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RSS cultureTraining up for the business of IT
Comment The root of the problem is not the culture clash between business and IT professionals. Silicon.com's poll on the training of IT professionals in the UK threw up some surprising results. It was easy to assume that... [07 Feb 1999]
Charles Schwab claims £100m UK trades
News Benjamin Ensor, analyst at Fletcher Research, said: "The US investment culture may be ahead of the UK, but this huge figure has established Schwab at the forefront of the UK retail electronic commerce market. [04 Feb 1999]
Online museum gets cash injection
News In May last year, Chris Smith, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport awarded the Campaign for Museums and the MDA - a museums, galleries and heritage information management body - £10,000 to initiate the... [14 Jan 1999]
IT clusters face rough reception
News You can't hope to generate a culture which generates money out of academic research overnight. Peter Mandelson's plans to create high-tech centres of excellence in the UK are likely to run into trouble with environmental... [14 Dec 1998]
High-tech entrepreneurs get cash boost from UK government
News Although details are tightly under wraps until Wednesday, Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) secretary of state, Peter Mandelson, said the policy would encourage an entrepreneurial culture in the UK. [13 Dec 1998]
BT trials high-speed ADSL media service
News The Department of Trade and Industry and Department for Culture, Media and Sport dismissed speculation that BT Interactive may overstep the regulatory mark. BT has stepped up its trials of high-speed DSL (Digital... [10 Dec 1998]
UK libraries get £3m online boost
News According to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, successful applications are likely to cost between £100,000 and £1m, and must be capable of completion by 29 February 2000. UK libraries are to receive £3m to... [08 Dec 1998]
AOL admits motive for Netscape buyout
News The MD, who is soon to leave AOL to join Barnesandnoble.com, added that the companies share an entrepreneurial culture and said he believes they will merge successfully. America Online (AOL) has admitted that new... [26 Nov 1998]
EU calls on governments to promote IT
News According to the report, Europe must do more to promote an enterprise culture in which technology start-ups can be allowed to succeed. The EU has released a report on the cultivation of job opportunities in the European... [25 Nov 1998]
Underwriters association calls for radical rethink of technology
News The wider issue is the need to foster a culture within the industry which embraces technology, rather than relying on people to process claims and premiums manually. The formation of the International Underwriting... [12 Nov 1998]
UK libraries plan nationwide link-up
News Culture Minister, Chris Smith, has already viewed the report informally and will give a formal response at some point next year. The Department of Culture, Media and Sport plans to fund the move to... [05 Nov 1998]
The renaissance of push
Comment The culture of the Internet is based on freedom of information,' they cried, 'No one wants to read the news according to Microsoft. Fashion is a curious thing. Take proprietary online services. Three years ago, every... [05 Nov 1998]
Brown takes cue from Silicon Valley
News Ahead of the full budget next year, Brown said he wants to "remove once and for all the 'them and us' culture" of UK business by "making it easier for all employees to become stakeholders" in their companies. [03 Nov 1998]
BBC defends £20m online bill
News BBC chairman, Sir Christopher Bland addressed the House of Commons Culture Committee yesterday to explain that the £20m of license-payers money used to set up BBC Online is money well spent. Sir Bland told the committee... [21 Oct 1998]
Knowledge management hailed as the next big thing
News It spans traditional areas such as database management, datawarehousing and network structuring but extends to working practices and culture. Knowledge management is the key to business and IT convergence, according to... [01 Oct 1998]
