Gary Johnston, Technical Director of Audata, will be contributing to an event entitled 

to be held at

St James' Park, NewcastleGateshead

on 05 and 06 May 2006

For full details, please view here.

Google is preparing to offer online storage to Web users.  The storage would create a mirror image of data stored on consumer hard drives.

Company documents that were mistakenly released on the internet substantiate the previously rumored GDrive an online storage service .  The news surfaced after a blogger discovered apparent notes in a slide presentation by Google executives.

The notes were published on Google's site after its analysts presentation day last week.

A report issued by Mathew M Aid claims that  the CIA, the Defense Department, and the Department of Justice, amongst others—have reclassified some 9,500 documents, many of them dating from the Korean War and early Cold War eras.

Aid discovered the program in December when he noticed that dozens of documents that he had examined at NARA’s College Park, Maryland, facility years ago have been withdrawn, even some published previously in the State Department’s historical series, Foreign Relations of the United States.

“The stuff they pulled should never have been removed,” Aid said in the February 21 New York Times. “Some of it is mundane, and some of it is outright ridiculous.”

Last chance to book a place for tomorrows Info Seminar.  We still have a few places left at this event, being held at

Railex Systems Ltd

The Wilson Building

1 - 5 Curtain Road

London

EC2A 3JX

In late January the US Department of Justice (DoJ) requested that Google hand over a week's worth of search records .   The DoJ claims it has made the request to show that voluntary regulation is not adequate to prevent children viewing  unsavoury material, largely pornographic, that exists on the internet.

Google has formally rejected the demand in court documents they have filed 

Barrow-in-Furness Borough Council have asked Audata to conduct an Information Healthcheck on their behalf.  The Healthcheck will be conducted over two days in March by two experienced Audata staff members.

The report, entitled 'Mind the gap: assessing digital preservation needs in the UK',  aims to help government, public institutions and private companies turn high awareness into concerted action.

More information on this story can be found here.

Audata are proud to announce that four of their staff are to undergo the official training programme for KnowledgeWorker^®, from Datum International.  The successful completion of this training will allow Audata to strengthen its product portfolio and widen its offerings.

For more information on KnowledgeWorker^®, follow this link.

This follows on from last years findings in Japan that Intel had abused its monopoly power.  Intel has also been investigated by the European Commission.

The European Commission is leading a worldwide 'Safer Internet Day' today to highlight the potential dangers of using the web.  The aim of the event is to raise awareness of the potential risks associated with posting personal information and copyright material on blogs.

Viviane Reding, European Commissioner for Information Society and Media and patron of the event said: “Blogs are a popular new way of communicating for young people and for all age groups, so it is appropriate that the Insafe network is using a blog on Safer Internet Day to show how using the Internet can be enjoyable, and what young people need to remember when blogging.”

The website can be found here.