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The Weekly Round-Up: 25.09.09
Round-Up Minister for Digital Britain Stephen Timms said the government is committed to passing its law to charge landline owners a £6 per year tax to pay for rollout of next-gen broadband in the UK. The proposal... [25 Sep 2009]
Plan to turn Britain's tech vision into reality unveiled - with no timetable
News After publishing the strategy document in June, the government has now revealed the people that will be in charge of turning the document into reality, with the announcement of its Digital Britain... [17 Aug 2009]
Digital Britain: Treasury's Timms set to be next broadband ambassador?
News Digital Britain came out in mid-June, notably calling for a 50p monthly charge to be levied on each copper fixed line. Junior minister Stephen Timms is set to assume responsibility for implementing the... [04 Aug 2009]
Cheat Sheet: BT's £1.5bn fibre plans
Cheat Sheet Carter's solution to the problem, set out in the Digital Britain report in June, is a 50p-per-month levy on all existing copper lines. With fibre, Britain could be looking at downstream broadband speeds... [14 Jul 2009]
Apple bonanza, crime breathalysers and broadband tax
News Issues around content are also being tackled by the government's Digital Britain report, published in June. One of the plans laid out by the report was a 50p monthly charge on all fixed copper lines to... [02 Jul 2009]
How realistic is Digital Britain's broadband plan?
News A parliamentary select committee is to check whether the recommendations proposed in the Digital Britain report are realistic, particularly those regarding broadband speed. Many of the government's recommendations in... [01 Jul 2009]
Britain to get official cyber attack dogs
News The Office of Cyber Security (OCS), dedicated to protecting Britain's IT infrastructure, will be created in line with a model proposed - and in part practised by - the US, the Cabinet Office said on Thursday. [25 Jun 2009]
BT calls for end of 'free ride' for BBC's iPlayer
News Next week Lord Carter will present the Digital Britain report," said the spokesperson. Part of Digital Britain is low prices so people aren't locked out. That BT would not charge a lot... [12 Jun 2009]
Does Pirate Bay verdict spell trouble for Google?
Comment This very point is highlighted in Lord Mandelson's Digital Britain report - but it will need to happen sooner rather than later, otherwise more companies are going to be in the legal firing line. Indeed we are still... [28 Apr 2009]
Cheat sheet: Digital Britain
Cheat Sheet Lord Carter is in charge of overseeing the Digital Britain report, which is due out this summer and should help determine the government's policy on a range of technology issues. Digital... [21 Apr 2009]
BT slammed over unbundling price hike
News In a statement on Monday, BT's director of industry policy and regulation, Emma Gilthorpe, said it was "astonishing and ludicrous [of TalkTalk] to suggest that people will be locked out of Britain's digital revolution by... [10 Mar 2009]
Mobile-software company UIQ files for bankruptcy
News The birth of hi-tech Britain As the IP became free of charge, Sony Ericsson and Motorola decided to work with the Symbian Foundation, not UIQ. The mobile-software company UIQ has filed for bankruptcy,... [05 Jan 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.03.08
Round-Up There are a few more bits of empty posturing from the government here but overall it’s a significant victory for opponents of ID cards, which, let's face it, is pretty much everyone who lives in Britain who doesn't read... [07 Mar 2008]
Dear silicon.com... this little piggybacker, don't talk trash, analyse this...
Comment Isn't it about time the police started dealing with real crime in Britain instead of inventing new crimes and turning the average guy into a criminal? If they didn't how can they arrest and charge... [30 Aug 2007]
Stories of the month - February 2007
News UK customers soon cried foul over US prices for other software products with many echoing the "rip-off Britain" sentiment. But Joe Public also made an impact as the online petition against the proposed 'pay-as-you-drive'... [28 Feb 2007]
