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Queen's Own Mounted File Guard?
Blog The Army has a web page dedicated to the Queen's Life Guard, those fine young men who parade around in plumes outside Buck House for reasons they doubtless find compelling. And on that page is a link to the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment, who...
[October 4, 2007, 21:01]
Queen's speech to exclude arts Web site scheme
News A £150m scheme to put the cream of Britain's arts online is unlikely to be included within the Queen's speech on Wednesday, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) admitted today. Despite the DCMS' hesitancy about the Culture and...
[June 19, 2001, 15:29]
Queen to visit Google's UK HQ
News When Queen Elizabeth began her reign in 1952, computers were room-sized machines that cranked through rolls of punched tape. Just four years ago, Queen Elizabeth admitted she didn't own a computer as she bestowed an honorary knighthood on Microsoft...
[September 15, 2008, 9:34]
Queen's Internet startup to bring a royal reward
News Her Majesty the Queen looks set to become the latest Internet entrepreneur to rake in a small fortune when her Web venture floats on the stock exchange next month. Internet company Getmapping.com received £100,000 of the Queen's royal cash in...
[March 20, 2000, 11:08]
A Year Ago: Queen's Internet startup to bring a royal reward
News The Queen jumps on the Internet startup bandwagon Her Majesty the Queen looks set to become the latest Internet entrepreneur to rake in a small fortune when her Web venture floats on the stock exchange next month.
[March 20, 2001, 6:04]
Queen's University to found anti-cybercrime centre
News Queen's University Belfast has landed £25m to set up a new centre to combat online crime. The Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT) will be situated at Queen's Institute of Electronics Communications and Information Technology.
[November 24, 2008, 10:41]
ID cards unveiled in Queen's Speech
News Legislation for national ID cards and the UK's version of the FBI were the key planks of the Queen's Speech today, which promised "security for all". The Queen's Speech is read by the Queen but written by the government and it sets out the...
[November 23, 2004, 14:40]
Apple designer honoured by the Queen
Blog Comment Although he was awarded his "gong" earlier, he actually received the award from the Queen last Friday, Apple told us. Quite right. This awards stuff takes time to process and dates have to be arranged to fit busy diaries.
[November 20, 2006, 12:41]
Queen seeks royal IT chief
News Buckingham Palace is hunting for an IT director to look after the Queen's computer systems across the Royal Household. The post offers a salary of £70,000 to £80,000 per year, and the new director of IT and telecommunications will be responsible...
[October 19, 2006, 10:05]
News Burst: E-commerce, surveillance in Queen's Speech
News The government will lay out its plans for the Internet and e-commerce Wednesday with the controversial e-communications bill, one of 28 bills making an appearance in the Queen's Speech. The bill, which has been subject to a host of delays and...
[November 17, 1999, 11:40]
Queen's University Belfast Introduces Improvements Across the Board With Intel Technology
White Papers In order to improve the facilities available to students and researchers, and advance its academic reputation, Queen's University Belfast has initiated the migration of all administrative, academic and business applications to an Intel Itanium 2...
[April 25, 2007, 1:00]
Queen banishes Linux
News The Queen, or at least her new Web hosting company, has dumped GNU/Linux in favour of Microsoft IIS Web servers, ending the royal family's two-year flirtation with the open-source operating system. In 1999, the administrator hosting royal.gov.uk...
[December 5, 2001, 13:50]
The Queen gets the dot-com blues
News The Queen has become the latest entrepreneur to suffer from dotcom fallout, seeing value of the Internet company she invested in plummet by over half a million pounds since its peak. In January of this year the Queen invested £100,000 of her own...
[October 21, 2000, 7:19]
The Queen goes open-source
News The report follows a survey of Web site servers at Netcraft and illustrates that the Queen really is trying to be like the rest of us. The Royal Family has dumped Sun's Solaris and, according to reports, is now running its Web server on the people...
[September 20, 1999, 11:26]
Apple designer honoured by the Queen
Blog The British born designer of both the iMac and the iPod picked up a CBE from the Queen on Friday. Jonathan Ive, who was born in the UK in February 1967 and studied industrial design at Newcastle Polytechnic, became a Commander of the British Empire...
[November 17, 2006, 11:53]
The Queen puts her money into the Web
News Although the Queen is one of the wealthiest women in the world and owns an extraordinary amount of land, this is believed to be the sovereign's first ever business venture. Elizabeth Royal (ER) has asked investment firm Privy Purse to invest her...
[January 10, 2000, 13:09]
Queen seeks royal IT chief
Talkback They'll probably get some 400 year old dinosaur with the personality of dry paint !
[October 20, 2006, 18:44]
Queen seeks royal IT chief
Talkback This is the perfect job for me, i could do it all for them and save them a crap load of cash! Still she will end up getting some high end big wig who doesn't have a clue. It's the way tho Gov works!
[October 20, 2006, 16:50]
Apple designer honoured by the Queen
Blog Comment Wasn't that over a year ago in 2005?
[November 19, 2006, 11:38]
ID cards unveiled in Queen's Speech
Talkback PLEASE save us from ID cards - PLEASE save us from ID cards - PLEASE save us from ID cards! Being German and 45 years happy to be living in the UK now and NOT having the regime of ID cards I'm scared now of the being introduce now her in the UK...
[November 30, 2004, 11:38]
