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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]
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
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]
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
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]
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]
Mandelson: UK needs entrepreneurs
News In addition, Mandelson said organisations that take risks in funding start-ups should be backed by public funding. Mandelson had also announced at the same conference that £39.5m of public funding would be made available to innovative UK companies...
[October 14, 2009, 16:38]
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]
Google selects Project 10^100 themes
News Now the themes have been chosen, Google is asking the public to vote on the best ideas, the results of which will be submitted to a committee that will pick up to five ideas for funding. Google has whittled down the more than 150,000 ideas...
[September 25, 2009, 15:55]
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]
Former ICO head urges data-protection 'step change'
News Public finances are very tight, but — especially if the legislation is to be extended — the ICO needs adequate and longer-term funding to enable us to fulfil properly all our complaint, guidance and enforcement responsibilities," he said.
[July 8, 2009, 9:03]
Government to reassess tech strategy
News Research and development funding will also be reformed. From April, all applications for academic funding for technology will have to assess the economic impact of research. The government will work with research funding bodies to "drive up the...
[April 20, 2009, 15:27]
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]
