Tech Heroes In Line For 'Greatest Briton' Award
News The father of computing, the founder of computer science and the inventor of the World Wide Web all rank among the hundred greatest ever Britons, according to the UK public. Charles Babbage, Alan Turing and Tim Berners-Lee have all been shortlisted...
[August 22, 2002, 12:07]
Name Your Top Tech Heroes
News Following this week's news that Charles Babbage, Alan Turing and Tim Berners-Lee have all been voted onto a list of the top 100 "Greatest Britons", ZDNet UK would like to hear who your all time technology greats are.
[August 23, 2002, 11:56]
Web Inventor 'Briton Of The Year'
News In 2002 Berners-Lee also made it onto the BBC's shortlist for the greatest ever Britons -- an award eventually won by Winston Churchill. Sir Tim Berners-Lee has scooped the award for 'Best Briton 2004', 14 years after combining HTML with URLs to...
[January 28, 2005, 8:30]
Nordic Netizens Shame British Web Community
News Only 15 percent of Britons were using the Internet in 1998 according to Mikael Arnbjerg, European research analyst with IDC, compared with 31 percent in Finland and 28 percent in Sweden. While the Nordic region is blooming, Arnbjerg said France...
[June 8, 1999, 10:45]
Computer Anger: Northerners Shout, Southerners Lash Out
News Nearly twice as many Scots (34 percent) as other Britons, when experiencing frustration with their PC, will simply get up and find something else to do. Just under 40 percent of respondents agreed that the time it took to repair a computer problem...
[October 22, 2003, 13:55]
Egg Enables Cheques-by-email
News Another possible catch: while Egg Pay works with any of Britain's 110 million bank accounts, only about 20 million Britons currently have email, according to Egg's own figures. Industry observers say that convenience will be the greatest factor in...
[April 22, 2002, 14:38]
Wednesday
Blog Take the BBC's 100 Greatest Britons. Rather to my surprise, a full 20 percent of the list -- voted for by the public -- are of a scientific bent, even if some of the greatest names are absent as usual (Maxwell, Dirac, Mr Jenkinson of Penge and Sir...
[August 23, 2002, 15:58]
