After revelations about Government spending on iPhone app development, with costs reaching as much as £40,000, the Cabinet Office has released a statement saying that the spending freeze on all marketing and advertising includes iPhone applications. But outside of this, there’s a bigger question to be asked: why is the government only building iPhone apps?
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Government plans for a “broadband tax” of 50p a month on all phone lines to pay for better broadband speeds in areas with inadequate coverage have been branded “unfair” by a parliamentary committee.
Children as young as five are set to get mandatory lessons in how to stay safe online, according to new government plans revealed today. The classes will be incorporated into the curriculum by September 2011.
Great news for the UK’s ailing games industry – the Government has taken an interest (at last) and appears to be actively seeking ways to provide ‘culturally based tax breaks for computer games’. This is a measure which the UK games biz has been clamouring for, ever since foreign tax incentives sparked a brain drain of home grown talent to places like Canada and Korea.
Electric car discounts of up to £5,000 are set to be offered by the Government in a bid to get us tootling around town on greener wheels.
Transport secretary Geoff Hoon and business secretary Lord Mandelson are to announce a new £250m initiative today to get motorists out of gas guzzlers and into a cleaner electric car, as part of a plan to cut CO2 emissions by 26% by 2020.
The BBC should pay to help bring fibre optic, ultra-fast broadband to the whole of the country, according to a government peer. Looks like iPlayer could be coming at a price – read on for all the details.
“Risk an early death, just do nothing” reads the caption on the UK Department of Health’s latest push to reduce childhood obesity and promote healthy living. It seems fairly run-of-the-mill at first glance, but not if you’re Sony and it’s one of your iconic PS3 control pads that’s being directly linked to childhood death. Sony Computer Entertainment Europe is reportedly considering legal action against the Government’s latest Change4Life ad campaign.
When is a $10 laptop not a $10 laptop? When it costs $30 and is actually a storage device.