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It's great to see the BBC keeping #PostOfficeScandal front and centre in its headlines- but I found this a slightly odd story (and not only because there's nothing you wouldn't already know if you've been reading @computerweekly regularly...) (1/8)

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… When the Horizon deal was signed in late 1990s it was common for companies to not own the IP of software developed in an outsourcing contract. It was a negotiating point- you could own the IP if you wanted to, but the supplier would charge you extra for it. Caveat emptor... (2/8)

Regardless of what you may think about Labour's broadband plan, it's interesting that there's been more debate about the issues around building a 21st century UK telecoms infrastructure on Twitter alone in past 12 hours, than there has been across UK in past 12 years /1 UK could and should have a full-fibre infrastructure already. Ironically, it was Tory ideology in the 1980s that stopped BT laying fibre over fears it would kill competition post-privatisation. BT sweated its copper assets for the benefit of shareholders instead /2