Stat of the day: £400,000. The amount of money the House of Commons is to spend on giving all 650 MPs an iPad each.
Quote of the day: 'It's a mass phishing expedition to invade the privacy of everybody in the country. That should be unacceptable in any civilised nation.' Simon Davies, director of Privacy International, is flabbergasted by planned legislation to monitor every call, text, email and website visit in...
19 Mar 2012
| by Andrew Burgess
Our 'Dream Budgets' series continues with Andrew Burgess, MD of Salford-based JMC IT. Key to his Budget: work experience for politicians and better IT, natch.
14 Mar 2012
| by David Buttress
Our 'Dream Budgets' series continues with this submission, penned by David Buttress, MD of online takeaway company Just-Eat. If he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, he'd tackle job creation, the digital economy, and bad politicians...
'This is going to be wow. I hope Wikipedia will melt phone systems in Washington on Wednesday. Tell everyone you know!' Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has gone ahead with the site's blackout today in protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). The White House has already backtracked on the proposed...
The HS2 will allow commuters to travel from London to Birmingham in just 49 minutes. Ironically, the project itself is moving forward very gingerly...
The new note will feature industrialists James Watt and Matthew Boulton. Is this an attempt to turn the UK back into the workshop of the world?
The capital is set to get its very own top-level domain. Pricey - but the city's in good company.
08 Apr 2011
| by Elizabeth Anderson
The salary being offered to the Government's new 'Twitter Tsar'.
The Government's plans for universal high-speed broadband access, with a 'digital hub in every community', sound impressive. But are we too far behind to catch up?