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...She rounds up former Sugababes singer Keisha Buchanan, Alexandra Burke, Nao and RAYE for a frank discussion about their own experiences in the music industry....
...Boris Johnson’s election promise to connect the entire country to cutting-edge broadband speeds by 2025 has been dubbed “ludicrously unrealistic” after the parliament’s spending watchdog warned that rural internet...
...Gambling online, via the internet or mobile apps, has “undoubtedly made betting more convenient, simple and easier to start, particularly for beginners”, says Anthony Morrow, chief executive of OpenMoney...
...Under the current governance structure, it’s only accountable to itself,” said Nao Matsukata, an executive in the domain-name industry, which has long chafed at the way ICANN has handled the internet’s addressing...
...Several of us were journalists watching the celebrations for work, while the rest of the crowd were along for the “re nao”, or “heat and noise”, of the proceedings....
...The NAO said it was too soon to judge the effectiveness of new powers adopted by HM Revenue & Customs to deal with the problem....
...Nor can these internet-of-things things jump up, balance on one leg and recognise human emotions like Aldebaran’s pint-sized humanoid robot, Nao , can....
...Interestingly though, one of the recommendations of the NAO reports was to reduce the reliance on advisors....
...The UK government has done a decent job of allowing people to do simple things over the internet (for example book a driving test) but this is all very 1990s....
...The NAO also found that the capital costs footed by the government have risen by £207m since 2011....
...The NAO urged the tax authority to “increase the urgency” in responding to the risk of VAT fraud posed by internet-traders, but said it had made good use of intelligence in responding to fraud risks....
...to criticise the Department for Culture, Media and Sport for failing to deliver a proper bidding process after only British Telecom decided to bid for a £530m government subsidy to build superfast rural internet...
...The NAO has warned it could take 20 years to close a skills gap because the number of IT and cyber security professionals has not risen in line with the growth of the internet economy....
...Even so, the NAO said it could take 20 years to address the skills gap. The report said the UK’s internet economy reached £121bn in 2010 and cyber crime was costing £18bn-£27bn a year....
...The NAO it said was not yet able to comment on whether it intended to pursue an investigation....
...It highlighted new risks to tax revenue emerging from those trading on the internet and from buy-to-let landlords failing to declare income and capital gains....
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