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Douglas Alexander takes on e-minister role

As previously reported on ZDNet, Douglas Alexander, MP for Paisley South, has been named as minister for e... Read more

12 June, 2001 by Graeme Wearden

Minister calls for return to e-basics

...to the values and beliefs of the people who created the Internet. Douglas Alexander, the minister of state responsible for e-transformation at the Cabinet... Read more

19 November, 2002 by Graeme Wearden

Stephen Timms is new e-commerce minister

Douglas Alexander, who was appointed as e-commerce minister last year, was moved... Read more

29 May, 2002 by Graeme Wearden

MPs worried by broadband divide

...will not be able to receive it." In response, e-commerce minister Douglas Alexander said that some parts of the Cotswolds already had access to... Read more

3 May, 2002 by Graeme Wearden

UK visas relaxed for Indian IT workers

The UK's e-commerce minister Douglas Alexander has announced that Britain is relaxing visa restrictions for Indian IT... Read more

1 November, 2001 by Graeme Wearden

Wider role for e-commerce minister

Douglas Alexander is likely to start his new role as the minister for... Read more

19 June, 2001 by Graeme Wearden

News Schmooze: Resurrected Daleks hail new e-minister

...put Britain at the centre of the Internet, and this saviour is... Douglas Alexander, MP for Paisley South. Besides the obvious confusion factor of appointing... Read more

15 June, 2001 by ZDNet UK

Lib Dems back Labour's choice of e-minister

Despite lacking a technology background, Douglas Alexander could prove to be a successful e-minister thanks to his... Read more

13 June, 2001 by Graeme Wearden

New e-minister named

Douglas Alexander, the MP for Paisley South, has been named as minister for... Read more

12 June, 2001 by Graeme Wearden

Employee home-PC scheme gets revamp

...a consultation on the government's proposals on Tuesday, Cabinet Office minister Douglas Alexander said that HCI schemes benefit businesses, employees and the wider community... Read more

7 October, 2003 by Graeme Wearden

New e-commerce minister is broadband believer

...comes to issues such as high-speed Internet services. Unlike his predecessor Douglas Alexander, whom few in the technology sector had heard of when he... Read more

30 May, 2002 by Graeme Wearden

Broadband threatened by road digging charges

...attempt to fight the lane rental plans. According to e-commerce minister Douglas Alexander, the Department of Trade and Industry -- the government department that is... Read more

14 May, 2002 by Graeme Wearden

Oftel confirms 500,000 broadband mark

...Yorkshire, has 11,000 broadband customers. In a statement, e-commerce minister Douglas Alexander said that he welcomed that fact that broadband take-up was... Read more

2 May, 2002 by Graeme Wearden

More tests for school mobile masts

...a recent study found no evidence that emission limits were being broken. Douglas Alexander, the e-commerce minister, announced on Monday that electromagnetic emissions from... Read more

4 March, 2002 by Graeme Wearden

ISPs reveal broadband price cut details

...their customers. BT's move also won praise from e-commerce minister Douglas Alexander, and Oftel has indicated it is unlikely to block the cuts... Read more

26 February, 2002 by Graeme Wearden

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