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Ofcom: No Public Funding For 21CN Competitors
News In an interview with the regulation-related blog Ofcomwatch, Richards denied that a serious competitor to BT's 21st Century Network (21CN) would need any kind of public funding. Richards maintained that alternative NGNs would need no public funding...
[April 11, 2007, 17:49]
Unpublished Administration Budget Documents Show Domestic Cuts Would Significantly Reduce Funding For Most Public Services
White Papers The Administration's budget calls for $214 billion in reductions over five years in non-entitlement domestic programs outside homeland security, compared to current funding levels adjusted only for inflation.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
The Effects Of Performance Budgeting And Funding Programs On Graduation Rate In Public Four-Year Colleges And Universities
White Papers The study presented in this paper was conducted to determine whether states with performance budgeting and funding (PBF) programs had improved institutional performance of higher education over the five years (1997 through 2001) considered in this...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Secure Open Source Desktop Gets Public Funding
Talkback Nicely done, although I would also add 'tie the user up and lock them in a small tea chest'.
[June 1, 2005, 13:35]
Secure Open Source Desktop Gets Public Funding
Talkback Easy. Don't use Intel. Mount all writeable partitions noexec and all partitions with executables read-only. Use a restricted shell by default and run KDE (or fluxbox) in kiosk mode. Maintenance is done using sudo, and if necessary calling a non...
[June 1, 2005, 8:01]
No Public Funding?
Talkback How much public money was necessary to do that? Erm.plenty of public money was thrown at BT in order to get them to enable exchanges that otherwise wouldn't be economic. One example i know of is where BT received £800,000 of public money to enable...
[July 13, 2007, 14:13]
Secure Open Source Desktop Gets Public Funding
News A UK company is using a six-figure sum from the UK government to develop a secure Linux-based desktop operating system. Netproject announced on Tuesday that the Department of Trade and Industry had contributed £132,000 to its Secure Open Source...
[May 31, 2005, 18:15]
Newly Proposed Housing Legislation Would Leave Public Housing Agencies Vulnerable To Substantial Funding Cuts And Shifting HUD Mandates
White Papers But the relief from HUD mandates would come in exchange for greater HUD discretion to shift funding and set programmatic priorities. The lack of specific program rules will increase the likelihood of substantial reductions in future funding due to...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Government Pledges Boost For Grid Technology
News The government has cited grid computing as an example of technology that should receive more public funding as part of an action plan to boost innovation among UK businesses. The e-diamond (Digital Mammography National Database) project is cited by...
[December 17, 2003, 12:55]
More MEPs Demand Transparency After Patent Debacle
News Last week, the Green Party said the interests and funding of lobby groups should be made public after what it termed a "deceptive" lobbying campaign over the directive, which was rejected by the European Parliament earlier this month.
[July 19, 2005, 17:05]
Google Aims To Redefine Philanthropy
News Google.org on Thursday announced that it would spend more than $25m (£13m) in new grants and investments for projects such as predicting and preventing infectious disease outbreaks, like Sars; monitoring climate changes in ecosystems in Africa and...
[January 18, 2008, 8:44]
UK Lagging On Innovation
News It added: "This decline is probably contributing to the crisis in the public research sector, due to inadequate public funding and the assumption that the gap would be covered by private sources. The report also said the UK had well above average...
[January 16, 2006, 15:10]
The Day Ahead: VCs Reevaluate Their Portfolios
News Venture capital funding soared to record heights in the first quarter, but don't expect the funds to flow as freely for the next two quarters. According to PricewaterhouseCoopers Money Tree Survey, released May 15, venture capital funding soared to...
[May 30, 2000, 11:48]
E-government Threatened By IT Underspending
News Many IT managers may struggle to get the extra funding they believe they need. It is likely that Unisys would benefit from any increase in UK government funding for IT. Almost all public sector IT directors believe their budgets are too low to...
[July 10, 2002, 12:17]
Venture Capitalists Turn Off The Tap On Funding
News Venture firms typically give companies a relatively small amount of funding to start -- say, $20m -- and then dole out bigger awards in the second round, and bigger still in the third round as the company prepares to make its Wall Street debut.
[February 19, 2001, 14:18]
Dot-coms Face A Tough 2001
News Investors will want to see that a company works before they provide funding". Neil Austin, head of new issues at KPMG corporate finance, agrees that technology firms will have to show some success before joining the London stock market, but...
[January 4, 2001, 8:20]
Government Digital TV Plans Under Threat
News ONdigital, which gives away set top boxes allowing ordinary televisions to receive digital terrestrial signals, has been less successful than many observers hoped when it launched a year ago, and may now have its funding slashed.
[April 10, 2001, 16:02]
Throwing Money At Technology
News She and other investigators point to agencies such as the US Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, whose programme funding information had been accessible to the public before it became part of the homeland security apparatus.
[October 19, 2004, 16:15]
Embedded Linux Alive And Kicking
News About a year ago, MontaVista projected it would need $20m in third-round funding to carry it to an initial public offering. The company actually raised $28m, bringing its total funding to $60m, most of which hasn't yet been spent, Ready said.
[January 24, 2002, 8:52]
VC Money Floods Back To Tech
News Fewer's experience is echoed in recent funding announcements. Also last month, US software company Tarantella said it had secured $16.4m in funding. Last month Open-source middleware vendor JBoss said its successful attempt to raise $10m, which...
[March 2, 2004, 14:10]
