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UK law failing to nail spammers

News According to Richard Allan MP, Liberal Democrat member for Sheffield Hallam, the absence of any British prosecutions against spammers is a sign that UK ISPs have been doing a good job at refusing to host spammers on their networks.

[December 13, 2004, 17:10]

Broadband road-digging row heats up

News Richard Allan, Liberal Democrat MP for Sheffield Hallam told ZDNet recently that he is concerned that broadband rollout will be damaged if lane rental is implemented nationwide, as could happen next year.

[May 28, 2002, 17:58]

MPs turn to Web for votes

News Richard Allan, Barbara Follett and Sir George Young each have a Web page that constituents can use to contact them by email, and even read details of their recent activities. Richard Allan, Liberal Democrat MP for Sheffield Hallam, agreed that...

[October 30, 2001, 13:06]

Public meeting on patents excludes anti-patent campaigners

News Richard Allan, a Liberal Democrat MP who is sympathetic to the concerns of patent campaigners, said that he thinks it is important that Pollock and Heald are allowed to attend the meeting, so he has written to the UKPO to ask if they can be invited.

[December 7, 2004, 15:55]

Cybercrime-fighting MP to step down

News The UK Parliament is set to lose one of its most tech-savvy politicians and IT champions at the forthcoming general election when Liberal Democrat MP Richard Allan stands down. Allan has been MP for Sheffield Hallam since he was first elected in...

[April 11, 2005, 10:45]

Election leaves power vacuum in MP's tech group

News Richard Allan, former Liberal Democrat MP for Sheffield Hallam, announced his decision to step down from politics back in April, and has left his position as joint vice-chair of APIG. Richard Allan White, a former IT systems analyst who acted as...

[May 6, 2005, 14:30]

Why killing 80,000 desktops is worse than careless

News Following the news on Friday that around 80,000 desktop machines may have crashed in the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) following a routine upgrade, ZDNet UK spoke with the Liberal Democrat IT spokesperson Richard Allan MP about the dangers...

[November 26, 2004, 14:15]

The Horror Mega Collection

Downloads Lovecraft The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell Phantom of the Opera by by Gaston Leroux The Mummy's Foot by Thophile Gautier Poe Poetry by Edgar Allan Poe The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux Poe Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe...

[November 9, 2004, 6:00]

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Downloads The medieval adventure setting is juxtaposed with social commentary about how an imbalanced societal structure inevitably results in the oppression of the poor and weak.The eBook contains:Full-color Cover Page, Storage Card Compatibility...

[January 18, 2006, 6:00]

100 Greatest Short Stories

Downloads Henry, Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Allan Poe, Joseph Conrad, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Guy de Maupassant, and contains such classics as "The Lottery", "The Monkey's Paw," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "Heart of Darkness," "The Gift of the...

[June 23, 2005, 8:00]

100 Greatest Short Stories

Downloads Henry, Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Allan Poe, Joseph Conrad, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Guy de Maupassant, and contains such classics as "The Lottery", "The Monkey''s Paw," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "Heart of Darkness," "The Gift...

[June 23, 2005, 8:00]

EDS: The single point of failure

Leader That was the reaction from Liberal Democrat IT spokesperson Richard Allan to the spectacular desktop crash at the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) last week. As the Liberal Democrats' Allan points out: "To be able to make this kind of mistake...

[November 29, 2004, 12:35]

70's technology could thwart RIP bill

News Revelations that the RIP bill can be by-passed using long-standing steganographic and cryptographic technologies could signal the death blow to the government's Internet snooping plans, according to Liberal Democrat MP Richard Allan.

[June 29, 2000, 14:07]

Prime Minister admits being a technophobe

News During a session of the Parliamentary liaison committee on Monday, the Liberal Democrat IT spokesman Richard Allan asked if it was true that on a 'personal level' the Prime Minister was something of a technophobe.

[February 9, 2005, 12:50]

SCO legal fight 'hampering' adoption of Linux in government

News Richard Allan MP, the Liberal Democrat IT spokesman, warned on Wednesday that uncertainty over SCO's claim that Linux infringes its Unix copyrights will deter some public-sector employees from breaking away from proprietary software.

[April 21, 2004, 16:25]

Election 2001: Lib Dems say Labour's IT strategy is not working

News Speaking to ZDNet UK, Liberal Democrat IT spokesman Richard Allan criticised the government for not moving faster in creating new legislation to regulate the communications industry -- a mistake which he believes is partially responsible for the...

[May 24, 2001, 16:11]

Lib Dems back Labour's choice of e-minister

News According to Richard Allan, IT spokesman for the Liberal Democrats, Alexander's clout will help him to fight for the UK's e-business sector within government. I think Gordon Brown has put his man into the job of e-minister, and it's an indication...

[June 13, 2001, 15:06]

MPs ponder whether 'benign' hacking should be legal

News Today, the primary threat from hackers is to the network, rather than to individual computers, and if the network goes down we've got problems," said Richard Allan MP, joint vice-chairman of APIG. And while Allan is adamant that tough action is...

[April 26, 2004, 17:25]

No ID cards before the election

News Liberal Democrat MP Richard Allan told ZDNet UK sister site silicon.com the government should take the opportunity to rethink its "half-baked" ID card proposals after the election, which Labour and Tony Blair are expected to win.

[March 16, 2005, 16:45]

Cisco: Digital switchover should favour broadband

News That would be a missed opportunity because we believe there is a whole range of innovative services, in part broadband-like services that have a two-way channel, that could be used," said Richard Allan, Cisco's European director of government...

[October 19, 2007, 8:07]

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