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RSS transportTransition begins for "unsalvageable" outsourcing deal
News The 12-year outsourcing contract was signed in June 2001 and covers a range of services including IT, call centres, communications, HR, finance, education, business support, and highways and transport. [28 Jul 2005]
MSDN Webcast: Behind the Scenes With Communications Server 2007, Communicator 2007, and Exchange Server 2007 (Level 300)
White Paper The webcast discusses security, transport, and messaging to implement common developer scenarios. Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2007 provide the infrastructure for enterprise communications, including e-mail, voice... [03 Jul 2008]
Council pulls plug on £250m outsourcing contract
News The 12-year outsourcing contract was originally signed in June 2001 and covers a range of services including IT, call centres, communications, HR, finance, education, business support, and highways and transport. [17 Aug 2005]
Germans offered smart way to buy burgers
News The GeldKarte, issued by Sparkassen Bank, is already used as a credit/debit card for some retail outlets and public transport systems in Germany. McDonald's is to install smartcard terminals in all its German restaurants, enabling customers to pay... [17 Aug 1998]
C&W inks £6.8m deal with Go-Ahead
News Go-Ahead provides public transport services for buses, commuter trains and airline baggage operations. Cable and Wireless has won a £6.8m contract with UK transportation group Go-Ahead. C&W will provide a new IP network for more than 300 sites... [27 Oct 2004]
Air traffic control quashes bankruptcy rumours
News The banks were rumoured to be demanding compensation from the government for propping up the cash-strapped company, after transport secretary Stephen Byers sold the government's 46 per cent stake in the organisation against the wishes of the CAA. [19 Feb 2002]
The Broad (and Surprising?) Future of SONET
White Paper This paper outlines the broad future of SONET technology - highlighting significant advances being made by SONET and related technologies and explaining the impact of those advances on future service profitability, transport network cost reduction... [20 Jul 2004]
Lennon helps train operators get back on track
News The new system, code named Lennon (Latest Earnings Networked Nationally Over Night), will deliver information from all ticket sales - whether purchased from a ticket vending machine, on a train, via the web or at a ticket office - to all parties... [03 Apr 2002]
Government opens suggestion box for £150m energy budget
News To participate in the consultation process, consult the Department of Environment Transport and the Region's web site at http://www.detr.gov.uk/consult.htm. The UK government is seeking ideas from industry on how best to spend the £150m it has set... [10 Dec 1999]
House of Lords wades into ecommerce debate
News Patrick Wogan, clerk of the Lords' EU sub-committee on energy, industry and transport, said: "We are concerned that the vertical structure of the European Commission is not suited to an issue as broad and far-reaching as electronic commerce. [06 Feb 2000]
'Pay-as-you-drive road tax won't succeed'
News Controversy has surrounded the new road tax plan since it was announced by Transport Secretary Alistair Darling last week.silicon.com readers have criticised it for everything from being yet another tax on motorists to Big Brother fears of the... [17 Jun 2005]
Union slams government's 'consultant army'
News The biggest spenders included the Department of Work and Pensions which spent £307m, the Highways Agency in the Department of Transport which spent £277m and the Ministry of Defence which paid out £251m. [06 Jun 2005]
The best of 'Reader Comments': unbundling the local loop and dot-com advertising
Comment I can't get to work on time by public transport and I can't work from home. Telecoms watchdog Oftel met with various telcos at the end of last week to ask why they haven't taken up residency in BT exchanges to offer DSL services. [26 Jan 2001]
Tech not to blame for Terminal 5 fiasco
News Walsh was being quizzed by the parliamentary Transport Committee which is looking into the opening day chaos and subsequent problems at the terminal. The opening day problems at Heathrow's Terminal 5 (T5) were largely down to a lack of staff... [08 May 2008]
KPMG report warns of euro chaos
News Other sectors at risk are transport and insurance. A senior economist at KPMG's Management Consultancy has warned that European telecoms, banking, utilities and retail firms are vulnerable to disruption from the single European currency. [10 Aug 1998]
