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MPs batter Apple over iPod batteries
News A group of UK MPs has hit out at Apple over its policy for supplying replacement rechargeable batteries for its hugely popular iPod digital music player. It has already been signed by a further 10 MPs.
[January 22, 2004, 13:00]
MPs condemn BBC outsourcing costs
News The BBC's £1.5bn IT outsourcing deal with Siemens Business Services has come under fire from MPs for over-estimating cost savings and for key projects running late and over budget. Performance management by the BBC also comes under fire from MPs in...
[June 28, 2007, 9:47]
MPs put the boot into IR35
News An influential group of MPs from across the political spectrum have urged the government to review the controversial IR35 tax, claiming that it is causing significant damage to the UK's army of freelance workers.
[July 30, 2003, 18:45]
MPs reject international security standard
News MPs have snubbed an internationally accredited IT security standard promoted by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). The House of Commons Commission is a supervisory body of MPs who oversee the administration of the House.
[August 8, 2003, 9:45]
MPs demand spam protection for businesses
Talkback MPs Should address the issues of poor hospitals, schools policing etc companies getting spam, is a very low priority issue as far as I am concerned. We all receive unwanted e-mail, however if the MPs want a real issue what about all the spam, that...
[October 6, 2003, 19:28]
MPs demand tougher data-breach sanctions
News A group of MPs wants to see tougher sanctions for government bodies that commit serious breaches of data-protection law. The MPs also welcomed the government's pledge to give the information commissioner greater powers to carry out unannounced spot...
[January 3, 2008, 13:45]
MPs unhappy over ADSL dominance
Talkback If the MPs are unhappy with BTs dominance why dont they buy it back and make it state run again?
[February 10, 2004, 18:52]
MPs unhappy over ADSL dominance
Talkback There are a number of issues here but what MPs have to try to appreciate is that the UK is relatively small island with a mere 60m or so inhabitants. In short, there is not the critical mass neccessary to sustain more than one large provider of...
[February 12, 2004, 10:34]
MPs demand DRM safeguards
Talkback Before demanding safeguards, would the MPs be so kind to reveal to the public as to what they think DRM is really all about? Because illegally installed rootkits for commercial purposes here and there ain't half of it.
[June 7, 2006, 0:21]
HMRC site goes down, MPs can't file tax returns
Blog Meanwhile, HMRC put out another statement admitting that some MPs were also unable to file their tax returns, because their taxpayer reference numbers were not recognised on the authentication system.
[January 31, 2008, 16:52]
MPs unhappy over ADSL dominance
Talkback I do wish MPs would not interfere in areas they patently do not understand, but rather concentrate on issues which they could do something about, like sorting out the situation on the roads where such a high percentage of drivers drive untaxed and...
[February 23, 2004, 9:07]
MPs unhappy over ADSL dominance
Talkback MPs can't have it both ways. BT is obliged to provide its services to the whole of the UK - which no other company is either obliged to or wants to. ASDL over existing phone lines is not the best technical solution, cable is the preferred solution...
[February 24, 2004, 11:51]
MPs worried by broadband divide
News MPs have called on the government to do more to address the lack of broadband in rural areas. MPs representing rural and less densely populated areas are very worried, though, that their constituents are going to end up on the wrong side of the...
[May 3, 2002, 12:58]
MPs pan NHS care-records rollout
News MPs have slammed the delays and lack of progress in rolling out a national system of electronic patient records, a key plank of the government's £12.4bn NHS IT project. The MPs criticised Connecting for Health, the agency responsible for the...
[September 14, 2007, 9:23]
MPs demand DRM safeguards
News MPs and peers have called for clarity in the law regarding digital rights management (DRM), to make it clear that companies using technical protection measures (TPM) such as Sony BMG's rootkit-like technology could be prosecuted.
[June 5, 2006, 17:15]
MPs urge Johnson to halt McKinnon extradition
News A cross-party group of senior MPs is meeting home secretary Alan Johnson on Wednesday to request clemency for Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon. MPs Michael Meacher, David Davis and Chris Huhne set up the meeting to discuss McKinnon's predicament and to...
[September 9, 2009, 14:24]
MPs savage NHS IT delays
News NHS CEO Sir Ian Carruthers and NHS director general of IT Richard Granger were grilled on the Connecting for Health programme by MPs during a heated Public Accounts Committee (PAC) meeting at the House of Commons this week.
[June 28, 2006, 17:10]
MPs start review of Computer Misuse Act
News MPs will review the Computer Misuse Act (CMA) at the House of Commons on Thursday, because the law was created before the emergence of the Internet and needs to be updated. The All-Party Internet Group (APIG), an organisation that attempts to...
[April 29, 2004, 14:35]
MPs slam government over digital divide plans
News The MPs are equally damning of the job being done by e-envoy Andrew Pinder, who is charged with promoting e-business, combatting the digital divide and getting all government services online by 2005. The government's UK online plans to close the...
[March 27, 2001, 12:23]
MPs urged to overhaul Computer Misuse Act
News But one week before the report is due to be published, some analysts are hoping that after months of deliberation, the MPs will recommend a complete overhaul. The Computer Misuse Act -- which became law many years before the Internet entered the...
[June 23, 2004, 14:25]
