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London bombing report slams 999 radio network
News A report into the 7/7 bombings in London two years ago has raised fresh concerns about the capacity and coverage of the Airwave emergency services digital radio network in the capital. The latest London Assembly 7/7 committee report says despite... [16 Aug 2007]
The great working from home experiment
News While many of the silicon.com team regularly work from home or while on the road, we've only ever once had to run the website with everyone out of the office - on 8 July 2005, after the London bombings. [21 May 2007]
Firms urged to plan for extreme weather
News Bruce Mann, director of Civil Contingencies at the Cabinet Office, said events such as the Carlisle floods, London bombings and Buncefield depot explosion demonstrate the range of impacts emergencies can have but there are still too many... [19 Mar 2007]
O2 in race to build €100m Irish police radio network
News Governments have been pushing for better communication and interoperability between emergency services in response to the heightened threat of terrorist attacks, and just last month a report into the 7 July bombings in London last year found that... [03 Jul 2006]
Serious holes found in SME disaster recovery plans
News That is despite a report earlier this month into the rescue operation after the 7 July terrorist bombings in London, which criticised the reliance on mobile phones after the mobile networks crashed under the volume of people trying to make calls. [20 Jun 2006]
7/7 bomb rescue efforts hampered by communication failings
News A report into the 7 July 2005 London bombings has said the lack of a digital radio network hampered the efforts of emergency service rescue teams, which were unable to communicate properly between the sites of the explosions underground... [05 Jun 2006]
Police murder enquiry system gets upgrade
News For example, Holmes 2 was used during the Soham murders enquiry and the 7/7 London bombings. Plans are being developed to replace the serious crime investigation system used by UK police. The Police Information Technology Organisation (Pito) said... [14 Mar 2006]
Data retention directive gets final approval
News EU countries will now have until August 2007 to implement the directive, which was initially proposed after the Madrid train bombings in 2004. The EU has given the final thumbs-up to a controversial data retention directive. [22 Feb 2006]
London law firm dishes out £4.5m for risk management
News Brammer said that although the strategy to separate the staff headquarters from the data centre was decided before the London bombings in July 2005, "what we saw in London in 2005 always focuses the mind". [01 Feb 2006]
Banks use IT to mitigate bird flu threat
News We see a rise in demand for home working requirements after the 7 July [London bombings] but particularly when there are things like bird flu about. Financial services organisations are being urged to improve their crisis management and disaster... [17 Jan 2006]
2005: 'The year of online media'
News On the day of the London bombings searches for 'London' also spiked sharply to levels way in excess of normal. The past year has seen a major increase in the number of people turning to the internet for news, with events such as the terror attacks... [22 Dec 2005]
Europe to pass tough new data retention laws
News The change in the law was proposed during the UK's presidency of the EU in the wake of the 7 July London bombings. The European parliament has today passed new, far-reaching data retention legislation for the telecommunications industry. [14 Dec 2005]
City firms get priority phone access
News The group is building what it calls the Enhanced Government Telephone Preference Scheme (EGTPS) in the wake of disruptions to phone lines that occurred after the London 7 July bombings. Large London financial institutions are to be given priority... [03 Nov 2005]
Body scanners to check UK rail passengers for bombs
News In the immediate aftermath of the 7 July bombings in London the government has also said it planned to evaluate high-tech millimetre wave imaging technology that can see through clothes and detect concealed bombs and weapons on people. [31 Oct 2005]
Business ID card support collapses
News Significantly the poll was taken after the 7 July bombings in London yet fewer than half of the respondents (45 per cent) said they think ID cards would make UK cities safer from terrorist attack. Support for the government's national biometric ID... [10 Oct 2005]
