The closing date for entering is 5pm on 16 July.

The winners will be announced at a lavish prize-giving ceremony, to be held at the Battersea Park Arena in London on Thursday 11 November 2010.

To encourage you to compile your entry for one of our prestigious awards, over the next few weeks were profiling some of last years winners in print and online.

For full run-down of this years award categories and details on how to enter, go to www. computing. co. uk/awards.

Best small IT supplier of the year was won last year by Telnic, which administers the. tel top-level domain used to publish contact information for businesses and individuals, rather than conventional web content.

A typical. tel page is a list of phone numbers, email addresses and links, perfect for those who dont need a full-blown web site to provide their contact details or want to supplement their web site with a quick directory reference which can be accessed from mobiles, dialled directly from softphones and even accessed offline.

When Telnic submitted its entry, the business was just a few months old, having been launched in March 2009. The other entrants in the category were mostly conventional system or service providers, so was Justin Hayward, Telnic communications and business development director, running the risk that the judges wouldnt get Telnics proposition?

“Very much so, but what we do is readily understood by small and micro businesses and individual professionals. Its used by everyone from taxi drivers to doctors,” he says.

The award certainly helped raise awareness of the. tel service. ICANNs biggest domain wholesaler, eNom, started offering. tel addresses in December 2009, and at CeBit in March this year, Telnic picked up a European Seal of e-Excellence award.

“As a small UK business, winning the combined Computing and BCS Award meant a great deal to us,” says Hayward.

So Telnic is still little more than a year old but has amassed more than 280,000 subscribers. In June this year it was rolled out in 16 languages to international domain names IDN. tel. Next up is integration with open authentication provider OpenID.

To organisations mulling over entering this years awards, Hayward says “Take a good look at what you do and pick a category carefully, not necessarily an obvious one. And really believe that what you have is a winner.”

Best technology supplier of the year

Best technology supplier of the year 2009 was won by EMIS for its eponymous web-based healthcare system which enables different healthcare professionals to view and contribute to a patient’s core medical record, improving patient care and reducing waiting times and costs.

For example, Liverpool primary care trust reduced the cost of one service by a factor of 10 and one patient said of the system, “this changed my life.”

The company entered the awards partly “to thank everyone in the company for their hard work in making it happen,” says Sean Riddell, chief executive of EMIS Group. “It has taken five years to develop the system.”

Since winning the award, EMIS has floated successfully on the Alternative Investment Market in March 2010, drumming up a market capitalisation of £175m with a share placing that was twice over-subscribed.

Emis Web has also had a good year.

“More users are coming on board,” says Riddell. “For GPs, the accreditation of the system that is required by NHS Connecting for Health has begun and we hope that by autumn 2010 we will be in a position to roll out the product nationally.”

Riddell says anyone considering entering this year shouldnt shy away from seeking recognition for their hard work.

“Awards such as this are also a great way to recognise the contribution of your whole team,” he says.

Technology giant IBM wants its workers about the world to use free, open-source Mozilla Firefox as their window into the internet.

“Any employee who is not it being so that using Firefox will be strongly encouraged to use it as their default browser,” IBM executive Bob Sutor said Thursday in a blog post.

“While other browsers wish come and gone, Firefox is now the gold standard for which an open, secure, and standards-compliant browser should be.”

Making Firefox the default browser appliance that workers computers will automatically use that software to access the Internet if not commanded to do differently.

All new computers for IBM employees be pleased have Firefox installed and the global company “will continue to vehemently encourage our vendors who have browser-based software to fully nutriment Firefox,” according to Sutor.

New York State-based IBM, known the agency of the nickname “Big Blue,” has a corporate history dating back a hundred years and now reportedly has nearly 400,000 workers.

“Today we even now have thousands of employees using it on Linux, Mac, and Windows laptops and desktops, unless we? re going to be adding thousands more users to the rolls,” Sutor related.

Sutor is the vice president of open source and Linux at IBM, what one. launched an Open Source Initiative in 1998. Open-source software is essentially treated similar to public property, with improvements made by any shared with all.

Firefox is the advance most popular web browser in an increasingly competitive market dominated by Microsofts Internet Explorer.

Google Chrome has been steadily gaining market share, last week replacing Apple Safari as the third most current web browser in the United States.

“Well continue to examine this or that browser be faster or introduce new features, on the other hand then another will come along and be better still, including Firefox,” Sutor reported.

“I think it was Firefox and its growth that reinvigorated the browser market as well as the web. That is, Firefox forced competitors to rejoin.”

