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Government's Digital Plans Come Under Fire
News ONdigital chief executive Stuart Prebble has criticised government commitment to a digital Britain. The government plans to turn off the analogue signal as early as 2006, but with only a quarter of homes -- seven million -- currently enjoying...
[April 12, 2001, 15:21]
Government And Industry Join In Scheme For IT Skills
News E-Skills UK on Tuesday called for the government, employers and educators to join a new scheme for improving the IT abilities of the 21 million UK employees currently using IT at work. E-Skills UK is one of several independent, employer-led...
[April 9, 2003, 10:04]
Government Still Tech Agnostic Despite Vista Concerns
News The government remains committed to technological agnosticism, despite concerns from the educational agency Becta over Microsoft technology. Becta, the organisation that implements government educational technology policy, has claimed Windows Vista...
[January 9, 2008, 15:55]
Government Backtracks On Encryption Enquiry
News Cyber-rights advocate Yaman Akdeniz, director of Cyber Rights and Cyber Liberties, argues the BRTF recommendation was a legitimate one that the government should respond to positively. The Home Office should be challenged -- there is a need for the...
[April 4, 2001, 6:25]
Government Pledges £30m To Get Pupils Online
News The government has pledged £30m of funding over the next three years to help school pupils from low-income families gain home broadband access. In addition, Knight announced a £600,000 pilot — to be run by government education technology agency...
[January 9, 2008, 15:42]
Government Rates Britain's Internet Status
News The government launches a Web site dedicated to mapping the UK's position in the global e-economy Wednesday. EStatMap contains data from official government statistics as well as private research concerning the Internet in the UK.
[July 26, 2000, 15:47]
Government Certi?ed Solutions: Certi?ed Solutions For High-Risk Networks
White Papers The Internet provides government and military organizations with a cost-effective infrastructure for communicating with businesses, citizens and employees and collaborating with other agencies. The tremendous growth of government on-line...
[September 1, 2005, 0:00]
Government Ignores Web Opposition Over ID Cards
News The government's decision to press on with the introduction of ID cards was taken despite opposition from Web users, whose opposing views have effectively been ignored. Speaking in Parliament on Wednesday, home secretary David Blunkett claimed that...
[November 12, 2003, 17:10]
Government Agencies Utilize McDATA Solutions To Meet Storage Consolidation, Data Protection And Employee Collaboration Goals
White Papers The majority of federal government agencies are experiencing tremendous data growth. Because data is instrumental to serving and protecting the American people, these agencies are demanding ever more capable storage networking solutions to achieve...
[August 23, 2005, 0:00]
Government Snooping Will Hurt E-commerce
News A campaign is being prepared against government efforts to use the current crisis as a pretext to bring in measures such as digital ID cards. ID cards are to be feared because they create a single electronic identity, said Davies, which can be used...
[September 28, 2001, 9:27]
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. At the Local Government Association's Economic Regeneration Conference in Liverpool, Department of Trade...
[November 22, 2000, 15:58]
Finding U.S. Government Technical And Scientific Information On The Web: Hints For The Non-Technical Librarian
White Papers Finding United States government and government-sponsored technical reports and information and citations to technical reports and articles has become an easier task with improved Web search engines and freely accessible Web bibliographic...
[August 22, 2005, 0:00]
News Burst: Government Forced To Launch Free 'bug Busting' Courses
News The Government will today announce free "bug-busting" courses for companies gearing up to tackle the millennium bug. The government hopes to attract 20,000 people to take part in the courses offered by further education colleges and Training and...
[October 19, 1998, 10:10]
Government 'too Busy' To Deal With Spam
Talkback One of the biggest problems is that of jurisdiction, the government has no control over the majority of spam as it originates from outside the UK.often from China or Russia. For these spammers the only control the government could possibly have...
[September 14, 2005, 9:12]
Government Admits To 200 More Stolen Laptops
News The government has admitted almost 200 laptops have been stolen from various departments, including the Ministry of Justice, since 2001. The figures for phone, laptop and PDA loss and theft across government departments reveal the MoJ has had 135...
[February 20, 2008, 7:13]
Government Suffers Another ID Card Defeat
News The government ID cards bill has suffered two more defeats in the House of Lords after peers voted in favour of further amendments to the proposed legislation. A final reading of the ID cards bill will now take place in the House of Lords next week...
[February 1, 2006, 10:10]
Government On IBM EServer ISeries Announcement
White Papers The Government Industry, driven by cost containment or reduction in costs, is challenged to improve its operational efficiency in order to reduce costs and increase revenue collections. The IBM eServer i5 is designed to bring the latest generation...
[August 30, 2005, 0:00]
Government Sites Continue To Flout Standards
Talkback Exactly, government sites are rubbish. Any government sites you find are ugly and all look different - no uniformity or interoperability at all. Only a handful like the LondON website look okay but its not linked to anything else, what kind of...
[November 25, 2003, 12:00]
Government Expands Broadband Plans
News The government announces it is to extend the auction of fixed wireless Internet access in a bid to improve the choice of broadband services in the UK. Nevertheless, the government believes that the availability of the new frequencies will boost...
[October 24, 2000, 7:00]
Government Turns To Industry For IT Advice
News The government has asked the computer industry for help in improving public sector IT projects, it was announced Monday. The move follows harsh criticism from the Commons public accounts committee, which found that 25 of the government's large IT...
[January 19, 2000, 15:53]
