Private sector may manage gov't comms database
Blog The Communications Data Bill may be kinda on hold, but clearly not for long. According to Wednesday's Guardian, a consultation paper is going out in January with a frightening twist. Looks like the private sector will get a look-in.
[December 31, 2008, 9:45]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It's certainly not twitching today, as the government's Communications Bill appears. Wednesday 8/05/2002 The headline aspects -- relaxation on media ownership and creation of a one-size-fits-all regulator, OFCOM -- get picked up, but nobody in the...
[May 29, 2002, 15:54]
Should We Object to the Recent Tide of Data Legislation?
Blog It was interesting to read in this morning’s Guardian objections to proposals for the Data Communications’ Bill (http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/may/21/freedomofinformation.civilliberties) to create a central database of recorded...
[May 22, 2008, 9:12]
Microsoft lets slip OCS details
Blog Bill Gates is due to officially launch OCS - Microsoft’s unified communications offering - in a conference call at 5.15pm. Microsoft has released early details ahead of its official launch of Office Communications Server this evening.
[October 16, 2007, 17:09]
Passport needed for mobile phone purchases?
Blog This would supposedly cut a loophole out of the upcoming Communications Data Bill, which the Home Office has proposed should include a centralised database of details of all communications, including phone, email, and web-surfing habits.
[October 20, 2008, 14:16]
xG sells base stations, options, keeps mum on everything else
Blog And while it may not be good or bad news that someone's exercised a few thousand dollars' worth of options - that Christmas credit card bill won't pay itself - it's an odd thing to do in a company on the brink of full commercialisation and which...
[February 9, 2008, 13:12]
BT to manage KCom's network
Blog Bill Halbert, Deputy Executive Chairman says, "This agreement is an important step in the transformation of the KCOM Group," said KCom deputy executive chairman Bill Halbert in a statement.It will allow us to reduce our fixed costs and capital...
[June 23, 2009, 17:39]
Microsoft opens SaaS to others
Blog On Sunday, Microsoft said it was moving towards the idea of opening up its online business applications so that its partners can directly bill their customers. The Microsoft BPOS bundles hosted Exchange, SharePoint, Office Communications Server...
[March 9, 2009, 15:01]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Otherwise they'd have been left with just two things -- the bill to collect all those valueless boxes, and a list of a million or so people who'd just become Sky subscribers. They did this by taking over the state-run Sinosat communications...
[January 24, 2003, 16:44]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog And the rest of the market enjoys far greater economy of scale than your particular unique platform, so you quickly get to the situation where it costs more to upgrade one component than it would to chuck the lot and change — something...
[February 24, 2006, 16:10]
Rupert Goodwins' IDF Diary
Blog There was the standard moment of digital pathos: Bill Siu, head of platforms, talked about unreliable power supplies in the developing world as the big screen above his head froze in a Hollywood caricature of a crashed communications link.
[August 30, 2005, 13:55]
Thursday
Blog Bill Gates' bright hope of studding the sky with nearly a thousand satellites to saturate the ether with broadband has faded almost to extinction. Iridium continues as a weird telephonic equivalent to GPS, providing remarkably cheap communications...
[October 4, 2002, 18:06]
