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Government Pulls Support For Home Computing Initiative
News In his budget speech on Wednesday, Chancellor Gordon Brown announced that the tax exemptions offered within the Home Computing Initiative would be withdrawn next month. The Home Computing Initiative allow employers to loan computing equipment to...
[March 22, 2006, 17:05]
Government Pulls Support For Home Computing Initiative
Talkback I've always thought that the HCI initiative was ill conceived as a way to address the digital divide between lower income groups and others and welcome the rethink. The cruel irony of the HCI scheme was that those on, or just above minimum wage...
[March 26, 2006, 20:21]
Government Pulls Support For Home Computing Initiative
Talkback Where I work, we have all just signed up for this. Hundreds of people were just getting ready to go and collect their shiny new PCs when the certificates arrived. I can't imagine what the department right in the middle of arranging all this is...
[March 23, 2006, 21:08]
Government Pulls Support For Home Computing Initiative
Talkback The HCI was a great idea in it's simplicity! Now it's gone. I'll have tyo go back to researching dry bumming on google for a living now.
[March 23, 2006, 11:49]
Government Pulls Support For Home Computing Initiative
Talkback I run the rewards and benefits dept for a major menswear company. In December last year, I passed this by the board of directors, who wanted to go ahead with HCI, as a benefit for those who didn't have children (so didn't benefit from childcare...
[March 23, 2006, 11:45]
Government Pulls Support For Home Computing Initiative
Talkback Its crazy. As a small company it was initially difficult to find a suitable provider. Now they are finally available he has withdrawn it. We are waiting the 6 weeks for our licence so despite getting a high percentage of employees interested the...
[March 23, 2006, 11:37]
Government Pulls Support For Home Computing Initiative
Talkback 17th of March 2005 HCI gets a major boost from the Government, 23 March 2006 Government pull the plug,As someone who works within the Hci with Charities and Not for profit companies this is a major blow.
[March 23, 2006, 11:02]
Government Pulls Support For Home Computing Initiative
Talkback It's a Government Initiative. I work for an HCI Provider too. If they decide to scrap it to pay for a war in Iraq, or to help Gordon Brown's PM credentials, then there's nothing we can do about it. This whole thing stinks.
[March 23, 2006, 10:55]
Government Pulls Support For Home Computing Initiative
Talkback Its crazy. As a small company it was initially difficult to find a suitable provider. Now they are finally available he has withdrawn it. We are waiting the 6 weeks for our licence so despite getting a high percentage of employees interested the...
[March 23, 2006, 10:24]
Government Pulls Support For Home Computing Initiative
Talkback Fair enough, it has benefitted many and there are few homes without a computer. Seems to me this now brings everybody back to a level playing field when buying a computer. If anything he would have been better by removing VAT on computers and...
[March 23, 2006, 10:20]
Government Pulls Support For Home Computing Initiative
Talkback This is ill-though through and will now result in many job losses across the HCI Sector, so much for a vote winner for Brown’s budget. Let him try and earn a real living.
[March 23, 2006, 9:47]
Government Pulls Support For Home Computing Initiative
Talkback I run a HCI business which helped the government to reach its digital Britain strategy. As the chancellor has now removed this tax exemption with almost immediate effect I will have to lay off my 5 staff today - I am sure they will not be voting...
[March 23, 2006, 6:15]
Government Pulls Support For Home Computing Initiative
Talkback This is just great. I have committed to this scheme for the next three years but it doesn't kick in until 1st April and I have little chance of getting the machine in 5 days. Looks like I would have been better off buying a machine on interest free...
[March 22, 2006, 21:22]
Government Pulls Support For Home Computing Initiative
Talkback By scrapping HCI (Home Computing Initiative - www.dti.gov.uk/hci) without warning or consultation, he has just wrecked the businesses and jobs of hundreds of those working in this area. Gordon's budget will cost hundreds of people their jobs.
[March 23, 2006, 10:59]
Siemens Makes A Million Bringing Computing Home
News Siemens claims to have saved nearly £1m by taking up the government's home computing initiative. The UK government introduced the Home Computing Initiative in 1999 in an attempt to encourage companies to offer PCs to their workforce.
[April 16, 2004, 17:45]
Treasury Looks To Replace HCI
News The Treasury could replace the Home Computing Initiative - a scheme to give employees access to cheap computers - after a number of business groups objected to government plans to scrap the scheme. The Treasury said the scheme had been abused...
[April 3, 2006, 17:30]
Government 'hindering Knowledge Economy'
News Woodget cited the recent decision to cut funding for the Home Computing Initiative (HCI) as an example of the kind of mistakes the government is making in this area. The home computing initiative is indicative of the tactical thinking of the...
[May 10, 2006, 16:30]
Treasury Denies New Tax On PCs
News Redston said that in a worst case scenario the removal of the Home Computing Initiative (HCI) from the Finance Bill would make employers liable for more national insurance contributions, and employees liable for higher income tax.
[May 3, 2006, 11:05]
Dell's Future Vision: A PC In Every Room
News Dell4me is the company's initiative to become, in effect, a consumer systems integrator, handling its customers' PC hardware and services. Dell has focused its initiative on several PCs, including a new, musically inclined Dimension desktop and the...
[September 23, 1999, 9:44]
Ballmer: Make Computing Easier
News Compaq Computer Corp.and Gateway Inc.will participate in the initiative. Ballmer also announced the Easy PC initiative, a joint venture with Intel designed to simplify the design of PCs. This initiative will focus on using X86 hardware for single...
[April 8, 1999, 9:33]
