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News The HQ minimises its CO2 emissions, air-con is replaced by cavernous pipes and thermally absorbent concrete beams that suck in the cool night air and release it during the day, while toilets are flushed with pond water filtered through reed beds.
[09 May 2008]
News Scottish Water has signed three tech contracts to the tune of £120m to help improve its operations and give better value to customers. The water supplier has been working on a tech transformation project for the past six years and is already...
[28 Apr 2008]
News Water treatment plants provide clean drinking water to more than one million people and more than 76,000 toilets have been built. Villagers in India are turning to technology to lift them out of the deprivation that keeps 280 million people in the...
[23 Apr 2008]
News One way is making use of holes in the ground already used by other utilities such as electricity and water. Fibre could be laid through the UK's sewer ducts to help speed up the rollout of super fast broadband to homes and businesses across the...
[16 Apr 2008]
News The UK's information watchdog has issued a stark warning to the government not to water down laws which could jail people selling stolen personal details. Pressure is building on parliament to quash part of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill...
[01 Apr 2008]
News Almost half of UK businesses are looking at implementing service oriented architecture (SOA) technology as they develop their IT infrastructure. Nearly half (47 per cent) of the 180 organisations questioned are actively focused on creating SOA...
[20 Mar 2008]
News In his speech, the prime minister also said CPNI will begin to provide a higher level of protection to UK organisations that oversee essential systems and services, such as telecommunications and the water supply.
[20 Mar 2008]
News Mike Buck, architecture manager, Yorkshire Water Local police forces do not have the resources or expertise to deal with growing cyber crime and online fraud threats facing businesses today. That's the unanimous verdict of UK tech chiefs on silicon...
[18 Mar 2008]
News Oxfordshire County Council is rolling out a mobile text alert system to warn residents across the county if their homes are at risk from flood water following heavy rain. Wireless from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more…
[26 Feb 2008]
News He said: "I think that's one of the things we'll see more of: attempts to squeeze costs out of the operation and move closer to an efficient utility - like water or gas - which can make lots of money obviously you do that by doing larges volumes...
[09 Jan 2008]
News Mike Buck, architecture manager, Yorkshire Water Encryption has been back in the spotlight following the HM Revenue & Customs data breach that led to two CDs containing unencrypted records of 25 million people on the child benefit database getting...
[07 Dec 2007]
News Ivan Krstić, the director of security architecture for the OLPC project, said Uruguayan water and mobile phone utility companies have allowed the organisation to plant wireless access points on existing towers to facilitate the laptop's use.
[03 Dec 2007]
News A reader from London wrote: "A good thing to come out of this is that the ID card is dead in the water. The news two CDs containing the confidential personal details of 25 million child benefit recipients have been lost by HM Revenue & Customs...
[22 Nov 2007]
News He added: "If I stick a tap outside my gate with a sign on it saying 'Drinking Water' I wouldn't expect the police to arrest anyone drinking from it. With many homes failing to adequately secure their wireless networks, computer users in the...
[19 Nov 2007]
News But O'Neill emphasised this doesn't mean technical knowledge and skills are any less important: "The challenge for us is not to throw out the geek with the bath-water. The skills needed for tech jobs are now much broader and more business focused...
[16 Oct 2007]
News Thomson believes that two benefits of Scotland are the relative stability of the weather and renewable energy sources, including an abundance of water and wind-power generation facilities. Cisco is urging businesses to choose Scotland when they...
[26 Sep 2007]
News Michael Silver, an analyst at Gartner, said referring to two recent Microsoft setbacks: "I think there's some blood in the water between Microsoft not getting its Open XML [Office document formats] fast-track standards approval and the European...
[19 Sep 2007]
News SaaS is also not being used in any significant way at Yorkshire Water. Mike Buck, architecture manager at Yorkshire Water, said: "We'll use it where we can see benefits and for minority applications but we aren't planning to do anything major with...
[18 Sep 2007]
News The grants will cover 44 research projects, including the development of automatic surveillance systems for water distribution systems. The European Commission will commit $212.16m to research on counterterrorism technologies.
[13 Sep 2007]
News Some company buildings are water-logged, he explained, while others have had to abandon workplaces because of associated power failures and one company cannot use their building because the water supplies have been contaminated.
[24 Jul 2007]
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