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RSS eastFree wi-fi steams into St Pancras
News A wi-fi service on the UK's East Coast Main Line, which was made free for all passengers late last year, has proved particularly popular with commuters - underlining how much demand there is for free and fair wi-fi. [06 Aug 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: New niche for 3G?
Comment The economic downturn and collapse of the dollar have resulted in a lot of my business migrating out of the US into the EU and south-east Asia. Written poolside at my hotel in Rome and dispatched via a 3G HSDPA data service. [05 Aug 2008]
Orange beefs up 3G network for Northerners
News The mobile operator has announced it is moving to a new network infrastructure in the North East of England, Northern Ireland and Scotland, boosting the speed and reliability of 3G voice and data services in those regions and smoothing the way for... [04 Aug 2008]
Blowing up hard drives, stinky broadband and super cars
Photo Photo credit: BAE Systems silicon.com took a trip out to the east end of London, to the Thames Water depot near Stratford, for a rare trip down London's Victorian sewer network for a look at a much more high-tech network it is now hosting - Geo's... [01 Aug 2008]
London: Card fraud hotspot
News London, specifically the south east of the capital, saw the most card-not-present fraud over the past six months, with Romford and Manchester close behind at third and fifth in the top 10. The UK's top card fraud hotspots have been revealed in a... [24 Jul 2008]
Editor's Blog: Back to the future
Comment So earlier this week I found myself in east London, getting kitted out in very big boots and a hard hat to visit a part of the Northern Outfall Sewer, built in 1862-3 and one of the city's six main interceptory sewers. [24 Jul 2008]
Health trust abandons NHS care record upgrade
News The RUH provides acute treatment and care for a catchment population of around 500,000 people in Bath, and the surrounding towns and villages in north east Somerset and western Wiltshire. A health trust serving more than 500,000 people said it has... [22 Jul 2008]
Photos: Broadband in London's Victorian sewers
Photo silicon.com took a trip out to the east end of London, to the Thames Water depot near Stratford, for a rare trip down inside London's Victorian sewer network to see a much more high-tech network which it is now hosting - Geo's business broadband... [22 Jul 2008]
NFC payments to reach tipping point in three years?
News NFC mobile wallet devices will remain limited next year - except in the Far East and China region where they are already established - but the number of devices shipping will begin to ramp up from 2010 onwards, says Juniper. [18 Jul 2008]
Legal Giant Norton Rose LLP Centralises Document Digitising With ABBYY Recognition Server
White Paper Norton Rose LLP is an international legal practice with a network of offices across Europe, the Middle East and Asia. The challenge for the Norton Rose LLP IT team was to find an OCR solution for their system which met all of their requirements. [18 Jul 2008]
iPhone 3G, terrorists and tech, file sharers vs ISP
Comment Government created sceptic, East Anglia And, according to a certain anonymous poster, here at silicon towers we need to get over the iPhone.we think the other comments tell a different story. G iPhone up for grabs online - or is it? [15 Jul 2008]
GNER Chose THUS to Provide a Next-Generation Network to Transfer Business-Critical Data Up and Down the Country, 365 Days a Year..
White Paper Great North Eastern Railways (GNER) provides high-speed train services along the East Coast Main Line, a key transport link between regions of England and Scotland and one of Britain's fastest railway lines. [11 Jul 2008]
Distance Education: A Brief Overview
White Paper Technology has changed education. Most people think of online courses taken through Blackboard or WebCT when they hear the term distance education. However, distance education was a viable alternative to traditional education even before the... [11 Jul 2008]
Dear silicon.com: Tech teacher shortage, Kangaroo and phones on planes
Comment Roy Corneloues, East Anglia Also getting readers reaching for their keyboards this week, the OFT and Kangaroo and phones on planes - love them or loathe them? Teacher shortage IT teacher applications continue to decline [03 Jul 2008]
University of the East, Manila, Philippines: Turbocharges the Campus Network With Leading-Edge ATM Solutions From Bay Networks, a Nortel Networks Business
White Paper University of the East is a premier educational institution. University of the East, Recto Campus (Main Campus) in the Philippines, implemented an ATM network architecture to benefit from high-speed bandwidth. [03 Jul 2008]
