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Can you make money and help others at the same time? Gina Dyer meets social entrepreneur Karen Darby, who is about to launch a business that will create 10,000 jobs for unemployed people in the UK's most deprived areas.

It's not often you get to be a part of something that’s a both a commercial and philanthropic success but Polly Gower, founder of Everyclick.com, appears to have come up with the magic formula.

Friends often make the best business partners, but it can also be a recipe for disaster. Thankfully for Ross Elder and Andy Firth, co-founders of Holidaylettings.co.uk, business is booming and the relationship remains in tact. Gina Dyer meets the mogul mates behind Britain's fastest growing holiday home rental website.

In an exclusive video interview, Deborah Meaden, entrepreneur and star of Dragons' Den, offers some sound advice for business owners looking for opportunities amid the economic doom and gloom and also reveals why, unlike other high profile entrepreneurs, she doesn't use social network Twitter.

In the first in a new series of exclusive video interviews, Julie Meyer, who led start-up investment in Lastminute.com, talks entrepreneurship.

Scottish Government - Detailed analysis of road accidents and casualties on Scottish roads.

Office for National Statistics - Latest data on the Public Sector Net Borrowing, Net debt and the cash requirement.

Children, Schools and Families - The GCSE, GCE and AEA code of practice requires awarding bodies to make sure that candidates with particular requirements can demonstrate their skills, knowledge and understanding, for example by providing modified question papers for candidates with visual impairments. The code makes clear that arrangements must be based on the needs of individual candidates and must not give them an unfair advantage or undermine the integrity of the qualifications in any way. In addition, the code of practice states that awarding bodies must give special consideration to candidates affected by an unforeseen and temporary illness, injury or incident at the time of the exam.

Children, Schools and Families - This Statistical First Release reports on statistics on numbers and percentages of young people qualified to levels 2 and 3 by age, cohort and qualification type.

HM Revenue and Customs - Number of property transactions processed with value £40,000 or above - monthly

Office for National Statistics - Weekly release of provisional figures

Office for National Statistics - CPI, RPI and RPIX data for February 2009, including main contributions and tables

Welsh Assembly Government - This statistical bulletin looks at academic achievement by gender, ethnicity, special educational needs (SEN), absenteeism and month of birth.

This month saw California's Hacker Dojo host the Random Hacks of Kindness event, which brought independent coders together with developers from Google, Microsoft, Nasa, Yahoo! and other organisations to work on projects to help with disaster relief.

See more photos from the hackathon here.

Server virtualisation is rapidly becoming an accepted part of the corporate IT infrastructure - and now industry experts are predicting that it won't be long until corporate desktops follow suit.

Desktop virtualisation refers to the running of a PC's operating system within a central datacentre. Users have a screen and terminal (or thin client) on their desk, which connects to the operating system running on the server via the local network. To the user, the experience is similar to the operating system running on their physical machine but in reality the processes are run and the data is stored in a central location.

Encouraging businesses to go green is good but the government must better incorporate outsourcing in its carbon control scheme, says the NOA's Mark Kobayashi-Hillary

Much is being said about the UK government's upcoming Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) scheme but it remains unclear how much of this talk is translating into action and what impact the scheme will have on the outsourcing and offshoring industries.

Anti-ageism legislation isn't working and the IT industry continues to discriminate against older techies. That's the verdict of the exclusive 2009 silicon.com Skills Survey.

The majority (51 per cent) of survey respondents agreed or strongly agreed that the IT industry discriminates against older workers, compared with less than a fifth (18 per cent) who held the opposite view.

Shared services delivered through the cloud will help the public sector shave billions from its annual IT spend, according to a leaked Whitehall report.

The leaked draft document, Government ICT Strategy: New world, new challenges, new opportunities, sets out priorities for public sector IT chiefs through to 2020.

November's top stories on silicon.com tackled some big questions: does my business need an office? Can I work solely on a netbook? Will the UK ever create a Google, Microsoft or Oracle of its very own?

