Posted by Simon Perry on 23 October 2008 | Tagged as: Government, UK
The UK government has named the initial areas around England that will pilot their £300m push to provide computer access from home for school children around the country.
Starting February 2009, 20,000 pupils from low-income families in Suffolk and in Oldham will be offered grants to pay for a computer, software to run on it, a […]
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 21 October 2008 | Tagged as: Ofcom (UK super-regulator), UK, HDTV
Ofcom gives green light for new BBC, ITV and Channel Four HD channels.
Posted by Simon Perry on 13 October 2008 | Tagged as: Government, USA, UK, Legal
Just had this latest update in from Gary McKinnon’s legal representative. His legal struggles have been long.
This afternoon, the Secretary of State has advised via the Treasury Solicitors, that despite Mr McKinnon’s diagnosis with Aspergers she will now be making arrangements for his extradition pursuant to her order for Extradition of 4th July 2006. […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 1 October 2008 | Tagged as: Data Loss, Privacy, Government, Security, UK
Here’s another tale of UK data loss that has to be one for the “You couldn’t make it up” files.
An Englishman has bought a Nikon Coolpix camera from eBay for £17 that had lots of secret information stored on it.
According to The Sun, list is considerable.
a document marked “top secret” detailed the encrypted computer system […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 28 August 2008 | Tagged as: Security, Government, Europe, USA, UK, Legal
We heard news from Gary McKinnon’s law firm, Kaim Todner, that the European Court of Human Rights (‘ECtHR’) has ruled against their recent application to have Gary’s extradition to the US halted.
The temporary prohibition of McKinnon’s extradition, as granted by the ECtHR on 12 August, is now effectively lifted and the authorities of the United […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 22 August 2008 | Tagged as: Data Loss, Government, Security, UK
Yet another UK Government data loss story today.
Today’s is the loss of the names, dates of birth and, in some cases, the expected prison release dates of all 84,000 prisoners in the UK.
As well as this shocking amount of data, there was more held on the memory stick that it’s reported that PA Consulting lost.
PA […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 20 August 2008 | Tagged as: Distribution, UK, Regulation, Networking
Indi Music Worldwide Fights For Net Neutrality. UK release of Rock The Net CD designed to bring attention to the cause.
Net Neutrality
We’ve been covering Net Neutrality for over two years now.
We think it’s essential that the Internet is free and open. It’s vital that the speed of arrival of each data-packet that travels over […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 1 August 2008 | Tagged as: Fibre, Ofcom (UK super-regulator), UK, BT, Regulation
Ofcom are altering the very grandly named, “Universal Service Condition 1,” to let BT provide discounted connections to people on their Ebbsfleet Fibre optic trial, which plans to provide network connections of up to 100Mbps.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 25 July 2008 | Tagged as: Ofcom (UK super-regulator), Fibre, UK, Broadband, Networking, Infrastructure
H2O Networks, of Merseyside UK, have got an interesting idea for providing high speed Internet access to homes and businesses - by running fibre optic cables through the sewer.
This apparently initially grubby idea isn’t new - we first wrote about the concept back in December 2001, when a company called CityNet was talking about the […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 23 July 2008 | Tagged as: Mobile, Cellular, Regulation
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has agreed a global standard for storing next-of-kin information in the dialling directories of mobile phones.
The idea being that if you are unfortunate enough to be involved in an accident, emergency workers will know who to get in touch with by looking through the contacts on your mobile phone.
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