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RSS scottishLib Dems banned from automated calling
News The Scottish National Party had its knuckles rapped for the same reason in 2005. The Liberal Democrats have been found to be in breach of the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations by the Information... [26 Sep 2008]
Prisoners' phone bills too high says watchdog
News Ofcom noted: "Our analysis shows that in Her Majesty's Prison Service (HMPS) and the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) managed prisons, the average price of a call to a UK number is 60p. The regulator's decision on prison... [23 Sep 2008]
Scottish gov't enlists data privacy experts
News The Scottish government has set up a group of privacy and security experts to scrutinise how local government services handle personal data. The group will develop a draft set of guiding principles for... [11 Sep 2008]
Photos: Scots HQ is green office of the future
Photo Building services company NG Bailey has opened a Scottish HQ, consolidating a number of other sites and showcasing a number of features that save or create energy as a way of introducing their customers to the... [10 Sep 2008]
Digital wallet card launches in Dundee
News The scheme, run in partnership with the Scottish National Entitlement Card (NEC) programme, is scheduled to go live by October. The NEC has already issued 1.4 million cards to Scottish citizens and a... [02 Sep 2008]
HP dishes out research grants to academic institutions
News Scottish academics were also represented, with the University of Edinburgh being given a grant to look into the next generation of enterprise information-management tools. HP has announced a slew of grants to academic... [18 Aug 2008]
Free wi-fi for Scottish market town
News A small market town in the Scottish Borders is to offer free wi-fi across the whole of its town centre. The programme is part of Pathfinder South, aimed at increasing broadband use in rural areas of southern Scotland,... [13 Aug 2008]
Knowledge Management Portal Delivers High Quality Healthcare Information
White Paper NHS 24 is the main gateway to out-of-hours care in Scotland, linking patients with local NHS primary care out-of-hours services, Accident and Emergency departments, and the Scottish Ambulance Service. [01 Jul 2008]
Ambulance service loses 999 details
News The Scottish Ambulance Service has lost a disc containing the encrypted 999 call details of almost one million people. The Scottish Ambulance Service insisted there was little danger that people's 999... [25 Jun 2008]
Transformed Customer Service for Leading Scottish Financial Institution
White Paper As Scotland's largest building society, Dunfermline Building Society wanted to improve the flexibility of its customer service. They wanted more efficient, flexible technology, particularly for their telephone banking operation,... [25 Jun 2008]
NHS data left lacking encryption
News The revelation came as it emerged that records of 894,629 calls made to the Scottish Ambulance Service had gone missing, after a portable hard drive being transported by courier went astray. A number of health trusts are... [24 Jun 2008]
Ultra fat pipes to squeeze through Dundee's sewers
News Dundee has been selected as the first Scottish 'Fibrecity' - meaning 100Mbps-plus broadband connectivity will be speeding out of fibre-optic-stuffed sewers and into every home, business and organisation in the city as... [18 Jun 2008]
£50m mobile funding to keep police on the beat
News The Met Police in London is one of the 27 forces to be getting the devices along with the British Transport Police, all eight Scottish forces and all three in the Yorkshire region. The funding was announced by policing... [27 May 2008]
Photos: Feeling chipper about green IT
Photo The power plant that supplies the centre is the largest dedicated bio-mass energy plant in the UK and is operated by Scottish and Southern Energy. Burning wood might be a chip off the old block but it is something of a... [20 May 2008]
Scottish Water splashes out on tech
News Scottish Water has signed three tech contracts to the tune of £120m to help improve its operations and give better value to customers. General manager for IT at Scottish Water, David Brown, said the... [28 Apr 2008]
