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RSS berkshireBill Gates knocked off rich-list perch
News King of the minted moguls is Warren Buffett, Gates' sometimes bridge partner and chairman of holdings company Berkshire Hathaway, who has a fortune estimated at $62bn, up $10bn from a year ago. Microsoft's unsolicited $44.6bn bid to take over Yahoo! [06 Mar 2008]
Rugby club scores with automated backup
Case Study The system automatically copies every file on the club's systems at its city grounds in Franklin Gardens to Datastore 365's servers in Northampton and Berkshire. A world class UK rugby club has turned to an automatic back-up system after data... [21 Jan 2008]
Command tech to save firefighters' lives
News Brigades in London and Berkshire are getting ready to use VectorCommand's Command Support System (CSS) to give its commanders access to the situation on the ground during catastrophic events such as large blazes, severe flooding and terrorist... [04 Jan 2008]
West Berkshire Council
White Paper Simon Lawrence, senior corporate analyst, West Berkshire Council. We wanted a system that we could consolidate multiple workloads on with confidence, so the IBM x3950 8-way servers were a natural choice for us. [20 Sep 2007]
Reading Uni feels the supercomputer power
News The Reading system is the UK's number-two supercomputer overall, second only to the £20m supercomputer at the nearby Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) near Aldermaston, Berkshire. The University of Reading now has the most powerful academic... [11 Jul 2007]
StoreAge SVM Dramatically Improves Data Recovery Capabilities at Baillie Gifford; StoreAge's Solutions Ensure Data Integrity and Rapid Disaster Recovery
White Paper Baillie Gifford, one of the UK's leading asset management firms, was looking for a disaster recovery solution which would enable the replication of data between its head office and business continuity site. [13 Nov 2006]
Scots tots buy school dinners with veins
News A secondary school in Berkshire is testing a system to keep tabs on truants using fingerprints. Children at a primary school in Scotland now have a new way to pay for their school dinners - vein recognition. [31 Oct 2006]
AIDs fight in Africa gets PC boost
News Computer Aid is working with the Berkshire-based CfBT Education trust, to donate 141 PCs, 32 laptops and 43 severs to schools and community organisations in the developing world. UK IT charity Computer Aid is working with an AIDS charity to provide... [31 Oct 2006]
Fingerprint scans - latest weapon in truancy fight
News A secondary school in Berkshire is set to trial biometric fingerprint scanning technology to keep track of pupils entering and leaving its premises and cut truancy rates. Sixth form students at Edgbarrow school in the town of Crowthorne will have... [17 Jul 2006]
Update: Billionaire Buffett gives $30bn to Gates Foundation
News Buffett, 75, plans to commit 10 million class B shares of his company, Berkshire Hathaway, to the Gates Foundation. While Buffett will serve as a director on the Gates Foundation, he said he prefers spending his time as a professional money manager... [27 Jun 2006]
Colubris Networks Case Study: Madejski Stadium
White Paper Madejski Stadium, home to the Championship Reading Football Club and London Irish Rugby Club, sits on the outskirts of Reading, Berkshire in England. In keeping with its reputation as a premiere championship stadium, The Madejski elected to provide... [09 Feb 2006]
USRobotics Case Study: Albany House Business Centre
White Paper Albany House Business Centre, based in Wokingham, Berkshire, provides prestigious, high quality serviced office accommodation for small to medium-sized businesses. Flexibility in IT resources was a key and their problem was that when one of their... [17 Jan 2006]
Gates tops list of most-admired business chiefs
News Also on the list: Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway (3); Richard Branson, Virgin Group (5); John Browne, BP (6); Carlos Ghosn, Nissan Motor (7); Jeffrey Immelt, General Electric (9); Rupert Murdoch, News Corp (10); John Bond, HSBC Holdings (11... [15 Dec 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 13.05.05
Round-Up We're not saying in this instance the engineer was said "bad workman" but it's certainly an innovative diagnosis for line problems which reportedly left one couple in the improbably named Finchampstead in Berkshire without a phone line for eight... [13 May 2005]
Ambulances turn to GPRS for better organ tracking
News Ambulances used by the Royal Berkshire, Hampshire and Dorset NHS Ambulance Trusts will be fitted with GPRS tracking units, which will enable ambulance controllers to pinpoint the location of the vehicles using an application on their browsers. [25 Apr 2005]
