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A sweeping redesign of the government's seven biggest websites aims to save ?1.2bn over the next three years – and further improvements to other department sites used for interaction with the public will save a further ?1.7bn annually from 2015, according to Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude.

Making the billion annual transactions between government, citizens and businesses "digital by default" will see accelerated savings,ghd, as more driving test bookings, tax payments and other government-related transactions go online, Maude said.

Unveiling a sweeping new digital strategy to get those everyday transactions with government online, Maude said that ,longchamp selfridges?1.2bn could be saved in the next three years – and that the pace of saving would accelerate over time.

"Digital services are much more convenient because they can be accessed whenever you want them," said Maude. "They are also much more efficient, saving taxpayers' money and the user's time. Online transactions can be 20 times cheaper than by phone, 30 times cheaper than face-to-face,Mulberry sale, and up to 50 times cheaper than by post."

Seven of the busiest government departments, including the Inland Revenue and Department of Work and Pensions, will be obliged to overhaul their websites to ensure that they offer the best possible experience for people who want to use them to access services.

The government presently handles more than a billion transactions per year with citizens across 650 services – though those seven departments account for more than 90% of central government transactions. Those are the Inland Revenue, Department for Transport, Department of Work and Pensions,ghd straighteners, Department of Business, Information and Skills,longchamp le pliage, Department of Environment,ghd, Farming and Rural Affairs, Ministry of Justice and the Home Office,longchamp.

All will be in the front line for active redesign to make them "digital by default" – even as other websites are shut down. In the past year the government has closed 74 "redundant" sites as it slimlines its web presence to focus on its remodelled gov.uk portal.

But the drive to make such services digital could put many lower-paid groups who do not have access at a disadvantage. Current figures show that use the internet – although 77% of UK adults use the internet at least once a day. The data also show that 12% of adults are "offline and unwilling to get online".

Maude said however that the changes were essential. Despite handling more than a billion transactions every year many of the 650 government services have no digital option – and the ones that are available need redesigns.

The Cabinet Office also pointed to figures showing that in 2011 about 150m phone calls made to government services could have been avoided if the online service were better,christian louboutin shoes.

The redesign will start with the seven Whitehall departments that handle the majority of central government transactions, and target the services which cope with more than 100,000 transactions annually for digital transformation,Mulberry sale.

Any new or redesigned service introduced after April 2014 will also have to meet a new Digital by Default standard.

Mike Bracken, executive director of the Government Digital Service, which last month produced the remodelled gov.uk site, said the strategy was "a truly digital document which reflects our ambitions and signals a clear roadmap for working with departments to help them achieve the goals set out in this strategy".

The gov.uk site will become the central hub for corporate publication by all 24 central government departments by March 2013, and other agencies and "arm's length" bodies will follow by March 2014.

The redesigned gov.uk – which took over from the Directgov site – has won plaudits in user testing for its ease of use, and the speed with which people could find the information they wanted, taking 80 seconds compared with 120 on Directgov, which it replaced.

A burst of 8 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team

Gwern Branwen:

Naturally, we are preached at by apologists that Google owes us nothing and if it's a problem then it's all our fault and we should've prophesied the future better (and too bad about all the ordinary people who may be screwed over or the unique history1 or data casually destroyed). But how can we have any sort of rational expectation if we lack any data or ideas about how long Google will run anything or why or how it chooses to do what it does? So in the following essay, I collect data on 350 Google products and look for predictive variables. I find some while modeling shutdown patterns, and make some predictions about future shutdowns.

This is a truly awesome analysis. Seasonality, the "just survive this long" period.

On top of all of this was the accessibility they got due to the unpatched vulnerabilities,Mulberry handbags.

"From that point we could have actually installed a rootkit," said [Terry] McCorkle, who first uncovered the Google system online. "We could have taken over the operating system and accessed any other control systems that are on the same network as that one. We didn't do that because that wasn't the intent��. But that would be the normal path if an attacker was actually looking to do that."

A Google spokesman confirmed the breach and said the company has since disconnected the control system from the internet. Despite the "alarm" buttons on the control panel and the blueprint showing the water pipes,Mulberry uk, he said the system the researchers accessed can control only heating and air conditioning in the building. A report about the incident produced by staff in Australia, which Google did not show Wired, indicated that the system could not be used to control electricity, elevators, door access or any other building automation, the spokesman said.

(Thanks @ClarkeViper for the link.)

Kara Swisher:

For Qualcomm, the selection of Rubinstein to join the board is also something to watch, as he is also the second exec from Silicon Valley to be tapped by the company recently. In March, Qualcomm hired tech investor Laurie Yoler as SVP of business development,ghd, making her "responsible for augmenting existing business relationships in Silicon Valley, as well as developing new strategic business opportunities for Qualcomm in the region."

The European Commission on Monday made a preliminary antitrust finding against Google's mobile communications unit, Motorola Mobility, for seeking and enforcing an injunction against in Germany over patents essential to smartphones and tablets.

The finding, which could lead to a steep fine, comes as the commission tries to ensure that companies do not wield their patent portfolios to block others from using the technologies vital to developing some of the most popular consumer electronics.

"I think that companies should spend their time innovating and competing on the merits of the products they offer �� not misusing their intellectual property rights to hold up competitors to the detriment of innovation and consumer choice,longchamp le pliage," Joaqu��n Almunia, the European Union's competition commissioner, said in a statement.

Looks like Motorola is going to cost Google even more. With those patents which Google valued at $5bn. Also in the EC's sights for similar abuse: Samsung. (Thanks @EasilyLead for the link.)

Michael Mace:

There are pending changes in interface, hardware, and software that could be just as revolutionary as graphical computing was in the 1980s. In my opinion, this would be a huge opportunity for a company that pulls them all together and makes them work.

Introducing the Sensory Computer

I call the new platform sensory computing because it makes much richer use of vision and gestures and 3D technology than anything we have today. Compared to a sensory computer, today's PCs and even tablets look flat and uninteresting.

There are four big changes needed to implement sensory computing.

Now read on.. though 3D remains unpersuasive. See his guesses for who will actually implement this.

Surely not a comment on Yahoo's new policy? (Thanks @JohnnieGoat for the link.)

Researchers at Northwestern University and North Carolina State University that anti-virus programs for Android can usually be bypassed using trivial means. The researchers developed DroidChameleon, a tool that can modify known malware apps in numerous ways to prevent them from being detected.

Most of the ten scanners they tested mainly performed signature-based analyses. In some cases, simply changing the package name in the metadata was enough for virus scanners to consider the malware harmless. Several scanners could be fooled by unpacking the malware and then creating new installation packages. In other cases, the researchers were successful after encrypting parts of the app or redirecting function calls.

Their conclusion is unambiguous: all ten anti-virus programs could be fooled in one way or another��

The researchers' findings are a further reason for users to not allow the installation of apps from untrusted sources, also called sideloading,cheap ghd, in the first place.

(Thanks @rquick for the link.)

Apple Inc is missing out on a chance to court as many as 2.8 billion new smartphone customers, many of them in Asia, as wireless-service providers balk at conditions imposed by the iPhone maker and drag their heels in signing on as partners,christian louboutin sale.

Apple has announced fewer than a dozen new wireless-service providers to sell the device since September 2011, leaving the total at about 240,louboutin shoes. Holdouts represent billions of would-be subscribers in countries such as China, Japan, India and Russia, said Horace Dediu, a market analyst who runs Asymco.com. Samsung Electronics, Apple's biggest smartphone rival, sells devices through almost all of the world's 800 carriers, Asymco said,ghd hair straighteners.

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