Barclays is leading the way with a budget of £250m, while at the other end of the spectrum Northern Rock is looking at a sum closer to £5m. UK banks have set aside more than £1bn to deal with the millennium bug according to the latest research.
A spokeswoman for the agency told silicon.com that although the Chancellor announced a review on the efficiency of the use of spectrum in his pre-budget statement last week, such a review has yet to even start.
In a statement, he said that the government is creating a confusing and complex tax code by introducing new tax-free allowances which will disturb business dynamics. However, he said he was disappointed that the budget had failed to address the...
Presented the annual marketing budget with a tape recorder, a TV and the Spectrum. Ever since we decided to take a trip down memory lane and remember the Sinclair Spectrum - a machine that gave many of us our first taste of computing - we've been...
Following last week's look at the Sinclair ZX Spectrum (http://www.silicon.com/a50364 ), this week we consider one of its rivals in the UK home computing market almost 20 years ago, the Acorn Electron.
At one end of the spectrum, for $3,499, Gateway is bundling a 700XL with a 3GHz Pentium 4, 512MB of memory, 400GB worth of hard drive space, DVD and CD burners, and a 19-inch flat panel monitor. At the other end of the spectrum, the PC maker is...