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UK keeps firm line on 3G licences
News The British government has insisted that UK 3G licence conditions will not be relaxed, despite increasing concern that European mobile operators could be crushed by their attempts to launch third-generation mobile services.
[August 20, 2002, 15:01]
Traffic Giant Gold Edition 1.3 patch (UK)
Downloads This is the 1.3 UK patch for Traffic Giant.
[October 23, 2003, 15:00]
UK PC market has best growth in Europe
News The UK PC market showed the biggest growth in Western Europe in the second quarter, according to analysts at Gartner, with shipments totalling 2.8 million units. The PC market in the UK performed strongly this quarter with both the consumer and...
[July 31, 2008, 15:48]
UK LinuxWorld show postponed until spring
News The UK's LinuxWorld conference, due to happen in October at London's Olympia conference centre, has been postponed till spring 2008. Linux users in the UK are sceptical about the reason: "I'd be surprised if there's a single person who'll be at...
[August 31, 2007, 15:09]
UK may launch high-tech stock market
News A spin-off UK stock market dedicated to high-tech firms is to be launched in the next few weeks, according to reports. The new market will not have the high profile of the US Nasdaq but is intended to raise the profile of UK technology stock.
[August 24, 1999, 9:50]
UK still languishing down DSL league
Talkback One black mark against UK ADSL that is often overlooked is the speed on offer. Of course, there are many structural reasons why the UK cannot hope to match this, but it's food for thought. For further reading on Japanese ADSL, see my story here...
[September 11, 2003, 7:24]
UK firms falling into data protection pitfalls
News Nearly half of UK companies could be breaching the Data Protection Act (DPA) through the misuse of customer data, according to research published on Monday. The study involved 100 UK IT directors, and found that 44 percent were using genuine...
[July 3, 2006, 12:30]
UK slipping down the grid, says Oracle
News Whatever its enthusiastic proponents such as Oracle may wish for, the adoption of grid technology is slowing, not least in the UK. But it was the UK which was showing a major slowdown. The adoption of grid technology in the UK was rated at 3.0 on...
[June 22, 2006, 16:30]
UK WiMax company buys Wi-Fi roaming firm
News WiMax operator Freedom4 has bought a UK Wi-Fi roaming services provider called Bozii. Bozii's service — soon to be renamed Freedom4 Wi-Fi — will give Freedom4's customers access to 40,000 hotspots in the UK and internationally, the companies said...
[May 20, 2008, 17:03]
UK Financial Terms Dictionary Lexicon
Downloads This free glossary contains over 700 UK Financial Terms with their descriptions in English.
[September 19, 2008, 10:29]
UK Online targets small-business market
News UK Online, the first ISP in the country to offer next-generation broadband speeds nationally, is boosting its focus on the small-business market. In 2005, UK Online launched an ADSL2+ broadband service which provides downstream speeds of up to 22Mbps.
[May 11, 2007, 18:13]
UK Web traffic drops as England triumph
News UK Internet traffic plunged by 6 percent last Friday afternoon as football-loving Internet users downed keyboards and reached for the remote control, and in many cases the bottle opener as well. The London Internet Exchange (LINX), which handles...
[June 10, 2002, 13:19]
UK registry grants privacy protection
News Nominet, the registry handling .uk domain names, has stepped back from a plan that would have published the physical addresses, phone numbers and fax numbers of thousands of private individuals. The registry had planned to add contact information...
[August 27, 2002, 15:41]
UK citizens confused by security terminology
News Many people in the UK don't understand terms commonly used for Internet scams and hacking attacks, a study suggests. A survey conducted by Populus and entitled "Do you speak geek? revealed that words, such as phishing, rogue dialler, Trojan and...
[April 4, 2005, 12:55]
UK rising in the spam charts
News The proportion of spam coming from the UK has increased, anti-malware company Sophos said on Tuesday. From April to September 2005 the UK was responsible for 1.55 percent of global spam relayed over the Web, up from 1.07 percent in the same period...
[October 14, 2005, 14:00]
UK Numbers
Downloads A UK numbering plan look-up application that enables the user to enter any UK PSTN telephone number and calculate the geographic location of the number - if indeed it is a geographically fixed number.
[August 20, 2008, 8:00]
UK Linux guru backs GPL 3
News Alan Cox, a leading UK Linux developer, has expressed his support for the next version of the GPL. Cox told ZDNet UK that he thinks many of the changes in GPL 3 are sound: "The majority of it looks very sensible, such as letting copyright...
[January 31, 2006, 12:10]
UK Web sites face new accessibility rules
News A Code of Practice addressing discrimination against people with disabilities in the UK has removed some of the uncertainty surrounding Web site accessibility, but it does not go far enough, say lawyers, and the issue is now likely to be settled...
[February 27, 2002, 17:22]
UK's first e-envoy appointed
News The UK's first e-envoy, former civil servant and High Commissioner to Australia Alex Allen was appointed Monday by the Prime Minister Tony Blair. His five main areas of responsibility are: galvanising British firms to take up the challenges of e...
[September 13, 1999, 15:32]
UK govt investigates Linux savings
Talkback > Intellect, a trade group partly backed by Microsoft, issued a report saying that Linux could bring anarchy to UK government agencies. Talk about FUD! Wow. The end of the world as we know it! There will be war in the streets.
[October 9, 2003, 11:48]
