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Yesterday the comms minister, Lord Carter, unveiled a draft strategy which the government hopes will ensure the UK keeps pace with tech change and grows its digital economy over the next five years and beyond.
The interim Digital Britain report sets out a pledge of universal broadband access by 2012 at speeds of up to 2Mbps via fixed and wireless networks.
The final word will come in the summer when the full report is published.
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With Microsoft’s next desktop operating system, Windows 7 on the horizon, security application developers have been busy working out what it means for them.
With any new Microsoft OS, application vendors need to work with the OS manufacturer to determine what areas need to be addressed to ensure their products will work effectively with the new operating system.
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While the Home Office is hoping ID cards will one day be used for everything from claiming benefits to opening bank accounts, the UK financial services industry has its doubts over how useful the cards will prove.
The UK payments association Apacs – whose members includes the UK’s major high street banks – is worried that security features that would have made the card useful for checking identity in large money transfers and online transactions have been stripped from the scheme.
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The weekly Inbox column collects the best and most thought-provoking of the reader comments silicon.com receives each week.Filling in the UK’s ‘notspots’ got readers in a tizzy this week, with calls for the advent of digital Britain topping the agenda.
This week also saw the NHS National Programme for IT in the spotlight again, while the Naked CIO announced he’d lost his job. See what advice the readers have below.
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Outdoor clothing retailer Barbour has signed a £1.5m deal with retail software company Lawson for an enterprise ERP system.
The retailer, which is best known for it waxed country jackets, has been using a bespoke green-screen application created in the 1980s to manage stock levels and supply chain operations.
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