prime minister britain
Britain to get official cyber attack dogs
News The Office of Cyber Security (OCS), dedicated to protecting Britain's IT infrastructure, will be created in line with a model proposed - and in part practised by - the US, the Cabinet Office said on Thursday. [25 Jun 2009]
Delayed: Digital Britain report
News The government has said that the Digital Britain report is to be delayed, and has confirmed timing for when Lord Carter will step down. The Digital Britain report, which is expected to recommend greater... [15 Jun 2009]
Broadband for all: A shot in the arm for egov
News Speaking at a Westminster eForum and Westminster Media Forum Keynote Seminar on Digital Britain in London today, Lord Stephen Carter, the minister for communications, technology and broadcasting, said... [14 Jan 2009]
Inbox: Who's to blame for snail's pace broadband?
Comment The kind of ratings used for films could be applied to websites in a bid to better police the internet and protect children from harmful and offensive material, Britain's minister for culture has said. [12 Jan 2009]
High fibre, high investment and high speeds
News After years of run-ins with the advertising standards watchdog over how closely advertised speeds should match their real world equivalent, Britain's ISPs got together and signed up to new code that sees them promising... [29 Dec 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... [23 Sep 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.08.06
Round-Up Blair told the high-tech leaders: "We're trying, in our way in Britain, to make sure the UK is a dynamic, innovative country. Could he not have found something less homespun, or closer to "dynamic", to say than "We're... [04 Aug 2006]
Security education: Too little too late
Comment Startled into action by news that 25 per cent of the world's remotely controlled PCs are found in Britain, government has managed to find £150,000 to contribute to a campaign that it should have taken responsibility for... [22 Aug 2005]
Opinion: We'll pay for ID cards
Comment You can learn more from Britain's mistakes than its successes," I told them. Unlike the Prime Minister and Charles Clarke, I don't believe that identity cards will deliver the kind of... [28 Jun 2005]
Blair: IT staff can transform public services
News The Prime Minister has called on public sector IT workers to help build a better Britain. It is important that John Hutton has been appointed as Cabinet Office minister... [26 May 2005]
Snooping fears ease as draconian rule dies a death
News Phil Zimmermann, a FIPR advisory council member, said: "It's nice to see the last remnant of the crypto wars in Great Britain finally laid to rest, and I feel good about our win. Although fierce opposition meant... [25 May 2005]
'Cyberterrorists poised to attack', warns Labour peer
News Speaking at the Infosecurity Europe conference in London, Lord Harris of Haringey claimed that Britain stood at risk of an "electronic 9/11" because the companies that run parts of the Critical National Infrastructure... [28 Apr 2005]
Opinion: UK needs cybercrime strategy
Comment Meanwhile, the Britain that was supposed to be the best possible environment for ecommerce is looking decidedly like Europe's best online mugging opportunity. It preferred to spend millions on e-government and encourage... [13 Jan 2005]
UK spam fighter urges 'let's play Aussie rules'
News Britain's implementation of the EU Privacy and Electronics Communication Directive allows spammers to send unsolicited junk email to businesses. Back in June, Linford warned that the UK's anti-spam legislation was... [26 Oct 2004]
BBC's Highfield beats Jobs as top man in tech
News For working to bring about a 100 per cent digital Britain and innovating in the space that merges new media and television, Ashley Highfield, BBC's director of technology, has beaten tech stalwarts such as Steve Jobs and... [27 Sep 2004]
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