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Millennium Of UK History Heads Online
News Eventually the organisation will provide digital archival services to everyone with an interest in history, said Tyacke. It looks after one of the largest archival collections in the world, spanning 1,000 years of British history, from Domesday...
[August 20, 2004, 13:55]
$100 Laptop Project Is 'fundamentally Flawed'
News The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) scheme is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the history of the IT industry, according to Tony Roberts, chief executive and founder of UK charity Computer Aid International.
[June 20, 2006, 15:05]
ID Cards Fuel Leap In Consultancy Costs
News Davis told ZDNet.co.uk's sister site, silicon.com: "The Home Office has had its worst period in its 200-year history, stumbling from crisis to crisis. Home Office spending on consultants shot up from £7.6m in 1997/98 to £147m in 2006/07, a period...
[April 14, 2008, 8:42]
Siemens Spins Off Network Services
News SNSL's roots go a long way back in the history of IT in the UK: as ACT Cablestream it was part of a group developed from the historic Apricot company, and dealt with structured cabling. KKR has a history of running an IT portfolio," said Halls.
[October 17, 2002, 11:11]
Intel Drives IT Into The Classroom
News The US chip giant is working with academics, UK software developers and teachers to create interactive, multimedia software packages to enhance English, math and history lessons, and to boost teachers' IT skills.
[September 23, 1998, 10:52]
UK Lags Behind In Europe In IT Optimism
News Mike Kiely, UPS's UK finance director, said he thought this year's results were among the most interesting in the survey's 13-year history: "The buoyant outlook from UK business leaders is extremely heartening, though caution clearly still...
[December 4, 2003, 16:00]
Gates Rejects Birthplace Of Modern Computing
News Despite its code-breakers being credited with ending the Second World War at least two years ahead of time, and its innovative history, Bletchley receives no public funding at all from the UK Treasury.
[August 11, 2003, 10:00]
Privacy On The Line review
Reviews The second edition recounts the history of these changes in detail. Obviously, most of this history is American. But for British readers it's still important, because UK policy on these security matters has largely followed the US's lead.
[July 12, 2007, 15:35]
Linux Fundamentals review
Reviews The content of the course covered the history of Unix and Linux, common shells, basic syntax, the X Window system, GNOME desktop, an extensive list of basic commands, the Linux file system, file access control, redirection and pipes, vi/wim...
[May 1, 2007, 14:23]
Mozilla: IE7 Will Boost Firefox Take-up
News ZDNet UK also spoke to Dotzler about the history of Firefox and Mozilla, the rise of Firefox in the enterprise, future marketing campaigns and how the Mozilla Foundation plans to target less tech-savvy consumers.
[July 19, 2005, 14:20]
Joy As Microsoft Reinstates MVP Program!
News Peter Boulding of Peter Boulding Associates, a Wiltshire-based company, who had yesterday expressed his concerns in an open letter to Lindstrom, copied to ZDNet News UK, welcomed the overturned decision as a milestone in online history:
[October 26, 1999, 8:22]
Behind The Scenes At Mozilla HQ
News For more information on the history of Firefox and how Dotzler got involved, read our interview with him. To read Dotzler's view of Firefox's and Mozilla's history, click here. To see photos of some of the people ZDNet UK met in the Mozilla offices...
[July 19, 2005, 13:35]
Intel Puts Pentium Out To Grass
News The last time the company held such an event at its headquarters was when it introduced the Pentium processor in 1993, a similarly important milestone in its history. Early reviews of the Core 2 Duo have been stellar, and the chipmaker has...
[July 28, 2006, 8:55]
Police Force's Facebook App Raises Privacy Concerns
News Contacts can opt out of this sharing but, by default, it includes information such as education history, work history, profile status, photos, groups and relationship status. Last week, Greater Manchester Police became the first UK police force to...
[April 21, 2008, 15:13]
UK's Leading CIO Announced
News British Airways' Paul Coby has been voted the UK's top CIO for the crucial role he has played in transforming the airline's IT operations during one of the most turbulent periods in the company's history.
[June 7, 2007, 10:27]
Government Sites Defaced In US, UK And Australia
News According to reports on hacking news site attrition.org, the attacks occurred at the same time across three different timezones with the hackers' logo and the message "presents.the largest .gov and .mil mass defacement in the history of mankind".
[January 22, 2001, 12:24]
UK Lags Behind Estonia In ID Card Technology
News Perry said that because UK does not have a history of carrying ID cards this is just a first step -- unlike Estonia where they are looking at an upgrade of their ID card system. The UK's ID card proposals are technically years behind the systems...
[May 6, 2004, 17:50]
UK 'lagging On VoIP Usage'
News Countries like France have a history of using more complex services and products. The UK is lagging behind Europe on the take-up of VoIP, according to a report published on Tuesday, and its failure to adopt broadband as early as other countries is...
[November 29, 2005, 15:15]
UK Computer Museum Faces Closure
News The majority of the exhibits at the museum have been contributed freely by individuals and organisations, and cover a history of computing in the UK. We would not survive but for the work of volunteers," Holt told ZDNet.co.uk, "and so the museum...
[April 1, 2008, 13:12]
UK Notebook Maker Tadpole's Shares Suspended
News Cambridge-based Tadpole, founded in 1983, has a history of losses despite a reputation for excellence in engineering its Intel-, Sun SPARC- and Digital Alpha-based portable PCs that are aimed at CAD, Unix and other niches.
[April 2, 1997, 14:44]
