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RSS birminghamFirst students graduate from IT 'business' degree
News There are also two ITMB grads from Birmingham City University and one from Greenwich University - all of whom received First Class honours. The first students to take a university degree in Information Technology Management for Business (ITMB) have... [24 Jul 2008]
An Approach to Interest Management and Dynamic Load Balancing in Distributed Simulation
White Paper The paper discusses the distributed simulation of systems with large shared state and addresses issues related to interest management and dynamic load balancing. It identifies the efficient partitioning and distribution of the shared state as a key... [10 Jul 2008]
Biometrics to fast track 'trusted' travellers
News Iris enrolment stations and gates are available at all five Heathrow terminals and at Birmingham, Gatwick and Manchester airports. Biometric technology is to be used to speed up travel between the UK and the US. [03 Jul 2008]
Present and Future Smart Active Label (SAL) Enabling Technologies - An Introductory Overview
White Paper The rapidly evolving radio frequency identification (RFID) industry is characterised by a diversity of technologies and associated products, designed and produced to satisfy an equally diverse range of applications. [03 Jul 2008]
A Framework for Distributed Simulation on a Grid
White Paper The last decade has witnessed an explosion of interest in distributed simulation techniques. However, the application of simulation to ever more complex problems calls for more computational power. The emergence of the GRID provides an unrivalled... [03 Jul 2008]
Photos: Shopping just got high-tech
Photo A number of adventurous technologies were on display at the Retail Solutions Show, which this year relocated from Birmingham to the ExCel Centre in London. The show covers all aspects of retail technology, from IP VPNs, to plain old cash registers. [27 Jun 2008]
UK students outsource IT coursework to India
News Academics at Birmingham City University have detected 1,000 students cheating worldwide since they began monitoring the websites in 2004. Birmingham City computing lecturer Thomas Lancaster said the practice is spreading as more websites spring up... [25 Jun 2008]
Dear silicon.com: Prison IT, iPhone wi-fi, and the clock ticking on XP...
Comment Nigel Cummings, Birmingham IT in prisons Prisoners to gain IT skills Good grief.well who better to trust with high value equipment installations than an ex-cat burglar? And still no thought of all the IT people forced out of the industry because... [19 Jun 2008]
NHS head defends major IT delays
News The Lorenzo system has been deployed for testing at trusts in Bradford, Morecambe Bay and south Birmingham, where it is expected to go live during the summer. The head of the NHS has defended delays that have kept a key system from going live in... [18 Jun 2008]
Vertex bags a £40m Brum Council deal
News Birmingham City Council has extended a contract with Vertex for call centre services in a deal worth £40m. The extension comes immediately after a joint venture between Birmingham City Council and Capita - called Service Birmingham - was contracted... [05 Jun 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Migrant techies and BBC web budget busters…
Comment Anonymous, Birmingham Skills gap row UK plc 'needs more skilled migrants' This is total rubbish! Employers should start thinking about older applicants, many of whom are well qualified but cannot obtain work. [05 Jun 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Rural v City fat pipe row and ID cards
Comment Not sure where and how Ofcom carried out this survey but we have offices in Southampton, Taunton, Bristol and Birmingham with staff living in 'rural' areas around all of them and have had issues in all regions, and don't get me started on services... [29 May 2008]
Broadband Blighty gets a rural flavour
News Birmingham is highest with a third of people using mobile internet. Broadband Britain is flying a tweed flag: fat pipe penetration in rural areas has outstripped urban areas for the first time, according to an Ofcom report. [22 May 2008]
Council plugs free internet for tenants
News The residents of the eight multi-storey buildings around North Solihull, near Birmingham, will be able to get internet access at broadband speeds through an internet connectivity unit that plugs into the wall sockets, with a three-pin interface on... [21 May 2008]
Vodafone gets speedy with broadband
News The extension will cover Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester and Reading and is due to be completed by the autumn. Vodafone is extending its fast mobile broadband coverage to a further three million people this summer as part of a... [12 May 2008]
