manchester
RSS manchester
The Weekly Round-Up: 20.11.09
Round-Up Still, there's not likely to be an enormous rush: Home Office figures show just 0.4 per cent of the population of Manchester - fewer than 2,000 of the city's 450,000 residents - have registered to get an application form... [20 Nov 2009]
UK ID cards rollout hit by delay as launch date revealed
News The controversial ID project has hit another delay, with the government missing its own deadline to get the cards into the hands of Manchester residents. The Home Office announced today that people living or working in... [16 Nov 2009]
Inbox: Social networking can help you secure a job
Comment Andrew Peel, Manchester The weekly Inbox column collects the best and most thought-provoking of the reader comments silicon.com receives each week. The Naked CIO gets some mixed reactions to his views on the redundancy... [11 Nov 2009]
ID cards: 10,000 Brits want to sign up
News A wider rollout will follow this year, with residents of the Greater Manchester area getting first dibs on applying for a card. Thousands of UK citizens have registered their interest in getting their very own ID card. [19 Oct 2009]
Manchester United Know the Importance of Using the Best Defence
White Paper The name Manchester United needs no introduction. Formed in 1878, as Newton Heath LYR (Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway), becoming Manchester United in 1902. Manchester United upgraded... [01 Oct 2009]
First ID card watchdog named
News Manchester residents are to be offered the cards this autumn with the scheme expected to go nationwide in 2012. The government has appointed its first identity commissioner to keep tabs on the UK's ID cards scheme. [14 Sep 2009]
Photos: Game over for boring business training
Photo At Manchester Business School, INNOV8 is used to show the link between IT and BPM. Linda Macaulay, professor of information system design at Manchester Business School, said: "It links theory to... [08 Sep 2009]
Future of the NHS: Medical records online could transform healthcare
News At the Haughton Vale Surgery and the Thornley House medical centre in Manchester patients can view their records via a secure website - which helped one patient get medical treatment while on holiday in France, after... [21 Aug 2009]
Photos: UK's ID card revealed
Photo The design for the British cards was unveiled by Home Secretary Alan Johnson at events in London and Manchester today. People living in Manchester will be the first UK nationals to be able to apply for... [30 Jul 2009]
Revealed: £12.4m cost of pilots' ID cards project
News The spokesman added that the technology developed under the CWIC scheme will also be used to support the launch of voluntary ID cards in Manchester later this year, and the subsequent rollout of voluntary cards to the... [23 Jul 2009]
Is BT's super-fast broadband coming to your neighbourhood?
News Manchester East North West Swinton, Greater Manchester North West BT's current rollout pits it against Virgin Media, which covers 50 per cent of the country with its own fibre deployment, for future... [09 Jul 2009]
Labour politician joins calls to scrap ID cards
News The debate follows the Home Secretary's decision last week to make ID cards entirely voluntary and scrap trials that would have compelled airside workers and pilots at London City and Manchester airports to carry the... [07 Jul 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 03.07.09
Round-Up Plans to make ID cards compulsory for airside workers and pilots have also been dropped this week by the Home Office with the trials planned for Manchester and London City airports both scrapped. And, this year, they... [03 Jul 2009]
ID cards: 'A project nobody wants and the nation can't afford'
News Johnson also announced yesterday the government still plans to roll the scheme out in Greater Manchester on a voluntary basis and will also extend it across the North-West region early in 2010. Plans to make ID cards... [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]
