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News BT began a fibre broadband pilot on Monday in the north London suburb of Muswell Hill and the Cardiff suburb of Whitchurch. The pilot follows an internal Openreach trial in Ipswich of fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC)... [06 Jul 2009]
Happy birthday silicon.com
News The UK's leading business and technology publication first saw the light of day on 6 July 1998 with a party at London's Natural History Museum and has been making and breaking the hottest stories ever since.silicon.com... [06 Jul 2009]
Heatwave? No sweat for CIOs
News Similarly Mike Roberts, IT director at the London Clinic, set up portable air conditioning units but also took the precaution of increasing the uninterruptable power supply coverage due to unreliable mains power. [03 Jul 2009]
ID cards: 'A project nobody wants and the nation can't afford'
News Ian Angell, professor of information systems at the London School of Economics, told silicon.com: "This isn't a cancellation exercise, it's treading water. Plans to make ID cards compulsory for airside workers and pilots... [01 Jul 2009]
ID cards U-turn: No compulsory cards for pilots
News As a result, a pilot scheme to issue workers with compulsory cards, which was planned for two airports, Manchester and London City, will not take place. The government has taken the decision to make identity cards... [01 Jul 2009]
CIO Job Report: June's job moves and CIOs wanted
News Current Transport for London CIO Phil Pavitt will join HM Revenue and Customs from this September. Let silicon.com keep you up to date with all the latest CIO job moves and changes with our regular CIO Job Report. [30 Jun 2009]
LSE gears up for new tech direction
News The London Stock Exchange (LSE) Group is reviewing its technology strategy, with its TradElect trading platform under particular scrutiny. But it now appears the LSE is considering its tech options: "TradElect has been... [29 Jun 2009]
Help shape the future of silicon.com
News Attend forums at silicon.com's London offices Advisory panel forums at silicon.com's London offices One to one user testing at silicon.com's London offices Do you want to help shape the... [29 Jun 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Iran, tweets and e-democracy
Comment Compiled at the IoD in London and dispatched to silicon.com via a free wi-fi service on the same day Like most of you I have been following the aftermath of the Iranian election via printed press, radio and TV. [29 Jun 2009]
Parliamentary tech boss backs call for £1bn IT fund
News The report cites the example of one local government body already making savings through investment in green IT: the London Borough of Hillingdon, which reduced IT operating costs by investing in efficient IT. [29 Jun 2009]
Next stop HMRC: How TfL CIO will shake up the taxman
Comment From September, current Transport for London (TfL) CIO Phil Pavitt - who featured on this year's silicon.com CIO50 - will take over HM Revenue and Customs' (HMRC) £1bn IT department from acting CIO Deepak Singh. [26 Jun 2009]
Active Platform Security Through Intrusion Detection Using Naive Bayesian Network for Anomaly Detection
White Paper Recently Active Networks were proposed as the approach that will enable quick introduction of new services in the current telecommunication infrastructure. This approach allows third party executable codes (proxylet) to be deployed into... [25 Jun 2009]
Norm-Aware Agents for Ad Hoc Networks: A Position Paper
White Paper A norm-governed, agent-based approach is proposed as a key technology for operating Ad Hoc networks, both as the logical platform for ubiquitous computing applications and as the physical platform for ubiquitous computing environments. [25 Jun 2009]
Vodafone - Users Collared by Mobility
White Paper These executives buying their shirts at Thomas Pinks in the City of London are the vanguard users of mobile email. It's often useful to segment users into groups to gain an understanding of market needs. [25 Jun 2009]
Trends in Java Code Changes: The Key to Identification of Refactorings?
White Paper Changes made to Object-Oriented (OO) systems over time provide an insight into both design robustness and changes in requirements. When expressed at a high level of abstraction, observing trends in changes to code can indicate... [25 Jun 2009]
