The British government's National Infrastructure Commission has called for 'full fibre' in the UK by 2033 while the UK has just fallen to 35th in the world's broadband speed table, behind 25 other European countries....
Today, government minister George Osborne promoted the UK's 225 percent tax breaks on R&D, and its new Entrepreneur Visa. He also trumpeted the success of London's Tech City in attracting investment.
The British government is spending £42.6 billion on a new west-coast railway line when it could spend the same amount or perhaps less on providing the whole nation with superfast broadband with Fibre-to-the-home (FTTH).
The British government will publish a "statement of intent" to strengthen data protection laws, giving people the right to have their personal data deleted. Organizations that can't or won't delete data, or fail to report security breaches, can be fined up to £17 million or up to 4 percent of their global turnover.
The UK's Rural Payments Agency has stopped trying to make farmers use its new online service and gone back to paper forms. It's the RPA's second IT debacle, and its failure might have been predicted.
HRMC is fighting an online war against fake websites and phishing emails intended to defraud taxpayers in the UK, and it is asking the public to help...
The Spring Budget included funding for 13 projects to provide gigabit fibre-to-the-premises broadband across the UK, with another £95m to come. But it's not going to make a significant difference to the UK's appalling record in providing FTTP connections.
Following the widely publicised successes of some "sharing economy" companies such as Airbnb, the British government has commissioned an independent report with the idea of making the UK a "global centre" for sharing start-ups.
During a visit to Bletchley Park, UK foreign secretary William Hague launched a 'spy drive' to recruit staff for GCHQ and other intelligence agencies, a National Cipher Challenge for schools, and a £480,000 grant to the home of WW2 code-breaking.
A report by UK MPs has rejected the idea that tech companies are merely platforms.
