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Scotland To Get Blanket Broadband Coverage
News Broadband Internet access will be available from every one of BT's local telephone exchanges in Scotland by the end of 2005, thanks to a multi-million pound subsidy provided by the Scottish Executive.
[April 25, 2005, 17:25]
Scotland Signs Up To E-procurement
News The First Minister for Scotland, Jack McConnell, has announced an out-sourced e-procurement service for the Scottish Executive, the devolved government for Scotland, potentially worth £15bn in public sector transactions.
[March 27, 2002, 11:23]
Scotland Leads The World In E-commerce
News Interestingly, Scotland leads the UK pack with 29 percent of its businesses trading online. Scottish Enterprise report was based on statistics from its own E-business Benchmarking Study 2000, and the DTI's Business in the Information Age 2000 study...
[October 10, 2000, 16:35]
Beer Online! Scotland Opens Its First Virtual Pub
News A year's supply of beer is on offer to users of Scotland's first virtual pub which opens this week Launched by the Brewers and Licensed Retailers Associations of Scotland (BLRAS) the site -- www.scottishpubs.co.uk -- features online golf and...
[November 4, 1999, 10:45]
Scotland To Resolve Broadband Reach
News Scotland currently has over 99 percent broadband availability. As many individuals and businesses in Scotland as possible should have broadband access," said enterprise minister Jim Mather. By extending the availability of affordable broadband, we...
[October 8, 2007, 8:27]
Scotland Suffers St Andrew's Day Hacks
News Computer crackers launched an attack on Scotland and Saint Andrew Thursday, defacing prominent historical Web sites with anti-Scottish insults. Timed to coincide with the day dedicated to Scotland's patron saint, the attacks were designed to cause...
[December 1, 2000, 14:25]
Scotland Loses As .scot.uk Bid Is Turned Down
News Scotland may be devolved politically, but it will remain tied to .uk in the virtual world if Nominet has its way ScotNom, whose members include Cap Gemini, Ernst and Young and Scotsman.com, is requesting that it be allowed to manage the Scottish...
[May 4, 2001, 14:36]
Cisco Pushes For Data Centres In Scotland
News Cisco is urging businesses to choose Scotland when they decide on a location for new data-centre builds. The networking giant says that Scotland is more than capable of satisfying the huge demand for power and space that would be needed.
[September 25, 2007, 16:39]
News Burst: England V Scotland Live Over The Net
News Football fans north and south of the English border will no doubt be delighted to know that Saturday's monumental clash between Scotland and England is to be beamed live over the Internet courtesy of British Sky Broadcasting and the Scottish Gas...
[November 11, 1999, 16:30]
Open Source Awareness Growing In Scotland
News The Scottish Executive, the devolved government for Scotland, is unlikely to introduce any policies around open source software in the near future as it tends to conform with the UK government's position, according to Harvie.
[August 26, 2005, 8:50]
20,000 Flout Mobile Phone Ban In Scotland
News The law bans the use of handheld mobile phones while driving but the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland (Acpos) is warning that many motorists are still ignoring the ban. But that legislation is not expected to be ratified until next...
[October 17, 2005, 17:50]
Drive To Broadband-enable Scotland Is Launched
News The Scottish Executive is inviting telecoms operators to bid for a contract to provide high-speed Internet services to Scotland's broadband black spots. The contract, which will run for five years, is to provide affordable broadband services to...
[August 10, 2004, 17:30]
Royal Bank Of Scotland Embraces Open Source
News The Royal Bank of Scotland has revealed that it is working on a large content management system based on the open source application server Zope. At the end of last year, the bank sent an email to a number of Zope mailing lists, stating that it was...
[January 25, 2006, 13:20]
NHS Scotland Web Accessibility Case Study
White Papers This case study describes the experience of Civic Computing, a Web Communications and Design company, working with the RNIB and Civic's client, NHS Quality Improvement Scotland, to create a website that attains the 'See it Right' accreditation.
[July 19, 2005, 0:00]
England V Scotland Match Live Over The Net
News Football fans north and south of the English border will no doubt be delighted to know that Saturday's clash between Scotland and England is to be beamed live over the Internet courtesy of British Sky Broadcasting and the Scottish Gas Football...
[November 12, 1999, 13:55]
Scotland Invests £4.3m To Improve Software Quality
News I am delighted that ITI Techmedia has successfully developed this important research and development programme that will bolster Scotland's reputation for robust software, as it also has the potential to deliver significant commercial advantage in...
[February 5, 2008, 15:26]
Telewest Trials Faster Broadband In Scotland
News The cable company said on Tuesday that it is rolling out a pilot version of its faster broadband product in Scotland. Telewest has launched a customer trial of its 1 megabit per second (mbps) broadband product, and is claiming that the service will...
[April 23, 2002, 12:55]
Law Makes Scotland Attractive To Net Paedophiles, Says Expert
News A leading criminal psychologist has warned that Internet paedophiles may move to Scotland to take advantage of weaker sentencing guidelines on the downloading of child pornography. He is adamant that the more lenient penalties for downloading or...
[October 24, 2001, 10:08]
Royal Bank Of Scotland Rolls Out Chip And PIN
News The Royal Bank of Scotland is dishing out chip and PIN devices to its online banking customers. An Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) spokeswoman said that customers who make frequent "advanced transactions" — people setting up payments to new third...
[May 4, 2007, 10:34]
NEC's Scotland Pullout Threatens 450 Jobs
News Scotland's high-tech sector looks set to suffer another blow after electronics manufacturer NEC said it was planning to stop making PCs at a factory in West Lothian. The vast majority of job losses have been associated with the downturn in the...
[May 27, 2002, 11:44]
