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MS And IBM Create Enfrastructure Startup
News Enfrastructure is not only the brainchild of this trio of tech companies, but is also one of the ThinkTank.com companies managed by former Buy.com chief executive Scott Blum. ThinkTank.com is an e-business incubator based in California.
[September 19, 2000, 11:14]
IBM Think Tank: Insights For Your Business
White Papers Visit ibm.com/expressadvantage/uk/thinktank to learn more about IBM's IT optimisation solutions and other solutions. Think Tank has been designed specifically for businesses like yours. We aim to give you simple, clear advice and information that...
[July 2, 2008, 15:08]
Computer Science Turns Off Students
News A recent study from the Rand thinktank concluded that a labour shortage isn't looming in tech-related fields in the United States. But not everyone is sure that the US needs more Ph.D.s, and some observers argue there are many technology...
[August 12, 2004, 9:45]
Businesses Back Call For Naked PCs
News Earlier this week, the Globalisation Institute, a European thinktank, made a submission to the European Commission proposing that all PCs and laptops should be sold without an operating system in order to foster competition and bring down prices...
[September 28, 2007, 14:13]
Users Split Over Naked PCs
News A European thinktank's recent recommendation that computers should be sold without an operating system — so-called "naked PCs" — in order to tackle Microsoft's dominant position and foster competition in the operating-system marketplace has got...
[October 1, 2007, 17:42]
Google Aims To Redefine Philanthropy
News What Google and other organisations have begun to do is to redefine what constitutes philanthropy," said Susan Raymond, senior managing director for research and chief analyst at onPhilanthropy, the thinktank for the philanthropy and not-for...
[January 18, 2008, 8:44]
Thinktank: Phorm A 'green Light For Lawbreaking'
News A prominent IT thinktank has criticised the Information Commissioner's Office for apparently giving its approval to an internet-advertising system that may be illegal. The Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR) said on Sunday that it...
[April 7, 2008, 17:04]
EU Thinktank Calls For Naked PCs
News Computers should be sold without an operating system in order to foster competition and bring down prices, a major European thinktank has recommended. In a submission to the European Commission, the Globalisation Institute claimed that the lack of...
[September 24, 2007, 13:27]
Thinktank: Debate ID Cards Or Drop Them
News There needs to be serious debate about the government's controversial ID cards scheme or else it should be scrapped, according to an influential thinktank. A report from Demos stated that meaningful engagement with the public about how the...
[December 10, 2007, 7:11]
More Cybercrime Laws Will Be Counter-productive, Says Thinktank
News More laws to fight cybercrime are likely to be counter-productive, but existing laws must be urgently updated if cybercrime is to be effectively tackled, according to a leading IT thinktank. Eurim, the European Information Society Group, which...
[April 25, 2002, 11:58]
Microsoft: You Already Have Naked PCs!
Blog Microsoft has responded to our request for comment after a "free-market" EU thinktank, the Globalisation Institute, recommended that all PCs in Europe should be sold without a preinstalled operating system (see the story here and our leader...
[September 25, 2007, 10:54]
Government To Launch 'Green IT Strategy'
News The announcement came as a study by the centre-right thinktank Policy Exchange said the government had missed 60 percent of its green targets set since 1997, including providing five percent of electricity from renewable sources by 2003.
[May 9, 2008, 9:21]
Google: Censorship Should Be Trade Barrier
News Speaking last week at a conference organised by US thinktank the Progress & Freedom Foundation, Eric Schmidt said that to defend freedom of speech, governments should use internet censorship as a non-tariff trade barrier.
[August 28, 2007, 13:34]
Microsoft Promises To Be Good
News In the broadest sense, I am here to pledge Microsoft's continued commitment to vigorous competition and vital innovation in the software marketplace — and to explain how this commitment is guiding our development of the next-generation Windows...
[July 20, 2006, 8:35]
BT May Face £2bn Bill For Broadband Delays
News The Institute of Economic Affairs, a UK government thinktank, said back in February that BT was holding back the rollout of ADSL Internet access in the UK. EC Competition Commissioner Mario Monti said last week that he is investigating the process...
[September 19, 2001, 14:55]
Game Over For UK Games Industry?
News Britain is in danger of losing its edge in the global games industry as investment flounders and broadband remains too expensive, warns thinktank Demos. Gaming, once an alternative industry in which programs were designed in bedrooms by...
[July 6, 2001, 13:31]
Government Job Site Doesn't Recognise 'Internet'
News A study from independent thinktank Demos last month claimed that it is more interested in fulfilling its target than making sure the services are relevant and of good quality. The government faces further embarrassment over its policy to get all...
[April 2, 2001, 14:52]
E-government Plans Are Doomed To Failure
News Earlier in the year, left-wing thinktank Demos condemned the government's obsession with targets and called on it to make a more radical shift in the way information was used and disseminated in the electronic age.
[June 5, 2001, 10:19]
Police Want Power To Store All Emails
News Director of government thinktank the Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR) Caspar Bowden said that such powers would go against European data protection regulations and be "disproportionate" to the threat posed by criminals.
[April 18, 2001, 16:26]
Government Accused Of Transferring Red Tape To The Net
News Independent thinktank Demos accuses the government of merely transferring offline red tape on to the Net and says the government should produce an Internet Bill of Rights outlining citizens' rights and responsibilities in the digital age.
[March 15, 2001, 16:34]
