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What The Bloody-minded Brits Can Teach The IT World
Talkback Northern Ireland is not part of Britain, it's part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Britain just consists of England, Scotland and Wales. Paul, just a small point. Could you either forgive someone for their ignorance or...
[March 19, 2004, 8:05]
Northern Ireland To Roll Out Universal Broadband Coverage
News The expansion of Northern Ireland's broadband network will be no mean feat -- currently, around 65 percent of the country has access to the high speed service, compared to over 80 percent of mainland Britain.
[March 30, 2004, 9:30]
Northern Ireland Loses Thousands Of Drivers' Data
News It is ironic that an internal review instigated by the agency after the child-benefit disks went missing in Great Britain identified this method as a systemic weakness a week after the disks had been sent.
[December 13, 2007, 7:54]
BT Spurns Wireless Broadband Auction
News The Welsh Assembly is also furious with the way that the Radiocommunications Agency split Britain into seven regional and seven metropolitan licences plus one for Northern Ireland, as this distribution bundled parts of Wales in with areas of England.
[February 20, 2003, 12:05]
Echelon: World Under Watch, An Introduction
News Britain's zone included Africa and Europe, east to the Ural Mountains of the former USSR; Canada covered northern latitudes and Polar regions; Australia covered Oceania. Other countries including Norway, Denmark, Germany and Turkey later signed...
[June 29, 2000, 10:40]
Wireless Broadband Auction Kicks Off Amid Cherry-picking Fears
News The 3.4GHz wireless broadband auction commenced on Friday morning, with some in the industry fearing that it may fail in its aim of making high-speed Internet access available to the whole of Britain.
[June 6, 2003, 12:09]
Government E-commerce Figures 'massaged'
News A report by the Office of National Statistics has found that £56.6bn worth of goods and services was sold over the Internet in Britain last year, but the real figure is closer to £11bn -- less than one percent of the total -- say analysts.
[September 13, 2001, 8:30]
Rural Areas Face 20-year Wait For Broadband
News Sir Christopher Bland insisted that it simply is not economically viable for BT to roll out ADSL to parts of Britain that are sparsely populated -- both today and in the next few years. According to Sir Christopher Bland, if the government is...
[February 5, 2002, 15:02]
Lacey's Paper Round
News Government grants to inventors are helping rewrite the historic pattern: invented in Britain, developed in America, exploited in Japan," says an article in the Sunday Times. Reporting on a DTI initiative called SMART - an award scheme giving grants...
[June 22, 1998, 16:21]
BT Trials Wireless Broadband Service
News The telco announced on Tuesday that the technology will be trialled at four rural locations across Britain. Faced with Britain's broadband divide, some activists are already building wireless networks to bring high-speed connectivity to themselves...
[December 16, 2003, 16:40]
Tesco Secures 2,500 PS2 Consoles
News It will be the first consignment to arrive in Britain after the console's launch in November when the British quota of 165,000 consoles were immediately snapped up by consumers who had pre-ordered them.
[December 20, 2000, 12:13]
Mobile Mast Attacks Raise Vigilante Concerns
News Thousands of additional mobile masts are being built across Britain to support 3G networks, and this rollout is thought to be responsible for a surge in the number of mobile protest groups now in existence.
[December 1, 2003, 12:00]
BT Eyes Up A WiMax Future
News Four radio-broadband trials being conducted by BT in rural parts of the UK could be the prelude to a full-scale deployment of WiMax in Britain. As previously reported, BT's trials are taking place in Ballingry in Fife, Scotland, Pwllheli in Wales...
[February 20, 2004, 15:20]
Wireless Rural Broadband Gets Green Light
News The Office of Communications on Monday opened a key part of the radio spectrum that will help bring broadband to rural areas of Britain not served by ADSL broadband. BT’s trials cover Ballingry in Fife, Scotland, Pwllheli in Wales, Porthleven in...
[December 30, 2003, 12:35]
Spamhaus Hit With $11m Judgement
News As spamming is illegal in the UK, an Illinois court ordering a British organisation to stop blocking incoming Illinois spam in Britain goes contrary to UK law which orders all spammers to cease sending spam in the first place.
[September 15, 2006, 10:25]
BT Hoovers Up Broadband Punters With 'free' Flights
News This is yet another example of BT taking the lead in the market to drive broadband uptake and make Broadband Britain a reality," claimed Duncan Ingram, managing director of BT Openworld. BT has warned that it's not possible to reach all 11...
[May 11, 2004, 11:50]
Cricket Could Turn IT Networks To Ashes
News Network management company Network General warned businesses across Britain this week that the final match of the Ashes series could overburden their networks as large numbers of staff log onto online radio sites.
[September 8, 2005, 18:05]
Trial Date Set For Kournikova Suspect
News In Britain, the 1995 Smeg viruses created by the notorious Black Barron remain a shining example of legal justice issued for computer crime. Authorities have scheduled the trial for a police court which means that if found guilty, Dutchman Jan de...
[June 21, 2001, 13:49]
Scotland To Get Blanket Broadband Coverage
News Although Monday's announcement is good news for broadband have-nots north of the border, they may still find that they remain second-class citizens in Broadband Britain. A similar multi-million pound contract has just brought universal broadband...
[April 25, 2005, 17:25]
3.4GHz Broadband Ready For Action
News Broadband wireless services running in the 3.4GHz band of the radio spectrum will finally be available to businesses and consumers in one part of Britain within a few months. The company's ultimate aim is to offer high-speed wireless connectivity...
[March 24, 2004, 15:35]
