Posts Tagged with ‘downing-street’

The British government is fed up with all the complaints it’s gotten from school kids and their parents about the persistent bullying going on inside the halls of the nation’s educational institutions. Mind you, it’s not the traditional threat of the wedgie that’s got Downing Street on the offense. It’s the kind now done en mass by kid tyrants across the land thanks to the now ubiquitous technological conveniences of Internet-connected PCs and cellular phones.
Yes, the cyber wedgie is what’s [...]

Following weeks of public opposition to the BBC’s delivery of a Windows-only IPTV-based software solution, dubbed iPlayer, Downing Street has now officially come to the aid of the 16,000 netizens who signed an electronic petition designed to address the matter of inequality. The UK government is reiterating conditions originally stipulated by the BBC Trust (a sort of internal watchdog of the media house) as indeed mandatory, and that the BBC must provide solutions for the minorities of the PC market. [...]

A few days ago I did do a half-and-half about politics and tech, so it might come as a downer that I bring you yet another mix of the two. It is a mix we at Profy rarely touch upon (we know how volatile things can get) but today’s climate calls for closer attention to both “industries”, so here’s another such item for you.
Bill Thompson, a journalist and regular commentator for the BBC, recently spoke about the Net’s growing influence [...]