Computer Weekly articles from January 2007

Computer Weekly archives from January 2007

Lincolnshire councils start sharing services to cut back-office expenses.
January 9, 2007... Will Hadfieldwill.hadfield@rbi.co.ukThree councils in Lincolnshire are saving money by implementing the same content management system in the first of a planned series of shared services projects.Lincolnshire County Council, North Kesteven...

President sets out challenges for IT in 50th anniversary year of the BCS.(British Computer Society, Nigel Shadbolt)
January 9, 2007... Justin Richardscomputer.weekly@rbi.co.ukAs the BCS begins its 50th anniversary year, members have been told that new approaches will be required from the IT community to meet a range of global and national challenges.In his incoming president's...

News.(Christmas break create a New Year IT hangover)(Brief article)
January 9, 2007... Does the long Christmas break create a New Year IT hangover? 33% Yes67% NoThe Big Question is an initiative between Computer Weekly and recruitment consultancy PSD. Each week we put the Big Question to top IT professionals to get their take on...

Private sector expertise in demand in booming public sector IT market.
January 9, 2007... Chris Edwardscomputerweekly@rbi.co.ukThe government's love affair with IT - and the efficiencies it can bring - continues to create unprecedented career opportunities in the public sector, with billions of pounds earmarked for IT projects in...

It's the challenge that pays.(IT professionals survey)
January 9, 2007... IT has long had a reputation as a profession that can offer high salaries for high flyers. But a major study by Computer Weekly and recruitment specialists Computer People shows that for most IT professionals, it is not how much they earn, but...

Raft of conferences vie for a place in IT chiefs' diaries.
January 9, 2007... Computer Weekly reportercomputer.weekly@rbi.co.ukIncreased IT industry confidence, and a desire to get close to the senior IT user community has brought a burgeoning number of events, seminars, exhibitions, roundtables and conferences for 2007....

Slide up the programming career ladder with Python.
January 9, 2007... Nick Langleycomputer.weekly@rbi.co.ukWhat is it?Python is one of the trio of programming languages that make up the "p" of the Lamp (Linux, Apache, MySQL) development stack. Like Perl and PHP, it can be downloaded free of charge, together with...

How to make money by going green.(green technology benefits for business and environmentally friendly operations)
January 9, 2007... Cliff Sarancliff.saran@rbi.co.ukFor Ken Harvey, group general manager and chief information officer of HSBC, the recent hike in the cost of electricity has been a good thing in one way - by waking IT directors up to the business benefits of...

Green is cash in the bank.(green technology)(IT directors should look to demonstrate leadership in environmental issues)(Brief article)
January 9, 2007... here has been plenty of talk recently about the need to appreciate the environmental impact of what we do in our day to day lives. Much has been said on green taxes, renewable resources and being carbon-neutral, and 2007 is likely to be the...

News.(Aardman Animations contracts with ntl:Telewest Business)(Brief article)
January 9, 2007... Aardman feels flush with faster internetAardman Animations has signed a deal with ntl:Telewest Business to boost its managed internet service from 4mpbs to 10mbps to cope with the demands of transferring extremely large graphics files to its US...

BCS report sparks change in the NHS IT programme.(British Computer Society, UK National Health Service)
January 9, 2007... Lindsay Clarklindsay.clark@rbi.co.ukConnecting for Health, the government agency that runs the ?12.4bn National Programme for IT (NPfIT) in the NHS, is considering a report from the British Computer Society that recommends putting on hold the...

Centrica looks to save ?2.5m with consolidation.(after migrating intranet infrastructure based on Microsoft Sharepoint 2003)
January 9, 2007... Miya Knightscomputerweekly@rbi.co.ukCentrica says it is on course to save ?2.5m over five years after migrating to a consolidated intranet infrastructure based on Microsoft Sharepoint 2003.The utility firm and owner of British Gas expects to...

Enterprise licensing stranglehold set to loosen in 2007, says Forrester.
January 9, 2007... Cliff Sarancliff.saran@rbi.co.ukFor IT directors, 2007 may be the year that they are able to escape inflexible terms and conditions on their enterprise software usage, ?according to Forrester Research.The analyst firm said this would be the...

Watchdog attacked in battle over ID cards.(UK Office of Government Commerce)
January 9, 2007... Bill Goodwinbill.goodwin@rbi.co.ukThe government has attacked its own information watchdog for failing to understand the workings of Whitehall, as it gears up to fight an order to publish confidential reports into the ID cards programme.The...

Hampshire's five-year SOA deal opens door to partnership working.(Hampshire County Council, service oriented architecture)
January 9, 2007... Will Hadfieldwill.hadfield@rbi.co.ukHampshire County Council has started using a five-year service oriented architecture (SOA) deal it recently signed with IBM to deliver services in partnership with other public sector agencies.The council has...

