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Editor's Blog: The pyramids versus Macclesfield

Comment What about the Goonhilly satellite station down in Cornwall where the dish known as Arthur received the first live transatlantic television broadcasts from the US. A couple of new destinations to add to your holiday list: after you've visited the...

Tags: satellite, babbage, history, recognition

[23 Jan 2008]

Photos: BT blows £250m on wind farms

Photo BT has already applied for planning permission for test masts at the Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station in Cornwall, Wideford Hill Radio in Orkney and Scousburgh Radio Station in Shetland. Goonhilly was the largest satellite Earth station in the...

Tags: green it, wind farm, bt

[19 Oct 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 29.06.07

Round-Up And as such you would have been forgiven for thinking Charles' lot was made a lot worse when news broke that he'd had his bank account details stolen - along with those of his staff at the Duchy of Cornwall - following the theft of a laptop from...

Tags: match.com, symantec, carphone warehouse, e-voting

[29 Jun 2007]

Home care moves into the 21st century

News Three teams in Cornwall, Kent and Newham are looking at how to make the best use of technology from various manufacturers with the help of £12m in funding. The elderly and sufferers of long-term illness could soon benefit from technology designed...

Tags: funding, department of health, nhs, healthcare

[23 May 2007]

Leader: Laptop theft is everybody's problem

Leader Laptop theft is increasing across the country - from Devon and Cornwall to Lothian and Borders - and is growing at a greater rate than laptop sales. In the past week silicon.com has published a series of articles shedding light on the issue of...

Tags: police, theft, laptop

[21 May 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 11.05.07

Round-Up Other areas that saw major changes include Devon & Cornwall, which saw a 45 per cent hike year-on-year, Bedfordshire (35 per cent) and Lothian & Borders (31.5 per cent). Nottinghamshire police reported a fall of 24.6 per cent, and Avon & Somerset...

Tags: round-up, weekly round-up

[11 May 2007]

Exclusive: How safe is your laptop?

News Devon and Cornwall saw a 45 per cent increase (from 276 stolen laptops to 401). Devon & Cornwall (up 45%) The results displayed are: Devon & Cornwall (+45%) ; Bedfordshire (+35%) ; Lothian & Borders (+31.50%) ; Leicestershire (+21%) ; Greater...

Tags: police, uk, data, stolen

[08 May 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 04.05.07

Round-Up Think Cornwall and you may think about ice creams, cider and probably thick-crust meat and potato pasties. For those of you who know little or nothing of Penryn, Cornwall, here is what you can find out by clicking on some of those non-Intel links…

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[04 May 2007]

BT VoIP plays doctors and nurses

News The system has also been deployed in the Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust and at hospitals in Minnesota. Doctors and nurses in the Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are ditching the traditional phone and pager for a voice over IP...

Tags: vocera, nottinghamshire, bt, nhs

[23 Feb 2007]

Video: Police helmet-cam in action

Video Video credit: Devon and Cornwall constabulary silicon.com has obtained video footage from police involved in an ongoing trial of 'helmet cameras' to catch criminals in the act. The footage highlights how the police have used cameras attached to the...

Tags: police, camera

[13 Feb 2007]

Stories of the month: December 2006

News You can read more here about how technology issues from chip and PIN to MiFID changed the world of financial services throughout the year, and check out silicon.com's giant photo stories of the year article which saw intrepid reporters roaming...

Tags: rfid

[27 Dec 2006]

Handsfree communicators speed up hospital work

News Star Trek-style communicators are being used to help hospital staff work smarter at an NHS trust in Cornwall. The Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust in Truro is using handsfree BT Managed Vocera VoIP communicators (see below for a photo of the...

Tags: wireless

[16 Nov 2006]

Photos of the month - September 06

Photos of the month - September 06

Photo Eden hugs trees and tech: In his job as head of ICT at Cornwall's Eden Project, Jon Curry combines technology and the environment, making sure Eden's systems run smoothly while aiming to be 'waste neutral'.

Tags: photos of the month, photo

[28 Sep 2006]

Goodbye Goonhilly: Satellite service to be shuttered

News BT has revealed plans to move its satellite communications business away from Goonhilly in Cornwall. The site is the largest satellite Earth station in the world, with 61 dishes. But a BT spokesman said it was no longer "commercially viable" for...

Tags: goonhilly, satellite tech

[14 Sep 2006]

Cornwall - the new Seattle?

News Cornwall could be the new Seattle if it sets out the right IT strategy, claim local tech businesses. Cornwall Enterprise's actnow broadband partnership has set out its vision for the future of IT in Cornwall - with the aim of making the holiday...

Tags: cornwall

[14 Sep 2006]

Photos: Eden Project keeps tech green

Photos: Eden Project keeps tech green

Photo The Eden Project, in Cornwall, is a not-for-profit charitable trust. Its mission: to promote understanding of the relationship between plants, people and resources. And making its IT as green as possible is part of this.

Tags: green it

[13 Sep 2006]

Photos of the month - August 06

Photo This is the first dish built at the Goonhilly satellite station in Cornwall. The dishes of Goonhilly Built to track the Telstar satellite, it also received the first live transatlantic television broadcasts from the US.

Tags: photos of the month, photo

[31 Aug 2006]

Photos: The legendary satellite dishes of Goonhilly

Photos: The legendary satellite dishes of Goonhilly

Photo It's the largest such site in the world, with 61 dishes, set on the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall. Some of the antennas have been given names including Arthur and Guinevere because of the links between Cornwall, King Arthur and Celtic mythology.

Tags: satellite

[22 Aug 2006]

Novell Cures Cornwall Health Authority's IT Infrastructure

whitepaper Hosted by Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust, Cornwall Health Informatics Service provides technical support to over 12,000 health professionals including general practitioners (GPs), primary care trusts and acute care hospitals.

Tags: directory services, care, health, objectives

[18 May 2006]

Private eye made to pay £1,200 over data abuse

News The Devon and Cornwall Constabulary initially investigated the offences, which occurred in 2003, and later passed the case on to the ICO as a data protection offence. A private detective has been made to pay £1,200 in costs and given a one-year...

Tags: information commissioner

[13 Jan 2006]

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