress Systems today released Freeway 5.4.2, its award-winning website design software. This latest update includes native support for Intaglio files to allow easy editing of drawings and illustrations. For a limited period, Softpress is offering a free copy of Intaglio for every full-priced purchase of Freeway Pro. Famous for its ease of use and clean [...]

Softpress will be on hand to give hands-on demos of their award-winning web design applications Freeway Pro and Freeway Express during the Mac Computer Expo on October 3, 2009 in Petaluma, CA. Special pricing will be available on Freeway Pro and Freeway Express, and a free copy of Freeway Express will be raffled off to [...]

Tom Steinberg of MySociety.org is to give a keynote address at Government 2010 on October 22nd, 2009.
mySociety is a non-profit, open source organisation that runs many of the best-known democracy websites in the UK. These include the Parliamentary transparency website TheyWorkForYou and the somewhat self-explanatory FixMyStreet. mySociety’s missions are to build websites that give people [...]

£1.75m business support for next generation of UK clean tech pioneers
4th September 2009 – The Carbon Trust is expanding its business Incubation scheme in response to a growing need for critical business support to spawn the next generation of commercial clean tech innovators in the UK. Oxford-based, early-stage business growth consultancies Conduit Partners and Isis [...]

HomePlug Hybrid TV Set offers Internet service providers with complete broadband and satellite signal distribution to end customers
At the International Broadcast Conference 2009, devolo, the global leader in the HomePlug powerline market, is showcasing its HomePlug Hybrid TV Set, a cost-effective in-house solution for delivering comprehensive IPTV programming over powerline, even in regions with relatively [...]

Part of Getmapping’s air ops team from New Zealand Aerial Mapping (NZAM) featured in the BBC’s ‘One Show’ on 18th August. The light hearted piece presented by Phil Tufnell, initially dressed as a Russian soldier, looked back to the Cold War when many of Britain’s, military bases and secret installations were restricted from appearing on [...]

To celebrate the release of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Softpress will be offering a free copy of Apple’s newest operating system with every full-priced retail copy of Freeway Pro or Freeway Express sold through the Apple Stores, PowerMax or The Mac Store. Famous for its ease-of-use and clean standards-compliant code generation, Freeway is [...]

t+ blood pressure lite enables NHS healthcare professionals to effectively monitor their patients’ blood pressure without patients having to leave their home
Oxford, UK-25th August 2009, t+ Medical today announces that it has launched its new product t+ blood pressure lite which enables NHS healthcare professionals to effectively monitor their patients’ blood pressure without patients having [...]

Social Networking Sites Must Improve Their Security, Says Security Firm
IT security and data protection firm Sophos has called upon social networking websites such as Twitter and Facebook to do more to protect their millions of users, as new research is published examining the first six months of cybercrime in 2009.
The Sophos Security Threat [...]