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Broadband campaigners demand more govt leadership
News If I could sit across a table with him [Timms], I'd tell him that he knows there's lots to do and that we must move on from the government's targets for 2005. Stephen's already made it clear that we need to move beyond the targets for 2005," a DTI...
[April 8, 2004, 16:35]
Dell tackles IT waste in recycling push
News But Saunders added that the UK has a very long way to go before meeting its electronic recycling targets. But WEEE will not come into effect until August 2005 and the first targets for collection, recycling and recovery are in 2008.
[September 27, 2004, 16:30]
Top 10 Richard Granger quotes
News I think we get a bit obsessed with short-term targets. It's a stupid target and I'm sure many people in this room are burdened by stupid targets. We have seen big cuts in the prices for electronic patient records, for servers and for other...
[June 19, 2007, 11:16]
E-government plans are doomed to failure
News Earlier in the year, left-wing thinktank Demos condemned the government's obsession with targets and called on it to make a more radical shift in the way information was used and disseminated in the electronic age.
[June 5, 2001, 10:19]
Labour u-turns on broadband promises
News The fact that broadband services are not on the list of Labour's comprehensive election pledges is in stark contrast with previous ambitious targets for the technology. Until prices fall it is unlikely to become integral to most people's lives and...
[May 18, 2001, 13:14]
E-government targets branded 'inadequate'
News Targets for getting all government services online by 2005 may not be going far enough, critics have said at the government's e-Summit. Dr Ian Kearns, head of the digital society programme at the Institute for Public Policy Research, had earlier...
[November 19, 2002, 15:45]
Local authorities failing on e-accessibility
News Local authorities may not meet the government's "priority" targets for online services, according to an annual survey issued by the Society of IT Management (Socitm). According to the ODPM, the 2005 priority targets aim to "enhance the quality and...
[March 2, 2005, 13:10]
Local e-services praised
News Councils are experiencing some uncertainty and it doesn't help when they are trying to use the projects to meet the targets. The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) has praised councils for "tremendous progress" towards this year's e...
[March 7, 2005, 11:15]
The Future of PHS in China
White Papers However, according CHINA NETCOM and CHINA TELECOM, 3G and PHS service can coexist if 3G service targets high-end consumers and PHS service targets low-end users. This white paper introduces the main issues and latest developments related to PHS...
[September 20, 2007, 10:33]
Lack of trust hampers UK e-government target
News We thought by now there would be a market for trust services," said Dr Stephen Marsh, director of security policy at the Office of the e-Envoy, "but it is not happening at the speed we need for our 2005 targets.
[May 16, 2002, 10:54]
UK government down the e-league
News It reports that with only a year to go before the 2005 e-government targets, "only a few UK Government websites offer full transactional capabilities". Also, despite modifying the e-government targets in an attempt to address low levels of take up...
[May 6, 2004, 9:40]
Councils approach deadline for claiming e-govt funds
News The letter, sent at the beginning of June, also outlines plans for the next round of IEG statements leading up to the 2005 e-government targets. The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister has written to councils about plans for the next round of e...
[June 7, 2004, 11:35]
IT budgets to foot recycling bill
News But WEEE will not come into affect until August 2005 and the first targets for collection, recycling and recovery are in 2008. More than one-third of senior IT management are completely clueless about impending legislation that could result in user...
[August 5, 2004, 14:15]
Web browser 'windows of exposure' shrink
News The average time between the release of malicious code that targets Web browsers and patches, dubbed the "window of exposure", was smaller for most vendors during the first half of 2006 compared with the last half of 2005, Symantec reported on...
[September 25, 2006, 18:00]
UK gets silver medal for e-commerce
News Accordingly, the government's 2005 targets now include take-up as well as delivery, Patricia Hewitt, secretary of state for trade and industry, said in a later speech. In 1998, the prime minister, Tony Blair, promised that the UK would be the best...
[November 20, 2002, 9:28]
Siebel and BT target e-government services
News BT said the solutions will address the needs of all local authorities, "from the smallest district council to the largest metropolitan authority, enabling them to improve citizen services, provide universal access and more effectively meet the...
[November 14, 2002, 16:48]
Dell launches green offensive in Emerald Isle
News But WEEE will not come into affect until August 2005 and the first targets for collection, recycling and recovery are in 2008. Dell is going on a green-tinted offensive in Europe before the widespread adoption of stringent rules on hardware...
[September 8, 2004, 15:20]
Government e-commerce figures 'massaged'
News According to government targets contained with the UK Online initiative, all businesses should be trading online by 2005. A report by the Office of National Statistics has found that £56.6bn worth of goods and services was sold over the Internet in...
[September 13, 2001, 8:30]
Government in cloud cuckoo land over broadband
News The government is living in "cloud cuckoo land" if it thinks it can achieve its broadband targets, says an analyst with research firm Jupiter MMXI on Tuesday. They are ridiculous targets and shows they are ignorant -- over-influenced by the media...
[April 10, 2001, 13:17]
Is the WEEE directive in trouble?
Blog Comment With 60 million people in the UK, our quota would exceed the volumes recovered in the whole of mainland Europe during 2005 (Out of interest, don't we get fined by the EU for not meeting our targets? Andrew,
[September 12, 2008, 12:54]
