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£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]
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]
Five ways Gen Y will change the way you work
News Web 2.0 evangelist Don Tapscott - author of tech titles including Wikinomics and The Digital Economy - is forecasting a "big conflict" in the office, sparked by the generation of 11- to 30-year-olds who... [26 Mar 2009]
Broadband summit: Speed is the key
News Ultra fast broadband is going to be a key technology to drive future growth of the UK economy, the competitiveness minister, Stephen Timms, has said. If we delay in putting this new network into place, it could be a... [27 Nov 2007]
Prepare for some 'digital tension'
Comment What decisions will shape the landscape of the European digital economy of 2020? Chaired by Malcolm Harbour, MEP, with SAP vice president Andreas Tegge as 'rapporteur', the Digital... [27 Sep 2006]
The big picture - China's tech scene
Comment So when experts talk about the technology economy in China, they are talking about a much smaller number of people who live in a few mainland large cities on the east coast such as Beijing, Dalian, Guangzhou, Shanghai... [12 Jun 2006]
Opinion: Corporate IT - you can help fight cyber crime
Comment Mark Kobayashi-Hillary is the technology research director of the Commonwealth Business Council and author of 'Outsourcing to India: The Offshore Advantage' (Springer 2004, 2005), 'Beyond BPO: Outsourcing and the Global Services... [03 Oct 2005]
Apple legal row backed by Intel
News Intel and BSA stated in their joint brief: "Strong trade secret laws are vital to the health of California's high-technology business and to the economy of the nation as a whole. In this day and age,... [29 Apr 2005]
5 years ago: SMEs shy away from technology
News Hewitt said the key to success of the knowledge economy was for government to work hand-in-hand with business. She added she wanted to see the government become a leading edge user of information communications... [24 Feb 2005]
Devil's Advocate: Digital doomsday just round the corner?
Comment With hackers developing new methods of targeting us as quickly - or perhaps more quickly - than we can come up with defences, Martin Brampton wonders just how fragile our wired economy is. But unless we can think up... [08 Feb 2005]
Peter Cochrane’s Uncommon Sense: Death by a million tracks
Comment Despite the closing down of Napster and many other file-sharing services, this black economy continues to grow unchecked and billions are visibly disappearing from the bottom line of the recording companies. [14 Aug 2003]
In business? In a rural area? Want broadband? Well here's how to get it...
News The situation was beginning to worry us, as it has become quite evident that teleworking professionals - many of them from the IT industry - will probably be one of the strongest elements of our local economy over the... [05 Dec 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: The net and bad news, top tier vendors turn the screw and that international ebiz report
Comment There are many reasons for this situation - top of the list is the economy. In a recent report, 'The World's Most Effective Policy for the e-Economy', Booz Allen Hamilton and the INSEAD business school... [25 Nov 2002]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Where am I coming from?
Comment The basis of this series is a lifetime of real 'hands-on' experience in a technologically fuelled economy - and it is for people engaged in business and the workplace at all levels, and with the widest range of skills. [11 Jul 2002]
Bye, bye monkey
Comment Searches for employment opportunities, commerce, travel and the economy have risen from 13.3 per cent to 24.7 per cent. Barclays is working with Age Concern and investing £600,000 in four such vehicles... [04 Apr 2002]
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