HSBC places IT at heart of green strategy.(HSBC Bank PLC)(Brief article)
January 9, 2007... Cliff Sarancliff.saran@rbi.co.ukGlobal banking group HSBC is using IT as a foundation for meeting its corporate social responsibility obligations and its green strategy.In an interview with Computer Weekly, Ken Harvey, the bank's group general...

Campaigner for Health Service IT review is awarded CBE.(Martyn Thomas named for Commander of British Empire in the New Year Honours List)(Brief article)
January 9, 2007... Martyn Thomas, a leading campaigner for an independent review of the NHS's ?12.4bn National Programme for IT, has been made a CBE in the New Year Honours List. The professor of software engineering has long pushed for the adoption of formal...

News.(Sandwell Council heads off a clash with unions in contracts deal with British Telecommunications and Liberata)
January 9, 2007... Council heads off a clash with unions in ?300m dealWill Hadfieldwill.hadfield@rbi.co.ukSandwell Council is anticipating significant cost savings from a planned ?300m, 15-year outsourcing contract that will involve phasing out 145 jobs within...

News.(Southampton Football Club contracts with Scalable Networks to implemented web filtering system)(Brief article)
January 9, 2007... Southampton puts web control in the netSouthampton Football Club has rolled out a sophisticated web filtering system to actively manage internet access for different user communities at the club, including its well-known youth training...

Fit-for-purpose IT breeds profits.(Inditex)
January 9, 2007... Miya Knightscomputer.weekly@rbi.co.ukThe forecast-beating financial results from Inditex last month suggest that it is not the type of technology a business has but how it is used that contributes to commercial success.As the world's second...

Online Xmas puts heat on supply chains.(Brief article)
January 9, 2007... Will Hadfieldwill.hadfield@rbi.co.ukRetailers' supply chains were stretched by record online sales this Christmas, with the greatest pressure falling on home delivery networks.IMRG, the trade body for online retailers, expects its members to...

News.(UK bankers are ignorant of service oriented architectures benefits)(John Lewis Partnership contracts with Knapp)(Allied Irish Bank contracts with Vasco)(Brief article)
January 9, 2007... In briefMost UK bankers are ignorant of SOA benefits Some 89% of department heads at banks in the UK have never heard of service oriented architectures (SOA), according to a survey by software firm Ilog. Of those who had heard of SOA, only 37%...

News.(government to spend on information technology services)(Scottish Power contracts with Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc.)(CSC UK slims down with loss of 1,000 staff)(Brief article)
January 9, 2007... in briefScottish Power signs mobile GIS contractScottish Power has awarded a ?750,000 contract to ESRI to provide a mobile geographic information system. The system will support up to 800 engineers working across 70,000 miles of Scottish...

Ajax is squeezed as Adobe builds up rival Flex toolset.(Adobe Systems)
January 9, 2007... Cliff Sarancliff.saran@rbi.co.ukForrester Research is predicting a shake-up in the market for rich internet application development tools as Ajax battles with Adobe's rival Flex toolset.The analyst company said the explosion of proprietary Ajax...

Oracle revamps pricing for enterprise portfolio.(Oracle Corporation UK Ltd.)(Brief article)
January 9, 2007... Cliff Sarancliff.saran@rbi.co.ukOracle has introduced new pricing models to simplify the way users pay for its JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, Siebel and Oracle E-Business Suite products.Oracle said the Component Model is "a simple a la carte" plan...

Anti-virus products for Vista released.(Kaspersky Lab)(Brief article)
January 9, 2007... Arif Mohamedarif.mohamed@rbi.co.ukSecurity software supplier Kaspersky Lab has released beta versions of anti-virus products for Microsoft's new Vista operating system. The beta versions are "maintenance updates" to Kaspersky's Anti-Virus 6.0...

McData tool designed to lower storage costs.(McData Virtualizer)(Brief article)
January 9, 2007... Cliff Sarancliff.saran@rbi.co.ukMcData, a provider of data access products, has begun shipping its Virtualizer tool, the first in a family of products designed to lower capital expenditure in storage administration.Virtualizer is a module in...

Sophos appliance takes a hard line on web security.(Sophos WS1000)
January 9, 2007... Arif Mohamedarif.mohamed@rbi.co.ukSophos has launched its first web security hardware appliance, designed to enable administrators to block staff access to malicious web content and prevent unauthorised browsing at the gateway level.The...

Don't get a spasm over Spit or spam.
January 9, 2007... Spam, that scourge of the inbox, should by now be pretty much under control. Spam filters can easily be trained to give better than 90% effectiveness with zero false positives, and for those who still suffer from a lot of spam in their inboxes,...

