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RSS g7Photos: How HP goes "beyond videoconferencing" with Halo
Photo An HP Halo room (the whole product and service comes very much from HP) looks a lot like some traditional videoconferencing facilities. However, the lighting is carefully set and facilities on opposite sides of the world are... [13 Dec 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: The UK's a broadband leader. Really?
Comment Written from a location that looks like a little bit of heaven, with really high-speed access just outside Agios Nikolaos, Crete. Copy dispatched by free LAN at 2Mbps. Recently I have attended one conference or function after another... [17 Oct 2005]
Opinion: Like it or not, here come ID cards
Comment The latest attempt to introduce a national ID card in the UK is as flawed as previous attempts, says Simon Moores. Yet it appears the government is pushing ahead with the plan regardless. When the UK government, under previous Home... [31 May 2005]
BT CEO: "Cannibalise yourself"
News Fresh from BT celebrating its five millionth wholesale broadband customer, CEO Ben Verwaayen has spoken about his company's track record on innovation and called the UK "the most competitive broadband market" - as well as proudly talking... [05 Apr 2005]
Northern Ireland hits broadband jackpot
News Northern Ireland has become the first region after London to have all its local telephone exchanges broadband-enabled. BT announced on Thursday that every one of the 191 local exchanges in Northern Ireland now offer high-speed ADSL... [28 Feb 2005]
Opinion: How broad is broadband?
Comment Broadband may be widely available in the UK - but how fast are these connections? Can they even be considered broadband? Simon Moores sheds light on how the UK compares to the rest of the world on internet speeds and policy. [23 Feb 2005]
UK tops G7 broadband league
News The UK has overtaken the other G7 nations in terms of the availability of broadband infrastructure, a report claimed on Monday. According to research from analyst Ovum, the UK became the most "extensive broadband market"... [22 Feb 2005]
Britain joins tech elite
News UK firms moved up in the league of the most advanced users of technology, according to a government study. The UK came in third - up four spots from last year - in the latest International Benchmarking Study, which is designed to measure... [09 Nov 2004]
Broadband ramps up in UK - further growth expected
News A slew of new research on broadband shows use of the technology is growing rapidly in the UK, albeit not fast enough - or fairly enough - for some. The number of DSL subscribers alone has risen by 25 per cent to 2.72 million in the first... [10 Jun 2004]
Britain forecast to be broadband trailblazer
News The UK will become a world leader in the rollout of high-speed internet services, according to a new report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). After years of lagging behind other countries in terms of... [12 May 2004]
Broadband is one of fastest-growing technologies ever
News Broadband is one of the fastest-growing technologies in history, according to research group Point Topic, which has calculated that there are now over 100 million broadband lines worldwide. In the third quarter of 2003, the broadband... [06 Jan 2004]
No room for broadband complacency
Comment Ecommerce minister Stephen Timms was out in Italy this week at the Informal Broadband Council boasting that broadband services are now available to 75 per cent of the UK population. He was citing figures from Analysys which reveal that... [04 Sep 2003]
Broadband Britain - two million homes connected and counting
News The UK recently reached the two million broadband subscribers mark, about seven months after reaching one million. In contrast, it took two years to accumulate the first million broadband users, according to telecoms regulator Oftel. [22 May 2003]
UK playing catch-up in the global broadband league
News Britain's days of lagging behind in the broadband stakes are over, according to ecommerce minister Stephen Timms. Speaking in parliament last week, Timms said he is confident that new figures will soon show that the UK is finally... [07 May 2003]
Rumours abound of a BT broadband price cut
News BT has announced that its wholesale ADSL prices are under review - but the telco has been quick to quash consumer hopes of an imminent cut. Speaking at BT Wholesale's Broadband Customer Forum in London, Bruce Stanford - director of... [27 Mar 2003]
