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Leader Education and training - or what Gordon Brown liked to called "lifelong learning" in his keynote speech - are a big part of the strategy to keep the UK competitive with the rest of the world. Microsoft this week has announced its latest effort to... [01 Feb 2007]
Gates and Brown: Tech transforming education
News Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has laid out a vision for how technology is going to transform education, while Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown emphasised how IT can help the UK face the challenges of globalisation. [31 Jan 2007]
India's Wipro to create 500 new UK jobs
News Wipro revealed its expansion plans on Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown's visit to India last week. Indian outsourcing giant Wipro is expanding its operations in the UK, creating 500 new jobs in the process. [23 Jan 2007]
UK vs the developing world
Comment During the CBI conference, Chancellor Gordon Brown was very positive on this front and extolled the virtues of offshoring and forging good relations with India, China and other emergent economies. Brown presented the possibility of the UK taking a... [29 Nov 2006]
'Stop treating iPod users like criminals'
News The recommendations are aimed at a review of intellectual property which was set up by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, last year and is due to report its findings in November. Copyright laws need to be updated or millions of people... [30 Oct 2006]
Treasury IT projects '17 years late'
News The Tories were quick to jump on the Lib Dem bandwagon, and Theresa Villiers, shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, said: "This is deeply embarrassing news for [Chancellor] Gordon Brown - the man who loves to boast about his government... [13 Oct 2006]
Taxman to get software R&D tax break help
News Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown introduced the R&D tax credits in 2002, which allow businesses to deduct their tech R&D costs from the amount they pay in tax on their profits. Tax inspectors are to get special training in order to make it... [27 Sep 2006]
Prepare for some 'digital tension'
Comment The question should be a matter of concern to our own Prime Minister in waiting, probably Gordon Brown. As global competition in IT picks up pace, Europe is being left behind. Simon Moores shares some suggestions for how the continent can become a... [27 Sep 2006]
Gordon Brown sets up ID fraud taskforce
News Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown has set up a taskforce to explore the future of identity management technologies and how they can be used by both the private and public sectors. Brown said the taskforce will play a key part in advising on... [12 Jul 2006]
Luddite government slows UK knowledge economy
News But in the budget in March, Chancellor Gordon Brown scrapped the tax break. John Woodget, president of Intellect and managing director of Intel UK, has accused the government of failing to support the UK's knowledge economy. [11 May 2006]
Gordon Brown dubbed "analogue Chancellor"
News Gordon Brown has been dubbed the "analogue Chancellor" for failing to save the Home Computing Initiative (HCI). But in the Budget in March, Brown scrapped the tax breaks, so that businesses that loan PCs to their staff for personal use at home will... [05 May 2006]
Treasury denies PC tax plan
News It was abolished by the Chancellor, Gordon Brown, in the Budget in March. The Treasury has denied reports that the current Finance Bill contains proposals to impose a stealth tax on businesses and employees for computer use at work. [04 May 2006]
Gordon Brown backs £1.5m 'knowledge economy' research
News A three-year, £1.5m project backed by Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown hopes to identify how countries can use the 'knowledge economy' to spearhead economic growth and competitiveness. The project, run by not-for-profit organisation The... [02 May 2006]
Treasury reconsiders IT skills incentives
News In his budget speech last month, Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown axed the scheme, which gave tax breaks for businesses that provided employees with PCs. The Treasury could replace the Home Computing Initiative - a scheme to give employees... [03 Apr 2006]
CIO Jury: Has Blair been good for IT?
News The verdict comes in the same week that Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown delivered his 10th Budget, in which he took away with one hand - by controversially scrapping the tax breaks for Home Computing schemes - and gave with the other - by... [23 Mar 2006]
