
Jennifer Scott
Jennifer Scott is a former freelance journalist and currently political reporter for Sky News. She has a varied writing history, having started her career at Dennis Publishing, working in various roles across its business technology titles, including ITPro. Jennifer has specialised in a number of areas over the years and has produced a wealth of content for ITPro, focusing largely on data storage, networking, cloud computing, and telecommunications.
Most recently Jennifer has turned her skills to the political sphere and broadcast journalism, where she has worked for the BBC as a political reporter, before moving to Sky News.
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'Dual stack' approach needed for IPv4 and IPv6
News A dual approach should be taken to the internet protocols rather than one or the other, according to a Brocade executive.
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Service providers now cloud providers
News A Brocade executive claims traditional providers need to search for new revenue streams to fight off the competition.
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Ricoh gets new UK CEO
News The company’s chief operating officer gets a nudge up the career ladder with his new appointment.
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Apple: We don’t track your iPhone
News The Cupertino company finally answers questions about data tracking by claiming it is doing nothing of the sort.
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Microsoft maintains OS domination
News Microsoft is still leading the operating system market, despite gains by Linux and Apple, according to analyst firm Gartner.
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UK SMEs lag behind Euro cloud adoption
News New research claims small businesses in the UK aren’t taking up cloud computing as much as their European counterparts.
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Firefox 4 breaks 100 million download milestone
News Mozilla’s browser appears to be beating Microsoft’s IE9 hands down.
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Android developer interest wanes
News An Appcelerator survey shows Apple is clawing back developers as the momentum of Google’s operating system evens out.
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Week in Review: All about the ICO, DEA lives on
News This week, the ICO dominates security headlines, the judicial review of the Digital Economy Act is thrown out and research shows Apple could be tracking its users.
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Oldham school breaches Data Protection Act
News A stolen unencrypted laptop containing 90 pupils’ details sets the ICO on the Freehold Community School.
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TalkTalk tops Ofcom complaints league
News Ofcom claims the ISP receives the most complaints of any landline and broadband provider in the UK, with 3 taking the mobile crown.
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Virgin Media aims for fastest cable at Silicon Roundabout
News The ISP will test 1.5Gb broadband in London’s new tech hub.
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ISPs lose Digital Economy Act judicial review
News BT and TalkTalk lose all four challenges against the Digital Economy Act.
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ICO fines less than one per cent of DPA breaches
News Despite having the power to punish organisations who flout data protection laws, the ICO hands out fines to less than one per cent.
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Acer appoints Wong as corporate president
News Jim Wong will take the role of corporate president at the PC manufacturer.
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ACS:Law to pay up for costs?
News The law firm could have to cough up for costs after the cases it launched against alleged illegal filesharers were dropped.
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HTML5 standards deadline set for 24 May
News A leading figure from the World Wide Wed Consortium says its HTML5 standards will reach the 'feature complete' stage by the end of next month.
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Berners-Lee: Cuts no excuse to cut back data
News The founder of the World Wide Web criticises US claims open data sites need to be cut back due to costs.
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Week in Review: Nokia updates Symbian, browser wars kick off
News This week, Symbian gets Nokia's attention whilst the browser giants are at it again.
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HP hits out at Oracle’s Itanium claims
News The row over Intel’s architecture heats up as HP throws in its two cents.
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Policewoman jailed for breaching Data Protection Act
News A 27-month jail sentence has been given to the Tayside Constable who passed on sensitive details to her partner.
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Tablets put PC market in decline
News Both IDC and Gartner show the PC market has dropped thanks to the emergence of tablets.
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Government 'Crown Representatives’ to negotiate contracts
News The Cabinet Office introduces new rules to ensure the Government buys its infrastructure and services ‘as a single customer,’ rather than separate departments.
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School ICT hit and miss
News A Government report shows ICT provision in schools varies widely and the ‘ad-hoc’ approach to investment leaves gaps in the system.
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