Will Ofcom drop the ATVOD ball on age checking and content regulation tomorrow?
Tomorrow Ofcom takes control of "on demand" content back from ATVOD and s said to plan to align it more closely with linear TV.
Last year the Prime Minister
Why do we still have digital skills gap” when Harold Wilson identified both problem and solution?
1. Until earlier this year we were trapped in Groundhog Day
There have been regular enquiries into shortages of what we now call "digital skills" for 50 years. A cyclical pattern was identified in the 1980s. Each recession after that of 1979 - 83...
Have a Merry Christmas offline and a Happy New Year having taken control of your data
Even if the Phantom Squad does not repeat the Lizard Squad's exploits last year, taking down games networks to ruin Christmas for children (and nerds) there are...
There are no shortages of digital skills, only of employers who train their staff
This time last year the House of Lords Select Committee on Digital Skills had collected over a thousand pages of evidence. Over Christmas the members ploughed through the evidence and in February they published
Will Investigatory Powers Bill apply to all those who are tracking your movements?
Those who drool over the wonders of Big Data and Internet of Things should take a look at the video of the "Looking for You" campaign piloted by Battersea Dogs Home at Westfield Shopping Centre. Those...
Ofcom consults on plans to tackle the UK Communications Confusopoly
Ofcom has just published its Proposed Annual Plan for 2016/17 with a deadline of 26th February 2016 for responses. It has three clear objectives:
- Promote...
The evidence to the Inquiry into the Investigatory Powers Bill is now online
Forty two organisations and individuals submitted public (as opposed to confidential) evidence to the
Could London match Singapore with unsubsidised fibre to the flat?
Singapore and Hongkong are London's most dangerous global financial services rivals and also have the best big city broadband. What do we and they they have in common? The high proportion of residents who live and work in housing and office complexes which are cheap to fibre up - provided this is...