The announcement

The announcement by Martha Lane Fox that the government would back the sale of £98 refurbished computers with subsidised wireless broadband connections to the millions of adults in the UK who have never used the web may be seen as a threat to computer retailers just as DSGi.

Rackspace has announced the launch of its cloud computing infrastructure to UK businesses. The company plans to offer cloud computing services from data centres located within the UK, allowing companies to "avoid offshore data issues and weighty upfront capital investments which helps them become more strategically agile from a business perspective".