
UK people trash their landlines
More than three million have cut the cord in the last five years
More than three million households in Britain have ditched their home phone in the last five years.

UK ready to spend billions on fibre
Needs to end network constipation
The UK is set to create the conditions for BT to invest billions of pounds in rolling out full fibre broadband nationwide by giving it flexibility on the pricing of its fastest services for the long term.

MPs fear UK NHS is about to make huge IT stuff up
Massive sums of public cash to be flushed down the loo
The Commons Public Accounts Committee warns that massive sums of public money could be wasted on an expensive digital transformation plan for the NHS.

UK government lost 1,000 devices in the last year
Have they looked down the back of the sofa?
Security hardware maker Apricorn has released a report indicating that UK government departments have lost or had stolen more than 1,000 devices in the past year.

Save ARM campaign starts
Hauser wants Boris to interfere
One of ARM's co-founders has started a campaign to get the UK government to interfere in the deal to flog the outfit to Nvidia.

Google faces child tracking case
Multi-billion pound law suit
Search engine outfit Google faces a multibillion-dollar lawsuit in the UK over claims that YouTube routinely breaks privacy laws by tracking children online.

There's a severe digital skills gap in UK
Mind the Gap
The latest research by Hays Learning found employers have struggled to fill one third of vacancies due to a lack of digital competency.

UK could allow hands free driving by spring
Transport department calls for an investigation
Hands-free driving could be legal on UK roads by spring next year, the government has said.

Trump brags how he forced the UK to abandon Hauwei
Boris Johnson has to give me his lunch money now
Britain announced on Tuesday that it would ban equipment from the Chinese technology giant Huawei from the country's high-speed wireless network, even if it means falling behind on 5G and ending up with a more expensive product.

Apple continues to sting the British taxpaper
What a surprise
The fruity cargo cult Apple is continuing to sting the British Inland Revenue.