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Lord Carter’s recently published Digital Britain report outlines two bold projects to ensure the widespread availability of high-speed broadband: the universal service broadband commitment of 2Mbit/s for all households by 2012, and the Next Generation Final Third project.
Lord Carter’s GBP0.50 tax on copper lines to fund next generation broadband, announced in his recently published Digital Britain report, has certainly been a shock for the market.
It sounds like every schoolboy’s dream: working for a company that combines computers with intelligence gathering for the police and the military. For David Carrick, chief executive of East Kilbride-based software firm Memex, it’s just another day at the office
Our recently launched software exporters group hit the press with an article in this week’s Scotland on Sunday.
‘It was 50 per cent fun, 50 per cent interesting’. The wonders of robots and what computers can do held a class of P6 pupils entranced.
Other Industry News
Striking opposites
- Saturday 4th of July 2009 10:20:28 PM
Bangladeshis grapple with their contradictions
The five British-born individuals who have flown in space are being honoured with a commemorative pin.
Europe’s Planck telescope reaches its operating temperature, making it the coldest object in space.
Open source
- Friday 3rd of July 2009 05:54:35 PM
Free software is finding fans
Earth Watch
- Friday 3rd of July 2009 05:18:46 PM
Environmentally, is climate change our biggest concern?
Bees smother hornets in a "bee ball" that kills the giant predators with heat and carbon dioxide.
The social networking site comes under fire for planned changes to privacy settings.
Hopes are dashed that some of the few remaining hirola antelope have managed to colonise new, safer territory.
Art attack
- Friday 3rd of July 2009 01:49:36 PM
Bill Thompson on mixing art and technology
Details emerge of why billions in virtual cash disappeared from a virtual bank in Eve Online.