Exclusive: UK Local Authority Adopts Linux
News The UK officially boarded the Linux bandwagon Monday when a local authority in Britain inked a deal with a leading Linux database provider for a limited number of licences. Director of sales for Red Hat UK, Andy Dickens believes that although Linux...
[January 18, 2000, 10:52]
UK Could Face Net Skills Shortage
News A new report ranks the UK's Internet economy first among European countries, but warns continuing growth may lead to a widespread dot-com skills shortage here. The report, compiled by consultancy Spectrum Strategy, finds Internet related services...
[June 9, 2000, 16:32]
UK's Internet Link With America Boosted
News Internet connectivity between the UK and America should benefit from a deal signed this week between the London Internet Exchange (LINX), which handles around 90 percent of UK Internet traffic, and telx, a major interconnection point in New York.
[April 16, 2004, 14:30]
UK Developer Quits DVD Decrypting
News The UK-based developer of DVD Decrypter, one of the most popular tools on the Internet for decrypting DVDs, has quit under duress from an unnamed company. So anyway, from this point forward, I'm no longer permitted to provide any sort of assistance...
[June 6, 2005, 18:05]
UK LinuxWorld Show Postponed Until Spring
News The UK's LinuxWorld conference, due to happen in October at London's Olympia conference centre, has been postponed till spring 2008. Linux users in the UK are sceptical about the reason: "I'd be surprised if there's a single person who'll be at...
[August 31, 2007, 15:09]
UK Internet Governance Forum Launched
News The inaugural UK Internet Governance Forum was held at the Houses of Parliament on Thursday and featured representatives from Nominet, the Specialist Crime Directorate, several MPs and a British ambassador.
[March 6, 2008, 16:19]
UK IT Firms Told: The Market Is Out There
News The UK's high-tech businesses are being called upon to take a larger share of the £425bn global market for software, services and hardware by upping their export efforts. Currently UK IT companies only do £20bn worth of business internationally...
[March 5, 2003, 12:22]
UK Man Arrested In Phishing Probe
News UK Police have arrested a 21-year-old man they suspect of running a phishing scam that targeted customers of online bank Smile. The UK’s National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) was tipped off about the phishing scam in January by Smile, which is the...
[February 7, 2005, 14:10]
UK Research Investment Soars
News The last year has seen a dramatic hike in R&D investment in the UK, with a total increase of more than £2bn. According to the Department of Trade and Industry's 2006 R&D scoreboard, spending on research and development in the UK has risen to...
[October 31, 2006, 8:56]
UK Tech Recession Is Over, Say Analysts
News The UK's technology market is starting to recover, according to new research from the London-based Centre for Economic and Business Research (CEBR). The driving force behind this upturn is thought to be the need for companies to replace obsolete...
[March 18, 2002, 16:09]
UK Tech Summit Draws Big Names
News This year's UK Technology Summit has secured some of the country's biggest technology chief executives to speak at the two-day event. This will be the event's third year, and will see the launch of the first annual CNET Awards ceremony, created to...
[August 27, 2003, 11:20]
News Burst: UK's Independent Computer Games Developers Unite
News Members of the UK's independent computer game developer community launched a trade association on Thursday that they hope will result in greater influence with software publishers and the government. For complete coverage see Gamespot UK.
[March 8, 2001, 16:02]
A Year Ago: UK Hits Back At US 'grow Faster' Demands
News UK PC industry figures are hitting back at those damn Yankees who criticise the lack of sales growth in Europe. It's still a fair question to ask whether the [UK] man in the street really understands what a PC can do for him.
[August 25, 1998, 6:43]
UK Battles Against Web TV Regulation
News The UK government is fighting an attempt by the European Commission to change the way television is regulated in Europe, amid fears that this could lead to the regulation of Internet content. Purnell, though, has indicated that the UK government...
[January 30, 2006, 15:20]
UK Man Charged With DDoS Attack
News A UK man was due in court on Monday over claims he used a network of zombies to commit distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The 27-year-old, from Elgin in North-East Scotland, was arrested on Friday after a joint investigation by the...
[January 18, 2005, 8:35]
UK's Broadband Boom Rockets
News The UK's broadband market is booming, with an estimated 34,000 new customers signing up for a high-speed Internet connection each week. According to their own latest figures, the UK's two cable companies are collectively matching BT Wholesale for...
[November 15, 2002, 12:06]
UK Government IT Spend To Top £12bn
News The UK government will spend almost $20bn on technology this year but must focus on the social impact as well as financial benefits of that investment, according to analyst house Gartner. UK public sector IT spend is up 4 percent on last year and...
[October 20, 2003, 14:30]
UK Business Fears Chaos Over Mobile Number Changes
News Representatives of the UK's small business community have warned of impending chaos when millions of mobile phones numbers change at the end of this month. Big Number is an attempt to better organise the UK's telephone numbers by grouping all...
[April 5, 2001, 9:56]
UK Company Launches Virtual Private Servers
News A small UK company based in the West Midlands has launched a way for single users and small companies to use inexpensive virtual private servers (VPSs) for conducting business or to run private websites.
[April 3, 2008, 16:59]
UK Online Rolls Out 8Mbps Broadband Service
News Internet users in many urban areas around the UK may soon be able to get a broadband connection of eight megabits per second -- four times faster than the quickest consumer service being trialled by BT.
[November 17, 2004, 15:30]

