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Google Apps: Five million students getting a cloud education
News The University of Portsmouth is also a recent convert to Google Apps, announcing earlier this month that it has started to offer ad-free access to the service to 30,000 students. As students get ready to head back to... [09 Sep 2009]
Ad-free Google Apps for 30,000 uni students
News Portsmouth University has started offering its 30,000 students ad-free access to Google Apps. Portsmouth students are to get Google Apps ad-free (screenshot: Bethan Jones/silicon.com) So far 4,300... [04 Sep 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.09.09
Round-Up Bosses at Portsmouth City Council are banning Facebook after discovering their staff spent, on average, 400 hours on the site every month. It was only last week that the Round-Up was complaining about how much like hard... [04 Sep 2009]
I-CODE Brings the Benefits of RFID to Blood Sample Tracking
White Paper Currently undergoing UK trials at the Pathology Laboratory of the Portsmouth NHS (National Health Service) Trust, Proxximity's BioTag Positive ID System has already shown major reductions in administration time, both... [02 Mar 2009]
Extra coppers to clobber copper crooks
News According to a report in Portsmouth Today copper thieves struck last month in the Gosport area of Hampshire. The Home Office has unveiled a plan to tackle the growing problem of metal theft - which is estimated to cost... [12 Jan 2009]
A Study of Java Networking Performance on a Linux Cluster
White Paper The Message Passing Interface (MPI) provides a common high-level Application Programming Interface (API) to implement parallel programs on Commodity Off-The-Shelf (COTS) clusters. The increasing attention has been shown in using... [01 Oct 2008]
Astrium Limited: Avoid Network Upgrade and Save 63 Percent on Bandwidth Costs
White Paper In the UK, they have 34 Mbps ATM links to Portsmouth and Stevenage and a 2 Mbps link to Poynton. Subsidiary of EADS, Astrium has outsourced their WAN. Users were complaining about slow application response times -... [11 Sep 2008]
Dear silicon.com: Tech teacher shortage, Kangaroo and phones on planes
Comment Paul Tansom, Portsmouth The issue that got readers talking this week was the IT-teacher drought - is "boring" IT to blame? Also getting readers reaching for their keyboards this week, the OFT and Kangaroo and phones on... [03 Jul 2008]
Photos: Robot warriors engage in battle
Photo While many teams have opted for large, durable units (the biggest entry is the size of a small car), Team Locust, from Ant Scientific and Portsmouth University, has gone the opposite way and opted for miniaturisation. [06 May 2008]
Photos: Virtual war tests new technology
Photo In a small field near Portsmouth, a war has been raging for the past couple of weeks. Pictured is the field on a military base near Portsmouth, UK where the trials are taking place. Fortunately this is... [14 Jun 2007]
Zurich plans to axe UK call centre
News As a result of the operational review Zurich is looking to close its Newcastle call centre by the end of March next year and transfer some work out of its Cardiff and Portsmouth operations a few months later.silicon.com... [09 Aug 2006]
Cisco buys Meetinghouse for $43.7m
News Meetinghouse was founded in 1988 and has 77 employees based in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Cisco Systems is to buy Meetinghouse Data Communications for $43.7m in cash and stock in a bid to boost its wireless security... [07 Jul 2006]
Navy sinks £100m into battleship combat training system
News A £100m contract signed with BAE Systems Insyte will see a consortium creating new facilities in Devonport Naval Base, and the shore base HMS Collingwood near Portsmouth, in time to be ready to train Type 45 crew later... [17 Jan 2006]
Microsoft licences 'not value for money', say schools
News Andrew Coates, IT technician at Fernhurst Junior School, Portsmouth, said: "[Microsoft's licensing] is too expensive. Darren Smith, network manager at Mayfield School, Portsmouth, expressed similar... [16 Jan 2006]
Public sector rewarded for wireless innovation
News It is enabled by Cityspace, which is behind similar municipal wireless projects in cities such as Portsmouth. The public sector has demonstrated it can lead the way in the use of wireless local area network (WLAN)... [21 Apr 2005]
