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A Year Ago: Mandelson's 'Digital Envoy' Gets Lukewarm Reception
News Trade and Industry Secretary Peter Mandelson told the House of Commons that a Net czar will lead Britain in what he termed the "new industrial revolution". Mandelson, a self-confessed technophile, shared his vision of a new knowledge-based economy...
[November 26, 1999, 6:03]
Mandelson's 'Digital Envoy' Gets Lukewarm Reception
News Trade and Industry Secretary Peter Mandelson told the House of Commons that a Net czar will lead Britain in what he termed the "new industrial revolution". Mandelson, a self-confessed technophile, shared his vision of a new knowledge-based economy...
[November 26, 1998, 17:43]
Mandelson Launches 'bold' E-commerce Initiative
News The government signalled its willingness to embrace e-commerce with open arms yesterday as Trade and Industry Secretary Peter Mandelson launched a Competitiveness White Paper, which he termed, 'bold, far reaching and absolutely necessary.
[December 17, 1998, 10:21]
News Burst: Mandelson Welcomes US Lead On E-commerce
News Mandelson saw the report as evidence of the "emerging international consensus on e-commerce". It is anticipated that the digital envoy -- announced by Mandelson last week -- will take a leading role in promoting e-commerce issues in the UK.
[December 9, 1998, 12:22]
Peter Mandelson Gives Thumbs Up To UK Web Design
News Mandelson approved of the colour yellow, and praised the organisers 'Yell', the Web site of the Yellow Pages, for organising the awards, but was at pains to stress that Yellow Pages would not be granted any special access to government in return...
[July 9, 1998, 16:13]
Jane Wakefield: Buy Your Babies On The Net
News But while Mandelson probably deserves criticism, the Internet does not. Like Peter Mandelson, the Internet seems intent on getting itself into trouble, hanging around with the wrong crowd and carrying behind it more than a whiff of scandal.
[January 29, 2001, 13:03]
Government's E-commerce Strategy Under Attack
News The bill has attracted as much controversy and criticism as the man originally responsible for pushing it through -- the former Trade and Industry secretary Peter Mandelson. While Mandelson and Blair have sung the praises of e-commerce and digital...
[May 18, 1999, 11:38]
EU Commissioners Clash Over Mobile Roaming
News Reports on Wednesday suggested that Reding will find herself up against trade commissioner Peter Mandelson and industry commissioner Guenter Verheugen, who fear the cuts will damage the operators' competitiveness.
[July 6, 2006, 11:00]
Martin Veitch: IT's Like This...
News As Peter Mandelson was waffling on in Blackpool last week about making Britain the most e-commerce friendly country in the world, he only joined a long list of folks who have tried to adopt the façade of keen-eyed, tech-savvy visionary but only...
[October 2, 1998, 17:10]
Government Aims To Pull Women Into Tech Jobs
News Launching the campaign at Camden Girls School in London, secretary of state for trade and industry Peter Mandelson admitted that recruiting women for IT jobs was a huge problem for employers. There is no reason why women should not become leaders...
[November 19, 1998, 12:41]
Digital Revolution Hampered By E-commerce
News He predicts the research figures will double by this time next year and believes Mandelson's intervention, as well as the message in the Queen's speech will raise the profile of e-commerce in the minds of UK companies.
[November 27, 1998, 16:32]
Sun's Patent Settlement Sparks Controversy
Talkback Europe is safe now that Mandelson is there. He won't get swayed by large corporations and their money.
[October 14, 2004, 21:29]
Software Patents Make A Mockery Of European Ideals
Talkback Peter Mandelson, a Tony Blair appointee. Hmm, maybe I'm confusing the Council with the Commissioners (i.e. In which case, voting Tony Blair OUT of office can't possibly do any more harm than keeping him in.
[March 7, 2005, 23:32]
EC Caps Mobile Roaming Rates
Talkback Mandelson will find a way to please his "friends" Ill believe it when I see it
[July 12, 2006, 21:06]
EU Commissioners Clash Over Mobile Roaming
Talkback Just what we needed - another reason to dislike peter mandelson.
[July 6, 2006, 12:08]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog At it, the DTI announced the Millennium Bug And Electronic Commerce Bill, to come in ASAP (and you can bet Mandelson's last pair of Lycra cycling shorts it'll be here before the FoI). There was a conference today, called the International Commerce...
[October 24, 1998, 12:31]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News At it, the DTI announced the Millennium Bug And Electronic Commerce Bill, to come in ASAP (and you can bet Mandelson's last pair of Lycra cycling shorts it'll be here before the FoI). There was a conference today, called the International Commerce...
[October 24, 1998, 11:31]
Blair Joins Campaign To Beat Millennium Bug
News Headed by OFTEL boss Don Cruickshank and not Peter Mandelson, flag bearer of that other Millennium project, The Millennium Bug Campaign has produced a booklet to help raise awareness of the Year 2000 problem among businesses of all sizes.
[January 23, 1998, 11:42]
Dixons Invites Pricing Investigation
News On Sunday, Peter Mandelson secretary of state for Trade and Industry told the Mail on Sunday that he will write to John Bridgeman, director-general of the Office of Fair Trading, expressing concern about Dixons' computer prices.
[November 24, 1998, 9:16]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The sponsoring minister has been sacked, and more control over it has been handed to Straw and Mandelson, who both despise the idea. Rather nervously, I open it. It turns out to be from Tony Blair. Or rather, the 10 Downing Street site, which I was...
[August 8, 1998, 8:05]