Feast and famine as skills market unravels.
January 9, 2007... The IT skills market has polarised. Rising salaries in inner London and other financial services centres reflect increasing competition for those with the abilities to help the City cement its position as the global centre for developing and...

Lincolnshire councils start sharing services to cut back-office expenses.(AbacusEmedia's Webstructure)
January 9, 2007... smart projects Councils cut costs by standardising on content management system Will Hadfield will.hadfield@rbi.co.uk Three councils in Lincolnshire are saving money by implementing the same content management system in the first...

President sets out challenges for IT in 50th anniversary year of the BCS.(Nigel Shadbolt of British Computer Society)
January 9, 2007... Justin Richards computer.weekly@rbi.co.uk As the BCS begins its 50th anniversary year, members have been told that new approaches will be required from the IT community to meet a range of global and national challenges. In his...

News.(Computer Weekly and PSD survey on christmas break effect on information technology)(Brief article)
January 9, 2007... Does the long Christmas break create a New Year IT hangover? 33% Yes 67% No The Big Question is an initiative between Computer Weekly and recruitment consultancy PSD. Each week we put the Big Question to top IT...

Private sector expertise in demand in booming public sector IT market.(information technology)
January 9, 2007... HR & skills You don't have to be a public sector specialist to get in on e-gov projects Chris Edwards computerweekly@rbi.co.uk The government's love affair with IT - and the efficiencies it can bring - continues to create...

it's the challenge that pays.(Computer Weekly and Computer People survey)
January 9, 2007... Money is not the prime key in attracting and motivating staff. Rewarding work and career progression are the biggest incentives, as the Computer Weekly/Computer People Salary and Benefits Survey makes clear. Bill Goodwin reports IT has...

Career Moves.(bank identity security)(wine tasting)
January 9, 2007... Cool for cats as bank gives moggie a credit card Last year, reader Andrew Matthews told us about how he deflects junk mail using an e-mail address he has set up for his cat Jake prompting, among other pieces of correspondence, no fewer than...

Career Moves.(information technology professionals)(Diary entry)
January 9, 2007... dpm's diary c p bound Monday New Year's Day where am I? Who are these women? Where are our clothes? Who is that sadist who has managed to smuggle a pneumatic drill inside my head? You know, this firstfooting business can get a...

Events.(Information Technologists Company)(Best Entrepreneurial Teams Awards)(Brief article)
January 9, 2007... Awards showcase team innovation Computer Weekly reporter computer.weekly@rbi.co.uk This month sees the launch of an initiative to promote entrepreneurial teamwork in UK businesses. The Best Entrepreneurial Teams Awards,...

Raft of conferences vie for a place in IT chiefs' diaries.(Events)
January 9, 2007... Computer Weekly reporter computer.weekly@rbi.co.uk Increased IT industry confidence, and a desire to get close to the senior IT user community has brought a burgeoning number of events, seminars, exhibitions, roundtables and...

Slide up the programming career ladder with Python.(computer language)
January 9, 2007... Hot skills Multi-purpose language is quick and easy to learn Nick Langley computer.weekly@rbi.co.uk What is it? Python is one of the trio of programming languages that make up the "p" of the Lamp (Linux, Apache, MySQL)...

How to make money by going green.(Ken Harvey of HSBC Holdings PLC)(Interview)
January 9, 2007... interview HSBC CIO Ken Harvey is committed to greening the bank. As well as helping to protect the environment, it makes sound business sense, he believes Cliff Saran cliff.saran@rbi.co.uk For Ken Harvey, group general manager and...

Green is cash in the bank.(information technology departments environmental issues)(Brief article)
January 9, 2007... here has been plenty of talk recently about the need to appreciate the environmental impact of what we do in our day to day lives. Much has been said on green taxes, renewable resources and being carbon-neutral, and 2007 is likely to be the...

Opinion and Letters.(Letter to the editor)
January 9, 2007... Paying a high price for biometric ID cards Michael Poulin I totally agree with Toby Stevens about the dangers surrounding the government's plans for national identity cards (Computer Weekly, 19 December). This article should be on the...

News.(Aardman Animations signed a deal with Telewest Business)(Brief article)
January 9, 2007... Aardman feels flush with faster internet Aardman Animations has signed a deal with ntl:Telewest Business to boost its managed internet service from 4mpbs to 10mbps to cope with the demands of transferring extremely large graphics files to...

BCS report sparks change in the NHS IT programme.(National Health Service's National Programme for Information Technology)("The Way Forward for NHS Health Informatics" by British Computer Society)
January 9, 2007... Lindsay Clark lindsay.clark@rbi.co.uk Connecting for Health, the government agency that runs the [pounds sterling]12.4bn National Programme for IT (NPfIT) in the NHS, is considering a report from the British Computer Society that...

