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Gov't not trusted with public data

News The Driver and Vehicle Agency in Northern Ireland admitted to losing more than 6,000 motorists' details in the post, Norfolk police admitted losing the details of dozens of prisoners and Sefton Primary Care Trust sent the salary and pension...

Tags: data, dva, hmrc, gov

[14 Dec 2007]

Norfolk police consolidate data

News Norfolk Constabulary is consolidating 4,500 data repositories into one integrated database - with an initial infrastructure investment of £295,000 - to help it better predict crime patterns. It also allows the force to side-step a third-party...

Tags: home office, data warehouse, police, fujitsu services

[17 Sep 2007]

SwimWays Shores Up Design Data With StoreVault

whitepaper Dataline, a Norfolk, VA, reseller, suggested a StoreVault with 12 drives, the CIFS protocol, RAID-DP and a SCSI card. SwimWays Corporation is a privately owned worldwide manufacturer of leisure and recreational water products, headquartered in...

Tags: back-up, corporation, life, production

[11 Sep 2007]

Urban wireless networks set to surge

News In the UK, Milton Keynes and Norfolk have both launched blanket wi-fi networks. Norfolk fired up its community network - called Norfolk Open Link - back in August of last year, with the aim of improving access to information and providing...

Tags: milton keynes, municipal, citywide, wi-fi

[26 Jul 2007]

Are consultants a waste of money?

News Janet Norman-Philips, head of e-government of South Norfolk Council, added: "The right consultant at the right time can save you a fortune and a pile of grief. Janet Norman-Philips, head of e-government, South Norfolk Council

Tags: consultants, cio jury

[21 Jun 2007]

NHS procurement hub streamlines mobile suppliers

Case Study Not all of the shortlist was able to provide reliable cover around areas in north Norfolk. The East of England Collaborative Procurement Hub (CPH) has slashed its costs by streamlining its mobie phone contracts.

Tags: procurement, norfolk, nhs, t-mobile

[20 Jun 2007]

Alex Robinson

CIO Profile He worked for two years at Leicestershire County Council as a programmer and then relocated to Norfolk with his family and joined Norwich Union as a systems analyst in 1989, rising to the position of IT director in 1999 and then CIO, via a spell...

[06 Jun 2007]

Exclusive: How safe is your laptop?

News Norfolk (19%) The results displayed are: Devon & Cornwall (+45%) ; Bedfordshire (+35%) ; Lothian & Borders (+31.50%) ; Leicestershire (+21%) ; Greater Manchester (+15.15%) ; West Yorkshire (+15.14%) ; Merseyside (+15%) ; Metropolitan Police (+14.60...

Tags: police, uk, data, stolen

[08 May 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Wi-fi really is everywhere

Comment As it happens, I have been working and travelling across Suffolk, Norfolk, Essex, Cambridgeshire, Hampshire, Wiltshire, Dorset, Somerset, Devonshire and Buckinghamshire. Mostly written on the train whilst travelling across Suffolk and Essex.

Tags: mobile phone network, wi-fi

[10 Jan 2007]

Cities rise to the £7m digital challenge

Case Study Out of 80 entrants, 10 finalists have been shortlisted, including Birmingham (as lead authority), Bristol City, Ealing, Kingston upon Hull, Manchester City, Milton Keynes, Norfolk County, Nottingham City and Nottinghamshire County Councils...

Tags: challenge, councils, digital, council

[02 Oct 2006]

NHS IT "sleepwalking towards disaster"

News The two MPs, Richard Bacon, Conservative MP for South Norfolk, and John Pugh, Liberal Democrat MP for Southport, are both members of the parliamentary spending watchdog the Public Accounts Committee that recently criticised progress on the...

Tags: nhs cfh, nhs it

[11 Sep 2006]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Searching for wi-fi in Norwich

Comment Although this was pretty disappointing coverage, I really have to congratulate the Norfolk team; it was simple to access and get online, and it was trouble free - true plug and play: POP3 worked and SMTP wasn't blocked, and there didn't seem to be...

Tags: wi-fi

[30 Aug 2006]

ValueOptions Prioritizes Rapid Information Access for 23 Million Subscribers With Expand

whitepaper As part of its business continuity plans, ValueOptions had dedicated a 3 Mbps link between its Reston and Norfolk, Virginia offices for critical 24x7 data synchronization which was facilitated by MIMIX software from LakeView Technology.

Tags: wide area networks (wan), capacity, link, network capacity

[18 Aug 2006]

Norwich gets free city-centre wi-fi

News Norwich and its surrounding areas have become home to the UK's largest free community wireless network, Norfolk Open Link. Kurt Frary, Open Link project manager for Norfolk County Council, said on Tuesday: "If you do something for the businesses in...

Tags: norwich, blanket wi-fi, citywide wi-fi, norfolk

[02 Aug 2006]

Multimedia Performance of IEEE 802.16 MAC

whitepaper The purpose of this paper is to analyze IEEE 802.16 Medium Access Control (MAC) sublayer for multimedia. The IEEE 802.16 standard specifies the air interface for fixed point-to-multipoint Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) systems providing multiple...

Tags: bandwidth issues, traffic, layer, medium

[19 May 2006]

MPs blame IT for late payments to farmers

News Keith Simpson, Conservative MP for mid-Norfolk, told silicon.com: "My suspicion is that ministers went for the most complicated system possible. MPs are blaming an overloaded computer system for the late payment of government subsidies to farmers.

Tags: farmers

[29 Mar 2006]

Secure network improves NHS diabetes care

Case Study The service covers a minimum of 12,000 patients - which means the team has to cover Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk. Remote access to central databases is allowing health staff in the east of England to reach more patients faster.

Tags: nhs, vpn

[11 Oct 2005]

BBC wants you to splice dung, Norfolk and old calculators

News Among the programme clips available to Auntie's viewers are organic hens laying eggs, a view of the Norfolk coast, an acacia plant growing in dung and 1980s calculators. The BBC has released the first selection of its content to be made available...

Tags: creative commons, bbc

[08 Sep 2005]

Smarter IT deals save taxpayers millions

News The IT framework agreements have remained the most popular in the agency's armoury, with sales in excess of £600m, including a £38m order placed by Norfolk County Council for a managed IT infrastructure project.

Tags: ogcbuying.solutions

[27 Jul 2005]

XANALYS Investigation Solutions: The Norfolk Constabulary Tackles Drug Trafficking

whitepaper The Norfolk Constabulary polices an area of approximately 3,500 square miles and a population of 750,000, with an establishment of 1,500 police officers and 1,200 support staff. Intelligence relating to crime in the coastal resort town of Great...

Tags: network security, police, evidence, drug

[17 Feb 2005]

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