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British parliament members all set to receive tax payer funded iPads

By chrisoldroyd, Wednesday, May 9, 2012 a 8:36 am

Every British member of parliament is going to receive an iPad and the British tax payer is set to pick up the bill. The iPad roll-out is part of a major ICT upgrade and follows the completion of a successful iPad trial. The House of Commons administration committee has recommended that the iPad is given to all 650 MPs.

Sir Jonathan Ive wins British Visionary Innovator award for 2012

By chrisoldroyd, Thursday, Apr 26, 2012 a 6:15 am

Sir Jonathan Ive has won the British Visionary Innovator 2012 award organised by the Intellectual Property Office. The award comes after the competition was open for seven days and allowed the public to vote for their most innovative person of 2012.

British Prime Minister to get his own iPad app to keep on top of Government business

By chrisoldroyd, Wednesday, Dec 28, 2011 a 3:37 pm

British Prime Minister David Cameron has commissioned an iPad app that he hopes will enable him to become more efficient whilst dealing with day to day government business. App developers from inside Mr Cameron’s Cabinet Office are designing the application.

The software will allow the Prime Minister to see the latest NHS waiting-list figures, crime statistics, unemployment numbers and a wide variety of other data at a glance. The idea for the app came from a trip by advisers to the US.

David Cameron already uses an iPad to access real time news information from Twitter and Google as well as newspapers and radio programmes. The new Whitehall app should be available for use by March 2012.