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Unified comms pumps up Tayside fire service
News Video streaming is also allowing remote training of officers in isolated rural or partially manned rural stations and voice and video conferencing has slashed by half the number of staff needing to travel between Perth and... [04 Nov 2008]
Digital wallet card launches in Dundee
News Dundee City Council is set to launch the sQuid eMoney service with the distribution of 38,000 cards in the local area.silicon.com Financial Services The NEC has already issued 1.4 million cards to Scottish citizens and a... [02 Sep 2008]
Ultra fat pipes to squeeze through Dundee's sewers
News Dundee has been selected as the first Scottish 'Fibrecity' - meaning 100Mbps-plus broadband connectivity will be speeding out of fibre-optic-stuffed sewers and into every home, business and organisation in the city as... [18 Jun 2008]
"Boring" school IT curriculum slammed
News Professor Lachlan MacKinnon, head of the school of computing and creative technologies at the University of Abertay, Dundee, has called for a radical overhauling of the curriculum in secondary schools as "boring" ICT... [17 Jun 2008]
Bournemouth to be UK's first Fibrecity
News The town was one of three in the running to be first to get H2O's full fibre treatment, along with Dundee and Northampton. The race to become the UK's first 'Fibrecity' has been won by the seaside resort of Bournemouth,... [08 May 2008]
Does superfast broadband Britain stink of sewage?
News The first city to get the subterranean fibre treatment will be either Bournemouth, Dundee or Northampton - a decision on which city will be first is due to be announced by the end of April - though all three will be... [23 Jan 2008]
Funding holds back public sector mobile working
News One council that has been proactive in this area is Dundee City Council - Scotland's fourth largest local authority. Dundee started three-and-a-half years ago with £25,000 of funding from the Scottish... [12 Oct 2006]
UK's first computer hacking degree launched
News The University of Abertay in Dundee will run the BSc (Hons) undergraduate course in Ethical Hacking and Countermeasures from the start of the next academic year in October. A degree course in computer hacking has been... [19 Jun 2006]
QinetiQ gears up for £6.2m wireless pact
News Early trials will take place at the University of Abertay (UoA) in Dundee. Negotiations are underway with Dundee City Council to extend the scheme, and the university is working on a multiplayer game... [06 Jun 2006]
Solar-powered streetlights to offer wi-fi net access
News The 'Project Starsight' technology is being tested as part of a deal between Compliance Technology (CTL) and the Abertay Centre for the Environment (ACE) at the University of Abertay in Dundee. Calum McRae, head of CTL... [04 Jan 2006]
Mobile driving ban: first offenders caught
News The first to break the ban - just two hours after it came into force - is reported to be a 35-year old Scottish woman caught in Dundee, with at least six motorists feeling the wrath of police after being caught using... [02 Dec 2003]
Comet kicks off seminars to make parents web-wise
News Comet, Longtown Road, Dundee - Wednesday 28 August Comet is continuing its drive towards safe and sensible family computing with the announcement of three in-store seminars aimed at educating parents about how they can... [22 Aug 2003]
Workers walk out on BT in jobs-to-India row
News At four centres - Kingstanding, Cardiff, Middlesborough, and Dundee - there were no reports of any protest activity. Hundreds of BT directory enquiry employees who are members of the Communications Workers Union (CWU)... [21 Mar 2003]
The strange case of the 'ruthless bastard' lawyer and the email hoax
News The short, four-line email was sent out earlier this week and made to look like it came from legal practice Blackadders, which is based in Dundee. A Scottish law firm is counting the cost of a damaging hoax email that... [07 Mar 2003]
Scottish language gets (Och-ai the) new website
News A dictionary of Scottish words and phrases is to be launched online by a team of Dundee academics. The dictionary, which is currently being compiled, is expected to go live by February 2004. It is being put together in... [05 Jun 2002]
