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Photos: Broadband in London's Victorian sewers
Photo silicon.com took a trip out to the east end of London, to the Thames Water depot near Stratford, for a rare trip down inside London's Victorian sewer network to see a much more high-tech network which it is now hosting - Geo's business broadband... [22 Jul 2008]
The McCue Interview: Martin Taylor, group CIO, LCH.Clearnet
Comment A keen sailor for more than 30 years - although he admits to now getting into motorboats to the "utter disgust" of his sailing buddies - he served for 18 months as a volunteer lifeboat man on the River Thames out of the Chiswick station, pulling... [17 Jun 2008]
Martin Taylor
CIO Profile In his spare time, he is a keen sailor and he has also been a volunteer lifeboat man with the Thames crew. Martin Taylor took on the group CIO role at clearing-house LCH.Clearnet at the start of last year, after filling the interim post for six... [11 Jun 2008]
Fingerprints analysed on the beat
News New forces coming on to the programme are Avon and Somerset Police, City of London Police, Derbyshire Constabulary, Durham Constabulary, Greater Manchester Police, Kent Police, Leicester Constabulary, Merseyside Police, Surrey Police and Thames... [11 Jun 2008]
BlackBerrys on the beat
News Thames Valley Police is rolling out 1,100 BlackBerry smart phones to its police and community support officers. This includes the Police National Computer and other Thames Valley Police systems through which officers can check suspect names and... [03 Jun 2008]
SMS gets Oxfordshire residents out of deep water
News During summer 2007, the Cherwell and Isis/Thames rivers in Oxfordshire burst their banks and, more recently, localised flooding took place in January . Wireless from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more… [26 Feb 2008]
Photos: Zoom in on London from the air…
Photo You can even see into the individual pods of the London Eye on the south bank of the Thames near Waterloo station. People can walk across the Thames on the Millennium Bridge - another one of Norman Foster's creations - near the Tate Modern museum. [28 Jan 2008]
Super-speed broadband heads to Kent
News BT has given details of a planned fibre deployment in the Thames Gateway regeneration region - its first use of fibre to hook up homes in the UK. Instead of laying traditional copper cabling to the buildings planned for the 1,000 acre development... [10 Jan 2008]
Local Government Improves Responsiveness, Positions Departmental Database Integration
White Paper The local governmental authority for one of London's 32 boroughs, the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, provides services for more than 150,000 London citizens. The Council of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames worked with CIBER UK, an... [18 Dec 2007]
Fall in drivers flouting mobile phone ban
News Police forces issuing the most fixed penalty notices for driving with a mobile phone were Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Metropolitan Police and Thames Valley. The punishment for being caught driving while using a mobile doubled from £30 to a £60... [04 Dec 2007]
Informatica Helps Thames Water Maintain Safe Water Supply With Wiser Budgeting
White Paper Thames Water, the utility company serving the region, is faced with a continual demand for upgrading, replacement and refurbishment of its assets. It is estimated that the asset value alone of the company is in the region of £ 20 billion, yet it... [14 Sep 2007]
Urban wireless networks set to surge
News More recently, a free wireless network was switched on along a 22km stretch of the River Thames in London. Explosive expansion in the number of citywide wireless networks is being predicted as local government and ISPs get switched on to the... [26 Jul 2007]
Editor's Blog: What is city-wide wi-fi?
Comment The service, which will start by covering a length of the Thames and either side of the capital's river, is from the good people at free-hotspot.com, who have among other things backed this publication's Fair Wi-fi campaign in the past. [17 Jul 2007]
London gets free wi-fi network
News The free-hotspot.com group and wi-fi network infrastructure company MeshHopper have joined forces to offer free wi-fi access to businesses and the public along a 22km stretch of the River Thames. MeshHopper is the company behind the paid-for Thames... [16 Jul 2007]
Winning Strategies: Outsourcing at Thames Water
White Paper As the largest water utility in the United Kingdom, Thames Water supplied 12 million customers across the 5,000-square-mile London and Thames Valley region. As a private company doing business in a highly regulated industry, Thames Water also... [05 Jul 2007]
