A recent House of Lords review led to the following statement “Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs need to do more to demonstrate that the revenue protection they claim for the IR35 legislation outweighs the costs it imposes” Said the House of Lords Select Committee on Personal Service Companies in its report. The Chairman of the […]

The chancellor announced in his Budget speech on Wednesday that an institute would be created and named after computer pioneer and code-breaker Alan Turing. The Institute will focus on new ways of collecting, organising and analysing large sets of data; also known as big data. The government will provide £42m over five years for the […]

Members of the IAP can publicise their web sites via the Members Web Site’s option. This can be useful to showcase your business sites, educational sites or personal interest sites or even some of your clients sites (you may need to check you are allowed). This has 2 benefits; 1. You showcase your work and 2) […]

We recently had a query as to where the list of HMRC Professional Subscriptions could be found. While the web address may move from time to time, currently http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/list3/ and choose (A-E) for Analysts and Programmers, you can always search Google for HMRC list of professional subscriptions and follow the appropriate link from there. You may of […]

Today Alcatel-Lucent and BT tested a new Broadband system with speeds of 1.4 TeraBits; this was achieved between the BT Tower and a location in Ipswich, and while it may be some time before this technology filters down to the home and office market it is highly probable that it will end up in the main […]

I’ve been talking to Richard Tate recently. Richard is a consultant at Capita, working on a very interesting project called NOVUS. I happened upon him because he wrote to Computing (a piece they printed as their ‘Star Letter’ on 13 January) bemoaning a particular facet of the training scene in the UK. One sentence stood […]

The IAP Symposium at Kew on the 8th of April is coming. We’ve assembled a group of speakers with a huge range of experience and expertise for next year’s symposium on “The Internet of Things”. Here’s a preview: Dom Guinard, CTO at Evrythng is working on Evrythng’s suite of managed applications to make products smart. […]

The IAP office will closed from the 24th to the 27th of December and the 31st December and 1st of January, however our messaging service will be available to take your calls on the 24th, 27th and 31st of December. We wish you a Merry XMAS and a Prosperous New Year.