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Report: UK trails US, Europe in e-commerce
News A report commissioned by prime minister Tony Blair is expected to criticise UK business for failing to exploit the full potential of the Net. Originally commissioned to find out how best the UK could compete in the e-commerce arena, the findings...
[August 23, 1999, 8:50]
Europe could take five years to catch US in e-commerce
News Spain's prime minister, Jose Maria Aznar spoke to this point last week in Berlin. There is plenty of evidence that in terms of other potentially significant e-commerce platforms -- next generation phones, mobile devices and interactive television...
[January 24, 2000, 17:21]
Freeserve demands action on e-commerce VAT directive
News The UK government has been sitting on this issue for at least one year, and despite attempts by us to raise the matter with the Treasury Minister, Paul Boateng, he hasn't even acknowledged our correspondence.
[December 19, 2001, 13:02]
UK visas relaxed for Indian IT workers
News The UK's e-commerce minister Douglas Alexander has announced that Britain is relaxing visa restrictions for Indian IT professional who want to work in the UK. The e-commerce minister added that he would like to see more Indian software companies...
[November 1, 2001, 18:04]
Douglas Alexander takes on e-minister role
News As previously reported on ZDNet, Douglas Alexander, MP for Paisley South, has been named as minister for e-commerce and competitiveness. It is possible that Alexander's responsibilities will differ slightly from those of his predecessor, who was...
[June 12, 2001, 9:32]
Alexander warned over broadband complacency
News AOL has warned the new e-commerce minister that Britain is still facing big problems in the rollout of broadband Internet services. AOL was pleased to see that the government had appointed a new e-commerce minister to replace Patricia Hewitt, who...
[June 25, 2001, 15:27]
Timms: Communications competition has made us better off
News Former e-commerce minister Stephen Timms told the Labour conference's Parliamentary IT Committee fringe meeting on Monday that new communications networks can be used to "make Britain a better and fairer place".
[September 28, 2004, 14:55]
India's IT firms urged to look to UK
News E-commerce minister Stephen Timms is set to become the latest UK politician to urge Indian tech firms to invest in Britain. Douglas Alexander, who Timms replaced as e-commerce minister, attended the show last year and said more Indian software...
[October 25, 2002, 16:23]
PM moves to Internet time - critics sceptical
News Prime Minister Tony Blair admits Monday he has made a mistake about the pace of the Internet revolution as critics question government commitment to e-commerce and the Net. The Prime Minister has chosen Patricia Hewitt to lead his e-commerce...
[October 25, 1999, 16:12]
New e-minister named
News Douglas Alexander, the MP for Paisley South, has been named as minister for e-commerce and competitiveness. It is possible that Alexander's responsibilities will differ slightly from those of his predecessor, who was the minister for "small...
[June 12, 2001, 8:33]
Broadband campaigners demand more govt leadership
News Broadband activists have called on e-commerce minister Stephen Timms to give a more powerful lead in the drive to create Broadband Britain 2010. Since becoming e-commerce minister in the summer of 2002, Timms has presided over a booming broadband...
[April 8, 2004, 16:35]
Government urges BT to cut ADSL costs
News The UK's e-commerce minister, backed by the government's Broadband Stakeholder Group, has called on BT to boost the rollout of broadband Internet services in the UK, by making more aggressive price cuts than it has managed so far.
[September 26, 2001, 11:52]
Government backs anti-spam mission to US
News E-commerce minister Stephen Timms is giving his support to a delegation of UK politicians who are travelling to America next month to lobby for stricter spam controls. Well, no we didn't; we thought e-commerce minister Stephen Timms had some grasp...
[September 19, 2003, 14:50]
Dismay after Blair's reshuffle
News The tech industry has reacted with disappointment to the downgrading of the role of e-commerce minister in the post-election ministerial reshuffle. Before the election Mike O'Brien's title was minister for energy and e-commerce.
[May 13, 2005, 9:45]
Timms handed IT role
News As the new minister of state for e-commerce, communications and information industries, Stephen Timms MP, the former chief secretary to the Treasury, will lead on IT industry issues as part of his wider role as minister of state for competitiveness.
[July 12, 2007, 12:20]
Government may back fibre rollout to homes
News Stephen Timms, formerly the UK's e-commerce minister, made a speech on Tuesday in which he warned of the danger of falling behind other countries in broadband speeds. When I became e-commerce minister five years ago, the UK was neck-and-neck with...
[September 19, 2007, 8:00]
UK's first e-envoy appointed
News The UK's first e-envoy, former civil servant and High Commissioner to Australia Alex Allen was appointed Monday by the Prime Minister Tony Blair. Allen, who previously worked as Tony Blair's principle private secretary, will have a hotline direct...
[September 13, 1999, 15:32]
Tony Blair warns Britain's business
News The Prime Minister admitted government e-commerce policy had been "too slow" and accepted that the controversial key escrow plans -- where businesses would be forced to give law enforcement agencies access to decryption keys -- had been a mistake.
[September 13, 1999, 16:32]
Blair's UK Online seeks 'universal access'
News The Prime Minister nevertheless claimed success for his government's much-hyped intention to make the UK a centre for global e-commerce but warned that this should not lead to complacency. E-minister Patricia Hewitt, said that the involvement of...
[September 11, 2000, 12:09]
Government defends new cyber-snooping powers
News On the day the government published its long-awaited E-communications Bill (formerly the E-Commerce Bill), Home Office minister Charles Clarke and e-Minister Patricia Hewitt stoutly defended the decision to push through controversial law...
[November 19, 1999, 16:22]
