roads
RSS roadsWWII codebreakers' home gets £600,000 boost
News The funds will be used to improve facilities including the roads, the drains - which on the site "only just function" - according to Greenish; power supplies and the clock tower, which Greenish is "concerned about from a... [12 Mar 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: There is no magic tech
Comment Compiled in my office over a nice warm coffee while snowed in with roads that are mostly black ice, and dispatched via my LAN connection Because my areas of expertise straddle science, technology, engineering, academia... [16 Feb 2009]
Green-lighted drivers pay less to drive
News A spokesman told silicon.com: "The number of fatalities among young people on the roads are shocking. It's a way to cut the carnage on the roads while also cutting the cost of car insurance. Young... [10 Feb 2009]
Dorset gets its shared services motor running
Case Study As a result, responses such as diversions can be co-ordinated where roads cross local authority boundaries and long-term decisions can be better informed. Three councils in the West Country have teamed up on a shared... [03 Feb 2009]
Crash cops get plumbed into national computer
News Earland said in a statement yesterday: "By allowing officers attending road traffic accidents to build up information with such unprecedented accuracy and speed, the service will contribute substantially to the ultimate objective of... [28 Jan 2009]
PM's 100,000 job plan to mean broadband spending spree?
News When we talk about the roads and the bridges and the railways that were built in previous times - and those were anti-recession measures taken to help people through difficult times - you could [by comparison] talk about... [05 Jan 2009]
Let the car do the thinking for you
News Under an action plan adopted yesterday, the Commission aims to introduce a single intelligent transport system governing driving, navigation and entertainment, which should be introduced across the European Union to help drivers dodge... [17 Dec 2008]
Nokia retreats from Japan mobile market
News Even Apple's iPhone 3G has also run into difficulty making in-roads with the Japan market. Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker, plans to stop making phones for the Japan market, one of the largest in the world. [28 Nov 2008]
Photos: Nokia and Navteq tech keep an eye on the roads
Photo Dmitry Sharlot, New York team leader for Navteq, stands by the Navteq vehicle that is used to collect data for Navteq's mapping, navigation and traffic service. This is the car that was used in New York City on Tuesday to demonstrate a... [21 Nov 2008]
Photos: Google Earth gets Caesar dressing
Photo Google Earth is painting a picture of what the ancient city of Rome looked like in 320 AD. The new 'Ancient Rome 3D' option for Google Earth allows virtual time-travelling tourists to fly around the city and zoom in to explore ancient... [14 Nov 2008]
Construction Company Streamlines Processes With Human Resources and Finance Solution
White Paper NCC Roads builds and maintains roads in the Nordic region and St. Petersburg, Russia. In 2006, it introduced its One Road initiative to establish consistent Human Resources (HR) and finance processes,... [12 Nov 2008]
Cern keeps an eye on its assets
Case Study The engineering support team is using Infor's enterprise asset management (EAM) software to keep track of items ranging from those used in the particle accelerator - such as huge magnets and cryogenic equipment - to... [20 Oct 2008]
Ditched pay-as-you-drive insurance set for revival?
News Using this data, drivers were then assessed on how much they used their car, times of day they chose to drive and the types of roads they travelled on - for instance, motorways are considered 10 times safer than local... [06 Oct 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 12.09.08
Round-Up The MP for Montgomeryshire said he was willing to be arrested by police in his protest against the ban on the two-wheeled vehicles on UK roads, which is why he uttered the immortal rallying cry mentioned above. [12 Sep 2008]
Migration rules to fuel IT offshoring?
News He said: "It's a bit like the government moving everybody off the roads with the carbon and congestion charging policy and taxes and moving them onto the trains without having a public transport system. [11 Sep 2008]
