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The Weekly Round-Up: 06.11.09
Round-Up Question: What do Britain's hairdressers and IT technicians have in common? Our education is poor, as is our management culture, our marketing sucks as does our regulatory and tax systems and our economy... [06 Nov 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. The Agenda Setters judges were impressed with Price's... [29 Sep 2009]
Are dinosaur managers and poor teaching holding back Digital Britain?
News But it warned the UK's potential around technology - and thus the potential of IT to drive economic recovery - is being held back by the current crop of business leaders who are failing to 'get IT', and also by the failure of the... [23 Sep 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. Turning to India, the country's outsourcing industry is using education to maintain its edge in... [02 Jul 2009]
Photos: The evolution of the PC
Photo Britain plays a key part in this story of how PCs became cheap, user-friendly and infinitely more powerful, and is well represented by machines from the 1980s - the golden age of computer manufacturing in the UK. [07 May 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]
"I'm not an out and out technology person"
Comment With the government spending on tech R&D and its Digital Britain plan to get 2Mbps broadband to every home in the country, Boss believes the role of the CIO will become increasingly important as the conduit to allow... [09 Mar 2009]
Broadband Britain: Where's our revolution?
Comment The interim Digital Britain report sets out a pledge of universal broadband access by 2012 at speeds of up to 2Mbps via fixed and wireless networks. Widespread access to 100Mbps+ broadband is surely more of a call to... [30 Jan 2009]
Images: Putting next-gen Broadband Britain on the map
Photo NGA in the UK: Broadband Britain isn't doing too badly after all when it comes to moving towards next-generation broadband, according to a report from Ofcom advisory group the Communications Consumer Panel (CCP). [27 Jan 2009]
'UK needs spectrum-for-speed swap'
News The lottery-funded National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (Nesta) released a policy briefing on Monday, ahead of the launch of Lord Carter's interim Digital Britain review, in which it called on Carter... [20 Jan 2009]
Do you need video in your enterprise?
Comment The birth of hi-tech Britain Video training can ensure unified education across teams and gets the enterprise over time-zone concerns. But can it deliver? Freeform Dynamics's IdaRose Sylvester explains... [05 Jan 2009]
Photos: Brain of Britain
Photo The Merlin computing cluster has been funded by Science Research Investment Funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales. The Merlin computing cluster at the Cardiff University is one of the fastest... [07 Nov 2008]
Gov't to spend £300m on free broadband for UK's poor
News Brown said in the speech: "We want to enable all families to use the internet to link back to their children's school - and so [schools minister] Jim Knight is announcing that we will fund over a million extra families to get online, on... [23 Sep 2008]
Ofcom hatches plan to woo telcos to fibre
News She added: "Ofcom really wants to know what Britain thinks about super-fast broadband and kick off a debate. E is for Education The regulator is also aiming to raise awareness around super-fast broadband... [23 Sep 2008]
Broadband Britain: UK needs wireless patchwork
News E is for Education Friday's report, entitled The next phase of broadband UK: Action now for long-term competitiveness, was compiled by Francesco Caio, the former head of Cable & Wireless and currently vice chairman of... [12 Sep 2008]
