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Large Hadron Collider puts a grid on it
News One of the world's largest computing grids, capable of streaming the equivalent of 3 million DVDs a year was officially launched on Friday. The Worldwide Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid can draw on the computing... [03 Oct 2008]
The Forestry Commission Logs on to assystNET
White Paper Responsible for protecting and expanding Britain's forests and woodlands, the Edinburgh-based Forestry Commission employs more than 3,000 staff spread throughout the UK and has an annual budget of some... [03 Jul 2008]
College classrooms go high-tech
Case Study Oaklands College near St Albans is planning to offer its students the best in high-tech learning when its £100m new campus opens in 2011. The new building will bring together four existing campuses and the use of... [02 Jul 2008]
Manchester on the road to high tech transport
News Manchester is aiming to develop a world class transport system complete with high tech road charging technology and travel smartcards. The city has secured £1.5bn of government funding to significantly improve its public transport, which... [10 Jun 2008]
SAP SaaS delay - no surprise
News SAP's decision to delay the rollout for its Business ByDesign on-demand software should comes as no surprise but could prove a boon for software as a service vendors according to analysts. When SAP's first real foray into software as a... [01 May 2008]
Northern Ireland police brings IT under one roof
News The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has signed a contract with Fujitsu Services for the supply of managed IT services for the next eight years. The contract could be worth up to £100m over its lifetime with an... [06 Feb 2008]
India diary, day 4: Hyderabad's tech park
Comment Wednesday 7 February - Hyderabad Indian cities are keen to attract technology and business process outsourcing (BPO) companies because of the cash they can pump into the local economy. So they set up dedicated technology parks on the... [07 Mar 2007]
Steve Ranger's Notebook: The worst ever 419 scam emails
Comment The world's fraudsters are suffering from crippling writers' block. They sit in grimy internet cafés around the globe, biting their nails, not daring to touch the keyboard, all inspiration gone. How do I know? [27 Sep 2006]
3 goes Orange
News Mobile operator O2 has been replaced by Orange as national roaming partner for the 3 network. The deal, which is worth a large but undisclosed amount of money, provides the smallest phone network in the UK with a back-up... [11 May 2006]
Pakistan earthquake relief: Appeal to tech
News Donations for victims of the devastating earthquake that struck Pakistan over the weekend are trickling in from the US high-tech industry but so far most contributions are from workers of Pakistani descent rather than corporations. [11 Oct 2005]
Supercomputing gets $148m cash injection
News The National Science Foundation (NSF) will spend $148m more during the next five years to expand the Extensible Terascale Facility, a collection of interconnected supercomputing facilities also called the TeraGrid. [23 Aug 2005]
BA ups IT investment to £85m
News British Airways has reaffirmed its commitment to increasing investment in IT despite continuing pressure to cut costs across the airline. Speaking to silicon.com at the company's annual internal IT fair, BA CIO Paul Coby said new IT... [08 Sep 2004]
New CIO for Microsoft
News Microsoft on Friday named a new chief information officer, responsible for managing the software giant's internal information systems. Ron Markezich, who previously managed Microsoft's call centres, help desks and other areas, will... [10 May 2004]
Salesforce.com boosts float with cautious big boy wins
News Hosted CRM vendor salesforce.com continued the march towards its hotly anticipated stock market flotation with announcements aimed at building its credibility as a mainstream CRM alternative for large enterprises. [27 Feb 2004]
IT staff await news of British Airways job cuts
News British Airways' IT staff are anxiously awaiting an expected announcement of between 3,000 and 5,000 job cuts on Wednesday. The plans will form part of a new cost-cutting drive at the airline that aims to save £300m... [27 Jan 2004]
