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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]
United Kingdom
Downloads This application covers all of the United Kingdom which consisting of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. United Kingdom Application for the iPhone and iPod Touch is designed to provide you with a basic understanding of the United Kingdoms History.
[September 2, 2009, 6:12]
Urban Northern Ireland to get 10Mbps minimum
News The speeds will be far higher than the minimum 2Mbps that the rest of the UK, including rural Northern Ireland, is set to receive as a result of the government's Digital Britain plan. Urban areas in Northern Ireland are set to receive minimum...
[December 4, 2009, 11:20]
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]
UK rural broadband penetration overtakes urban
News The watchdog claimed this marks an important shift for Britain as, back in 2000, when broadband was introduced, urban households were the first to sign up, prompting fears of a digital divide opening up based on high-speed internet connectivity.
[May 23, 2008, 8:27]
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]
Programming Is Childs Play, I KODU you not!.
Blog Comment Secondly, my sponsors at the National Envelope Opening Society of Great Britain, Northern Ireland and the Commonwealth Territories just might take umbrage at your suggestion that I'll drop anything for a free mini-Scotch egg canape and a glass of...
[January 9, 2009, 13:27]
Navicore Personal for Series 60 review
Reviews The software has street-level mapping and routing for Great Britain and Northern Ireland, but not the Irish Republic. Installation The Navicore software comes on an RS-MMC card with an SD card adapter.
[August 16, 2005, 13:05]
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]
NavMan GPS 3400 Voice review
Reviews Maps are available for the whole of Britain and Ireland, and are broken down into seven zones: Southern England; West, Midlands, Anglia; Northern England; Scotland; Wales; Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland.
[October 7, 2002, 14:05]
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]
