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Virtualisation: Real-life tales of how to get it right
Comment Trinity Mirror, publisher of The Daily Mirror and The Daily Record, has been using virtualisation for nearly two years as part of a process to consolidate computing infrastructure from multiple server rooms across its nationwide network... [20 Nov 2009]
Westminster computing put on size-zero diet
News The greatest success has been participation of the CIOs, CTOs and all those people in the ICT profession within government - it has been amazing," he told the Green IT Expo in London this week. With the government hoping... [13 Nov 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Virtualisation
News Other big names using virtualisation include global insurance company Aviva and the airline Virgin Atlantic, while the London 2012 Olympic Games is also considering taking the plunge. So I get to put on... [11 Nov 2009]
BT offers free fibre to Glasgow businesses
News BT's Glasgow taster follows FTTC trials in Whitchurch in Cardiff, and Muswell Hill in London - where the telco has opened a shop to shout about the benefits of fibre. BT is offering a free taste of superfast broadband to... [05 Nov 2009]
£39m boost for London Olympics' emergency comms
News The Home Office has announced a £39m deal to help emergency services comms cope during the London 2012 Olympic Games. The two-way Tetra comms system has an important role to play during the... [03 Nov 2009]
Olympics tech team gets ready to put London 2012 IT through its paces
News With just over 1,000 days to go until the start of the 2012 London Olympics, the team in charge of the Games' tech is poised for the real work to get underway. By the end of this year the consortium will... [27 Oct 2009]
Photos: Google Android dual boots with Windows 7 on Acer netbook
Photo Acer, a partner for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver and the 2012 Olympic Games in London, has also launched special editions of the Aspire 4810T and Aspire 1410 (pictured above) laptops to... [16 Oct 2009]
BAA preparing for Windows 7 take off
News Speaking at a Microsoft customer event in London this week, BAA CIO Philip Langsdale said the company has been testing Windows 7 and now plans to roll it out across the company. Airport operator BAA is hoping the roll... [09 Oct 2009]
Windows 8: The 'dying gasps' of the desktop OS or the next big thing?
News In a sense there's still a lot of work to do [with the operating system]," he said recently in London. Just as the marketing hype around Windows 7 heads toward its peak, a few details are starting to surface about its... [08 Oct 2009]
BT's home fibre tests: Coming in London and Milton Keynes
News Bradwell Abbey in Milton Keynes will join Highams Park in London as the locations for the fibre dry-run, the telco announced yesterday. The London suburb of Muswell Hill is the first area to have its... [02 Oct 2009]
Nortel's Investment Recovery Operations Minimize Waste for Customers' Networks
White Paper Nortel is proud of its membership in the Olympic Family, as the Official Converged Network Equipment Supplier for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, as well as its partnership with the Olympic Games in London in... [02 Oct 2009]
First ID card watchdog named
News He has also been part of reviews of the 30 Year Rule on the release of government information and the governance of London University. The government has appointed its first identity commissioner to keep tabs on the UK's... [14 Sep 2009]
BT superfast fibre broadband destined for London brownfield pilot
News BT is to begin its first brownfield pilot of fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) in the Highams Park area of north-east London. BT began its first FTTC trial at the start of July, in the north London suburb of... [07 Aug 2009]
Photos: Giant robot leads Tokyo's Olympic dreams
Photo In London, work is already ongoing on the technology that will lay the foundations for the 2012 Olympics. In Toyko, the city bidding to host the 2016 Games, technology of a very different stripe is... [07 Aug 2009]
Underwater robots, Google Moon, edible beetles and ID cards
Photo The Routers of the Future project - a collaboration between the University of London's design department, Goldsmiths, and ISP TalkTalk - aimed to give the humble router a serious makeover last month. Atos Origin, the... [04 Aug 2009]
