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O2 woos SMEs with broadband deal

News Fairman said the call centres are based in Glasgow and Leeds. Mobile operator O2 UK has launched a business broadband service and extended the coverage of its home broadband offering to the whole of the UK from today.

Tags: broadband, smes, o2

[01 May 2008]

Local gov't CIOs to set national agenda

News Members of the Local Government CIO Council include, among others: Peter Bole, head of ICT commissioning at Kent County Council; Richard Steel, CTO Council member and CIO at the London Borough of Newham; Dylan Roberts, head of ICT at Leeds City...

Tags: john suffolk, socitm, cio

[02 Apr 2008]

Skin-detecting CCTV keeps an eye on motorists

News Leeds City Council is reported to be interested in testing the technology on its car-pool lanes. A company that has developed a CCTV system which counts people in cars by detecting human skin claims the London Congestion Charge could benefit from...

Tags: congestion, cars, cctv, schemes

[26 Feb 2008]

Outsourcing 'increases IT costs'

News And Ted Woodhouse, former IS director at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, said: "I have been in the IT business for 30 years, and I have never, ever, not even once, heard anyone ever say, 'my word, the IT service is a lot better since we...

Tags: outsourcing, cio jury, cost savings, cio

[31 Jan 2008]

Which cities top the wealth league?

News Cities with levels of productivity above the average - and growing knowledge economies in both public and private sectors - include Bristol, Leeds and Manchester, as well as Derby, Ipswich and Northampton.

Tags: earnings, knowledge economy, london, workers

[07 Jan 2008]

NHS completes Pacs digital x-ray project

News The Pacs technology has been rolled out over three years to 127 NHS trusts, with Leeds Teaching Hospitals the final one to complete on 10 December and the government said this contrasts "very favourably" with the 14 years taken to implement those...

Tags: nhs, pacs, reporting, health

[27 Dec 2007]

Norwich Union Life fined for data control 'weaknesses'

News Paul Davie, founder of Secerno, said: "Breaches such as the HMRC's loss of two discs affected 25 million people, while Leeds Building Society recently lost sensitive data relating to workers' payslips and this month, the DVLA compromised 6,000...

Tags: norwich union life, fine, data loss, fsa

[17 Dec 2007]

Are UK data laws fit for purpose?

Are UK data laws fit for purpose?

News But Ted Woodhouse, consultant and former director of IT strategy for Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, said: "The data protection laws are fine - it's HMRC that's not 'fit for purpose'. Ted Woodhouse, consultant and ex-director of IT strategy...

Tags: hmrc, data protection, cio jury, encryption

[23 Nov 2007]

Wi-fi piggybacking is OK, say silicon.com readers

News Ollie Clark, a software developer from Leeds, said: "Surely if you advertise your unsecured wireless network to people by broadcasting its name and the fact that it's unsecured, you're inviting them to use it.

Tags: crime, wi-fi, bt, access

[19 Nov 2007]

O2 recruits an iPhone army

News New customer service jobs are also being created in O2's other call centres in Cardiff, Dearne Valley and Leeds. The lure of Apple's iPhone may be driving UK consumers into a frenzy of anticipation ahead of Friday's launch but they're not the only...

Tags: iphone, o2, apple, dedicated

[07 Nov 2007]

London hottest for online card fraud

London hottest for online card fraud

News In order of the worst offending, the top 10 UK card not present fraud hotspots are: London, Manchester, Coventry, Kilmarnock, Bristol, Brighton, Leicester, Leeds, Glasgow and Nottingham. Other hotspots include Coventry, Leeds and Manchester.

Tags: card, postcode, online, london

[05 Sep 2007]

Ask revamps its search site

News Doug Leeds, vice president of product management at Ask, said: "We thought they might have scooped us. Leeds was realistic in discussing the company's strategy to gain market share, explaining that he doesn't expect the new site will attract a huge...

Tags: search, google, ask

[05 Jun 2007]

Mobiles to kill cash at music festivals?

News The mobile operator will test the technology at the music event, which takes place in London and Leeds on 14 to 17 June. O2 will trial near field communications technologies at the O2 Wireless Festival this year, an experiment it predicts could...

Tags: o2, nfc

[04 Jun 2007]

Be extends next-gen fat pipes to third of Blighty

News Be's ADSL2+ network now covers the following locations: Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Coventry, Croydon, Derby, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hemel Hempstead, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Middlesbrough, Milton Keynes, Northampton...

Tags: be, adsl2+

[16 Feb 2007]

CIO Jury: The Apple iPhone verdict

News There is also no interest in the iPhone from Ted Woodhouse, director of IT strategy, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, who said his phone already does more than he needs it to do and that his MP3 player is smaller and more convenient than an...

Tags: iphone, cio jury

[18 Jan 2007]

CIO Jury: 'Cynical' licence audits under fire

News Ted Woodhouse, director of IT strategy, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Corporate IT users have accused technology suppliers of cynically using software licence auditing as a tool to squeeze more revenue out of buyers.

Tags: cio jury

[12 Jan 2007]

Enterprises are fixed-mobile fans

News Since then, the telco has started offering an enterprise-focused version of the service, which is being trialled by Leeds City Council. It's not yet two years since the first FMC (fixed-mobile convergence) product hit the UK.

Tags: fmc, fixed mobile convergence

[09 Jan 2007]

BT takes Fusion to the small

News BT has already announced a consumer version of Fusion as well as a corporate version, which is being trialled by Leeds City Council. BT has taken the wraps off the wi-fi version of its fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) service, Fusion, aimed at SMEs.

[14 Dec 2006]

Travelodge does dynamic online booking

News The website was built and is managed and developed by Sense Internet in Leeds. Budget hotel giant Travelodge is planning a further upgrade to its website after shifting nearly four out of five bookings online over the last three years.

Tags: hotel

[14 Dec 2006]

Blades cool Lloyds TSB trading floor

News Walker is also deploying thin client PCs at Lloyds TSB's satellite offices in Amsterdam, Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds and Manchester, providing local traders with access to the same information they would have in London.

Tags: lloyds tsb, pc blades, blades

[04 Dec 2006]

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