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UK government minister joins pirate raids
News UK culture minister Kim Howells has attended a dawn raid on an address used to distribute pirated games software. In the early hours of Wednesday morning Kim Howells, culture minister for the UK, joined a raid being led by Cardiff Trading Standards...
[December 4, 2002, 16:42]
Government to boost power of digital TV signals
News In a consultative document published on Friday, e-commerce minister Douglas Alexander and Kim Howells, broadcasting minister, made a commitment to improve the reliability and coverage of Digital TV signals in the UK, in preparation for the switch...
[October 15, 2001, 17:49]
Culture secretary unveils 'Channel 4 of the Net'
News Also in Brighton, prime minister Tony Blair announced a Labour commitment to providing one PC per every five secondary schoolchildren by 2004, in the event of the party's re-election. Labour's Chris Smith announced a new government Web site...
[September 28, 2000, 16:12]
Museum gets funding to promote the web
News The museum, based in Bradford, will receive £150k for the project — just part of the £4m that culture minister Margaret Hodge announced on Monday would be spent by 31 English museums. The £4m is provided by Hodge's department, the Department for...
[August 27, 2008, 17:16]
UN attacks tech giants over China co-operation
News Catherine Trautmann, France's former minister of culture and a current Socialist member of the European Parliament, took issue with "market laws that are considered more important than freedom of expression".
[November 1, 2006, 9:42]
Government's digital plans come under fire
News Since culture minister Chris Smith made the analogue switch-off announcement in September 1999, six million TV sets have been sold in the UK but only a fraction -- around 150,000 -- have been digital, according to Prebble.
[April 12, 2001, 15:21]
Government 'must make leap to broadband'
News Singer replied that it typically took six months just to get an appointment with a minister at the department of culture, media and sport -- news that one MP, Michael Fabricant, described as "shocking".
[March 1, 2002, 6:31]
Beyond Bricks offers aid to entrepreneurs
News Beyond Bricks is a £5.5m, three-year project to help entrepreneurs find the assistance they need to turn their ideas into successful, sustainable businesses, said e-commerce minister Douglas Alexander.
[September 27, 2001, 17:34]
Privacy tsar: Data protection should be 'way of life'
News But the prime minister said that any information shared must be protected. Breaking the government's 'culture of secrecy' while protecting the privacy of UK citizens is one of the key challenges facing the new Information Commissioner as he settles...
[January 8, 2003, 9:52]
Lib Dems call for data guardians
News The data-protection minister, currently Michael Wills MP, would have new powers to echo that independent advocacy within the heart of government, according to the Liberal Democrats document. The document states that the lack of regard for the...
[August 21, 2008, 9:17]
Government database security breached
News But transport minister Gillian Merron said there have been "no confirmed security breaches from external sources". DCA minister Vera Baird also confirmed an incident took place in her department in July this year — although it was the first since...
[November 1, 2006, 10:07]
Wanted: New government CIO
News Minister's Delivery Unit, and will advise Tony Blair on public services but will still oversee a large part of work he mapped out to unify government IT. Minister will boost the profile of IT across the public sector.
[January 12, 2006, 14:40]
DWP punishes 20 staff for data-protection breaches
News Stephen Timms, the employment minister, said in a written parliamentary answer on Monday that the department's personnel system has no records of staff being dismissed on the grounds of information disclosure.
[June 4, 2008, 15:38]
Creative Commons comes to Microsoft Office
News The first document to be created with the Office plug-in tool will be a speech about globalism by Gilberto Gil, the Brazilian musician who is now the minister of culture in Brazil. Microsoft and the Creative Commons on Wednesday plan to release a...
[June 21, 2006, 10:00]
Mike O'Brien becomes NHS IT minister
News Mike O'Brien, MP for Warwickshire North, has been appointed as minister of state for health services, where his brief includes Connecting for Health and NHS IT. O'Brien was previously minister of state at the Deparment of Energy and Climate Change.
[June 10, 2009, 9:01]
UK school pupils to get free email for life
News UK NetYear was launched yesterday by Lifelong Learning Minister Kim Howells and is designed to help schools obtain and use modern information and communications technology for teaching and learning. Advertising products such as alcohol and tobacco...
[January 13, 1998, 11:13]
France may sanction P2P downloads
News French Culture Minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, along with much of the government, supports beefing up the nation's copyright laws significantly, instituting criminal penalties and steep fines for pirates.
[December 23, 2005, 8:25]
Government rejects Bletchley rescue petition
Blog The petition, which gained just under 22,000 signatories before it shut on 28 May, asked the prime minister to rescue the historic site because it has funding for just two to three more years of survival.
[August 26, 2009, 12:55]
Timms confirmed as Digital Britain minister
News The prime minister's office has confirmed that Stephen Timms will add work on extending the use of digital technologies to his portfolio. The prime minister's office also said that Home Office minister Meg Hillier, who has responsibility for the...
[August 10, 2009, 12:44]
Cuba to migrate to open source
News Communications minister Ramiro Valdes gave a pro-open source opening keynote, while Richard Stallman, head of the Free Software Foundation, also told the conference that proprietary software is inherently insecure.
[February 19, 2007, 12:00]
