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The Weekly Round-Up: 20.11.09
Round-Up Onto another example of bloated, out of shape IT: the government ID card project continues to rumble on regardless, despite nobody seeming to know what the benefits are, and the fact that the Conservatives are promising to cancel the... [20 Nov 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 Britain's fibre tax will be law... [06 Oct 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 25.09.09
Round-Up And it seems the government's final act of legislative indignity before its increasingly likely trouncing in the general election could be to usher through a tax to pay for next-generation broadband.... [25 Sep 2009]
Digital Britain fibre tax 'to be law before next general election'
News The proposed fibre tax to pay for next-gen broadband in the UK could be law before the next general election. Limited time left to push a law through parliament before the next general... [23 Sep 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 24.07.09
Round-Up Besides, the debacle is doomed anyway if the Conservatives win the next General Election. Phishing has become a constant nuisance for the good denizens of Planet Interweb. Rarely a day goes by when you... [24 Jul 2009]
IBM inks ID cards biometrics contract despite Tory scrap pledge
News The Conservative Party has pledged to scrap the ID cards scheme if it wins the next general election, which will be in 2010 at the latest. IBM's contract to supply technology for ID cards will last seven... [13 Jul 2009]
ID cards: 'A project nobody wants and the nation can't afford'
News The Conservative Party has already said it would scrap the ID card scheme if it wins the next general election and shadow home secretary, Chris Grayling, said the decision by the government not to make... [01 Jul 2009]
ID cards U-turn: No compulsory cards for pilots
News The Conservatives have pledged to scrap the ID card scheme should they win the next general election. In a statement, Balpa general secretary Jim McAuslan attributed the government's... [01 Jul 2009]
Tories tell vendors: 'Don't sign ID card contracts'
News Contractors will be devoting a large amount of time and effort to the tendering process, when there is absolutely no certainty [the scheme] will continue after a general election," said Green. The... [18 Jun 2009]
Whitehall: DIY tech to protect against public service knife
News There are few people who have a vested interest in dealing with this, you do not win an election by telling people that Armageddon is upon us. Public service spending will need to fall by £50bn by 2020 according to... [11 Jun 2009]
First ID card trials announced for airport staff
News Wiltshire added there was a question as to whether the scheme would "see the light of day" after the next general election, given both Conservative and Liberal Democrat political opposition to ID cards. [06 Nov 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.03.08
Round-Up The government has finally deigned to listen to the public uproar, having first checked the balance sheet and looked at the recent opinion polls ahead of a looming general election - you decide which. [07 Mar 2008]
ID cards: The bidding war begins
News With the opposition parties against the ID card scheme and a general election likely in the next two years, some suppliers could be concerned about a change of government endangering the ID card scheme. [09 Aug 2007]
Gov trumpets ePassports successes
News The government's ID cards scheme has not been popular with silicon.com readers and even Conservative Party leader David Cameron pledged to scrap the scheme - and undertake a full-scale review of the £12.4bn NHS IT upgrade project - if... [13 Jul 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 29.06.07
Round-Up However, in a week dominated by talk of a new UK Prime Minister, by-elections and even a possible General Election there is still room for some technology because it was revealed this week that e-voting... [29 Jun 2007]
