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RSS northern lineEditor's Blog: Back to the future
Comment Few companies, obliged to live quarter by quarter at the mercies of the market, will be thinking about 100 years down the line. So earlier this week I found myself in east London, getting kitted out in very big boots and a hard hat to visit a part... [24 Jul 2008]
Is the UK an open source laggard?
News If you are a CIO, IT director or equivalent at a large or small company in the private or public sector and want to be part of silicon.com's CIO Jury pool, or you know an IT chief who should be, then drop us a line at editorial@silicon.com [21 Jul 2008]
'Generation Facebook' IT skills wasted at work
News Speakman said: "If you audit the technology that you've already invested in, audit the people that you've got and the skills that they have then you could really start to drive some additional productivity improvements - and that goes straight to... [03 Mar 2008]
'Tamper-proof' chip and PIN terminals hacked
News The data exchanged on this line is not encrypted. Both terminals have tamper-proof mechanisms inside, but both can be circumvented by tapping the data line of the PIN Entry Device/smartcard interface. [27 Feb 2008]
Northern Ireland police brings IT under one roof
News The various elements will be managed by around 100 Fujitsu Services staff and will also cover the fixed line telephony, wide area and local area networks, hosting and automatic number plate recognition camera technology. [06 Feb 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 14.12.07
Round-Up Anyway, the final line from Gartner is: think carefully before committing to expensive "social networking white elephants". More than 500 other IT workers failed to complete the survey on time - with 34 per cent claiming they would need the proper... [14 Dec 2007]
Vodafone forced to connect with comms union
News Vodafone UK also remains convinced the most effective form of engagement with its employees is through direct engagement and things that we use at the moment include recorded messages, online information, printed newsletters as a way of keeping... [23 Jul 2007]
Web Survey Design in ASP.Net 2.0: A Simple Task With One Line of Code
White Paper The approach described in this paper helps students to fully understand Three-Tier design architecture, which requires only a single line of code when developing a Web-based survey in ASP.Net 2.0. Over the past few years, more and more companies... [03 Jul 2007]
Photos: RFID, tablets, handhelds - going down the Tube
Photo New signalling systems are planned on the Jubilee line by 2009, the Northern line by 2011 and the Piccadilly line by 2014, resulting in quicker journey times and improved reliability. Tube Lines is trialling RFID technology on a small number of... [01 May 2007]
N Ireland first in line for the full 21CN
News Northern Ireland will be the first region in the UK where BT's next-generation broadband network will be completed, giving companies and residents access to a range of telecoms services. On Thursday the BBC reported that the Northern Ireland... [23 Feb 2007]
Top techie pay by postcode
News Overall respondents reported an average total salary increase of 3.6 per cent over the past 12 months, in line with the rest of the UK economy which saw the same average salary increase. Northern Ireland came off worst geographically, with IT... [15 Jan 2007]
Northern Europe's Leading Emergency Hospital Secures Patient Care With TippingPoint's Intrusion Prevention System
White Paper Several years ago, the Nimda virus struck the facility's network, forcing the hospital to confront the vulnerability of its life-saving medical services to on-line threats. Northern Europe's largest emergency care center, the Stockholm-based... [20 Oct 2006]
Thus snaps up two rivals in £70m spree
News The two companies now joining the Thus stable are ISP, fixed-line provider and mobile B2B reseller Your Communications, bought for Thus shares equivalent to £58.8m, and northern business ISP Legend, acquired for a cash offer of £11.5m. [01 Feb 2006]
Universal broadband: BT targets trouble-spots
News In some cases, this is because they live too far from the exchange for ADSL to work, or because their line quality is too poor. Trials in rural Yorkshire and Northern Ireland will put broadband DSLAM equipment into street cabinets close to... [14 Sep 2005]
Offshore outsourcing has not hit UK jobs, says ONS
News The employment data calculated by region is also in line with that growth trend and the ONS said this suggests offshoring has had minimal effect on the employment prospects of IT-enabled occupations across the UK. [08 Sep 2005]
