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News The goal of ubiquitous Wi-Fi coverage in the UK has moved closer, with Broadreach unwiring a chunk of London's West End. The high-speed wireless network operator is creating a "Wi-Fi hot zone" that will extend for more... [11 Nov 2003]
High tech office space comes to central London
News The company, which owns eight acres including a 1,000,000 sq ft of office space in the shadow of BT Tower and to the north of Soho is to install facilities for high tech companies ready for use by the middle of next year. [30 Nov 2000]
Sainsbury's glitch leaves shelves empty
News Frustrated shoppers have been faced with empty shelves in some of supermarket chain Sainsbury's central London stores this week because of an error with its computer forecasting system. A statement... [07 Jan 2005]
Skype fights to regain trust of businesses
News Skype has sought to reassure its business customers they can trust it in the future, despite the withdrawal of thousands of central London numbers from its SkypeIn users. In late November, Skype pulled... [12 Dec 2007]
London NHS trust automates to keep systems going
News A London NHS trust has gone for a central system to manage its PCs and networks as part of a multi-million pound IT overhaul. The South London and Maudsley (SLAM) trust has gone for... [13 May 2004]
Tube delays blamed on software upgrade
News Metronet said in a statement: "For the Central Line, the loading of new computer software containing London Underground's revised timetabling information caused a total breakdown of the systems at the... [27 Nov 2006]
Bulldog growls at BT with 4Mbps plus voice service
News At present they are only on offer in central London but following its recent acquisition by Cable and Wireless, Bulldog says it is planning an "aggressive rollout plan". For a start, this is only... [14 Sep 2004]
Photos: Zoom in on London from the air…
Photo The business listing company has launched a high resolution aerial photography service that covers the majority of central London. This is one of the sluice gate towers at the Thames flood barrier, just... [28 Jan 2008]
Norton Rose inks £5m data security deal with BT
News The deal will involve Norton Rose consolidating six offices into one central London location and relocating data storage from two sites in central London to BT's... [28 Sep 2006]
Revealed: UK's IT job hotspots
News Michael Bennett, director of ReThink Recruitment, said this regional imbalance is a result of two of the heaviest users of IT - financial services and central government - being concentrated in London. [14 Aug 2007]
Ailsa Beaton
CIO Profile Beaton is also head of the information management area for the Association of Chief Police Officers and a board member of London Connects, a pan-London agency that brings together local, regional and... [06 Jun 2007]
E-government 'bullies' under fire from local councils
News Tamsin Fulton, web manager at the London Borough of Hackney, said putting together the statement had been fraught. According to research director Kate Oakley, the level of micro-management by civil servants in... [30 Jul 2001]
Photos: Germany's road charging tech
Photo Transport for London, which set up London's Congestion Charging scheme with service group Capita, is also believed to have shown an interest. Roadside technology uses the GSM infrastructure to convey... [02 Feb 2007]
The CIOs transforming government IT
CIO Analysis Suffolk points to successes such as a Transport for London shared service centre that has cut one-third off the group's HR spend in its first year of operation and the NHS Shared Business Service. Richard Steel, CIO at... [06 Jun 2007]
The CIOs transforming government IT
Comment Richard Steel, CIO at the London Borough of Newham - another public sector CIO on the silicon.com CIO50 list - argues: "There is a lot of dogma and hype around shared services. Suffolk points to successes such as a... [27 Jun 2007]
