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Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It was the Broadband Britain Summit at the QE2 centre on Monday. So I sit there, for a speech talking about how well Broadband Britain has performed since Ofcom came into being a few years ago (no mention of BT's price cuts, or rural activists, or...
[November 25, 2005, 17:20]
Secure WAP phones by the New Year
News Computer security giant Baltimore Technology has revealed that the first high-security WAP phones may hit the streets in Britain as early as the New Year. It's a shame that Britain's shoppers won't be able to utilise secure WAP transactions in time...
[November 25, 1999, 16:00]
Lack of broadband may penalise football on the Net
News But Internet analysts are warning that severe broadband delays will restrict the success of such a venture in Britain. But the quality of match streaming is dependent on high-speed Internet connections -- something that is severely lacking in Britain.
[August 24, 2001, 9:00]
Broadband prices to halve by 1 April
News BT claims that the move will provide a major boost to Britain's broadband market. Broadband is the future for Britain and we're putting it at the heart of BT's plans for growth in the UK mass market. ADSL (asynchronous digital subscriber line...
[February 26, 2002, 8:49]
Lacey's Paper Round
News Government grants to inventors are helping rewrite the historic pattern: invented in Britain, developed in America, exploited in Japan," says an article in the Sunday Times. Reporting on a DTI initiative called SMART - an award scheme giving grants...
[June 22, 1998, 16:21]
Digital cameras sell better than 35mm
News Digital cameras have outsold their 35mm counterparts in Britain for the first time, according to electrical retailer Dixons. What our figures reveal is that digital imaging has really caught on to the extent that film-based photography is no longer...
[May 29, 2001, 10:57]
Digital Economy Bill gets tough on file-sharers
News The minister for Digital Britain, Stephen Timms, said at a Friday morning briefing that unlawful file-sharing would definitely not be made a criminal offence associated with a potential jail term. A notable absence from the bill was that of the 50p...
[November 20, 2009, 9:38]
BBC prepares to put TV archive on Web
News Professor Lessig believes the Creative Archive could give a massive boost to Britain's digital content market, and could also encourage more people to take up a high-speed Internet connection and a faster PC.
[May 27, 2004, 16:30]
Digital TV to play e-voting role
News Residents of Swindon will be offered the opportunity to become the first people in Britain to vote by cable later this month. A consortium involving NTL has created a secure Web site that can only be accessed from an NTL digital television.
[April 17, 2003, 15:43]
Digital jukebox will use broadband to storm pubs
News Thousands of models of the digital jukebox should be rolled out across Britain's pubs over the next two years. Thousands of pubs will soon be offering customers the chance to use the latest device to fuse high-speed Internet access and digital...
[November 24, 2003, 16:50]
The BBC needs to share its technology, not its cash
Blog The Digital Britain report, which was due to be published today, will recommend that some of the licence fee be shared with commercial broadcasters to compensate for the impact the internet is having on their businesses.
[June 16, 2009, 11:29]
BT bets on business broadband for rural consumers
News BT is testing fixed-line broadband technology which it says could help achieve government targets laid out in the recent Digital Britain report. The service is based on existing Single-Pair High-speed Digital Subscriber Line (SHDSL technology...
[September 15, 2009, 17:22]
Rural broadband satellite gets funding boost
News The UK broadband satellite operator said that it has proposed the new satellite to the British government as part of the Digital Britain consultation. Capacity is definitely an issue for satellite services, so if the demand is there through...
[May 26, 2009, 12:27]
BERR launches digital-economy review
News Titled 'Digital Britain', it will focus on how to accelerate the growth of the digital and communications industries, and will be led by Stephen Carter, the minister for communications, technology and broadcasting.
[October 21, 2008, 17:46]
BBC hints at digital set-top giveaway
News The BBC would not comment on industry rumours that it could be charged with carrying out the government's plans to bring Britain online, through interactive TV. The BBC is downplaying comments by director general Greg Dyke Thursday that the...
[February 9, 2001, 12:58]
Government pulls support for Home Computing Initiative
Talkback I run a HCI business which helped the government to reach its digital Britain strategy. As the chancellor has now removed this tax exemption with almost immediate effect I will have to lay off my 5 staff today - I am sure they will not be voting...
[March 23, 2006, 6:15]
Gov't to crack down on file-sharers
Blog The Digital Britain report, which was expected to recommend universal broadband access for UK citizens, has been presented at a press conference. A journalist colleague, David Meyer, who was there, has let me know the top line of what was presented.
[June 16, 2009, 15:15]
Levy may not go-ahead
Talkback Second what the EU states also makes the USC in the Digital Britain report illegal if government gives money to say the Mobile Operators (as suggested in the report) as their networks are not open. I understand the Levy will not make it to the...
[September 22, 2009, 10:39]
Privacy activists first to criticise Carter
Blog The first reactions to Lord Carter's interim Digital Britain report have been flooding in, and almost all have been packed with as many fuzzy platitudes as the report itself. One by one digital music providers like iTunes and Amazon are moving away...
[January 29, 2009, 16:07]
BCS: Fibre could last us 'a century'
Blog According to David Evans of the British Computer Society, speaking at a Westminster e-Forum on "Digital Britain", a nationwide fibre access broadband network deployed now could still be in use in the 22nd century.
[January 14, 2009, 13:33]