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“Russia will never resign you!” is the repeated message on the pages of Mikhail Semenko and Anna Chapman, arrested in the United States up~ the body suspicion of being part of a Russian spy ring. Over 100 men left similar messages of support on the Russian language social networking situation odnoklassniki. ru on Wednesday.

“Hang on in there Misha Mikhail Everyone knows this is ~y American witch-hunt,” one surfer posted on Semenkos page, referring to U. S. Senator Joseph McCarthys anti-Communist investigations at the elevation of the Cold War.

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The U. S. arrests earlier this week of 10 alleged spies and tales of private meetings, invisible ink and secret handovers, have been splashed over the ef~ery pages of U. S. media.

Russia has angrily rejected the allegations goal later said ties between the Cold War foes would not have existence damaged.

Semenkos page says he is 27 and last visited without interrupti~ May 24. In his profile picture, the floppy-haired smiling Russian poses in forehead of the White House in Washington.

“Those yanks really know for what reason to freak people out,” another surfer wrote in one of crowd comments slamming Americans and protesting the innocence of those arrested.

People ranging from teenage boys to breeding pensioners posted the comments.

Chapman, who Russian media say is in reality called Kushchenko, last visited the site on June 20. The 28-year-ageds photo shows her casting a sideways glance, clad in a fulgent blue bustier and with flowing brown hair.

One of her divers female supporters wrote “Soon Anna will return home Enormous respect is exactly to Anna. A book will be written about her and a film made.”

The spy ring is accused of gathering information ranging from data on high-penetration nuclear warhead research programmes to background on CIA applicants against the Russian government.

“We received a communique from the home function of the state government to block SMS services across Jammu and Kashmir. We bring forth acted accordingly,” a service provider told IANS.

On Tuesday, the regulation blocked SMS services in north Kashmir.

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The services were blocked after protesters, who were angered the agency of the killings in firing by police and Central Reserve Police Force CRPF in the Valley, defied curfew and attempted to impair religious places.

The SMS services have been blocked to prevent the “anti-national and vested interests from spreading trouble. The SMS services were core misused”, a government official said.

Eight youths have been killed in mob violence in the state.

In 2008 too the state government pendent the SMS services during the Amarnath land row agitation.

Again in 2009 the ministry of home affairs blocked pre-paid mobile services for more than two months.

Stress and obscurity have caused nearly 3,000 in Louisiana to seek counseling.

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To Moore, it is a meander point that could shape how evangelical Christians view the environment. He says is could prevail upon people as powerfully as Roe vs. Wade shaped how they scan abortion.

Before the Roe vs. Wade decision, most evangelicals assumed that bioethical questions werent theirs to argue, he said, but after the ruling, the issue “pierced through” their consciences.

“I hold the same is the case when we see this horrific ecological upshot. We simply cant be at the place were some evangelicals were precursory to this of simply dismissing the whole idea of environmental bulwark as Al Gores cause and the cause of hippies attached their food co-op,” he said.

In a blog post earlier this month, Moore, who is the dean of the School of Theology at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, wrote a suit to his community, calling for a reassessment of evangelicals “uneasy ecological moral faculty.

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Preacher Evangelicals Should Apply Skepticism of Government to Corporations, Individuals

“Weve had each inadequate view of human sin,” he wrote. “Because we believe in at liberty markets, weve acted as though this means we should sell to on credit corporations to protect the natural resources and habitats. But a laissez-faire look on of government regulation of corporations is akin to the youth parson who lets the teenage girl and boy sleep in the same sleeping bag at church camp because he believes in young people.”

He reported that caring for God means caring for Gods creation. And to bestow that, Christians need to hold the government, corporations and individuals responsible.

“Evangelicals, at least conservative evangelicals, tend to have a healthy skepticism of government,” he said. “But often we havent applied that identical skepticism to corporations or technology our own consumption of resources. Im trade for a distribution of our skepticism to ourselves and to every aspect of our lives.

At the Southern Baptist Conventions yearly report meeting this month, he helped write a resolution expressing a similar sentiment.

As Datamation reports, Googles commercial license is up for renewal Wednesday and without it, Google would go dark in the worlds most populous and economically intriguing nation. So Googles backed off from the hard-line stance it took earlier this year following a number of high-profile hacking incidents originating in China targeted it and other prominent U. S. companies.

Now, Google is phasing out the automatic redirect, which came under sharp criticism from Chinese officials at the time it was implemented and ultimately proved untenable for Google to continue operating with an Internet Content Provider license on the mainland, the company said.

