A new £12m scheme launched this week aims to give disabled and elderly people in care homes more access to IT and the internet. The Get Connected scheme is being funded by the Department of Health and aims to benefit as many as 22,000 care providers in the UK. Individual applications for grants of up [...]

Computerworld Its been a big week for social networking. First, President Obama sent his first Twitter message on Monday. And now Bill Gates, philanthropist and former chairman of Microsoft, has joined the microblogging site, sending out his first tweet Tuesday. “Hello World,” twittered Gates. “Hard at work on my foundation letter publishing on 1/25.” Since [...]

SAN JOSE Unisem Advanced Technologies UAT has announced plans to extend its wafer bumping capacity at its factory in Ipoh, Malaysia. UAT, which is a joint venture of Unisem, FlipChip International and AdvanPack Solutions, is a hew packing and test facility. According to details released in the notice, the floor space at the Malaysian bumping [...]

TAIPEI, TAIWAN Nokia will change 30 per cent of its orders for power amplifier PA from RFMD to Skyworks in 2010. According to reports, this move by Nokia is expected to benefit Advanced Wireless Semiconductor Company AWSC, the GaAs foundry based in Taiwan. Advanced Wireless Semiconductor Company is the contract-production partner for Skyworks. According to [...]

Rupert Murdochs News Limited has signalled its loss-making The Australian newspaper will charge for some content on digital platforms by the end of the year. In a wide-ranging restructure of News Corporations Australian operations, which makes The Australian a stand-alone division of News Ltd, Mr Murdochs son-in-law Alasdair MacLeod has been shuffled aside in favour [...]

Therese Coffey, Tory MP for Suffolk Coastal, has been the victim of a hacking attack. The attackers posted ually explicit messages and comments to her social media followers, after gaining access to her Blog, Facebook and Twitter account details, according to the London Spin political blog. The comments were highly derogatory, and included remarks about [...]

As chief executive of the Independent Networks Co-operative Association INCA, Malcolm Corbett is well acquainted with the issues surrounding the national rollout of optical fibre-based next generation broadband access NGA, and has some interesting views on how best to fund it. The INCA aims to co-ordinate the emerging patchwork of regional and local NGA projects, [...]

Embattled oil cyclops BP has finally achieved a measure of success this week, forcing a Twitter charge bearing the companys name to publicly declare that its a fake. But in that places a catch. ABCs Dan Harris talks with the adult male behind BPGlobalPR. The anonymous operator of @BPGlobalPR, the Twitter account thats mocked BPs [...]

Facebook has downplayed the energy of a company-wide meeting to discuss privacy issues. The blogosphere described the hostile encounter as a panic measure following weeks of criticism over the course it handles members data. Several US senators have made public calls towards Facebook to rethink its privacy safeguards. The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU, launched [...]

Denise New in a still from KATV in Little Rock. Photo KATV The mother of a 16-year-old boy said she was only being a good mother when she locked him out of his Facebook account after reading he had driven home at 150km/h one night because he was mad at a girl. His response a [...]