Comment : UK Government Home Access Scheme Way Too Expensive

At an event at the Wales Millennium Centre, the nation's First Minister Carwyn Jones unveiled a countdown clock to indicate when Wales will be switching off its last analogue system, therefore completing the country's transition...

The editor of a leading internet advice website, Broadband.co.uk, Edd Dawson has accused the British government of not taking the goal of country-wide deployment of superfast broadband "seriously". The broadband expert said that...

The UK is not doing enough to deter spammers and combat the use of malicious computer code to damage users' computers, according to a study commissioned by the European Commission. The report examined the action taken in all 27...

The recent surge in hacking attacks and other cyber felonies has prompted the UK government to launch a new £30 million cybercrime research centre to crack down on hackers and online criminals. The research facility, dubbed...

Lord Mandelson, it seems, is looking to solve the issue associated with fast broadband access across the United Kingdom as soon as possible. The Guardian reported that the business secretary has "summoned" the heads of UK's five...

For 25 long years, a legal cock up hidden in the Video Recordings Act, introduced by the Thatcherite government, laid undiscovered and could come back and bite current law makers hard. For more than two decades, the respective...

The UK government is gearing up to launch a national cybersecurity centre to deal with soaring threats of hacking attacks from foreign states as well as criminal gangs. Gordon Brown is likely to announce details of the move...

The UK government has formally launched Contactpoint, a highly controversial database that will in the long-run contain the personal details of all children in the United Kingdom. All British citizens under the age of 18 years...

The extent of the software piracy issue in the United Kingdom was highlighted in the sixth annual BSA-IDC global software piracy study. Around 27 percent of software installed in the country are pirated, which is much higher than...

The European Commission, lead by the Commissioner Viviane Reding, has criticised the UK for giving too much liberty to internet service firms to gather personal data on users and could take actions to remediate this. In a...

The British government has announced plans to provide children and teenagers living in the United Kingdom with a free customised version of the Nintendo Wii together with two games and the Wii Fit accessories. Speaking to the...

Plans to bring popular online web services like Twitter, Wikipedia, blogs and podcasts into mainstream education in the United Kingdom have spurred mixed feelings nationwide and abroad. Many have said that the proposals...

90 Percent of UK Households could be have accessed to 32mbps broadband lines, up to 16 times faster than current entry level speeds, by 2019 according to broadband analyst firm, Point Topic. The figures are based on the fact...

Lord Carter, UK’s communication minister, has finally presented the much anticipated “Digital Britain” report to Parliament yesterday, and the speculations made so far about the report seem to be bang on...

The British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, has unveiled in an interview with The Observer newspaper details of an economic blueprint that will seek to create thousands of new jobs partly by building a superfast broadband...