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North-south IT Pay Gap Widens
News The north-south divide is widening for English IT professionals, with tech staff in the north of England taking home more than a third less in their pay packets than their counterparts in London, according to new figures.
[December 20, 2005, 15:25]
North And South Korea Unite Over Linux
News Bitter political foes South and North Korea are to jointly develop a version of Linux. They also promised to work to iron out differences in IT terminology between South and North Koreans and Korean Chinese.
[November 30, 2007, 15:31]
North-south Divide Comes To Cyberspace
News The survey, "North-South Divide in PC and Internet Adoption," by market research firm Datamonitor, indicates that while nearly 50 percent of people in the southeast of England have access to a PC at home, the figure for the northern regions is far...
[August 20, 1999, 9:37]
Human Capital Accumulation And Wage Inequality With Scale-Independent North-South Technological Diffusion
White Papers This paper analyzes the mechanisms, other than market size, through which international trade of intermediate goods incorporating state-of-the-art technological knowledge affects accumulation of human capital and wage inequality in the North and...
[May 25, 2005, 0:00]
Broadband Booming In Europe
News Broadband users almost doubled in Europe during 2002, but there is still a clear north/south divide in the region, which is likely to remain until at least 2007, according to research group Forrester.
[July 18, 2003, 16:33]
XP For EXcluded People?
Blog Comment The chipset is a term usually used to refer to the north and south bridges on the motherboard which are used to send data to and from the processor and elements of the computer such as the graphics card, memory and other high speed components in...
[August 1, 2007, 16:51]
Asia: Public Enemy Number One For Spam
News Now North and South America combined don't come close to Asia's percentage, said Graham Cluley, Sophos' senior technology consultant. Asia accounts for 42.8 percent of the spam received by Sophos' global spam monitoring network with North America...
[April 20, 2006, 17:55]
Mobile Phone Campaigners Welcome Court Ruling
News The ruling has been welcomed by a group of residents in South Woodford, in north London, who are opposing applications from O2 and Hutchison 3G for the construction of a mobile mast in their area. Campaigners fighting against the erection of mobile...
[June 28, 2002, 17:20]
UK Home PC Survey Depicts Haves, Have-nots
News The figures also indicate a north-south divide with 43 per cent of households in London and the South owning a PC, which is about 11 per cent more than the rest of the country. The North East (19.1 per cent) and the West Midlands (22 per cent) were...
[October 31, 1997, 11:21]
North Korea Launches 'secure' Email
News Rumours of North Korea training hackers to attack South Korea have been circulating. Six South Korean activists were arrested in 2001 for exchanging non-government-authorised emails with North Korean officials, the AP report said.
[December 2, 2003, 8:50]
Government E-commerce Figures 'massaged'
News The North-South divide was even more pronounced when Internet sales were examined, with businesses in London and the South East accounting for £24bn of the £56.6bn sales figure calculated by the ONS. Regions such as the North East, Wales and...
[September 13, 2001, 8:30]
Election Leaves Power Vacuum In MP's Tech Group
News The influential All Party Parliamentary Internet Group (APIG) has been left with a power gap following the unseating of North East Milton Keynes MP Brian White in Thursday’s general election. North East Milton Keynes, Lab
[May 6, 2005, 14:30]
Via Chipset Gives Notebooks A Shot In The DDR
News Via on Tuesday launched an embedded platform called Eden, which uses the Via Apollos PLE133 processor, ProSavage PN133T north bridge and VT8231 south bridge to offer a low-power option for many embedded systems.
[December 12, 2001, 14:06]
Asia Leads The Way In Broadband Growth
News North America is second with 26 per cent and Europe is coming up fast on the rails with 25 per cent. If Western Europe's growth rate of over 50 percent continues -- now with than six million subscribers -- the region will soon outstrip North...
[August 28, 2002, 9:31]
Asian Powers Seal Operating System Plan
News The three North Asian countries will meet in Seoul later this month to discuss details of the project, and again in November in Osaka, Japan, for private companies that might be interested in participating in the project, according to other reports.
[September 8, 2003, 10:25]
Comdex/Fall Bigger, Badder, More Organised?
News Show goers will also be able to find products such as cameras, scanners and Bluetooth cards in the north hall. The Las Vegas Convention Centre's North Hall, for example, will be dedicated to networking technology.
[November 13, 2000, 9:31]
BT Expands Broadband-trigger Scheme
News STRENSALL North Yorkshire 300 BOROUGHBRIDGE North Yorkshire 400 CATTERICK CAMP North Yorkshire 450 ASKERN South Yorkshire 350 GLENROTHES SOUTH Fife 350 ROYSTON South Yorkshire 400 The list includes Essex's Chafford Hundred, which had achieved...
[March 31, 2003, 13:42]
Vodafone Workers Win Union Recognition
News Around 200 Vodafone workers in the Midlands, the North of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales have gained union recognition. The ruling covers staff working in Vodafone's Regional Operations North.
[July 24, 2007, 9:01]
Software Crashes London Traffic Lights
News Thousands of drivers were trapped in their cars between the north and south circulars, according to Transport for London (TfL), with the worst-hit areas reported to be around Trafalgar Square. North and south areas continued functioning while, in...
[July 24, 2002, 16:14]
Bulldog: Problems Are Over. Users: No They're Not
Talkback North DNS Server: I am now on the NORTH DNS Server, and I have found I have so far had a stable connection (been on for 10mins writing this to you. Then go into your router, and select this DNS Server instead of the south one - it is more reliable...
[December 29, 2005, 8:30]
