6th July 2003 Archive

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• UK will ‘miss e-gov deadlines’

  Councils taxed

  UK local authorities are unconfident that 100 percent of services will be e-enabled by the government's deadline of 2005, a Datamonitor study reveals. The UK government has encouraged the use of e-government to transform services, renew local democracy and promote local economic vitality, and has confirmed that all councils …

  Music and Media 6 Jul 2003, 19:49

• WHO drops Taiwan from SARs list

  Under control

  The World Health Organisation (WHO) yesterday dropped Taiwan from its list of SARS-affected countries. This is welcome news for the world's IT hardware vendors, which depend upon Taiwan for their components. A string of companies, most recently AMD, blamed the impact of SARS on lower sales. Such an explanation for poor …

  Business 6 Jul 2003, 20:33

• Dutch mass spammer loses grip

  Empire unravelling fast

  Martijn Bevelander is not a happy man. The 23 year-old Dutch entrepreneur was exposed last week by the BBC as a mass spammer. Now his company Megaprovider is sinking. As well as hosting pornographic websites for notorious spam gangs such as Superzonda, MegaProvider has allegedly sent large quantities of spam for mostly American …

  Security 6 Jul 2003, 21:11

• Now Blunkett wants to charge £39 for ID cards

  Fourteen quid up on last leak

  David Blunkett wants us all to pay £39 a pop to the government so that it can afford to spy on us, a leaked letter on ID card proposals reveals. In the letter to fellow cabinet ministers, the Home Minister nails his authoritarian colours to the mast by rejecting voluntary "entitlement cards" in favour of compulsory ID cards. …

  Music and Media 6 Jul 2003, 22:10