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Could hackspaces hold the key to business innovation?
Comment In March of this year, a friendly 'hackday' - called Rewired State, or 'National Hack the Government Day' - was held at The Guardian's London offices. Where to look for the next wave of corporate innovation? [14 Oct 2009]
Cash won't cut it: Time to get creative in attracting skilled workers
Comment As career analyst and author Dan Pink pointed out at July's TED Global conference in Oxford, economists as far afield as MIT and the London School of Economics have shown increased financial rewards actually make people... [13 Oct 2009]
BAA preparing for Windows 7 take off
News Speaking at a Microsoft customer event in London this week, BAA CIO Philip Langsdale said the company has been testing Windows 7 and now plans to roll it out across the company. Airport operator BAA is hoping the roll... [09 Oct 2009]
Windows 8: The 'dying gasps' of the desktop OS or the next big thing?
News In a sense there's still a lot of work to do [with the operating system]," he said recently in London. Just as the marketing hype around Windows 7 heads toward its peak, a few details are starting to surface about its... [08 Oct 2009]
Niklas Zennström
AS Profile He's also co-founded London-based VC fund Atomico Ventures, which put money into a wealth of other tech ventures including wi-fi sharing community FON and music discovery service Last.fm. Niklas Zennström is best known... [08 Oct 2009]
Steve Ballmer on Microsoft software 'gotchas'
News Speaking in London yesterday, Ballmer said the software giant's licence terms could be made clearer: "I'm sure we have fine print we don't need - I'm not trying to say we are saints. Ballmer was speaking at a Windows 7... [06 Oct 2009]
Netbooks, Apple goodies, vintage kit and a futuristic datacentre
Photo Bonhams previewed some vintage tech last month as the London auctioneer prepared to put a selection of classic hardware under the hammer. The device, which is designed to swim around the stomach to investigate any... [02 Oct 2009]
BT's home fibre tests: Coming in London and Milton Keynes
News Bradwell Abbey in Milton Keynes will join Highams Park in London as the locations for the fibre dry-run, the telco announced yesterday. The London suburb of Muswell Hill is the first area to have its... [02 Oct 2009]
Barts and the London NHS Trust Lowers Procurement Costs to Become One of the Most Efficient NHS Trusts
White Paper Barts and The London NHS Trust wanted to gain real-time view of spend commitment, increase purchase order accuracy, and automate complete procure-to-pay process and leverage multimillion pound annual spend on specialist... [02 Oct 2009]
Nortel's Investment Recovery Operations Minimize Waste for Customers' Networks
White Paper Nortel is proud of its membership in the Olympic Family, as the Official Converged Network Equipment Supplier for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, as well as its partnership with the Olympic Games in London in 2012. [02 Oct 2009]
TV Production Company Customizes Accounting System to Streamline Business Operations
White Paper RDF-USA is a subsidiary of RDF Media, a global TV production company headquartered in London that has produced programming for TV networks in the United States, the United Kingdom, and several other countries. [01 Oct 2009]
Photos: Computer history goes under the hammer
Photo The device is part of Michael Bennett-Levy's private collection of early technology being auctioned at Bonhams in London this week and is expected to fetch at least £2,000. It was sold by the exclusive designer shop... [29 Sep 2009]
British Airways' London to New York route lets flyers use mobiles
News Air travellers flying between London and New York won't have to go mobile cold turkey from tomorrow. The service will be available on two Airbus A318s flying between London City Airport and New York's JFK. [28 Sep 2009]
Tube Lines reaps rewards of upgrading to Intel®CoreÂ2 processor with vProÂtechnology
White Paper Tube Lines has a 30-year Public Private Partnership (PPP) contract with London Underground. It is responsible for the maintenance and upgrade of the infrastructure on the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly lines, including... [24 Sep 2009]
BT fibre broadband pilot: charges for ISPs revealed
News BT Openreach has released details of the fees it plans to charge other ISPs for its fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) pilot in London. The pilot at Highams Park in London, BT's first FTTH deployment in an... [23 Sep 2009]
