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E-commerce minister 'neglecting IT for energy'
News Timms recently announced plans for nine regional aggregation bodies to pool public sector broadband demand in areas that operators currently deem economically unviable, but the idea has had a lukewarm reception.
[October 28, 2003, 16:20]
Say hello to the UK's 'open source dating agency'
News We have got £4.5m funding from Advantage West Midlands, the Regional Development Agency for the West Midlands area. The UK government is widely perceived as lagging behind other European governments in the deployment of Linux and open source software.
[December 29, 2004, 11:40]
Hackers become terrorists under new law
News Evidence suggests that this type of activism is growing in popularity among other regional militant groups. Computer hackers could be classed as terrorists under a UK law that came into force today. The Terrorism Act 2000 is designed to prevent...
[February 19, 2001, 15:35]
What's holding back Wi-Fi?
News Anthony Fulgoni, Proxim's UK & Ireland regional sales manager is ebullient, saying "Wi-Fi is still growing apace. Wi-Fi was on a roll. The IEEE with its 802.11b standard managed to leap ahead of the likes of HyperLAN and Bluetooth to establish...
[April 1, 2004, 16:25]
Echelon: World under watch, an introduction
News To intercept Pacific regional communications, NSA built a second station at Yakima, near Seattle in the north-west of the US. Echelon intercepts and processes international communications via passing communications satellites.
[June 29, 2000, 10:40]
Lycos sports 'for sale' sign
News A year prior to that, Lycos had laid off 147 employees, 22 percent of the company, to refocus the company on a "global," rather than regional, scale. Spanish Internet company Terra Lycos has retained investment bank Lehman Brothers to explore a...
[April 28, 2004, 9:00]
Qualcomm 3G phone ban to take effect
News Other operators, such as regional player Alltel, have also said they don't expect the ban to impact their business. President Bush's administration said on Monday that it would not veto a decision handed down in June by the International Trade...
[August 7, 2007, 10:52]
Morpheus shutdown puts rival in the spotlight
News Hemming is a former Virgin Interactive regional division head and Sega executive. The surprise shutdown of the popular Morpheus file-trading software last week has thrown a spotlight on a little-known Australian company whose service now carries...
[March 6, 2002, 9:31]
Supercomputing on tour
News During its Australian tour, the demonstration system has been flat-out running tasks from local scientists involved with regional HPC groups including Victorian PAC and Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing, at whose conference the system...
[September 26, 2005, 10:45]
Microsoft confronts Linux threat down under
News The New South Wales Department of Public Works and Services (DPWS) in Australia has become a key battleground on which Microsoft is campaigning to defend its domination of the desktop from Sun Microsystem's StarOffice.
[November 29, 2002, 8:30]
Welsh schools adopt open source email
News A Welsh county council has brokered a deal to provide open source email to up to 40,000 pupils and teachers. Carmarthenshire County Council, which provides Internet and email facilities to 15 secondary schools and 125 primary schools, announced the...
[September 4, 2006, 14:35]
BT to revitalise rural broadband trials
News BT Wholesale is trialling a new scheme that could see broadband rolled out to rural areas with as few as 16 high-speed Internet subscribers, the company announced on Wednesday. The move offers a ray of hope to rural users who have previously been...
[August 14, 2002, 16:23]
Police chief criticises ID cards scheme
News One of the country's top police officers has criticised the government's identity cards scheme, saying it will become a prime target for hackers. Colin Langham-Fitt, acting chief constable of Suffolk Constabulary, slammed the proposed National...
[May 15, 2007, 18:01]
AMD sees slow uptake for chip consortium
News "Producing the silicon isn't the difficult bit," said Richard Baker, regional marketing manager for AMD's PC products division. If the chip isn't compatible with existing [PC systems], it has to be out for a long time to be a competitor and get...
[December 19, 1996, 15:00]
Intel updates Itanium line with 'Kittson'
News William Wu, regional marketing manager for server platforms at Intel Asia-Pacific, said the Kittson will follow the release of Poulson. Intel has updated its Itanium roadmap to include a new chip dubbed "Kittson".
[June 15, 2007, 14:49]
Symantec hacked - UK boss says no war with hackers
News Aled Miles, Regional Director for Symantec in the UK and Ireland, admits the hack (hackers prefer to use the term 'crack') is damaging but does not believe it was a revenge attack. Symantec recently criticised one such group, Cult of the Dead Cow...
[August 2, 1999, 16:52]
Lexmark: Printers pose security threat
News Minh Tran, regional product manager for Lexmark Asia-Pacific, declined to cite any known occurrences of security breaches via the use of printers, but said companies need to make sure their printing devices — which are part of their network — are...
[August 13, 2007, 13:08]
Intel shuts down pilot Web Store
News Josie Taylor, regional corporate communications manager for Intel Asia Pacific, said that store based at the Sunway Pyramid shopping centre, near Kuala Lumpur, was shut down 1 December. Chip giant Intel has quietly shut down its first-ever Web...
[January 15, 2001, 10:38]
AMD will sample K6 in December
News Richard Baker, regional marketing manager for PC products, also took aim at Cyrix which has said it will develop its own MMX clone. The Californian chip maker said the part is expected to match or outperform Intel's much-hyped 'Klamath' MMX-enabled...
[September 30, 1996, 15:15]
Emerging markets want feature-packed phones
News Chia Yong Choon, regional marketing director (Asia-Pacific and Korea) at NXP Semiconductors, said at an NXP briefing on Friday that with mobile markets in Europe and the US growing saturated, the next great opportunity lies in emerging nations...
[June 9, 2008, 8:08]