Instead, Google has set up a landing page on Google. cn that links to the Hong Kong site, offering Chinese users the full complement of Googles online services while offering unfiltered, local content.

At risk of losing its commercial license to operate in China, Google is taking a step back from its tough stance against online censorship in that country.

The search giant announced late Monday that it will no longer automatically redirect Web users in mainland China to the Hong Kong version of its site where it operates beyond the scope of Chinese censorship laws.

“This redirect, which offers unfiltered search in simplified Chinese, has been working well for our users and for Google,” David Drummond, Googles NASDAQ GOOG chief legal officer, wrote in a blog post. “However, its clear from conversations we have had with Chinese government officials that they find the redirect unacceptable and that if we continue redirecting users our Internet Content Provider license will not be renewed.”

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The National Energy Administration has before-mentioned it has called for tender of open bids for the installations. Bidding is expected to take set on August 10 this year, with results expected to be announced means of that month itself.

According to a DigiTimes report, the photovoltaic systems could be made of silicon-based or thin-film modules.

However, it has been sharp out that minimum energy conversion rates of 15 per cent, 14 by means of cent and 6.5 per cent are required for monocrystalline silicon cells, polycrystalline silicon cells and lank-film modules, respectively. It is a known fact that subsidized electricity price for the PV projects are likely to range between 1.1-1.3 yuan/watt.

It is in addition expected that by around the end of August, the National Energy Administration would form public the details of a feed-in-tariff policy

The company was the largest supplier of car parking tickets in the UK, with high-profile customers such as NCP. It also manufactured rail tickets and revealed plans to invest in new technologies such as RFID and SMART to increase its expertise in the ticketing arena.

It has suffered from the over-capacity prevailing in the printing market, much like other large companies in this field, according to insolvency practitioner David Rubin and Partners LLP in London. Two of the firm’s partners have been appointed joint administrators for Bemrose Booth.

The company’s woes have been fuelled by declining profitability in fields such as scratchcards for the telecoms industry, where markets and production have moved to developing nations as production costs are much lower.

Its calendar business, based in Derby, has also been hit by declining margins in the promotional products and secure mail businesses. Production issues with the business led to those parts of the company being closed last week, resulting in 160 redundancies.

A further 26 redundancies in Hull followed the decision to stop producing telecom scratchcards in Hull, according to David Rubin and Partners LLP.

“The emphasis now is on saving those viable parts of the business and preserving the jobs of the remaining workforce,” said David Rubin, joint administrator.

“We are dealing with a high-quality and profitable operation and are confident that a sale can be achieved. Everybody concerned has a part to play in achieving that.

The company operated two sites in Derby, one in Hull and another in Teesside. It employed about 650 staff two years ago but reduced its headcount to 350 in the past 12 months.

The remaining divisions in Hull, where 125 people are employed, and the operation in Teesside, which employs 34 people, are trading normally while bu yers are sought for the business as a going concern. A significant level of interest has been expressed in the business and talks with a number of interested parties are ongoing.

Victoria Police spokeswoman Karolyn Formosa today confirmed that one individual has been interviewed over the page, which has been removed, excepting charges are yet to be laid.

She said 60 of the 100 women listed without interrupti~ the site had contacted by police but said investigators were craft for anyone else who had been affected by the page to arrive forward.

It is believed the creator of the page could semblance as many as 100 stalking charges, one for each name ~ward the list.

Associate Professor Jeremy Gans of University of Melbournes principle school said the case showed that stalking didnt always ordinary following someone in the street.

“Theres a huge list of ways you be able to stalk someone. Its not the page thats illegal. Its the manner of life,” he told The Age.

Associate Professor Gans said there were specified legal provisions about publishing on the internet a statement or other important relating to someone which causes fear.

He said police analysis would observe at the effect of the page rather than the content.

“Then its upright a standard criminal law question of whether you did that either intending to cause harm to someone or arousing apprehension or fear or safeness.”

Anyone with information can call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or get you ~ne to crimestoppers. com. au.

Netezza, Aster Data Systems and InfoBright last week announced their latest salvoes in whats shaping up to be an analytics arms race. Netezza announced new i-Class analytics functionality due in August that will enable companies using its TwinFin data warehousing platform to program in-database analytics in various languages and approaches including Java, C, C++, Python and Hadoop MapReduce.

In-database processing speeds analysis because it eliminates the step of moving data out of and results back into the warehouse. Support for non-SQL programming lets developers stick with the languages and approaches they are used to.

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