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RSS city in newsUK ID cards rollout hit by delay as launch date revealed
News Take-up of the cards in Manchester is likely to be low, with Home Office figures showing just 0.4 per cent of the population of Manchester - fewer than 2,000 of the city's 450,000 residents - having registered to get an... [16 Nov 2009]
Parking in the West End goes contactless
News The three-month pilot, which is being conducted by Westminster City Council, will see around 20 parking meters equipped with the contactless readers. Photo credit: Westminster City Council) According to... [29 Oct 2009]
Open source? No good for cost cutting, say CIOs
News Chris Ford, IT director, Nottingham City Council Despite tough economic conditions, CIOs have not turned to open source software as a way of making their IT budgets go further, according to silicon.com's latest exclusive... [23 Oct 2009]
Win a luxury New Year's Eve package worth £1,000
News BT Business is offering two nights' accommodation on the 30 and 31 December 2009, for two people to stay in a deluxe double room at luxury boutique hotel The Glasshouse in Edinburgh city centre. This competition is now... [20 Oct 2009]
NHS bodies outsource payroll in £12m deals
News NHS SBS will supply the eight organisations - which include NHS Nottingham City, Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust and Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust - with services including finance, accounting and payroll. [13 Oct 2009]
British Airways' London to New York route lets flyers use mobiles
News The service will be available on two Airbus A318s flying between London City Airport and New York's JFK. Air travellers flying between London and New York won't have to go mobile cold turkey from tomorrow. [28 Sep 2009]
Apple's Snow Leopard won't make us move to Macs, say CIOs
News Chris Ford, IT director, Nottingham City Council According to silicon.com's CIO Jury, the release late last month of Apple's latest OS, Snow Leopard, won't signal the company's entry into the business market. [21 Sep 2009]
IT graduates failing to make the business grade, say UK tech chiefs
News Chris Ford, IT director, Nottingham City Council The majority of the jury said they believe universities are not producing IT graduates with the right skills for their businesses - bad news for graduates competing for... [02 Sep 2009]
Microsoft: First 'Windows Phones' arriving next month
News The 6 October launch ties in with a "consumer open house" event that Microsoft Entertainment and Devices President Robbie Bach is hosting that day in New York City. Microsoft is hoping that a new crop of phones this... [01 Sep 2009]
Twitter gearing up to put geolocation in tweets
News As Stone says in his post: "For example, with accurate, tweet-level location data you could switch from reading the tweets of accounts you follow to reading tweets from anyone in your neighbourhood or city - whether you... [21 Aug 2009]
BT rolls out superfast broadband even faster in one UK city
News The autumn rollout will cover more than 15,500 homes and businesses in the Hillington, Cardonald and Crookston areas of the city, according to the telco. The city was first earmarked to become part of... [17 Aug 2009]
The A to Z of wireless
News Their idea was for multiple low-power transmitters spread throughout a city in a hexagonal grid with automatic hand-off between cells - the foundation of the modern mobile network. While mesh networks can be wired or... [11 Aug 2009]
Offshoring: Is resistance weakening at Whitehall?
News Bangalore, the city that plays home to some of India's biggest outsourcers (Photo credit: Steve Ranger, silicon.com) After years of resistance to offshoring, the need to slash billions of pounds from public spending... [03 Aug 2009]
Mozilla lets developers into Firefox 3.6 secrets
News Another change lets the browser supply not just latitude and longitude co-ordinates but also human-friendly address terms such as street, city and postal code. Mozilla has published an official feature list for Firefox... [30 Jul 2009]
Betfair CTO bets on new tech architecture
News Fortunately, McAlister also has the budget to make the plans a reality: "I might be one of the only CTOs in the city that has an increased budget this year. Betfair's new CTO is embarking on a radical overhaul of the... [10 Jul 2009]
