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It's a dog's life for police BlackBerrys
News Nothing is copper-proof," Keith Gough, mobile information manager for Thames Valley Police told silicon.com. Thames Valley's Gough said a PNC check over Airwave takes an average of three minutes provided... [20 Oct 2009]
Photos: Sony unleashes latest Vaios - from mini laptops to touchscreens
Photo This shows the Thames with the London Eye and Waterloo station in view. Last week saw Sony unveil its new range of Vaio PCs - launched to coincide with the release of Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system on 22 October. [14 Oct 2009]
Inside the SpinVox Brain
Comment Along with several other journalists who have been following 'SpinGate' by publicly wondering how much human intervention is required in SpinVox's Voice Message Conversion System (aka The Brain), I was invited to the corporate... [06 Aug 2009]
Newspapers failing web 2.0 challenge
Comment When a confused whale swam up the Thames in London, the first pictures on Sky News came from members of the public who captured the spectacle on their mobile phones. Newspapers need to find innovative ways to embrace web... [12 May 2009]
Morrisons stocks up with voice and data network
News The deal is the latest in a string of managed voice and data contracts for C&W, including agreements with Aviva, Centrica, Thames Water and Tesco. Supermarket chain Morrisons has awarded a three-year contract to Cable &... [09 Dec 2008]
Centrica signs up with C&W in £79m deal
News C&W recently landed another IP contract with Thames Water, in a three-year, multimillion-pound deal that will see the water company move to its IP-based hosted contact centre platform. Energy giant Centrica has inked a... [02 Dec 2008]
'Lack of trust' stops top cops' data swaps
News Assistant chief constable Nick Gargan of Thames Valley Police told the committee: "In terms of the better use of the Europol Information System, I suppose a start would be to get properly connected to it, which we are not. [12 Nov 2008]
Beat bobbies need more cash for smartphones
News Figures from Thames Valley, West Yorkshire and Bedfordshire forces put the average cost - for training, infrastructure and the device itself - at 80p to £1 per officer per day. Despite calls for more money to give all... [10 Nov 2008]
New Service Platform for Citizens Energizes Council Performance
White Paper In order to serve its citizens more efficiently and effectively, council officials in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames in the U.K.have implemented a citizen-centered tracking system, built upon the Microsoft... [11 Oct 2008]
Editor's Blog: Hoping for a dry Friday
Comment The CIO team will be joined by 500 other top business and IT executives from companies such as BT, Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland, Dell and Fujitsu who will sleep out in a number of locations across the country, including Birmingham,... [30 Sep 2008]
Barclays gives away 50,000 contactless coffees
News Barclays will be giving away 50,000 single use contactless payment cards at this weekend's Thames Festival to get consumers used to the idea of the 'wave and pay' tech. Festival goers will be able to pick up one of the... [10 Sep 2008]
Skills gap plugged by latest IT degree?
News The part-time Computer Systems Management Foundation Degree, which has been developed by computer maker HP in collaboration with Thames Valley University (TVU) where it has been piloted since 2006, will furnish students... [06 Aug 2008]
Blowing up hard drives, stinky broadband and super cars
Photo Photo credit: BAE Systems silicon.com took a trip out to the east end of London, to the Thames Water depot near Stratford, for a rare trip down London's Victorian sewer network for a look at a much more high-tech network... [01 Aug 2008]
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 -... [22 Jul 2008]
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... [17 Jun 2008]