November also dealt with the perennial question of will the UK's ID cards programme ever run to plan?

Working out your budgets and trying to figure out the tech priorities for your HR department in 2010? Nick Heath has a few suggestions for HR directors as to where to invest that cash on technology to get the most benefits for your team and the rest of the business.

Consider standardising your systemsTake a look at what you do in the HR department and the chances are a number of companies are doing exactly the same thing: processes like payroll and benefits administration or training and recruitment will need to be carried out at any large organisation. As a result, adopting standardised systems for common processes is worth considering for enterprises that are relying on expensive, bespoke IT systems.

With recession leading businesses to cut IT costs as much as they can, tech workers are increasingly feeling the impact of offshoring, results from the exclusive 2009 silicon.com Skills Survey show.

Almost half (47.5 per cent) of respondents said their organisation has probably offshored IT jobs - up from more than a third (36 per cent) who thought that was the case last year.

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We've all made embarrassing mobile phone blunders as part of our busy modern lives.

We've all done something with a mobile that has led to fingers pointed in mirth and mockery: a few years ago the Round-Up even had one of those Bluetooth headsets that make you look like a minicab driver (although the cash from all those unexpected fares came in handy at Christmas).

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Microsoft to issue browser patch - Microsoft will soon release a patch for a hole in Internet Explorer that is thought to have been exploited by Chinese hackers. [Main News]

UK being turned into nation of part-timers - More than one million workers unable to find a full-time job are being forced to work part-time, official figures reveal

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Property prices to rebound on low rates - House prices could rebound to their previous peaks as soon as next year thanks to ultra-low interest rates

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Firefox 3.6 will be the last to work with Mac OS X 10.4, as supporting the older OS is a drag on the browser's competitiveness, Mozilla says

Despite being a self-confessed mobile-phone hater, Linus Torvalds has said the Nexus One's apps make the Google handset a winner

The new offerings include features to reduce power consumption and for enabling large-scale, real-time systems such as smart grids

Chinese authorities have arrested three people suspected of running a ring that made hacking tools and Trojans available to its members

By making its video site available over IPv6, Google has taken another step in the transition to the next-gen internet addressing system

The business software maker has taken the unusual step of releasing an out-of-band patch for a critical WebLogic Server vulnerability

The company plans to demonstrate an HSPA+ network providing download speeds of 84Mbps, a new record, at Mobile World Congress next week

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has successfully applied for the so-called '373 patent to be reviewed by the US Patent and Trademark Office

Automated speech-to-speech language translation should be possible in a few years' time, according to Google translation chief Franz Och. In an interview with The Sunday Times, Och said the...

The global deal will see the social-networking giant sell its own ads and get more of Bing's features on its web results

The head of the FBI's digital evidence section has said that internet providers in the US should keep logs for two years

Two Firefox add-ons, Sothink Web Video Downloader 4.0 and Master Filer, were found to contain Trojan horse code aimed at Windows users

The business-software maker has announced the resignation, effective immediately, and the appointment of co-CEOs to replace Apotheker

The search giant is seeking patents for technology it is building into Chrome to try to make the web a more powerful foundation for applications

The EU's Osor resource project now provides access to more than 2,000 open-source applications for use by public-sector bodies

The home of World War II codebreaking has called for engineers to operate an electro-mechanical machine developed by mathematician Alan Turing. The Turing Bombe was a brute-force code-breaker...

Parliamentarians and lords want the government to better explain why it is necessary to disconnect unlawful file-sharers, and how the process would work

The company's latest chipset is based on its Core i-series processor, and gives enhanced PC remote-control capabilities to IT support workers

The European Commission will update cybersecurity guidelines after a phishing attack on emissions trading registries saw £2.6m lost to fraudsters

IBM Research plans to announce that it has demoed a radio-frequency graphene transistor with the highest frequency so far