digital economy
Full steam ahead for plans to cut off file-sharers
News Speaking at a cabinet creative industries conference yesterday, the business minister said proposals made back in August will feature in the Digital Economy Bill expected before Parliament in November. [29 Oct 2009]
Lord Stephen Carter
AS Profile Another said he's the "first person to pull together a coherent vision for the UK", with a third commending how he cut through "the political spaghetti" and set out a detailed and transformative plan for "a key aspect" of the underlying... [08 Oct 2009]
IT Service Provider TietoEnator Uses SAS to Measure Profitability and Performance
White Paper The group specializes in consulting, developing and hosting its customers' business operations in the digital economy. TietoEnator is a leading supplier of high value-added IT services in the Nordic... [19 Sep 2009]
Australian cops investigate 'anonymous' cyber attack threat
News AGD said it had advised agencies likely to be targeted - such as the Department of Broadband Communications and the Digital Economy and the Australian Communications and Media Authority - to contact... [09 Sep 2009]
'Europe needs its own clouds to fight US domination'
News Such web-based services - called cloud computing - are the medicine needed for our credit-squeezed economy: they can make businesses more productive by shifting from fixed costs (for example, hiring staff or buying PCs)... [09 Jul 2009]
Why Carter's putting business on the back burner
Comment But surely the kind of help you dole out depends on what you're trying to achieve - and if the goal is UK 2.0 with a flourishing 'knowledge economy' built on ranks of prosperous and innovative digital... [19 Jun 2009]
Critics slam Digital Britain over file-sharers and tax plans
News The report, published on Tuesday, outlines the government's plans for the UK's telecommunications infrastructure and digital economy. Everyone recognises that public investment may be necessary to reach... [18 Jun 2009]
£23m pot of gold for tech-bamboozled SMEs
News Making SMEs more tech-savvy is apparently key to the UK economy's future, the report said. The funding, announced in the government's Digital Britain report released yesterday, is aimed at encouraging... [17 Jun 2009]
£6 broadband tax to fund fibre for all
News The proposals come as part of the government's Digital Britain report - its blueprint for ensuring the UK does not become the laggard of the global digital economy. The benefits to the... [16 Jun 2009]
Facilitating Compliance and Intelligent Information Management With Effective Database Management: A Review of Solix Technologies Enterprise Data Management Suite
White Paper Databases are the underpinning of the digital economy. In essence, databases store the information that run businesses, and they are also essential in helping in organizing the vast amount of... [11 Jun 2009]
Rise of the machine-to-machines
News But the plan for the spin-off was shelved when the economy tanked. Specifically, Motorola is putting its homegrown wireless technology into embedded modules so that laptops, netbooks, digital cameras,... [02 Jun 2009]
Microsoft's Kumo wrestling to keep things fresh?
News For example, a search on "Audi" breaks things down into an initial result with facts such as price and fuel economy pulled out in bold, followed by general web results, then results by category, such as Audi parts, used... [21 May 2009]
'Invest £15bn in tech - create 700,000 jobs'
News The authors also noted that investments in ICT infrastructure "should not be minimised out of concern that the projects will take too long to begin to have an immediate impact on the economy". The report, The UK's... [30 Apr 2009]
Trio of research hubs to poke digital benefits
News The three will share the cash equally between them, with the only condition attached to the funding being that £2m is earmarked for community outreach work, according to Dr Dave Watson, chair of the Research Councils UK... [29 Apr 2009]
Budget: £750m cash injection for UK tech
News Announcing the Strategic Investment Fund, Darling said that communications, low carbon and advanced manufacturing technologies were "as important to the British economy as the financial services sector". [22 Apr 2009]