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Unified comms pumps up Tayside fire service
News Tayside Fire and Rescue serves 392,000 people spread over 7,500sq km, using the comms system to provide voice calls, instant messaging (IM), email and streaming video for officers whether they're on the front line or in... [04 Nov 2008]
Everyone needs a summer holiday - even phishers
News While the volume of phishing attacks on UK banks continues to grow with ever more ferocity as fire-sales and mergers unsettle banking customers, it seems those behind the scams need a holiday every now and then, just... [24 Oct 2008]
Large Hadron Collider puts a grid on it
News The LHC itself will not fire up again until Spring 2009 after a fault stopped its operation. One of the world's largest computing grids, capable of streaming the equivalent of 3 million DVDs a year was officially... [03 Oct 2008]
Notts police turns to tech for better crime handling
News The system is also being used by West Mercia Police along with other UK emergency service organisations such as Merseyside Fire Service. Nottinghamshire Police is trialling new incident management tech that it hopes will... [19 Sep 2008]
Google Chrome: Should its rivals be worried?
News Microsoft has lit a fire under its IE team, and given that Google is such a powerful Microsoft rival, that fire is likely to burn all the hotter because of Chrome. Google Chrome is a warning shot for... [03 Sep 2008]
Admit to security breaches, companies told
News Certs, dubbed 'digital fire brigades', help countries combat distributed denial of service attacks and spam generated by hijacked botnet computers. The EU's online security body is calling for laws to force companies to... [27 May 2008]
Geographic database opens doors to private sector
News The NLPG has been used by public sector organisations - such as the police, fire service and county council - for the past four years but is now available for private sector groups to subscribe to. A national... [30 Apr 2008]
FDM lands multimillion contract with FiReControl
News IT training and recruitment company FDM has been awarded a multimillion pound contract to train staff in England's Fire and Rescue Services. FDM will be the prime supplier of training for the FiReControl project, which... [18 Mar 2008]
ID card u-turn by government
News Smith will also set out plans to issue ID cards to people working in airports and other high security risk areas from next year - a plan that has come under fire from trade unions. Silicon.com's A to Z of ID Cards [06 Mar 2008]
Steve Jobs slams Flash - opens door to Silverlight?
News Adobe returned fire: "Flash and Flash Lite are a huge success. At Apple's shareholder meeting this week, CEO Steve Jobs took a bat to Adobe's Flash - leading to speculation the door is open for Microsoft's Silverlight on... [06 Mar 2008]
Defra IT - blowing budgets and showing up late
News It follows several recent government IT blunders such as the scaling back of the National Offender Management Service, which is £500m over budget, and the revelation that a new fire control IT system was expected to be... [07 Feb 2008]
Gov't IT spending to face scrutiny
News The spokesman said the review has not been triggered by the government's lamentable track record on delivering IT systems on budget and on time - such as the £70m overspend for the national fire control centre system or... [01 Feb 2008]
Government reveals snooping figures
News Hundreds of UK public bodies are authorised to intercept individuals' communications, including the Ambulance Service and Fire Authorities, the British Transport Police, HM Revenue & Customs, Secret Intelligence Service,... [30 Jan 2008]
Mac sales set Apple 'on fire'
News Tim Cook, Apple's chief operating officer, said: "The Mac business is on fire". Apple's first quarter hit on all cylinders, as the company continued its financial run on the strength of its Mac business. [23 Jan 2008]
Spiralling costs derail £500m offender-tracking system
News It follows the revelation this week from a parliamentary committee that an IT system to underpin nine new fire control centres is expected to be £70m over budget. Spiralling costs of a £500m IT system to manage UK... [09 Jan 2008]
