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Mobile industry looks beyond 3G
News It will remove the latency and bandwidth issues you get with standard 3G networks," said Tim Craine, e-business minister for the Isle of Man. Third-generation networks and services are still in their infancy but industry experts claim there is...
[February 14, 2005, 15:10]
Broadband Britain booms with two million home users
News A new report by research group Analysys has found that the UK now boasts the third most competitive broadband market of all the G7 industrialised nations, e-commerce minister Stephen Timms told the Westminster Media Forum on Tuesday.
[May 22, 2003, 9:43]
One-third of firms set to offshore IT
News On the Isle of Man, e-business minister Tim Craine is similarly hoping to attract businesses keen to take advantage of the tax breaks and other benefits - as many financial services and online betting operations have already done.
[September 9, 2004, 15:00]
2000 Roundup: Cybercrime goes global
News Also in March, the UK's head of Internet policy, e-minister Patricia Hewitt stressed her own concern over the dangers of computer crime, revealing details of a damning Department of Trade and Industry report into high-tech break-ins at UK firms.
[December 26, 2000, 6:12]
Brokerage scheme to help close broadband divide
News In a statement released on Tuesday, e-commerce minister Stephen Timms said that the EEDA was helping to boost broadband competition by letting telcos bid for these two "ready-made markets". A groundbreaking scheme being run by the East of England...
[February 25, 2003, 13:28]
UK's poorest families still avoiding the Net
News On Monday, e-minister Patricia Hewitt announced the creation of a Digital Inclusion Panel. Only a small fraction of Britain's poorest families have a Web connection at home, according to a report published this week that shows income is still the...
[December 17, 2003, 13:10]
Hundreds of exchanges fail BT trigger test
News E-commerce minister Stephen Timms announced government support for CBN on Wednesday. BT said this week that it cannot set achievable broadband trigger levels for 322 local telephone exchanges across rural Britain.
[October 16, 2003, 15:50]
Scandinavia shames UK in broadband league
News Last week, e-commerce minister Douglas Alexander urged BT to set "fair prices" for ADSL, for both its retail and wholesale divisions -- so that other ISPs could offer cheaper broadband. The UK is the sick man of Europe when it comes to high-speed...
[October 1, 2001, 17:19]
NTL hits back in 128Kbps broadband row
News E-commerce minister Stephen Timms came under fire from one delegate over this issue, who claimed that there were at least six different and conflicting definitions of broadband. The ongoing controversy over which types of Internet products should...
[May 20, 2003, 15:45]
Government moves goalposts in broadband licence debacle
News In July 2001, Douglas Alexander, e-commerce minister at the time, announced that the remaining 26 licences would be made available again in a 12-month long auction that began in mid-October that year.
[September 4, 2002, 14:08]
Australia won't disclose stance on encryption
News Minister for communications Senator Richard Alston's office didn't return phone calls to ZDNet Australia and the Attorney General's department referred the matter to the Department of Defence, which said: "It goes into the realms of defence and we...
[September 21, 2001, 10:32]
News Burst: Clinton signs up for US-Irish e-commerce in cyberspace
News President Bill Clinton and Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern used separate notebook computers, smart card readers and private PIN numbers to sign a U.S.Ireland communiqué on electronic commerce. The first international agreement to be signed by...
[September 4, 1998, 15:16]
Courts to pilot e-payment system
News Courts minister Christopher Leslie said: "With this new service court users will not have to leave their homes to fill in and submit commonly used county court forms. County courts in England and Wales are to offer a range of new online services in...
[January 6, 2005, 13:55]
Welsh broadband kicks England into touch
News The rest of the UK has a lot to learn from Wales when it comes to making a success of broadband, according to Andrew Davies, Welsh Assembly minister for economic development and ICT. Across Britain, this kind of public sector demand is seen as key...
[December 3, 2002, 11:05]
Business needs 3G, says BP
News Speaking at the 3G Enterprise Alliance conference this week, minister of state for energy, e-commerce and postal services, Stephen Timms -- who has been a champion of broadband technologies such as ADSL and cable -- proclaimed: "3G is the next big...
[November 14, 2003, 14:45]
Cybercrime laws aren't working, says minister
Talkback Perhaps the e-government needs to learn how to keep track of messages on various IT related public forums. As for e-crime. There are plenty of suggestions to be found there. What you can't detect you can not fight.
[October 30, 2005, 19:27]
Russian minister declares spam war on American school
Talkback I keep getting these American Language Center e-mails - and I'm English! Bravo!
[November 24, 2003, 17:44]
Microsoft plans web software push
News Margaret Hodge MP, minister of state for industry and the regions, will lead a debate on the impact of the convergence between technology and the media. Microsoft will take another step forward this week in its attempt to dominate the growing...
[February 19, 2007, 15:16]
Government launches SME tools
News Nigel Griffiths, Minister for Small Business and Enterprise, said the site should simplify common administrative tasks for small organisation and "let them get on with what they do best, making money and growing their businesses".
[March 8, 2005, 11:15]
UK government to improve computer security
News This follows calls from the Prime Minister for more government business and communication to be conducted electronically. The British government is to shore up the defences of its computer network against hackers and virus writers, employing...
[November 19, 1999, 12:34]
