Earlier this week BT CEO Ben Verwaayen granted silicon.com a rare opportunity to grill him on the state of broadband Britain (see http://www.silicon.com/a55481 for more). Oftel should force BT to provide the broadband service to all parts of Britain.
The Lemelson-MIT Student Prize is one of the larger student grants in the country and comes with a $30,000 (£18,935) award. The annual Lemelson-MIT award that's open to all inventors comes with a $500,000 (£315,600) grant.
While take-up of broadband in Britain is making slow but steady progress, some Asia Pacific countries are storming ahead on ADSL adoption. However, Ovum's figures show that the UK broadband experience will potentially catch the Asian situation...
The influence of a major player such as Wal-Mart cannot be underestimated, and many suppliers could find themselves drawn into RFID frameworks in order to maintain their business relationships with powerful and influential trading partners - we...
BGN has 42 stores across the country and has just gone live with its first item-level RFID rollout. But the immediate future is more RFID, as the rest of the chain's consumer book stores start to chip their books.
Still on the green tip, Tesco promised to cut the carbon footprint of its data centres and stores by 2020. The online betting exchange won CNET Networks UK Business and Technology Project of the Year award for this piece of R&D.