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Outsourcing: CIOs' tips on getting it right
News By the end of this year Tube Lines - the company responsible for maintaining a large part of London Underground's rail network - is on course to have fewer than 24,000 calls to its service desk and a 95 per cent... [24 Nov 2009]
The A to Z of wireless
News But it's no longer just a question of untethering your PC from its peripherals or logging on at a coffee shop between meetings - new use cases for wireless technologies are making broadband available over distances of many miles and... [11 Aug 2009]
Cern ready to restart LHC at half power this year
News The collider, located deep underground on the border between France and Switzerland, will start out running at an energy level of 3.5 trillion electron volts (TeV) per beam, about half the energy that Cern expects... [10 Aug 2009]
4,000 Indian jobs go as BT brings call centre work back to UK
News In separate news, BT announced it has been awarded a Ministry of Defence contract worth £99m over five years for managed voice and data networks in more than a quarter of a million MoD assets, including buildings, comms rooms and... [16 Jul 2009]
50p broadband tax 'will leave 20 pc of UK without fibre'
News The thing that really dictates the economies of P rather than C is the amount of civils' work you have to do [ie digging up roads etc to lay fibre] so where we feel there are no civils and we can run fibre all the way to the customer -... [02 Jul 2009]
Zombie attacks on sale for a fiver
News Researchers at security firm Finjan said on Wednesday that they have uncovered an underground botnet-leasing network where cyber criminals can pay $5 to $100 to install malware on 1,000 PCs for things like stealing data... [18 Jun 2009]
Tube mobile coverage in time for 2012 Olympics?
News Communications minister Lord Carter has put the idea of mobile coverage on the London Underground back on the government agenda - only months after it emerged a planned Tube mobile trial had been shelved indefinitely. [17 Jun 2009]
Barclaycard going for contactless Gold
News Barclaycard Gold and Classic cardholders on the receiving end of a new or replacement card will now be able to make payments of up to £10 by swiping their card against a reader, thanks to contactless payment technology within the card,... [16 Jun 2009]
Mobile barcodes going to Disneyland Paris
News The Disney Flashcodes will be featured inside and outside the park as well as in locations such as the French underground system to advertise the park's attractions. French visitors to Disneyland Paris will be able to... [12 Jun 2009]
Cross-border policing to take down digital crims
News Underground forums easily emerge to serve as clearing houses or virtual supermarkets for myriad criminal activities over the internet. The FBI agent whose undercover sting operation led to the dismantling of an... [23 Apr 2009]
Browser hijacks and holey software skyrockets
News Attacks are traded in underground channels, with people buying and selling software that automates attacks or even entire botnets of infected computers that serve as spam armies, the report says. Twelve per cent of all... [14 Apr 2009]
Exclusive: High costs kill off London Underground mobile plans
News A plan to put mobile connectivity on the London Underground (LU) has stalled. Speaking at the time, Richard Parry, London Underground's strategy and service development director, said: "We recognise that... [13 Mar 2009]
Airwave heads out on the Highways Agency
News The rollout follows a deployment by London Underground late last year that saw the Airwave system extended throughout 250 miles of Tube tunnels. The Highways Agency is extending its rollout of the Airwave digital radio... [10 Mar 2009]
Barclaycard, Orange share a mobile wallet
News Barclaycard has previously worked with mobile operator O2 on a contactless payments and Oyster mobile trial on the London Underground. Mobile operator Orange UK and credit card company Barclaycard have announced a... [09 Mar 2009]
Brits still not that into contactless payments
News An O2 trial last year of mobile contactless tech for travel and small value payments on the London Underground found consumers were more keen on the travel feature than the payments side, with 89 per cent of testers... [12 Feb 2009]
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