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North Wales fires up high speed fibre network
News Broadband service providers can gain wholesale access to the fibre infrastructure - which stretches for more than 200 miles between Holyhead in Anglesey and the UK's core network in Manchester - via a pricing structure that is comparable... [27 Nov 2008]
Wales steers clear of Vista
News Speaking at the Gartner IT Security Summit in London on Tuesday, he also described how the assembly had nominated 16 "information asset owners" that were helping transform the way staff transported and... [01 Oct 2008]
IBM to use DNA to shrink chip size
News Nonetheless, a growing number of researchers believe designer DNA could become the vehicle for turning the dream of "self-assembly" into reality. In self-assembly, the intrinsic chemical and physical... [21 Feb 2008]
London bombing report slams 999 radio network
News The latest London Assembly 7/7 committee report says despite significant progress in implementing its recommendations to improve emergency plans and procedures there are still problems and delays in... [16 Aug 2007]
ID card project gets new boss
News Hillier is the MP for Hackney South and Shoreditch and has represented Hackney, Islington and Waltham Forest in the London Assembly in the past. The scheme has been called "out of control" by researchers... [27 Jul 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Wi-fi radiation scare
Comment All our advances as a species are down to the assembly of a body of knowledge based upon repeatable experience and observation, experimentation, theory and proof. Written on the Ipswich to London train... [29 May 2007]
More cash for road-pricing satellites
News The government is supporting a bid - backed by the Welsh Assembly Government - for Cardiff to host the Galileo Supervisory Authority. The Galileo Operations Company will also be operated from London. The... [25 Aug 2006]
7/7 bomb rescue efforts hampered by communication failings
News The London Assembly's 7 July Review Committee report said it is "unacceptable" that the emergency services are still not able to communicate by radio when they are underground, 18 years after the... [05 Jun 2006]
Politicians call for Tube mobile coverage review
News The Lib Dem members of the Greater London Assembly claim mobiles will pose a risk to the transport system as they can be used to detonate bombs remotely. The Liberal Democrats have called for a rethink... [28 Jul 2005]
ID Cards on Trial: Police chief questions biometrics
News Speaking at a London Assembly meeting this week, Blair reaffirmed his support for ID cards "in principle" but only if the technology behind them actually works. Following Blair's answers,... [16 Jun 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 29.04.05
Round-Up A giant iron man, not dissimilar to the one popularised in the children's book by Ted Hughes - the Round-Up imagines - was rampaging down the South Bank, about to attack the offices of Mayor Ken and the London... [29 Apr 2005]
London reveals e-voting plans
News The e-voting systems could also be called into action for any bye elections or government referendums before the 2008 GLA London mayor and London Assembly elections.... [15 Oct 2004]
£3.5m Capita congestion charging IT payment under fire
News A £3.5m payment to Capita for improvements to computer systems running London's £280m congestion charging scheme has come under fire from London Assembly members. Concerns have also been... [10 Oct 2003]
Mayor considered scrapping £250m congestion charge contract
News Livingston was speaking at a meeting of the Budget Committee of the London Assembly where details of the contract with Transport for London (TfL) were finally made public after a year of... [12 Sep 2003]
Wales gets £100m broadband boost
News Hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in Wales are to get cheap broadband net access under a £100m scheme launched yesterday by the Welsh Assembly. The Welsh Assembly has already committed £23m... [12 Jul 2002]
