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CBI predicts second Internet boom
News A survey of 1,000 leading companies in the UK by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and consultancy firm KPMG indicates that Internet business will see renewed growth over the next couple years, bringing fresh optimism amid the ongoing...
[February 27, 2001, 7:50]
CBI demands action on cybercrime
News Government officials were unable to give an immediate response to the CBI's recommendations, but are expected to comment later today. In a report released on Wednesday, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) warned that the growth of e...
[August 29, 2001, 12:20]
CBI calls for cybercrime laws to be updated
News The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has added its voice to the growing clamour calling for the UK's Computer Misuse Act to be updated. Jeremy Beale, head of e-business policy at the CBI, told the Broadband Britain Summit 2005 in London on...
[November 22, 2005, 13:00]
Foot-dragging firms slow down e-Britain
News The UK's business sector is still failing to take full advantage of the Internet, according to research published this week by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI). The CBI's latest regional survey of UK economic trends found that one in...
[November 28, 2003, 11:55]
Tech-savvy young lack basic literacy skills
News The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and Pertemps Employment Trends Survey found 92 percent of employers are happy with the IT skills of GCSE students. The CBI puts this down to the familiarity of "generation text" with web and mobile-based...
[August 20, 2007, 16:04]
Microsoft security chief attacks government
News Speaking at the launch of a CBI report into online security for small and medium-sized businesses, Gibson said that while creating documents was all well and good, very few companies had any real notion of who they should report an electronic...
[February 1, 2006, 17:30]
Employers say ID-card plans 'too vague'
News Responding to the Home Office's consultation on the ID plans, the CBI said that if the scheme is to be effective, businesses and individuals must have confidence in the accuracy of information on the ID register.
[August 13, 2004, 14:35]
UK education system failing tech industry
News The UK education system is failing to turn out the kind of school leavers that the technology industry requires to stay competitive with China, India and Eastern Europe, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has warned.
[August 14, 2006, 14:35]
Google exec plays Shakira mash-up to business leaders
News Speaking at the CBI conference in London the search giant's Nikesh Arora used a music video-mash-up of Colombian singer Shakira to illustrate the importance of new content types to traditional media business models.
[November 27, 2006, 16:41]
Europe defends online broadcasting plans
News Reding rejected the CBI's claims that the TVWF Directive revisions were an attempt to "shoehorn digital content providers into rules designed for traditional broadcasters, undermining high-value, high-tech economic growth when it should be...
[June 15, 2006, 14:45]
Your worst security threat: Employees?
News In the CBI Cybercrime Survey 2001, 44 percent of respondents had suffered virus attacks and 16 percent had suffered a hacking attack. In the CBI Cybercrime Survey 2001, only 25 percent of organisations identified employees or former employees as...
[April 23, 2002, 11:49]
Contractors won't be subject to FoI
Blog The CBI was particularly vehement when it came to arguing against extending the FoI Act to private-sector government contractors, saying that the costs of FoI requests would have to be passed onto the taxpayer:
[July 20, 2009, 16:40]
$5bn cut from global financial-services IT spend
News Celent's gloomy forecast for global FS IT spending is echoed in the CBI's forecast for the UK FS sector. A research report by the CBI and PricewaterhouseCoopers, measuring the three months to early December, reported profits had fallen among 55...
[January 13, 2009, 8:02]
E-crime police see UK firms pledging techies' time
News Police have already been in negotiations with industry groups including business association the CBI, payments industry association Apacs and UK fraud prevention service Cifas about businesses' vital role in bolstering the 40-strong PCeU.
[January 20, 2009, 8:04]
Chancellor promises emerging-tech investment
News The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) told ZDNet UK on Wednesday that the Strategic Investment Fund was likely to be used more for venture-capital purposes than research, as the money had been allocated to the Department for Business...
[April 22, 2009, 17:22]
Employers say ID-card plans 'too vague'
Talkback I really don't think that anybody in the Home Office really thought about the scheme, and I agree with the CBI on this topic. Also.Who else will have access to the information in the database?
[August 13, 2004, 20:17]
'Project Endurance' tries to tackle online crime
News Project Endurance will be launched at the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) Conference in Birmingham by Mike O'Brien MP, minister of state for energy and e-Commerce, and Digby Jones, director general of the CBI.
[November 8, 2004, 11:48]
Treasury denies new tax on PCs
News Influential employers' organisation the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) is unhappy the HCI has been scrapped. This unexpected policy change flies in the face of the government's pledge to reduce red tape, cut businesses' tax compliance...
[May 3, 2006, 11:05]
Banks tighten their IT-spending belts
News According to a report from the CBI in conjunction with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), almost half (47 percent) the 79 organisations questioned in February and March said volumes had decreased. CBI chief economics adviser, Ian McCafferty, said in a...
[April 1, 2008, 8:25]
