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Q&A: E-commerce minister on broadband rollout
News Stephen Timms, MP for East Ham, was appointed e-commerce minister last month. My job is to live up to the targets that we have set, such as making the UK the best place for e-commerce by the end of 2002, and my sense is that we're actually well...
[June 24, 2002, 14:01]
E-commerce minister upbeat on 3G's chances
News A growing public appetite for innovative mobile services and fast connectivity on the move is set to drive the take-up of third-generation (3G) phones, e-commerce minister Stephen Timms argued on Thursday.
[December 4, 2003, 14:00]
E-commerce minister 'neglecting IT for energy'
News Stephen Timms, government minister for energy, e-commerce and postal services, is so overburdened with responsibilities that he is being forced to put key IT issues such as broadband availability and electronic business on the back burner...
[October 28, 2003, 16:20]
E-commerce fraud takes a toll on sales
News E-commerce is transforming business around the globe. Get the latest headlines at ZDNet UK's E-commerce News Section. Merchants lose a higher percentage of sales to fraud online than offline, according to a new report from GartnerG2.
[March 4, 2002, 15:39]
E-commerce minister chases digital dragon
News The e-commerce minister, Stephen Timms, has embarked on a visit to the Far East to try and persuade Chinese high-tech companies to set up operations in the UK. Our strength in areas such as electronic design, digital content, mobile communications...
[July 9, 2002, 11:35]
E-commerce sites open to legal attack
News The OFT says lack of awareness of consumer standards does e-commerce no favours in the public eye. Find out how the Internet is revolutionising the economy at the E-commerce Special. Many UK consumer Web sites are leaving themselves open to legal...
[March 14, 2001, 16:11]
E-commerce remains Brown's budgetary blind spot
Leader One of the best ways of making money these days is e-commerce. This year as every year, he's singularly failed to put legislation in place to put the UK on the map of places that are truly friendly to e-commerce.
[March 22, 2006, 15:05]
News Burst: E-Commerce for the masses
News Datamonitor's research reckons the e-commerce software market will be worth £173.78m by 2003 - as long as the "security" risks are managed in the eye of the consumer. Full story to follow
[August 4, 1998, 15:01]
E-commerce to count in inflation statistics
News Professor of economics at the London School of Economics Danny Quah thinks the plan illustrates that the government believes e-commerce could have a major impact on the future economy. It is a move in the right direction and shows the government is...
[October 12, 1999, 14:35]
E-commerce: the best is yet to come
News Much work and much opportunity lie ahead for e-commerce companies, executives from Yahoo, VeriSign and CNET Networks (which owns ZDNet UK) said during a panel discussion in Palo Alto, California, on Friday to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of...
[October 18, 2004, 9:30]
E-commerce analysts remake themselves
News Six months ago, Greg Konezny was an e-commerce analyst. As the downturn has decimated the ranks of e-commerce companies and sent stock prices of others plunging, at least one firm, CE Unterberg Towbin, has abandoned e-commerce coverage altogether.
[February 20, 2001, 14:59]
E-commerce bill grows up to be an Act
News The e-commerce bill finished its long run through parliament Thursday but without the hoped-for digital signature from the Queen. E-commerce minister Patricia Hewitt explains why the Act is so important.
[May 26, 2000, 8:29]
E-Commerce Focus: Don't do DIY - Datamonitor
News In its report, e-commerce software, Datamonitor suggests the UK will continue to appease its ravenous appetite for Internet connectivity and concedes that for many larger organisations setting up an e-commerce system is a relatively small expense...
[July 8, 1998, 10:16]
Report: E-commerce to hit £1.67tr by 2004
News Business-to-business e-commerce is set to soar to staggering levels in the next few years due to the emergence of new kinds of online marketplaces, according to a new report by Forrester Research. Forrester has more than doubled its previous...
[February 10, 2000, 13:24]
E-commerce spending hits new high
News The figures are a rare ray of light on the e-commerce scene, which is mired in a continuing financial slump. E-commerce activity is really starting to pick up steam," stated ActivMedia Research's vice president of information services, Chris Anne...
[January 4, 2001, 9:20]
E-commerce booms in UK
News According to figures released on Friday by the Interactive Media in Retail Group (IMRG), a total of 14.3 million British shoppers spent some £1bn at e-commerce sites in November -- the most ever spent online in one month in the UK.
[December 13, 2002, 16:45]
E-Commerce Focus: Europe learning from US failures
News The UK and Europe may well be behind the U.S.in volume of e-commerce implementations but that could be a good thing according to new research. About 10 percent more of European IT managers felt they had been more successful in implementing e...
[July 7, 1998, 12:28]
E-commerce tools to push .Net strategy
News Microsoft will next week launch Commerce Server 2002, new software for building e-commerce Web sites and one of the first products supporting the company's .Net strategy. The e-commerce building software is seen as an essential tool for building...
[April 8, 2002, 11:32]
E-commerce minister proposes online voting
News The e-commerce minister Douglas Alexander yesterday (Thursday) announced his intention to make online voting a reality within the UK. His speech, at the Democracy in the Information Age conference, marked a dramatic change in mood towards e-voting...
[October 26, 2001, 7:30]
E-Commerce Focus: DataMonitor predicts part II
News First E-Commerce focus story by noon
[July 7, 1998, 16:44]
