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The Weekly Round-Up: 18.09.09
Round-Up Manufacturing costs are lower, there'd be no need to dig up roads or lay cables in sewers. It's Britain's new favourite topic to moan about, now that we can't really moan about our national performance... [18 Sep 2009]
50p broadband tax 'will leave 20 pc of UK without fibre'
News The thing that really dictates the economies of P rather than C is the amount of civils' work you have to do [ie digging up roads etc to lay fibre] so where we feel there are no civils and we can run fibre all the way to... [02 Jul 2009]
Inbox: Antique computing, Segway protest and ID cards
Comment Older estates, where the cables are overhead on poles, might be easy but who wants more digging up of roads, driveways and gardens. I can't see how it would be possible to replace the copper to a lot of houses without... [11 Sep 2008]
MP risks arrest for Segway use
News He said: "Let the Segway reduce congestion and pollution on Britain's roads. The MP for Montgomeryshire was willing to be hauled away by police in his protest against the ban on the two-wheeled... [09 Sep 2008]
Sat-nav back seat drivers on their way
News It will be the most comprehensive digital map in Britain and when finished will cover all roads within the Greater London Authority area. Photos: Satellites free the roads from snow and... [15 May 2008]
Taxman goes high-tech in fraud fight
News Airwave's network covers 99 per cent of Great Britain's land mass including all major and minor roads, the company said. The taxman is spending £60m on a secure communications system to help in its... [13 Feb 2008]
Opinion: Get ready for global surveillance
Comment Surveillance of the roads is a fact of life that we now take for granted in the increasingly Orwellian Britain of the 21st century. Despite our best attempts to squelch the desire of business and... [25 Jan 2006]
Plate scanning cameras help cops spot dodgy drivers
News There are an estimated two million vehicles being driven uninsured on Britain's roads. Police forces have started to use automatic number plate recognition cameras to spot, seize and destroy cars being... [08 Nov 2005]
Analysis: Think tanks fill up on broadband
Comment Of course increasing broadband speed is important, and the lack of investment beyond ADSL is lamentable ("'[r]eal' broadband will I suspect need a lot more digging up roads and laying of infrastructure", Young observes)... [13 Apr 2004]
Congestion charging: Here's 'In-car Ken' to tell you when to pay
News According to a government report released this week, deaths and serious injuries have fallen 35 per cent on roads where speed cameras have been in operation. Robert Fedder, Kane MD, said: "Motorists in... [14 Feb 2003]
A pint of lager and a partridge in a pear tree please
News The inhabitants of mainland Britain's most remote village have the chance to join in the Christmas e-tail bonanza thanks to Yahoo! to install a Christmas shopping station in the community's only pub, The Old Forge, which... [02 Dec 2002]
Devil's Advocate: The internet traveller
Comment Roads are congested. If only everyone can be persuaded to use it, so they say, Britain will lead the electronic revolution. We may complain about it but there is something that compels us to travel. And... [19 Nov 2002]
Men in anoraks meet men in anoraks
News Hulme added: "This can map the shape of buildings, the width of roads, even the street furniture with amazing accuracy. The Ordnance Survey has somewhere in the region of half a billion data points in its maps of... [05 Jul 2002]
The earthquake in Gujarat: Where disaster recovery really means something
Comment Now, with water and electricity supplies, roads and communications networks in ruins, the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry has estimated the cost of reconstructing Gujarat will be 150 billion... [29 Jan 2001]
Government has no truck with haulage IT systems
News Isotrak - a provider of automated transport management systems - criticised the government's failure to invest in a national haulage management network which it says would reduce the number of empty lorries clogging up... [27 Mar 2000]
