UK E-commerce Czar Expected Today
News Alex Allan, a senior civil servant is widely touted for the role of e-envoy. The event, at St John's Innovation Centre in Cambridge will also see PM Tony Blair unveil a new strategy for UK ecommerce as the Performance and Innovation Unit report on...
[September 13, 1999, 8:00]
Mandelson's 'Digital Envoy' Gets Lukewarm Reception
News Trade and Industry Secretary Peter Mandelson told the House of Commons that a Net czar will lead Britain in what he termed the "new industrial revolution". Typically ambiguous, the statements have left the online community unclear as to what the...
[November 26, 1998, 17:43]
A Year Ago: Mandelson's 'Digital Envoy' Gets Lukewarm Reception
News Trade and Industry Secretary Peter Mandelson told the House of Commons that a Net czar will lead Britain in what he termed the "new industrial revolution". Typically ambiguous, the statements have left the online community unclear as to what the...
[November 26, 1999, 6:03]
News Burst: E-envoy Announced
News The long awaited E-commerce Czar will work closely with new e-minister Patricia Hewitt on promoting UK tech interests here and abroad. Former civil servant Allen, 48, includes launching the Number 10 Web site among his IT credentials and lists the...
[September 13, 1999, 12:05]
Government's E-commerce Strategy Under Attack
News The position of the e-commerce Czar -- announced last November as the person that would promote UK e-commerce -- has yet to be filled, a situation the DTI blamed on the crisis in Kosovo. The all-party select committee report is expected to...
[May 18, 1999, 11:38]
Report: UK Trails US, Europe In E-commerce
News This, Lansman thinks, is largely due to the delays and problems with the e-commerce bill and the lack of the long-promised e-commerce czar. A report commissioned by prime minister Tony Blair is expected to criticise UK business for failing to...
[August 23, 1999, 8:50]
US Report: US To Spur Third-world E-commerce
News The 30-page report, which represents the final project for White House technology czar Ira Magaziner before he resigns later this year, also details the Clinton administration's achievements in technology policy since the 1997 report.
[December 1, 1998, 9:15]
A Year Ago: US To Spur Third-world E-commerce
News The 30-page report, which represents the final project for White House technology czar Ira Magaziner before he resigns later this year, also details the Clinton administration's achievements in technology policy since the 1997 report.
[December 1, 1999, 6:06]
US Joins European Cybercrime Convention
Talkback McCormack, how about working with Cybersecurity Czar Greg Garcia on making sure American citizens are secured too. It's novel that Mr. McCormack of the US State Department is offering up assistance to places like France when we in the US can’t get...
[October 2, 2006, 20:16]
Sun's Software Czar
News Despite his new role as Sun's software czar, Schwartz faithfully sticks to the party line, arguing that the company can reap bigger dividends by combining software and hardware than by subordinating one to the other.
[August 6, 2002, 12:49]
Government Must Force ISPs To Take Security Seriously
News Richard Clarke, ex-US cybersecurity Czar, intimated a similar line when he claimed service providers should be taking more responsibility when it comes to the rise in the number of distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks - which cripple web...
[December 6, 2004, 15:55]
US President Taps Insider For Tech Post
News There had been talk of making Kvamme, who was passed over for secretary of commerce, a sort of technology "czar", with nearly all federal powers related to technology at his disposal. US President Bush tapped venture capitalist Floyd Kvamme on...
[March 29, 2001, 9:51]
