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New Business Uses Technology to Bring a Restaurant to the Workplace

whitepaper It integrates financial, stock, and order-processing data with a postcode-driven Web site, built using the .NET framework, where customers place orders. New U.K.business The Fridge Company specialises in high-quality food products for consumers.

Tags: programming languages

[10 Jan 2008]

Top 10 financial services stories of the year

News The SE18 postcode (The environs of Woolwich, close to Shooter's Hill - a notorious haunt for highwaymen in the past) was identified as having the worst record for fraudulent transactions originating in the area.

Tags: mifid, apacs, lloyds, gartner

[17 Dec 2007]

London hottest for online card fraud

London hottest for online card fraud

News The UK postcode with the worst record for fraudulent transactions was SE18 which includes Thamesmead and other parts of south-east London. The research also found increased fraud in many postcode areas where levels were previously negligible.

Tags: card, postcode, online, london

[05 Sep 2007]

Online fraud warning signs revealed

News If the billing address is more than 50 miles from the delivery address it might be worth taking a closer look at the order, and 192.com Business Services said retailers it worked with also cite orders from the London postcode range SE28 as being...

Tags: fraudsters, fraud

[30 Apr 2007]

O2 brings home zones to Blighty

News Under the Favourite Place scheme, pre-pay users can get eight hours of free calls to landlines and other O2 mobiles from a particular location once they have texted a postcode to the operator. O2 is bringing its 'home zone' tariff to the UK...

Tags: fmc, home zone

[30 Mar 2007]

Top techie pay by <strong>postcode</strong>

Top techie pay by postcode

News Londoners earn the fattest UK salaries - 22 per cent over the average yearly wage for all IT workers, new research has revealed. Northern Ireland came off worst geographically, with IT workers there earning an average of £27,659 per year - 15 per...

Tags: it budgets, it jobs, it budget, it

[15 Jan 2007]

Photos: "Citizen cartographers" mapping the planet

Photo Access to postcode data for OpenStreetMap, however, is a more contentious issue as the Royal Mail owns the rights to the UK's postcode database. But Coast is also involved in a project called Free The Postcode that would provide the information for...

Tags: openstreetmap

[13 Nov 2006]

Open source rival takes on Google Maps

News Access to postcode data is a more contentious issue as the Royal Mail owns the rights to the UK's postcode database but Coast is also involved in a project called Free The Postcode which would provide the information for free.

Tags: openstreetmap, google

[13 Nov 2006]

ID theft 'threatens almost all UK homes'

News This equates to 97 per cent of households chucking away materials containing full name, title, sex, address and postcode details, research conducted by business advisor Waste Works has revealed. More than 21 million UK households are in the firing...

Tags: shredders, id theft

[16 Oct 2006]

MP slams "out of control" DNA database

News But the "postcode lottery" of wide regional variation in the collection of children's DNA by police forces shows a lack of national consistency in adding samples to the database, according to Shapps. An "out of control stealth database" storing...

Tags: grant shapps, dna database

[20 Feb 2006]

Google: Analyse this

News AdCenter, in beta testing in France and Singapore, differs in that it provides targeted information about the web surfers to whom it serves ads, including data such as age, gender and postcode code. Google is set to launch a free web analytics...

Tags: google

[14 Nov 2005]

BT's new broadband unit: Did they jump or were they pushed?

News ISPs will also see some differences in how they deal with the telco, with a new engineering booking system and postcode database. Ben Verwaayen, CEO of BT Group, today revealed details about the company's creation of a new services division...

Tags: openreach, ofcom, bt

[22 Sep 2005]

'Chav' towns hit by house-buying info websites

News House hunters are currently able to use a number of commercial websites that feature information on schools and crime figures by postcode, while the government's own Neighbourhood Statistics site contains statistical, demographic and environmental...

Tags: postcode, ibnis, chav, school

[17 Aug 2005]

Opinion: We'll pay for ID cards

Comment When I moved house 18 months ago, it transpired that the Royal Mail postcode database had assigned my address not to number "2" but to "Flat 2 - number 25" and you can imagine what happened next, as Royal Mail sells the PAF database to tens of...

Tags: id cards

[28 Jun 2005]

ID Cards on Trial: Write to your MP

ID Cards on Trial: Write to your MP

News If you don't know who your MP is or don't know their contact details, you can find out by searching under name or constituency on the UK parliament website or by searching under your postcode here. silicon.com's ID Cards on Trial campaign is...

Tags: id cards on trial, identity cards, id cards

[10 Jun 2005]

Wakefield Metropolitan District Council - Engaging With Suppliers

whitepaper An analysis of the creditors system identified that in 2003/04, 40% of approximately £135million spend went to a regional postcode. In 2003 Wakefield Council established a new corporate procurement team with a remit to take a strategic approach to...

Tags: procurement and sourcing, council, procurement, wakefield

[28 Apr 2005]

Google offers UK maps and local listings

Google offers UK maps and local listings

News For example users in Soho, London, searching for a bar in their neighbourhood, enter the keyword 'bar', plus their postcode or 'Soho' into the search fields and Google local search produces a list of nearby bars.

Tags: local listings, search engine

[20 Apr 2005]

The Weekly Round-Up: 25.02.05

The Weekly Round-Up: 25.02.05

Round-Up While David Bowdley may be impressing his mates (work with it.with the ability to stargaze, while controlling a telescope on the other side of the world, from a moving object on the M60, using the Orange 3G data card; the Round-Up couldn't...

[25 Feb 2005]

Raw Talent: Star Help Feng Sushi to Deliver the Goods

whitepaper Feng Sushi needed a system that could provide them with historical customer order information, addresses and other personal details simply from their postcode. Sushi is fast becoming the Londoners' choice for a quick, healthy and exotic meal.

Tags: printers - plotters, output, delivery, details

[17 Feb 2005]

Perfect Topping for a Sound Business Base: Star Micronics and Integer Provide System Combo, Topping the Bill at Award-Winning Pizza Franchises

whitepaper Developed with the objective of improving customer service and franchise marketing, the Integer system provides pizza franchise employees with the information to quickly respond to individual customer needs and to easily implement targeted...

Tags: printers - plotters, lines, output, marketing

[17 Feb 2005]

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