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Rural Britain needs faster, more reliable broadband
Comment The source of the problem has proved as elusive as Iraqi WMDs, with both the ISP and BT struggling to pinpoint this ghost in the machine. Country folk deserve reliable broadband as much as city dwellers, says... [04 Aug 2009]
Iraq gets its own domain name back
News Internet regulator Icann has decided to give control of Iraq's domain name dot-iq to an Iraqi government body, the National Communications and Media Commission (NCMC). The change in administration of dot-iq will allow... [08 Aug 2005]
Journalist saved by Google search
News The Australian journalist kidnapped by Iraqi militants, John Martinkus, never thought that the search engine Google would one day save his life. The internet has become a popular tool for Iraqi militant... [20 Oct 2004]
Q&A: The facts on offshoring
Comment The coverage of the offshore issue is directly in proportion to how much Iraqi coverage there is. Forrester Research's John McCarthy, publisher of a controversial report on the number of US service jobs expected to move... [11 Aug 2004]
Biometrics used to keep German Olympians safe
News The Israeli team this week erected a giant steel fence around its area in the village while the Iraqi team arrived with a full military escort. German athletes going for Gold in Greece are to be protected in their... [11 Aug 2004]
Got a Gmail account? Don't sell it
News And the Institute for Spam and Public Policy recently started a website and campaign called Gmail 4 Troops to encourage people to share their Gmail invitations with military fighting in the Iraqi war. [02 Jul 2004]
Iraqi telecoms contracts up for grabs
News Sharp added: "The Iraqi people want as much information as possible. Telecoms must be at the heart of rebuilding Iraq and UK suppliers have a part to play in that market. That was the overriding message at a UK... [27 May 2004]
Lucent gets $75m to rebuild Iraq
News The US Department of Defense awarded Lucent Technologies a $75m contract to repair or upgrade communications networks used by Iraqi private businesses and the nation's interim government agencies, Lucent said on Thursday. [26 Mar 2004]
NASA websites defaced with link to Iraq 'image'
News It includes a link to what appears to be CNN footage of American soldiers shooting an injured Iraqi in the back and then cheering. The maintainers of an online archive of defaced websites say 13 NASA sites have been... [18 Dec 2003]
Baghdad awards mobile licences
News The licences will run for two years initially and it's hoped that the Iraqi mobile network will be fully functioning around the end of the month. The groups will fund a regulatory body between them and if their regional... [07 Oct 2003]
Lucent wins first Iraq subcontract
News Lucent begins work next month to repair the network of Iraqi Telephone and Post Company (ITPC), which is the dominant telephone provider in Iraq. Construction giant Bechtel National said on Monday that it had tapped... [26 Aug 2003]
Vodafone and Kuwaiti partner get the nod for second Iraqi network
News Iraq is getting its second mobile phone network, this time from MTC, the Kuwaiti carrier that is a partner of Vodafone. As with Iraq's first post-war network - surprisingly awarded to US-based MCI, formerly WorldCom and a company with... [12 Jun 2003]
Midband falls short of early promises
News Some of the telco's rivals, though, are scathing about the product, with one source yesterday slamming it as "Noband", and drawing a disparaging comparison between BT and "Comical Ali", the former Iraqi Information... [01 May 2003]
'Comical' BT in broadband row with NTL
News This led one industry source to claim this week that Midband's launch will make BT look like "the Comical Ali" of the UK's telecoms industry, in a reference to the former notorious Iraqi information minister. [01 May 2003]
Comical-Ali wins web search 'April fool' award
News Perhaps most remarkable was the increase in searches for Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf - the Iraqi Information Minister, dubbed Comical-Ali because of his tall tales and claims of Iraqi victories during the... [25 Apr 2003]
