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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 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]
Mandelson: UK needs entrepreneurs
News Entrepreneurs need to bridge the gap between research and commercial development, according to business secretary Peter Mandelson. Lord Mandelson told an audience at the Innovate '09 conference in London on Tuesday that while there is investment in...
[October 14, 2009, 16:38]
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 puts 'three strikes' plan in motion
News Business minister Peter Mandelson has reiterated the government's 'three strikes' plans to disconnect suspected copyright infringers from the internet, drawing sharp criticism from the UK's biggest ISP.
[October 28, 2009, 16:38]
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]
mandelson
Talkback how the f.can this piece of crap do anything ,? he,s never been voted in is an mp? brown is just letting everyone walk allover us NOW a suggestion if they get to big on rules WE all f.off the internet see how they,d like that no more peoples...
[October 30, 2009, 20:42]
File-sharer crackdown could be expedited
Blog Peter Mandelson, the secretary of state for business, innovation and skills, is planning a major crackdown on illegal file-sharing, according to reports over the weekend. BIS's spokesperson denied reports that Mandelson had decided to become more...
[August 17, 2009, 15:46]
Sale of public assets
Talkback This point was raised at the conference, and Mandelson seemed to think that the £16bn sale of public assets such as the Dartford crossing would provide the government with some cash. I don't know why the Dartford crossing is supposed to operate...
[October 14, 2009, 16:25]
Government to reassess tech strategy
News Business secretary Peter Mandelson said in a statement on Monday that the government would seek to remove barriers to enable Britain to remain competitive in an economic upturn. To succeed in this hi-tech, low-carbon economy of the future, to drive...
[April 20, 2009, 15:27]
Gov't launches £30m fund for small tech businesses
News Business secretary Peter Mandelson on Monday announced a £30m fund for small to medium-sized technology companies. It is crucial that small and medium-sized firms looking to invest in and grow their businesses are able to access the finance they...
[December 2, 2008, 13:58]
Pointless and inneffective
Talkback The Mandelson proposal to disconnect a broadband from an illegal downloader is, apart from being yet more political interference in our lives, absolutely pointless as serious downloaders can easily go elsewhere (McDonalds, Wetherspoon, etc or one...
[October 19, 2009, 16:49]
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]
Investment in tech could help UK reinvent itself
Leader Barely 10 days after business secretary Peter Mandelson made all the right noises about 'removing barriers' in the hi-tech economy and securing 'more high-value jobs', the LSE has fleshed out those sentiments with hard figures.
[April 29, 2009, 16:59]
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]
ISP: Wi-Fi test shows flaw in file-sharing crackdown
News Lord Mandelson's Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) proposed in August that those accused of illegal file-sharing be disconnected. The Mandelson scheme is wrong-headed and naïve," TalkTalk's Heaney wrote.
[October 16, 2009, 16:37]
