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RSS roadsThe Electronic B@zaar: Part 1 - the evolution of e-trade
Comment From China came silk, tea, porcelain, and spices, and in return went wool, gold, silver, and gemstones, carried over dusty roads on the backs of camels. The eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries brought... [07 Aug 2000]
Government has no truck with haulage IT systems
News Isotrak - a provider of automated transport management systems - criticised the government's failure to invest in a national haulage management network which it says would reduce the number of empty lorries clogging up Britain's... [27 Mar 2000]
Telecom 99 - the final analysis
Comment While there are those that would like to see Telecom moved to a bigger city with simple things like better roads (Berlin is in the running for next time), Geneva is likely to hold the crown because of its international... [15 Oct 1999]
Home Office warned over PFI deal
News PFI applies very well to hospitals, bridges and roads because those assets have useful lives of 25 years or more," Maughan said. A leading contract lawyer has warned the UK Home Office to look carefully at the terms of... [16 Apr 1999]
Compaq throws weight behind e-business
News Conway said: "Three or four years ago we were just a PC company and we were the leaders, but we didn't know where to go from there, so we set up Project Cross Roads. Compaq is betting its future on the Internet according... [14 Apr 1999]
UK roadworks get electronic tracking system
News UK transport minister, Glenda Jackson has launched a system for local authorities to coordinate work carried out on roads by utility companies. East Sussex is the first county council to get the system up and running. [02 Apr 1999]
Users emerge from information overload unscathed
News Moving over to the Net has been a bit like the transport revolution from horse and cart to car - all we need now is better roads. The information overload is over, according to a Reuters report published today. [07 Dec 1998]
C&W invests $1bn in pan-European voice and data network
News Stephen Pettit, executive director, Global Business, said: "This turns C&W from having cornershops on A-roads, to having hypermarkets on motorways. Cable & Wireless (C&W) today announced a five-year, $1bn... [16 Nov 1998]
Fore beefs up LAN products with Berkeley buyout
News Fore claimed the acquisition of Berkeley's additional layer-3 and layer-4 switching products will help it make in-roads into the enterprise markets and branch out into the medium sized business and Internet service... [26 Aug 1998]
High-tech solution to UK traffic problem
News Terry Sullivan, group manager at the agency's traffic systems signing division, said the microwave beacons - currently being developed with GEC Marconi - will be placed at the side of roads. The UK Highways Agency is to... [04 Aug 1998]
Scooter simulator set to make Europe's roads safer
News Europe's roads could become a safer place thanks to a virtual reality simulator for scooters. The Anglo-Italian project is the first to be awarded approval under the new Joint European Venture (JEV) programme aimed at... [27 Jul 1998]
Smartcard-based road toll schemes get financial boost
News The £30bn boost will be ploughed straight back into roads and transportation. Recent reports indicate UK smartcard-based road toll schemes may get a boost from road tax revenues. Reuters reports that the revenues will... [17 Jul 1998]
