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Internet World: Intel invests £101m in UK data centre
News The Intel Online Services centre will be built in Reading, west of London and will employ 250 staff. During the conference's opening keynote address titled The Future of Online Services and Market Trends, Aymar told assembled members of Britain's e...
[May 23, 2000, 10:59]
Blair's UK Online seeks 'universal access'
News The PM announced UK Online in a speech to business leaders in Leicester, revealing a raft of new initiatives to increase Internet use in Britain and support the country's IT industry. Its goal is to get the UK online," Blair said of the campaign.
[September 11, 2000, 12:09]
Broadband blunders hit UK online
News The UK online campaign intends to make the UK a centre for global e-commerce. The UK online second annual report was published on Tuesday morning, a little more than a year after the campaign to close the "digital divide" was launched by the prime...
[December 4, 2001, 12:52]
ZDNet UK staff abseil from former World Trade Centre
News Two main sponsors, @Jakarta, the popular online games store, and Doubleclick, the Internet ad-banner specialists, are supporting ZDNet's Computercamp scholarship drive. Tourists visiting the Tower of London had a new spectacle to look at today as...
[July 6, 2000, 12:05]
HP opens UK Linux testing centre
News To illustrate the use of Linux in mainstream business applications, HP organised a demonstration at the launch, using two HP BladeServers with ProLiant blades running Red Hat Linux and an online sales application based on an Oracle database.
[February 17, 2006, 13:45]
Betfair's Australian launch is a winner
News When UK-based online trading site Betfair was granted a licence to operate in Australia this January, it built a new data centre and flew the entire setup from the UK to Tasmania on two chartered aeroplanes.
[September 20, 2006, 15:50]
E-Learning centres planned for nurses
News The University of Ulster has been selected as one of three UK universities to deliver an e-learning centre for qualified nurses, enabling them to further their qualifications online. The e-nursing centre will complement the existing online...
[April 25, 2001, 7:08]
Anti-cybercrime centre opens for research
News A new £30m IT security research centre, which officially opened in Northern Ireland on Wednesday, is working on anti-cybercrime technology to better protect people online and offline. These processors can be installed at the heart of computer and...
[September 24, 2009, 9:58]
UK Border Agency taking online bookings
News The UK Border Agency has begun to take online bookings for appointments to seek leave to remain in the UK. It has gone live with a system developed by EzGov Europe, and has reported that it has taken more than 30,000 online applications and...
[December 8, 2009, 8:03]
Police e-crime unit calls for industry aid
News The UK's new e-crime unit wants industry to help out in the battle against online fraud. Police are now in talks with the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and other industry bodies about using online investigators at banks and retailers to...
[December 11, 2008, 7:15]
Oracle users pleased with support progress
News What we have seen is Oracle has made significant inroads into online support. However, Miles admitted the OUG could do more to promote Oracle's online support services to its members. Last year's UK Oracle User Group (OUG) survey singled out...
[December 2, 2008, 6:30]
Oracle accelerates investments in China
News In the hope of wooing application developers in China, Oracle has unveiled a Chinese version of its popular online resource centre. The new online initiative comes less than a month after Oracle opened its third Asia-Pacific product development...
[June 12, 2002, 10:03]
US privacy groups call Amazon policy 'deceptive'
News The online toy store had originally promised its customers that information it collected about them would not be shared. Collecting personal data from consumers has become a routine practice among online companies, which hope to use the information...
[December 5, 2000, 14:14]
Coming Soon: Exhibition and Conference dates
News BASIS Electronic Publishing at Online Information 96, Stand 463/4 Olympia 2, London, Information Dimensions 0171-497 1403 Online Information 96 Conference, Olympia 2, London, 01856-388000 Internet World UK Spring Conference, National Hall and...
[December 3, 1996, 8:49]
Coming Soon: Exhibition and Conference dates
News Online Information 96 Conference, Olympia 2, London, 01856-388000 BASIS Electronic Publishing at Online Information 96, Stand 463/4 Olympia 2, London, Information Dimensions 0171-497 1403 Internet World UK Spring Conference, National Hall and...
[November 18, 1996, 8:25]
Coming Soon: Exhibition and Conference dates
News Online Information 96 Conference, Olympia 2, London, 01856-388000 BASIS Electronic Publishing at Online Information 96, Stand 463/4 Olympia 2, London, Information Dimensions 0171-497 1403 Internet World UK Spring Conference, National Hall and...
[November 25, 1996, 8:37]
Coming Soon: Exhibition and Conference dates
News BASIS Electronic Publishing at Online Information 96, Stand 463/4 Olympia 2, London, Information Dimensions 0171-497 1403 Online Information 96 Conference, Olympia 2, London, 01856-388000 Internet World UK Spring Conference, National Hall and...
[November 11, 1996, 9:26]
Gov't unveils Google Earth climate-change tool
News A collaboration between the UK government and Google has produced a new online tool for learning about climate change. One animation uses world-leading climate-science capabilities from the Hadley Centre to show global temperatures throughout the...
[May 20, 2008, 9:05]
UK Web shoppers' details exposed
News Unfortunately, the company responsible for www.ukshops.co.uk and owner of the UK Shopping City and UK Shopping Centre brands, named online as Yorkdale Limited, is unlisted and uncontactable. A list of more than 1,800 Web users and their personal...
[August 13, 2002, 9:42]
Stark warning as UK faces cybercrime boom
News A government report on serious criminal threats to the UK has warned of the growing danger from international gangs of online and credit card fraudsters. It says the criminal market for stolen data has boomed with the growth of the internet, with...
[June 9, 2008, 8:49]
