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Amazon's Kindle ignites legal upheaval
Comment It's an issue the UK government has already started to address in part through its recent Digital Britain report. They are capable of storing thousands of books in digital form; users... [27 Oct 2009]
Lord Stephen Carter
AS Profile Lord Stephen Carter made his mark in his former guise as UK Minister for Communications, Technology and Broadcasting - or in other words the brains behind the government's Digital Britain blueprint for... [08 Oct 2009]
iPhones unshackled, IT wages revealed and outsourcing explained
News Another high-speed connectivity of interest to silicon.com readers last month was fibre - superfast broadband which could deliver downlinks many times those available today - with the news that Digital... [06 Oct 2009]
Martha Lane Fox
AS Profile As the champion for digital inclusion Lane Fox has pledged to help fulfil the government's ambitions for widespread broadband connectivity set out in the Digital Britain report. Martha... [30 Sep 2009]
Karen Price
AS Profile Her role is increasingly influential in light of the government's vision of a Digital Britain where the public are online and actively engaged with technology. As CEO of e-skills UK, the Sector Skills... [29 Sep 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 25.09.09
Round-Up The proposal was originally part of the Digital Britain report unveiled earlier this summer. Minister for Digital Britain Stephen Timms said the government is committed... [25 Sep 2009]
Digital Britain fibre tax 'to be law before next general election'
News Stephen Timms, Minister for Digital Britain and financial secretary to the Treasury, said the government is committed to making its £6 per year tax on landlines law to pay for rolling out next-gen... [23 Sep 2009]
Are dinosaur managers and poor teaching holding back Digital Britain?
News More must be done to convince grey-haired business leaders to embrace web 2.0 developments, a panel of experts has warned. A panel assembled by the British Computer Society (BCS) were asked to consider whether IT could lead the UK out of... [23 Sep 2009]
Kids today: Don't fear the Millennials at work
Comment This conclusion is based on a major research project I led about a year ago on how the Millennials will change the world of work, as well as a series of short films I made in which children explore their vision of a future... [24 Aug 2009]
Plan to turn Britain's tech vision into reality unveiled - with no timetable
News Remember the government's vision for the future for the UK's technological future, Digital Britain? After publishing the strategy document in June, the government has now revealed the people that will be... [17 Aug 2009]
Digital Britain: Treasury's Timms set to be next broadband ambassador?
News Junior minister Stephen Timms is set to assume responsibility for implementing the Digital Britain plan, according to a report in The Guardian. Reports of Lord Carter's departure emerged just prior to... [04 Aug 2009]
Rural Britain needs faster, more reliable broadband
Comment While universal broadband speeds of up to 2Mbps by 2012 might seem like a modest goal for the government to set itself with the Digital Britain plan, for remote areas of the country even a steady 1Mbps... [04 Aug 2009]
Five joins BBC and ITV in Canvas picture
News Its widespread adoption is central to driving Digital Britain. Canvas - a BBC, BT and ITV Canvas joint venture announced in December 2008 - will provide UK homes with access to IPTV via a broadband... [29 Jul 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... [14 Jul 2009]
Teenagers losing interest in illegal file-sharing as streaming starts to flow
News The service is even name-checked in the Digital Britain report, along with Last FM, as showing "that where the system is failing to serve the needs of users, innovative business models will develop to... [13 Jul 2009]
