Missing PCs Add To Digital Divide Woes
News More than 1,000 second-hand computers were donated to households in Kensington, a run-down area of Liverpool, as part of the Wired Up Communities project sponsored by the Department for Education and Employment (DfEE).
[May 11, 2001, 16:09]
At This Fast-Growing Hospital System, Patients And Staff Benefit From A Long Relationship With Nortel
White Papers Located in eastern Pennsylvania, Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network (LVHHN) serves the cities of Allentown, Bethlehem and Easton as well as the surrounding communities. For over a decade, LVHHN has relied on Nortel to diagnose its...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
EC To Investigate Digital Divide
News The UK government last week announced it was to put PCs and Internet access in 12,000 homes in some of the most deprived rural and urban areas in the country as part of a £10m programme dubbed Wired up Communities.
[March 22, 2001, 14:12]
British Children Are Surfing The Web For Porn
News The Department for Education and Employment (DfEE) has recently donated £5m to the national e-Learning Foundation to assist in the provision of IT for schoolchildren in wired up communities and ultimately throughout the UK.
[May 10, 2001, 11:31]
BT Boss Wants Government Support Not Subsidies
News The Office of Government Commerce (OGC), which is responsible for government procurement, placed an advert in the Official Journal of the European Communities last month asking for broadband companies who are interested in providing services on...
[September 11, 2002, 14:15]
Fiorina Urges Companies To Combat The Digital Divide
News Carly Fiorina urged businesses to seek a diverse work force and to help train under-served communities to use technology, saying that it would help their bottom line in the long run. She said HP's digital divide initiatives have already helped to...
[May 1, 2003, 8:38]
AOL Faces Hate Speech Issue...maybe
News This is really sort of an ongoing process with many communities whose interests intersect with this new medium. That action prompted Wired Strategies, an online watchdog group, and Hatewatch.org to investigate just how well AOL was enforcing its TOS.
[November 3, 1999, 14:18]
WiMax? Why Not?
News BellSouth plans to blanket portions of Georgia, including college communities, with WiMax services, while AT&T will soon announce two more cities where it's trialing the service and testing a new voice-over-WiMax feature, representatives for the...
[June 8, 2005, 10:45]
Timms: Communications Competition Has Made Us Better Off
News This is the reasons for Ofcom's duty of care to the citizen, as well as UK Online Web terminals in all libraries, the Grid for Learning and the Wired-Up Communities programme. Former e-commerce minister Stephen Timms told the Labour conference's...
[September 28, 2004, 14:55]
Microsoft And Vodafone Team For Web Services
News On the mobile side, in terms of efforts to build developer communities, we don't feel we've achieved everything we need to in promoting the developer world for mobile devices," said Charles Fitzgerald, general manager in the Platform Strategy...
[October 13, 2003, 10:10]
Open-source Wi-Fi Links Remote Communities
News The aim is to allow remote communities in developing countries without traditional telecoms infrastructure to communicate more effectively. While a lot of attention has been focused on bridging the digital divide and providing Internet access to...
[July 8, 2004, 11:45]
Google Sued By Start-up Over Code
News Social networking sites have become popular because they allow users to create online communities for people to interact and to meet other people. News of the lawsuit was first reported by Wired News.
[July 1, 2004, 9:10]
