PC maker Dell and its chairman Michael Dell will pay fines of $100m (£65.2m) and $4m respectively to settle US Securities and Exchange Commission charges that it misled investors through false accounting to meet Wall Street expectations, the stock market r... (source: Computer Weekly) - Share on Twitter - Share on Facebook - RSS and RSS Feed on Feedzilla.com

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is to get tougher with public authorities that are slow or unco-operative in responding to Freedom of Information Act requests. (source: Computer Weekly) - Share on Twitter - Share on Facebook - RSS feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has lost or had stolen more than 1,200 pieces of IT equipment capable of storing potentially sensitive data in the past two years - of which only 274 were encrypted. (source: Computer Weekly) - Share on Twitter - Share on Facebook - RSS feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com

Self-confessed hacker Gary McKinnon said it was "surreal" to find himself discussed by prime minister David Cameron and US president Barack Obama (source: Computer Weekly) - Share on Twitter - Share on Facebook - RSS and RSS Feed on Feedzilla.com

Intel has reached a settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission, according to a report in the Financial Times. The deal, to be announced next week, will force Intel to make changes to its marketing. (source: Computer Weekly) - Share on Twitter - Share on Facebook - RSS feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com

Independent Networks Cooperative Association (Inca) CEO Malcolm Corbett has defended the organisation and its predecessor, the Community Broadband Network (CBN), over its receipt of government money to promote broadband networks in rural areas and urban no... (source: Computer Weekly) - Share on Twitter - Share on Facebook - RSS and RSS Feed on Feedzilla.com

In an unprecedented scene in Westminster, civil servants refused a peer of the realm entry to a government broadband meeting (source: Computer Weekly) - Share on Twitter - Share on Facebook - RSS and RSS Feed on Feedzilla.com

Providing universal access to broadband speeds of a minimum of 2Mbps will take until 2015, three years longer than Labour had predicted, the government said... (source: Computer Weekly) - Share on Twitter - Share on Facebook - RSS and RSS Feed on Feedzilla.com

Regulator likely to refuse a proposal by National Lottery operator to enhance the functionality of its ticket terminals. Camelot... (source: Computer Weekly) - Share on Twitter - Share on Facebook - RSS and RSS Feed on Feedzilla.com

Staff at HM Courts Service breached security in the government database that stores personal data of everyone in the UK. (source: Computer Weekly) - Share on Twitter - Share on Facebook - RSS and RSS Feed on Feedzilla.com

The team in charge of central government IT has been announced by the Cabinet... (source: Computer Weekly) - Share on Twitter - Share on Facebook - RSS and RSS Feed on Feedzilla.com

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has found Kent Police in breach of the Data Protection Act. Documents containing confidential personal... (source: Computer Weekly) - Share on Twitter - Share on Facebook - RSS and RSS Feed on Feedzilla.com

The benefits of the Summary Care Record (SCR) scheme, introduced as part of the National Programme for IT (NPfIT), appear more modest than anticipated, according... (source: Computer Weekly) - Share on Twitter - Share on Facebook - RSS and RSS Feed on Feedzilla.com

Iceland will become a haven for whistleblowers' leaked information following a unanimous vote in the Icelandic parliament to accept a Wikileaks idea to build an international "new media haven" on the island. (source: Computer Weekly) - Share on Twitter - Share on Facebook - RSS feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com

A government-commissioned report into a key element of the NHS IT programme is expected to be highly critical of the Summary Care Records project, Computer Weekly has learned. (source: Computer Weekly) - Share on Twitter - Share on Facebook - RSS feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com

Online fraud cost UK businesses an average of £400,000 last year, a report reveals. The 2010 edition of the UK Online Fraud Report, commissioned by CyberSource, shows that merchants expect to lose 1.8% of online revenues to payment fraud, but 48% expect to... (source: Computer Weekly) - Share on Twitter - Share on Facebook - RSS and RSS Feed on Feedzilla.com