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News While Leeds United may have been unconvincing on the pitch this season, they are proving to be no slouches online - topping silicon.com's Premiership table for December. The Leeds United website was available within an impressive average time of... [10 Jan 2003]
Microsoft funds secure code-writing course at Leeds Uni
News The University of Leeds has received funding from Microsoft to teach would-be developers to write secure code. The module will be available to 100 undergraduates at Leeds from January 2004. Leeds was interested and we had the material. [25 Mar 2003]
Leeds firm launches 'leak proof' email system
News Leeds-based company jeftel, which is backed by a local mystery millionaire, has launched a leak proof 'email system' for a £25 annual subscription. And, if you recommend jeftel's software to a friend, the company says it will donate a fiver to... [01 Oct 2004]
Raid nets £500,000 of fake software
News Police and anti-piracy groups have raided a car boot sale in Leeds and seized over £500,000 worth of counterfeit software. These organisations worked with West Yorkshire Police and the Markets Division of Leeds County Council. [07 Mar 2000]
Digital pens save care staff £1.2m
News Leeds City Council is to give 1,300 social care workers digital paper and pens in a bid to save £1.2m by 2008. Mark Harris, Leeds City Council leader, said: "We've been able to identify a significant £1.2m saving in our Social Services operation... [30 Sep 2005]
Cancer researchers pioneer data mining techniques
News Medical researchers at the University of Leeds are pioneering the latest data mining techniques in their fight against Leukaemia. The software is the result of a three-year collaboration between Leeds University's Computing Services, the Leeds... [31 Jan 2000]
Manchester United: Your site's not singing any more
News It will come as little consolation to Liverpool fans mourning the loss of Robbie Fowler that their site outperforms Leeds', which takes ninth place with an average time of 2.90 seconds. Liverpool are clear at the top with dirty Leeds and Arsenal... [07 Dec 2001]
Council fixed-mobile trial rings the changes
News With 26,000 landlines and more than 7,500 mobiles, Adrian Fegan, head of ICT operations at Leeds City Council, is no stranger to managing a complex telecoms environment. Like any pilot, the Leeds trial is on something of a learning curve. [09 Nov 2006]
BT's mobile-cum-VoIP phones: Ready for business
News Adrian Fegan, head of ICT Operations at Leeds City Council, said adopting FMC is a critical part of the council's voice strategy. BT's dual-mode service is currently being trialled with Leeds City Council, with two of its premises getting involved... [14 Sep 2006]
Deaf get voicemail messages in text
News The Leeds Society for Deaf and Blind People has teamed up with mobile services firm SpinVox to provide the service, initially for 15 people. John Hamilton, chairman of the Leeds Society for Deaf and Blind People, said: "The majority of deaf mobile... [13 Dec 2005]
£6.5m net phishing fraud lands two men in the clink
News Douglas Havard, 24, a US citizen who lives in Leeds, was sentenced to six years in prison, and Lee Elwood, 25, of Glasgow was given four years in jail. NHTCU officers who arrested Harvard in his flat in Leeds last year said they found several fake... [27 Jun 2005]
Satellite tech to map cables under UK roads in 3D
News Researchers at the universities of Leeds and Nottingham will try to create the map by integrating existing digital and paper-based records and link them with data from satellite and ground-based GPS systems. [22 Mar 2006]
Who has the best website in the Premiership?
News Having dominated previous monthly league tables, Chelsea's website took its foot off the pedal in April to offer Leeds United a glimmer of hope. While Leeds equalled that time during the run in to the end of season, previous months of poorer... [09 May 2003]
Revealed: 'Mystery founder' of secure email firm
News Last week silicon.com published news of a popularly received new company, called jeftel, which offers 'secure, leak proof email' - funded by a mysterious backer.silicon.com has now learned that backer is Yorkshire-based millionaire Jeffrey Morris... [04 Oct 2004]
Barclaycard tests mobile cash service
News The experiment is part of the ongoing Visa Cash trial, where 60,000 Leeds citizens are using smartcards to store electronic money. Visa card and mobile phone users in Leeds have been using a similar BC2 system since 1997 - enabling them to check... [22 Feb 1999]
