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News As well as rolling out FTTH, where fibre optic cable is laid all the way to a user's premises, BT is deploying fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC), where cabling only reaches to the street... [02 Oct 2009]
Photos: BT previews superfast fibre broadband... in Muswell Hill
Photo BT has opened a new high street shop to promote fibre broadband in London's Muswell Hill - the location for one of its two fibre to the cabinet (FTTC) pilots, along with Whitchurch in South Wales. In the demo, 29 per... [17 Sep 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 31.07.09
Round-Up The guidance note on the government use of Twitter went viral this week after being placed on the Cabinet Office blog. Which leads neatly onto one person who's about to be a minister, or prime minister to be exact... [31 Jul 2009]
£24.4m written off on government IT project
News The first phase of the project was delivered on time and on budget back in 2007, according to the Cabinet Office's annual report and accounts published yesterday. A spokesman for the... [17 Jul 2009]
50p broadband tax 'will leave 20 pc of UK without fibre'
News David Campbell, BT Openreach's MD of next-generation access, added that the telco will deploy a mixture of fibre to the premises (FTTP) and fibre to the cabinet (FTTC) for next-generation access - with P or C being... [02 Jul 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Business intelligence
News You might also buy milk, fizzy drinks and beers for your cooler cabinet and some crisps, sweets and basic food such as bread and eggs for the shelves. Well, there's no point having full shelves of carefully priced goods,... [08 Jun 2009]
Landscape Specialist Weeds Out Paper and Thrives
White Paper The company chose the Cabinet NG Shared Access Filing Environment (CNG-SAFE) document management software to help them kick the paper habit. Freeman Landscape has grown from a home-based office to a major commercial... [16 May 2009]
Google Street View, dirty mobiles, Gen Y and a new iPhone
News And finally, March saw BT named the first UK towns to benefit from fibre to the cabinet next year. The technology, which has been available in the US for some time, allows users to navigate the UK... [03 Apr 2009]
The Straw That Broke the Network's Back
White Paper Twenty years ago, to start and run a business, one could invest in a desk, a phone line, a filing cabinet and some basic stationery, and business could feasibly commence. The Internet allows to access information at any... [23 Mar 2009]
Open source pledge to dodge lock-in bullet
News A Cabinet Office spokesperson on Wednesday insisted the government had implicitly followed best value-for-money practices in IT procurement, despite numerous failed government IT projects. Now is the... [25 Feb 2009]
Indian tech giants to transform UK government?
News The group - whose members already include former cabinet ministers Patricia Hewitt and Charles Clarke - will introduce executives from outsourcing powerhouses such as HCL, Infosys and TCS to MPs and civil servants, as... [16 Feb 2009]
How IT is helping the NHS save the planet
News Ferrar's team has been working with the Cabinet Office green delivery unit for 18 months focusing on initiatives such as how best to manage datacentres, implement wireless networks and recycle hardware. [29 Jan 2009]
Virgin debuts 50Mbps broadband
News The core network is fibre, and fibre often connects the exchange to the street cabinet. However, unlike a true fibre-to-the home (FTTH) setup, the connection between the cabinet and the premises uses... [16 Dec 2008]
'Connected' UK vulnerable in face of cyber attack
News We discussed the issue in a Cabinet meeting two months ago, I think we are going in the right direction. The national response to cyber attacks is co-ordinated by the Central Sponsor for Information Assurance, which is... [16 Jun 2008]
Can the government offshore with confidence?
Comment For example, the Cabinet Office has prevented Fujitsu Services from using offshore resources without prior consent. The government's attitude to offshore IT services has fascinated me for some time. The... [14 Feb 2008]
