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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? Still, the Round-Up reckons it's all downhill from here for techies. Coming soon: cold-calling IT managers offering bespoke... [06 Nov 2009]
Netbooks, Apple goodies, vintage kit and a futuristic datacentre
Photo The firm scours the net searching for threats to its customers, which include a selection of Britain's high street banks. Technology start-ups from Cambridge unveiled their hottest gadgets at the Diving... [02 Oct 2009]
Cheat Sheet: BT's £1.5bn fibre plans
Cheat Sheet With fibre, Britain could be looking at downstream broadband speeds of up to 100Mbps. Carter's solution to the problem, set out in the Digital Britain report in June, is a 50p-per-month... [14 Jul 2009]
Naked CIO: Speak up for British jobs
Comment The Naked CIO says it's time to stop this trend before it permanently harms Britain. My feeling is that these trends will cripple Britain's ability to ever be a true leader in IT and will deteriorate its... [14 Jul 2009]
Teenagers losing interest in illegal file-sharing as streaming starts to flow
News The service is even name-checked in the Digital Britain report, along with Last FM, as showing "that where the system is failing to serve the needs of users, innovative business models will develop to fill the gap". [13 Jul 2009]
Naked CIO: The board must follow corporate policy
Comment Instead the government should start putting money and incentives into keeping British innovations in Britain and British workers in jobs. I have always believed that Britain has been a... [06 Jul 2009]
Why Carter's putting business on the back burner
Comment So in other words, when it comes to working out who needs more of a leg up in Digital Britain, Carter reckons it's probably Jack not the Giant. The government's Digital Britain scheme... [19 Jun 2009]
'Digital Britain snubbing UK businesses'
News The government's interim Digital Britain report doesn't offer enough help for business, according to a senior Cable & Wireless executive. He also criticised the lack of measures to stimulate digital... [15 Jun 2009]
Budget: £750m cash injection for UK tech
News And the budget committed the government towards the proposal in the Lord Carter's Digital Britain report to roll out a 2Mbps broadband service across the UK by 2012. On e-skills the budget mentioned a £3m scheme to... [22 Apr 2009]
Fidessa LatentZero: From Our Smallest Client to Our Biggest
White Paper In years that Aspectus and Fidessa LatentZero have been working together, the company has seen dramatic changes: from start up, to Britain's fastest growing software company and, most... [16 Apr 2009]
Exclusive: ID cards are here - but police can't read them
News Images: Putting next-gen Broadband Britain on the map I would have thought that the government would have tried to get the readers rolled out as soon as possible as it is only when you get serious deployments that you... [04 Feb 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]
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 the communications... [14 Jan 2009]
David Cameron: Green light for eco tech start-ups
News The party has released a consultation on the green tech market, which aims to "unleash environmental entrepreneurship across Britain, by giving companies advice and services, including expert guidance on intellectual... [05 Jan 2009]
Photos: Britain's first business computer
Photo The user would manually set up an address in memory, the instruction would be programmed into that memory and then stored there. Once the programme was complete, the user would then switch over to 'obey' and... [05 Sep 2008]
