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Fiorina Urges Companies To Combat The Digital Divide
News She said HP's digital divide initiatives have already helped to wire communities such as East Palo Alto (a poor neighborhood in the middle of Silicon Valley). Jackson Sr.s Rainbow/PUSH Coalition to bring business leaders together to tackle the...
[May 1, 2003, 8:38]
Government Digital Divide Strategy In Disarray
News The government's plan to combat the digital divide by giving away 100,000 recycled PCs to the poorest families in Britain has gone awry as it admitted today that it has so far distributed just 6,000 since October.
[May 4, 2001, 13:47]
IBM Goes Retro To Bridge The Supercomputing Divide
News IBM now plans to bridge that divide using a feature of its new Power5 processors. Even as IBM directs attention to the arrival of its Blue Gene/L supercomputer, the company is quietly preparing a new twist on an older technology that will let it...
[October 26, 2004, 11:50]
Gender Divide Amongst E-shoppers
News The survey into user attitudes on the Internet -- conducted by Netpoll -- finds there is a clear gender divide when it comes to online shopping behaviour. Different attitudes set men and women apart when shopping on the Net.according to research...
[July 26, 2000, 14:13]
Offshoring Behind UK Tech-labour Divide
News Offshoring is creating a divide in the UK technology industry by reducing the proportion of mid-level software-development jobs available in favour of higher-level management roles, research has claimed.
[September 26, 2007, 12:19]
Open Source 'split By Digital Divide'
News Few programmers in developing countries get involved in the mainstream development of open source software, leading to a digital divide within open source projects, a researcher from the United Nations University (UNU) claimed on Thursday.
[March 17, 2006, 17:10]
A Year Ago: Government To Tackle 'digital Divide'
News The government Monday published a report that highlights a 'digital divide' in technology skills among UK socio-economic groups These centres will help bridge the digital divide," stated Wills, "While new technology can offer great opportunities...
[January 30, 2001, 6:01]
Broadband Divide Getting Wider
News The digital divide has long been identified as an issue that needs addressing. The government identified the digital divide as a problem several years ago, but one rural broadband activist pointed out that people need a reason to get connected.
[January 19, 2006, 12:40]
Free Set-top Boxes For All To End Digital Divide
News A UK company claims it will bridge the digital divide in its ambitious plan to provide every house in Britain with a free set-top box to access digital television channels and the Internet. Freebox believes its freebie technology will help end the...
[September 27, 2000, 15:31]
Europe's Online Gender Divide Slow To Close
News Nielsen//NetRatings European market analyst Tom Ewing is concerned that this gender divide reinforces the perception that the Web is a very male-dominated place. This evidence that the UK's online gender gap still exists comes at a time when there...
[June 24, 2003, 15:24]
Missing PCs Add To Digital Divide Woes
News The Kensington project was the first of six giveaway projects aimed at preventing a digital divide. Recycled computers given free to a deprived Liverpool community as part of a £10m government initiative have been sold off for a fraction of their...
[May 11, 2001, 16:09]
Bridging The Digital Divide: An Opportunity For Growth For The 21st Century
White Papers Bridging the digital divide is a challenge on which much has been written and to which many events have been devoted, including the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) organized by the United Nations in December 2003, a second phase of...
[October 12, 2004, 3:00]
Britain Gets A New Broadband Divide
Talkback The Broadband divide now has many layers. BT has not given any indication if or when they may upgrade the remaining ~600 local exchanges to ADSL. I am sadly in connected to one of these exchanges - it carries 130 lines and is only 2.3km from a main...
[April 20, 2005, 10:39]
Digital Divide Still Scars UK Internet Sector
News Internet access begins at home only if you're well paid, according to new research that show that years of government and industry initiatives have yet to close Britain's digital divide. Research published on Tuesday by the Greater London Authority...
[November 18, 2003, 16:50]
Broadband Internet Access And The Digital Divide: Federal Assistance Programs
White Papers The "digital divide" is a term that has been used to characterize a gap between "information haves and have-nots," or in other words, between those Americans who use or have access to telecommunications technologies (e.g.telephones, computers, the...
[August 30, 2005, 3:00]
Government Web Site To Bridge Digital Divide
News The UK Government has launched a national jobs and learning Web site to help bridge the "digital divide" between professionals who are IT literate, and the unemployed who have never accessed the Internet before.
[March 8, 2001, 15:58]
New Handheld Aims To Bridge Digital Divide
News Their vision is to create not only a computer, but also an "evolving platform for social change" throughout the world by bridging the digital divide. A non-profit group in India has created a simple, inexpensive, multilingual handheld device aimed...
[May 25, 2001, 16:21]
Kids Key To Closing The Digital Divide
News BT is attempting to use the nation's youth to increase Internet use and close the digital divide. The digital divide is still a major problem for the UK, according to research published earlier this month that found Internet access often only...
[November 26, 2003, 17:05]
Government Fears Digital Divide Is Growing
News The UK already suffers from a consumer digital divide but Tuesday the government highlighted another one -- this time in the realm of business. New figures from the DTI's International Benchmarking Study 2000 reveal an increasing digital divide...
[November 22, 2000, 15:58]
MPs Worried By Broadband Divide
News Broadband divide MPs representing rural and less densely populated areas are very worried, though, that their constituents are going to end up on the wrong side of the broadband divide. MPs have called on the government to do more to address the...
[May 3, 2002, 12:58]
