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White Paper Wakefield Council delivers public services to 318,000 people who live in a mixture of rural and urban areas in West Yorkshire in the United Kingdom. Wakefield Council needed a cost-effective package of... [25 Jul 2009]
Is BT's super-fast broadband coming to your neighbourhood?
News Shipley Yorkshire Armely Yorkshire Castleford Yorkshire Headingley Yorkshire Low Moor Yorkshire Pontefract Yorkshire Leamore... [09 Jul 2009]
BT reveals which towns will get fibre first
News Two of the exchanges are in rural locations - Taffs Well in Rhondda, South Wales; and Calder Valley in West Yorkshire - and BT said it will be "looking to learn lessons" - both economic and technological... [23 Mar 2009]
North West leading the rise of online banking
News A survey by UK payments association Apacs has revealed that 55 per cent of adults in the North West use phone or internet banking compared to 46 per cent in Yorkshire, the Humber and Scotland where... [18 Dec 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... [10 Nov 2008]
U.K. Police Force Uses Dell Server and Storage Solutions for New Crime Fighting Applications
White Paper West Yorkshire Police needed to rethink its existing IT infrastructure to deliver new policing solutions, such as a storage-intensive vehicle recognition system and Crime, Case & Custody records... [08 Nov 2008]
Lost data total nears 30 million records
News December 2007: Department for Work and Pensions fails to receive a disk containing the records of 40,000 housing benefit claimants after a West Yorkshire council attempts to courier it to the department... [30 Sep 2008]
Police map out crime online
News The initiative is part of a Policing Green Paper requiring every police force in the country to deliver monthly online crime information and has been trialled in the West Midlands and West... [29 Jul 2008]
Dylan Roberts
CIO Profile Roberts, who has been at Leeds Council since 2003, is on the Local Government National CIO Council, is the Yorkshire and Humber regional executive of Socitm and chairs the West Yorkshire... [11 Jun 2008]
Dear silicon.com...Naked CIO, silver skills and ID card anger…
Comment Richard Davies, North Yorkshire Secret Squirrel, West Byfleet, UK Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and views on the site. Getting naked The Naked... [14 Feb 2008]
Photos: BlackBerrys on the beat
Photo West Yorkshire Police, pictured here, is another force which uses the BlackBerry, with the force estimating its use has resulted in £8.8m in efficiency savings and saved 145-hours per front-line officer... [08 Feb 2008]
Brits clocking up £25bn in unpaid overtime
News Yorkshire & Humberside saw the steepest increase in numbers doing unpaid overtime. The only regions where numbers fell were the East Midlands, where 57,000 fewer staff did free hard graft, and the North... [04 Jan 2008]
Poll: In a fight between Vista, OS X, Linux, XP...
News While Rob Taylor, an IT director from West Yorkshire, said: "Vista - Very Glossy - but not user friendly and incredibly buggy, every PC/laptop we purchase now comes with Vista and is instantly downgraded... [13 Nov 2007]
Revealed: UK's IT job hotspots
News New IT jobs by region, according to ReThink Recruitment& London - 38.6 per cent& South East - 23.1 per cent& North West - 8.2 per cent& South West - 7.5 per cent& Yorkshire and... [14 Aug 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.05.07
Round-Up West Yorkshire has the second highest level of laptop theft, with 2,402 thefts during 2006 and also a 15 per cent upswing on the 2005 figure. Nottinghamshire police reported a fall of 24.6 per cent, and... [11 May 2007]
