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RSS tech supportTeachers get £5.6m to swot up on how to use tech
News The programme is aimed at increasing teachers' tech skills to help them make better use of ICT in their lessons, as well as improve the IT skills of their students. The government said it will pay student... [21 Jul 2009]
Symbian services unit finds new home with Accenture
News The deal will help Accenture "support the tremendous growth our clients can expect from the explosive adoption of converged mobile multimedia services," Jean Laurent Poitou, managing director of Accenture's electronics... [20 Jul 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 17.07.09
Round-Up Head in hands - Call tech support. Apple recently warned Pre users in a tech support note: "Apple is aware that some third-parties claim that their digital media players... [17 Jul 2009]
4,000 Indian jobs go as BT brings call centre work back to UK
News For an insider's view, check out silicon.com columnist Saritha Rai's report on how the recession is hitting the country's tech workers The workforce reduction will be complete by next year, he added, attributing the cuts... [16 Jul 2009]
Voice, video, data: £1bn gov't telecoms contract up for grabs
News The systems under the framework will handle voice, video and data and include telecoms equipment and network infrastructure, call centre systems, unified communications, fixed to mobile communications, radio equipment, videoconferencing... [10 Jul 2009]
Photos: How touchscreen tech helps a hospital keep tabs on patients
Photo Walsall Hospitals NHS Trust hopes that doctors will use the information from the screens to reduce their reliance on updates from nursing and support staff. Walsall Manor Hospital is helping its doctors and nursing staff... [09 Jul 2009]
Inbox: ID cards U-turn: The end is nigh?
Comment However, during a recent failure, I did phone their tech support to ask whether a network fault had been reported. Tech support finally agreed to look at their fault... [06 Jul 2009]
Photos: What's new in Firefox 3.5?
Photo Firefox 3.5 might not know where you live precisely but using Google's geo-locating tech, it can come a lot closer than you think. The big feature in Firefox 3.5 is deep support for CSS media tags, HTML5... [06 Jul 2009]
Naked CIO: The board must follow corporate policy
Comment On a different note the government just announced £1bn of funding for tech start-ups. The government has done nothing to stop the exportation of British ideas and innovations - this is the fundamental problem of the... [06 Jul 2009]
MoD inks £231m deal to boost comms
News The MoD said the first contract, worth £119m, will update and refresh the system's capabilities over its lifetime to reflect tech advances. The second deal, worth £112, is for support, including repair,... [03 Jul 2009]
£1bn cash for UK's tech start-ups
News Rather than invest directly in the companies themselves, however, the fund will be investing in other specialist tech funds who will distribute financial support to the businesses. The government has... [30 Jun 2009]
Businesses lift the lid on virtualisation rollouts
News The tech creates virtual machines in the datacentre which act as the operating system - in this case Windows XP - on thin client PCs. However, he added the tech has proved itself reliable - key for... [24 Jun 2009]
£23m pot of gold for tech-bamboozled SMEs
News Making SMEs more tech-savvy is apparently key to the UK economy's future, the report said. The money, which will come from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) along with regional development... [17 Jun 2009]
Police mobiles cautioned for bad behaviour
News The NPIA's grants for police forces to get mobile devices includes funding to help build back office systems, according to the spokesman: "Within that package there is support so they can get up to speed and take... [12 Jun 2009]
Austin Police Department Relies on AMD Technology and Corporate Support to Solve High Tech Crimes
White Paper The High Tech Crime Unit of the Austin, Texas Police Department (APD) resides in a nondescript office building several miles north of downtown. It needed is providing assistance in crime investigations that require a... [12 Jun 2009]
