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BT Promises A New Broadband Exchange A Day
News Pierre Danon, chief executive at BT Retail, told the e-Summit on London on Tuesday that the company's broadband pre-registration scheme was helping the rollout of broadband networks across the UK. Danon also told the e-Summit that BT was launching...
[November 20, 2002, 12:51]
Minister Calls For Return To E-basics
News We must re-engineer around the needs of the citizen," Alexander told the e-Summit, which is taking place in London. Also present at the e-Summit was Dr Ian Kearns, head of the Digital Society Programme at the Institute of Public Policy Research...
[November 19, 2002, 13:47]
E-government Targets Branded 'inadequate'
News Targets for getting all government services online by 2005 may not be going far enough, critics have said at the government's e-Summit. While the target to provide Internet access for all who want it by 2005 was broadly welcomed at the first e...
[November 19, 2002, 15:45]
'Midband' Will Ease The Broadband Divide, Says BT
News Danon announced Midband at the e-Summit in London on Tuesday. Danon told the e-Summit he was optimistic that BT Wholesale's ADSL network, which currently covers 66 percent of the population, could eventually reach 90 percent.
[November 19, 2002, 16:01]
Firms Have Little Faith In E-government - Report
News Published by The World Internet Forum, the survey was conducted ahead of an e-commerce summit planned for the autumn. The brainchild of Labour MP and head of the all-party Internet group Derek Wyatt, the summit plans to bring senior politicians...
[May 22, 2000, 9:32]
Oftel To Push For Wholesale Midband?
News Midband, which was announced by BT Retail chief executive Pierre Danon at last November's e-Summit, is based on ISDN and will give data rates of up to 128Kbps, and although it does not give a constant Web connection, it will provide always-on email.
[February 10, 2003, 12:21]
Midband To Launch This Summer, With Limitations
News Pierre Danon, BT Retail's chief executive, had said this feature would be included when he announced Midband at last November's e-Summit. At the e-Summit Danon did say that Midband would be "cheaper, but not much cheaper" than BT Broadband, which...
[March 18, 2003, 14:23]
Scandinavian Countries Take E-government Lead
News While the target to provide e-government services for all who want them by 2005 was broadly welcomed at the UK's first e-Summit in November -- an event in London that brought together an international group of government and industry policy-makers...
[December 17, 2003, 16:45]
European Leaders To Agree Internet Strategy
News E-Minister Patricia Hewitt, recently returned from a tour of US high tech companies, is hopeful the EU summit will help put Europe on the Internet map. The purpose of the summit is to put in place an Internet strategy for the EU as a whole," she says.
[March 24, 2000, 10:21]
Government May Back Fibre Rollout To Homes
News That is why I have decided to chair a high-level summit later this year to consider the circumstances that might trigger public-sector intervention, the form that intervention might take, and at what level it might sensibly take place.
[September 19, 2007, 8:00]
IBM Wagers On Utility Computing
News While many high-profile technology providers, such as Intel, Exodus Communications and Loudcloud, have been forced to exit the hosting business, IBM's persistence and focus on high-value services -- enabled through its software -- are starting to...
[March 23, 2004, 10:50]
E-minister Backs Unmetered Access
News Speaking at the UK Internet summit in London, Hewitt confidently declared the government "has got its act together" on Internet policy. E-minister Patricia Hewitt joined the unmetered access bandwagon Thursday.
[November 1, 1999, 11:26]
E-commerce Minister Upbeat On 3G's Chances
News Speaking at the Wi-Fi and 3G summit in London, Timms predicted that the surge in demand for 3G would equal that of GSM, which has seen phenomenal take-up since the late 1980s, when mobile phones were an expensive business tool.
[December 4, 2003, 14:00]
E-crime Unit 'on Track' Despite Funding Delay
News McMurdie was speaking during the e-Crime Wales Summit 2008, where a national force to fight cybercrime in Wales was launched. Plans for a national UK cybercrime policing unit remain on track despite the government stalling on funding, according to...
[June 16, 2008, 8:39]
EU To Look At Cost Of Internet Access
News The high price of Internet access in Europe will be top of the agenda at the forthcoming EU summit in Lisbon, as European leaders consider legislation to bring costs down. The EU summit -- being held in Lisbon on March 23 -- is the first time...
[February 29, 2000, 10:55]
UK Gets Silver Medal For E-commerce
News Speaking at the e-Summit meeting in London on Tuesday morning, Blair said: "We are doing well, but not well enough. In 1998, the prime minister, Tony Blair, promised that the UK would be the best place in the world to do e-commerce by 2002.
[November 20, 2002, 9:28]
Blair Promises Broadband For Every School
News Speaking at the e-Summit in London on Tuesday, the prime minister explained that the initiative is part of a major project to bring high-speed Internet access to the UK's public sector, across the education, health and criminal justice sectors.
[November 19, 2002, 13:56]
The Day Ahead: Scenes From Intel's E-business Lovefest
News Commentary: If you listened to Intel execs pitch at its eXCHANGE e-business summit this week, you'd think officials were abducted by solution-happy e-business aliens, who were hell-bent on ushering the "new, new computer industry".
[October 13, 2000, 11:25]
EU Plays Catch-up With US At Dot Com Summit
News In advance of the Summit, the EC has set new targets for Internet access in schools. Some initiatives aimed at promoting this were published last week in advance of the Summit, in the Commission's GoDigital Directive.
[March 22, 2001, 14:04]
Europe Catches Up On E-learning
News The group, which was created out of the May 2001 eLearning Summit, will work with the European Commission, national governments -- who recently established e-learning as a priority in forthcoming plans for e-Europe 2005 -- and academia to...
[April 25, 2002, 17:40]
