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The McCue Interview: Nigel Underwood, CIO, DHL
Comment So getting the spare part to the engineer [in the field] is a core logistics process where we need to develop a capability to do that. In the office of DHL's CIO, Nigel Underwood, the Lincoln City... [08 Oct 2008]
Miami Trims City-Wide Network Costs by Uniting Into Single Windows 2000 Enterprise
White Paper Operating under tight budgets, the City's core IT departments are charged with optimizing routine business processes while at the same time minimizing technology costs and maintenance requirements. In... [20 Feb 2008]
Huawei's $1bn R&D pot 'matches Western rivals'
News He is at pains to emphasise the core value the company's newly forged corporate identity is based on, combining Western business process with eastern 'wisdom'. Certainly, within its core... [06 Sep 2007]
Urban wireless networks set to surge
News She said in a statement: "A public-private partnership business model is attractive to both local governments and service providers because it allows each to focus on its core competencies - serving constituents and... [26 Jul 2007]
Wireless Westminster revs up
News According to Vertex's transition director, Robert Blackwell, the system will be a mesh network based on a core fibre backbone, and Cisco's mobile access routers - mostly fixed on to lampposts and other... [29 Nov 2006]
RSA SecurID Two-Factor Authentication Makes Secure Remote Access Easy for Queensland Local Government Authority
White Paper Logan City Councilors and key management staff frequently travel interstate and overseas, so Logan Council needed to provide a robust and secure platform for remote access to core business applications. [23 Aug 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Citywide wi-fi
Comment The flexible IT and communications architecture and core services give a solid foundation to build upon but to move beyond the conceptual phase these projects have to show a viable return. Like many of these projects,... [26 May 2006]
Q&A: BT CTO Matt Bross
Comment Bross, appointed to BT in 2002 when he moved from US-based Williams Communications, is leading the nationwide 21st Century Network (21CN) project, in which BT will replace copper circuit-switched networks with a single... [22 Sep 2005]
Radioactive: Taipei gets meshed up
Comment There will of course be connections to the fixed core network but these interconnections will be kept to a minimum. There has been plenty of bluster in the past about covering entire cities or districts with meshed Wi-Fi... [08 Jun 2005]
Case Study: NLOS Broadband Wireless Deployment for Large Urban Market
White Paper The current deployment serves an area with a population of four million, including the city's urban core and desirable residential and commercial neighborhoods to the west and south. This case study... [05 Mar 2005]
LogicaCMG bags £5.5m Cardiff SAP deal
News That will involve the migration of all Cardiff's core financial systems, including general ledger, debtors and creditors as well as a new procurement system, which the council didn't have before. LogicaCMG has won a... [29 Jul 2004]
Derby to pay Capita £11.25m to roll out e-government
News Capita IT Services originally won the contract to support and develop the council's core IT infrastructure in 1998. Core to the project will be a CRM system complete with call centres. Capita has won an... [22 Jul 2004]
Irish bank chooses Sun and Linux
News They want us to rip out the instant messenger client, for example, so they're left with a robust core that needs minimal maintenance. Over the last 12 months, numerous European public organisations including the... [29 Jun 2004]
Norwegian city government switches to open source
News In a move that echoes an earlier high-profile migration by the German city of Munich, authorities in the Norwegian city of Bergen have opted to replace existing core Windows and Unix... [15 Jun 2004]
IT Myths: Colombian drugs gang's mainframe-assisted assassinations?
News That is processed into core record data which is used for billing purposes. But the report cites claims by former and current DEA, military and US State Department officials that the Cali cartel had amassed a database... [10 Jul 2003]