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Indymedia server seizure 'may have breached RIPA'
News Concerned by the execution of a foreign court order on UK soil, Liberal Democrat IT spokesman Richard Allan MP tabled a parliamentary question asking what the Home Office's involvement was. The government has denied any UK law enforcement...
[October 22, 2004, 9:57]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Following in Kaufman's sartorial assault, Chris Bryant MP had a stripey tie of yellow, red and blue -- in itself not too far into the ultraviolet end of the spectrum of bad taste, but when combined with his pink shirt the result was "strangely...
[May 3, 2002, 17:43]
Government IT stuck in post-election limbo
News Hewitt is widely recognised as having a good grasp of the IT sector, serving previously as e-commerce minister and working for Andersen Consulting before becoming an MP. Whitehall is now busy adjusting itself to the post-election reshuffle, which...
[May 9, 2005, 16:50]
'Market conditions' blamed for demise of broadband scheme
News In answer to questions from Conservative MP Michael Fabricant this week, the current e-commerce minister Mike O'Brien said: "In the light of the significantly changed market conditions for broadband since the set-up of the broadband aggregation...
[December 2, 2004, 14:20]
Watchdog warns Net policing will go unchecked
News Alan Beith MP, a member of ISC, said in a Commons RIP debate this week that the tribunal was "quite incapable of carrying out its job" with its tiny support staff. The government has failed to prevent human rights abuses occurring under new high...
[April 3, 2001, 15:24]
NAO report to critise NHS plans
News Sir John's remark came in an exchange with Conservative MP Richard Bacon, who asked if hospital trusts were going to have to cover the costs of local implementation of the NPfIT even where these systems were not wanted.
[March 23, 2006, 12:50]
E-commerce needs a new hero
Leader We miss him already, as his replacement -- Mike O'Brien MP -- has made little impact thus far. Stephen Timms, former e-commerce Minister and closet tech geek, left his post in the DTI five months ago, but it was still heartening to see him...
[February 28, 2005, 11:55]
Government admits to 200 more stolen laptops
News The figures were revealed in written parliamentary answers to questions by Brent East Liberal Democrat MP Sarah Teather who queried laptop, mobile phone and PDA losses across government departments. The government has admitted almost 200 laptops...
[February 20, 2008, 7:13]
Broadband threatened by road digging charges
News Richard Allan MP, who represents Sheffield Hallam, believes that telecoms companies are being unfairly blamed for traffic disruption. Concern is growing that the rollout and take-up of broadband services by UK companies could be damaged if telecoms...
[May 14, 2002, 9:54]
Logitech Webcams
Blog If you look at the Supported QuickCam 11.0 Devices table, you can see a lot of examples of this - just look for multiple lines with the same name and different PIDs (Communicate STX, Orbit MP, Fusion, Pro 5000.
[August 25, 2008, 10:03]
New e-minister lacks technology clout
News However, the 33 year old MP appears to have expressed no views on, or interest in, technology issues -- beyond recognising the large number of high-tech jobs in Scotland. The resounding reaction from industry today to the appointment of e-minister...
[June 12, 2001, 15:56]
ECTS 97 finds games industry in buoyant mood
News This afternoon the show will be visited by Barbara Roche MP, the parliamentary under-secretary of state for small firms, trade and industry. As the European Computer Trade Show (ECTS) kicks off in its usual noisy fashion the UK games industry has...
[September 8, 1997, 9:14]
Internet 'heroes and villains' vie for ISPA awards
News Also nominated as heroes are Peter Robbins, chief executive of the Internet Watch Foundation, and Derek Wyatt MP, who has chaired the All Party Parliamentary Internet Group since 1997. The Internet Service Providers' Association has published the...
[January 15, 2008, 15:54]
MPs attack 'flimsy' gov't sums on shared services
News Without that knowledge, there can be no driving out waste and freeing up money to improve services to citizens," said Edward Leigh MP, chair of PAC. MPs have said that the government's belief it could save £1.4bn a year through shared corporate...
[May 8, 2008, 11:32]
Government database security breached
News She said in response to a parliamentary question from Liberal Democrat MP Jo Swinson: "The information was compromised when IT equipment was stolen from departmental accommodation. Computer security breaches at a number of central government...
[November 1, 2006, 10:07]
MPs extend deadline for public DRM consultation
News Derek Wyatt, the chairman of APIG and the Labour MP for Sittingbourne and Sheppey told ZDNet UK on Wednesday that over 60 different organisations have already submitted evidence to the inquiry. An inquiry by the All Party Parliamentary Internet...
[January 11, 2006, 13:50]
Intel raises cache on Pentium 4
News Intel was able to beef up the caches quickly because the new Pentium 4 is actually the same basic chip as the Xeon MP with 2MB of level-three cache, which is a chip for multiprocessor servers that has been on the market for months.
[September 17, 2003, 8:40]
A Year Ago: Europe's farmers begin to embrace Internet
News We have to get our cost base down to compete, and this is one way we can do it," British Euro-MP and farmer Neil Parish told Reuters ahead of presenting the report to the European assembly. It's often said that some modern farmers are more at home...
[June 6, 2001, 6:28]
Linux Kernel maintainer 'barred' from patents meeting
News In a Talkback to ZDNet UK's earlier story highlighting the issue, Cox wrote: "I too was mysteriously overlooked despite having written to my MP and received an answer. Alan Cox, sometime maintainer of the Linux kernel and well-known open-source...
[December 8, 2004, 15:25]
Oftel backtracks on unbundling timetable
News Labour MP and head of the all-party Internet group Derek Wyatt is outraged. Local loop unbundling -- in which BT is forced to open its exchanges to other operators -- is widely seen as key to introducing real competition into the UK Internet access...
[March 13, 2000, 16:44]
