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Bank admits rising leccy bills on 'green' data centre
News Banking group Citi is on the verge of completing a major sustainable data centre project but has admitted the power requirements of its IT equipment are continuing to rise by 12.5 per cent per year. In a statement announcing the Frankfurt project... [14 Apr 2008]
NHS hearing testers to get improved data transfer
News The NHS Newborn Hearing Screening Programme is to implement a data integration project to improve the chances of spotting hearing impairments in babies earlier. Head of IT and communications for the project, Nick Waddell said: "In the past, the... [21 Nov 2007]
In brief: IBM sells off PetroBank store
News Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) has acquired IBM's PetroBank Project Data Store, an application aimed at the exploration and production market. PDS provides project and application-level data sharing. PGS believes the software will help attract... [06 Jul 1998]
Programmer posts hundreds of children's details online
News Developers working on an outsourced US government IT project accidentally published sensitive data, including the names, details and daily schedules of hundreds of children, on the internet, where it could be freely accessed by the public for... [10 Feb 2004]
Yahoo!, HP, Intel meet in the cloud
News The open-source project will consist of data centres around the globe "to promote open collaboration among industry, academia and governments by removing the financial and logistical barriers to research in data-intensive, internet-scale computing". [30 Jul 2008]
Mobile data keeps Wiltshire Police out on the beat
News Wiltshire Police is to start usability testing of a mobile data application next month in a project slated to cost £2.1m and save £4.4m in productivity by keeping officers out on the beat. The project integrator HCL has developed applications to... [11 Feb 2008]
Data warehousing projects reap rewards
News Steve Goodheart, data warehouse project manager at Littlewoods, said: "Our warehouse has had a marked effect already. The key to data warehouse project successes, according to the poll, is that business leaders are often heavily involved in the... [02 Nov 1998]
Carphone Warehouse gears up for Christmas
News So the company is putting in place a data integration project to make sure its staff face no surprises in the festive season. CPW senior project manager Bhavesh Chavda told silicon.com, peaks in customer demand across all of CPW's businesses... [22 Nov 2007]
Tech-crash threatens to take down SETI@home
News Australian scientists early next year were to be given a prominent role in the project to record data from radio telescopes and distribute it to four million PCs volunteered to analyse it. Werthimer said that SETI@home engineers had finished... [15 Oct 2002]
Search for alien life reaches milestone
News The hugely successful US project has been running since May 1999 and analyses data gathered by a telescope in Puerto Rico. The Seti scientists have now said the project is about to concuct its 500 millionth data analysis sometime this week. [30 Apr 2002]
'Sentinels' to help fight climate battle?
News The project has been jointly developed by the European Commission and European Space Agency and is aimed at generating data to inform government policy for combating climate change and help plan for the effects of the changes already taking place... [12 Nov 2007]
Microsoft updates project management software
News He said: "In Project 98, users had to take data out of the application and use Excel to manipulate it. Now you can slice and dice the data within Project 2000. Microsoft has launched Project 2000 - an update of its project management software... [18 Apr 2000]
Technophobe councils jeopardise e-government
News The NLIS is the first of a range of e-government services to be based on a giant nationwide data project, the National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG). This project just adds one more inconsistent data set for them to deal with. [05 Nov 2001]
4G phone tested by Japan and China
News The Japan-China project will test the mobile phone for projects such as data content creation about Chinese cities, a Chinese business database and translating technology for Japanese and Chinese languages. [26 Nov 2003]
Pharmaceutical companies join forces for online genetic database
News The project's data management is being run by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in the US. The project aims to identify which genes are responsible for diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer's, depression, diabetes and arthritis. [19 Apr 1999]
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