Darling puts squeeze on gov't IT spending
News In his pre-budget statement, Alistair Darling increased the efficiency savings planned in the 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review, running from 2008 to 2011, from £30bn to £35bn. The measures form part of a pre-budget statement that saw Darling...
[November 25, 2008, 9:53]
Brown unveils the e-budget
News Brown said up to 15 key employees will be able to receive tax-friendly share options of up to £100,000 in value, up from the 10 employee limit he put forward in November's pre-budget statement. If Gordon Brown has got his e-commerce friendly Budget...
[March 21, 2000, 16:43]
A Year Ago: Brown unveils the e-budget
News Brown said up to 15 key employees will be able to receive tax-friendly share options of up to £100,000 in value, up from the 10 employee limit he put forward in November's pre-budget statement. If Gordon Brown has got his e-commerce friendly Budget...
[March 21, 2001, 6:05]
NHS IT programme faces cutbacks
News Darling said he would give more details on Wednesday, when he is due to make a pre-budget announcement regarding public-sector spending cuts. The National Programme for IT (NPfIT), which has a budget of over £12bn, will be scaled back or cut...
[December 7, 2009, 13:51]
Brown unveils tax-cuts for startups
News Brown said up to 15 key employees will be able to receive tax-friendly share options of up to £100,000 in value, up from the 10 employee limit he announced in November's pre-budget statement. If Gordon Brown has got his e-commerce friendly Budget...
[March 21, 2000, 15:24]
Gov't appoints tech tsar to cut IT costs
News The Treasury has brought Read on board as part of a review of public-sector spending that will produce an interim report for this autumn's pre-Budget report. A number of recent large IT projects undertaken by the government are late or over budget...
[June 24, 2008, 8:57]
Acer clarifies position on Linux PCs
News Explaining that the 5710Z was a "budget" model (priced at 999 Singaporean dollars, or £325) and therefore not suited to the resource-intensive Windows Vista, the salesperson went on to say that Memory World chose to install Ubuntu because it "is...
[August 2, 2007, 17:25]
Chancellor promises emerging-tech investment
News The CBI, in its pre-budget recommendations to the Treasury, had suggested 10 times that amount, Bradshaw said. The government will provide £750m in funding for emerging technologies in the manufacturing, digital and biotechnology sectors...
[April 22, 2009, 17:22]
Scale of online tax credit fraud revealed
News Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown said in his pre-Budget report at the end of 2005 that new anti-fraud measures would include HMRC doubling the checks it carries out on new claims for tax credits before payments are made.
[January 17, 2006, 8:35]
McKinnon should be scared; so should America
Talkback Millions of dollars in budget increases, that is where the difference occurred. Phishing, hacking, spam, bots, virii, worms - the majority of home users now have firewalls, anti virus software, spyware checkers etc - all of which have a much lower...
[May 10, 2006, 16:37]
New Lindows shuts out spam and pop-up ads
News Lindows 4.0 is available from the company, at retailers, and pre-installed on budget PCs such as those sold by early Lindows supporter Wal-Mart. The argument from Microsoft against desktop Linux is that it may be affordable from the start, but the...
[June 26, 2003, 15:43]
MPs savage taxman's IT farce
News While we will respond formally to the committee in due course, many of the recommendations made by the PASC and the ombudsman are already being addressed in both the six areas for improvement the government announced in May last year and in the...
[January 31, 2006, 15:55]
