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Union Hails Government Efforts To Save Mobile Jobs
News Trade secretary Stephen Byers has won praise from UK unions for the efforts made by the government to save jobs in the struggling mobile phone sector. We are grateful for the efforts that Stephen Byers and the Labour Government has made to help...
[May 23, 2001, 12:01]
Stephen Timms Is New E-commerce Minister
News The move is part of the Cabinet reshuffle taking place following the resignation on Tuesday of Stephen Byers, ex-secretary of state for transport. Douglas Alexander, who was appointed as e-commerce minister last year, was moved to the Cabinet...
[May 29, 2002, 15:12]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog As Stephen Byers is transported to the Mandy Retirement Home -- or whatever it is that happens to blameless ministers that nonetheless feel it necessary to resign -- the sounds of a minor reshuffle creep out from under the door of Number 10.
[May 31, 2002, 11:19]
DTI Announces Cyber Post Office Scheme
News Trade and Industry secretary Stephen Byers announced Thursday plans to train post office staff as government general practitioners so that they can teach and advise the public on how to access government services through the Internet.
[December 2, 2000, 6:15]
DTI Throws Massive Cable Deal Into Question
News Secretary of State for Trade and Industry Stephen Byers is concerned the acquisition could damage competition in the emerging cable market and has referred the deal to the Competition Commission. Effective competition in these growing markets is of...
[November 16, 1999, 15:25]
Red Faces And The Dangers Of Sending Emails
News In the first instance Jo Moore, special adviser to ex-transport minister Stephen Byers, suggested that 11 September, 2001 was "a good day to bury bad news". She later apologised and was defended by Byers but they both later resigned.
[June 7, 2002, 16:32]
Google And Sun Plan Partnership
News Among the ties: Google chief executive Schmidt was Sun's chief technology officer in the 1990s; John Doerr, a venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, is on the board of both companies; and Andy Bechtolsheim, a Sun co-founder who...
[October 4, 2005, 9:35]
Government Fears Digital Divide Is Growing
News At the Local Government Association's Economic Regeneration Conference in Liverpool, Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) secretary Stephen Byers admits that "serious disparities" exist in e-commerce capability between businesses across the UK...
[November 22, 2000, 15:58]
The Blair IT Projects
News This unfortunate juxtaposition played a part in the downfall of transport secretary Stephen Byers' special advisor, Jo Moore, whose immediate response to the events of 11 September, 2001 was this heartwarming rejoinder to her colleagues: "It's now...
[June 27, 2007, 12:08]
Post Office To Become Internet Shopping Centre
News Trade and industry secretary Stephen Byers is expected to announce plans to turn post offices into Internet centres as he delivers the findings of a Cabinet Office report to Parliament this afternoon.
[June 28, 2000, 12:49]
Ericsson Factory Sell-off Could Save Jobs
News The FT said it was understood that Stephen Byers, the UK trade minister, had been closely involved in the effort to find buyers for the two plants. Swedish telecoms equipment group Ericsson is in advanced talks to sell its two UK mobile phone...
[May 23, 2001, 10:12]
ITC Approves NTL-C&W Deal
News Last month Secretary of State for Trade and Industry Stephen Byers referred the deal to the Commission over concerns that it could damage competition in the emerging cable market. An ITC report has found that the proposed acquisition of the...
[December 10, 1999, 15:05]
Finger Points At Labour As Ericsson Denies Factory Buyer Story
News The FT named trade and industry secretary Stephen Byers as the driving force behind finding the buyer, which was only identified as "probably not another mobile phone maker". The Labour party was accused on Wednesday of playing dirty tricks after...
[May 25, 2001, 16:02]
Net To End Great British Car Rip-0ff
News The Consumers' Association is also urging people to email Trade and Industry secretary Stephen Byers and write to car manufacturers as part of its campaign to end high car prices in the UK. Consumers fed up with spending a fortune on a new car will...
[March 29, 2000, 10:47]
Government To Offer Free Digital TV
News According to Trade and Industry secretary Stephen Byers, one in three households already have digital television. The government is to give away access to digital TV, the Internet, shopping and email in preparation for the analogue switch off and...
[April 18, 2001, 6:14]
Digital Signatures May Be Prone To Scams
News Skygate's Trustwise criticism comes just a day after the technology's public endorsement by DTI secretary Stephen Byers. The document digitally signed by the Secretary for the Department of Trade and Industry Wednesday can be easily fooled, or...
[December 9, 1999, 14:13]
Pressure Mounts On BT Over Unmetered Access
News Derek Wyatt, Labour MP and chairman of the all-party Internet Group believes unmetered access is the way forward for the UK and has told Trade and Industry secretary Stephen Byers that the only way to get mass uptake of the Internet is to offer...
[October 21, 1999, 16:20]
A Year Ago: Escrow Time Line Draws Fire From Think-tank
News Bowden believes the government is "in a terrible tangle" over the bill and has lodged a formal complaint with Secretary of Trade and Industry, Stephen Byers, over the time given for the IT industry to respond to the consultation document...
[March 8, 2000, 6:02]
Escrow Time Line Draws Fire From Think-tank
News Bowden believes the government is "in a terrible tangle" over the bill and has lodged a formal complaint with Secretary of Trade and Industry, Stephen Byers, over the time given for the IT industry to respond to the consultation document...
[March 8, 1999, 17:31]
Escrow Time Line Draws Fire From Think-tank
News Bowden believes the government is "in a terrible tangle" over the bill and has lodged a formal complaint with Secretary of Trade and Industry, Stephen Byers, over the time given for the IT industry to respond to the consultation document...
[March 8, 1999, 11:22]
