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Red tape blamed for impeding tech progress
News Ahead of a new strategy for ICT research and innovation — to be unveiled next year — the Commission has launched a public consultation on high-tech research and is calling for contributions from industry, ICT experts, policy-makers and the wider...
[September 8, 2008, 12:44]
Budget to promote e-business
News Chancellor Gordon Brown is expected to announce measures to boost British business in general and to encourage high-tech startups in particular in his annual budget, to be unveiled Tuesday at 3.30, Share options have become a popular way for small...
[March 21, 2000, 13:41]
Market mayhem: Tech stocks on a rollercoaster
News High-tech stocks not out of the woods -- Tech stocks in UK and the rest of Europe are recovering, but don't breathe easy yet, say analysts. UK tech stocks take a hammering -- Microsoft ruling hits key high-tech shares in UK following biggest-ever...
[April 7, 2000, 14:28]
650 UK jobs go in Alcatel cutbacks
News There was more bad news for the UK's tech industry on Thursday with the news that New York-based Corning was planning to close a factory in North Wales. Like other equipment providers in the telecommunications industry, Alcatel has suffered from a...
[October 4, 2001, 16:38]
London voted e-business capital of Europe
News And despite the announcement of 42,000 high-tech job cuts so far in Britain this month, the study also finds 42 percent of UK e-commerce entrepreneurs expecting to recruit new staff over the same period.
[April 26, 2001, 7:08]
US defence department reaches Wi-Fi pact
News The ailing communications industry has been looking for a silver lining in the slumping tech sector, and many companies have latched onto Wi-Fi in hopes of rejuvenating consumer interest. Tech companies and the US Department of Defense have reached...
[February 3, 2003, 8:57]
Linuxcare CEO leaves, IPO delayed
News The move comes amid declining fortunes for high-tech stocks, including Linux-related companies. Tech stocks in general plummeted last week in the US and the UK after the Department of Justice announced a "guilty" verdict in Microsoft's anti-trust...
[April 10, 2000, 11:41]
IBM rings up Linux sales
News IBM has made some progress in its effort to spread the Linux operating system far and wide, selling thousands of high-tech cash registers to two sizeable customers. Linux, a clone of the Unix operating system, has been spreading across the...
[September 25, 2002, 13:10]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Regular viewers of the London high-tech online media circus will know that The Inquirer was set up by Mike Magee, a refusenik among the original Reg founding fathers. It's highly entertaining stuff, or would be if it wasn't for the fact that these...
[February 8, 2002, 15:58]
Internet share dealing at an all-time high
News Brian Mairs, head of information at the APCIMS, said this figure is more than double the number of online traders during the tech stock boom. These are very encouraging figures for the entire industry," said Mairs, who said confidence and optimism...
[August 11, 2003, 13:40]
Salesforce aims for $85m from IPO
News Other high-tech companies with pending IPOs include anti-spam software maker Brightmail and comparison shopping engine Shopping.com. Salesforce's IPO is also seen as a test of a new business model that could shake up the software industry.
[April 21, 2004, 8:35]
Government programme to get women back to IT
News Women who have left the high-tech sector are being encouraged to come back to their former professions by a government-backed scheme. The Promoting SET for Women Unit will provide the funding, supported by the Department of Trade and Industry's...
[September 16, 2002, 14:04]
Opera releases IPO details
News The company hopes to raise more than £60m, making it the biggest tech offering on the LSE since financial software maker Marlborough Stirling floated in April 2001. The performance of the offering is likely to be watched carefully by the industry...
[February 26, 2004, 10:00]
Government to reassess tech strategy
News To succeed in this hi-tech, low-carbon economy of the future, to drive growth and to secure more high-value jobs in the UK, we need to act," said Lord Mandelson. The Department for Business, Enterprise, and Regulatory Reform (Berr) already provides...
[April 20, 2009, 15:27]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Roadmaps are the lifeblood of high-tech marketing. Discipline, that's what this industry needs, and let the only roadmaps be those showing the invincible advance of the forces of foot, company car and heavy delivery vehicles on the stronghold of...
[October 17, 2003, 16:25]
Too many flavours of Java, say those caught in the middle
News The move was seen as a break from the larger group of 37 high-tech companies that have been working with a government group, the the National Institute of Standards and Technology, to develop a single set of Java requirements.
[November 9, 1998, 9:11]
IR35 could rob Britain of the next Microsoft
News As the battle over IR35 entered its second day at the High Court on Wednesday, some of the IT contractors who are affected by the tax claimed it will cause long-term damage to Britain's high-tech sector unless it is overturned.
[March 15, 2001, 6:24]
Andreessen's Loudcloud in IPO high-wire act
News But a little more than a year since its launch, Loudcloud has been forced from its lofty perch by the sobering realities of today's high-tech slowdown. Based at the heart of Silicon Valley in Sunnyvale, California, Loudcloud tapped into an industry...
[January 31, 2001, 10:25]
Powerline broadband gets financial boost
News The involvement of big tech names in helping develop broadband over power line technology could be a signal that it is finally coming of age. In addition, the group developed a new Implementers' Forum Board of Directors to get more industry...
[August 25, 2005, 16:20]
US furor rises over PC wiretap plan
News A US Department of Justice proposal to make it easier for police to break into homes and access computers is drawing a furious reaction from civil libertarians and high-tech industry trade groups. Also condemning the plan were the Computer and...
[August 23, 1999, 9:07]