Centrica looks to save [pounds sterling]2.5m with consolidation.(using Microsoft Sharepoint 2003)
January 9, 2007... Miya Knights computerweekly@rbi.co.uk Centrica says it is on course to save [pounds sterling]2.5m over five years after migrating to a consolidated intranet infrastructure based on Microsoft Sharepoint 2003. The utility firm and...

Enterprise licensing stranglehold set to loosen in 2007, says Forrester.(News)
January 9, 2007... Cliff Saran cliff.saran@rbi.co.uk For IT directors, 2007 may be the year that they are able to escape inflexible terms and conditions on their enterprise software usage, according to Forrester Research. The analyst firm said this...

Watchdog attacked in battle over ID cards.(News)
January 9, 2007... Government takes gloves off in fight to maintain project secrecy Bill Goodwin bill.goodwin@rbi.co.uk The government has attacked its own information watchdog for failing to understand the workings of Whitehall, as it gears up to...

Hampshire's five-year SOA deal opens door to partnership working.(signed deal with International Business Machines Corp.)(service oriented architecture)
January 9, 2007... Will Hadfield will.hadfield@rbi.co.uk Hampshire County Council has started using a five-year service oriented architecture (SOA) deal it recently signed with IBM to deliver services in partnership with other public sector agencies. ...

HSBC places IT at heart of green strategy.(HSBC Holdings PLC)(information technology)(Brief article)
January 9, 2007... Cliff Saran cliff.saran@rbi.co.uk Global banking group HSBC is using IT as a foundation for meeting its corporate social responsibility obligations and its green strategy. In an interview with Computer Weekly, Ken Harvey, the...

Campaigner for Health Service IT review is awarded CBE.(Martyn Thomas)(Brief article)
January 9, 2007... Martyn Thomas, a leading campaigner for an independent review of the NHS's [pounds sterling]12.4bn National Programme for IT, has been made a CBE in the New Year Honours List. The professor of software engineering has long pushed for the...

News.(Sandwell Council's outsourcing contract)
January 9, 2007... Council heads off a clash with unions in [pounds sterling]300m deal Will Hadfield will.hadfield@rbi.co.uk Sandwell Council is anticipating significant cost savings from a planned [pounds sterling]300m, 15-year outsourcing contract...

News.(Southampton Football Club implements web filtering system with the help of Scalable Networks PLC)(Brief article)
January 9, 2007... Southampton puts web control in the net Southampton Football Club has rolled out a sophisticated web filtering system to actively manage internet access for different user communities at the club, including its well-known youth training...

Fit-for-purpose IT breeds profits.(Zara, Bershka and Massimo Dutti)(Inditex)
January 9, 2007... case study Effective business alignment is the Holy Grail for many IT directors. With profits up by over 20%, one retailer is showing how to pull it off in practice Miya Knights computer.weekly@rbi.co.uk The forecast-beating...

Career Moves.(tips for information technology professionals)(Discussion)(Brief article)
January 9, 2007... Next move The question How do I restart my high-level career? After many years working overseas as a global IT director, I took a drastic cut in pay to work at a small local company so that I could be with my wife during her...

Online Xmas puts heat on supply chains.(IMRG analysis)(Brief article)
January 9, 2007... Will Hadfield will.hadfield@rbi.co.uk Retailers' supply chains were stretched by record online sales this Christmas, with the greatest pressure falling on home delivery networks. IMRG, the trade body for online retailers, expects...

News.(Aberdeen Group's survey of contactless payment systems)(John Lewis Partnership PLC signed contract with Knapp)(Ilog survey of service oriented architectures )
January 9, 2007... In brief Most UK bankers are ignorant of SOA benefits Some 89% of department heads at banks in the UK have never heard of service oriented architectures (SOA), according to a survey by software firm Ilog. Of those who had heard of SOA,...

News.(staff left at CSC Consulting Group)(Local government information technology investments)(Scottish Power PLC signed contract with Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc.)(Brief article)
January 9, 2007... in brief Scottish Power signs mobile GIS contract Scottish Power has awarded a [pounds sterling]750,000 contract to ESRI to provide a mobile geographic information system. The system will support up to 800 engineers working across...

Ajax is squeezed as Adobe builds up rival Flex toolset.(Adobe Systems Inc.)
January 9, 2007... Cliff Saran cliff.saran@rbi.co.uk Forrester Research is predicting a shake-up in the market for rich internet application development tools as Ajax battles with Adobe's rival Flex toolset. The analyst company said the explosion of...

Technology.(support for Fedora Linux)(International Business Machines Corp. developed an optical device)(Saugatuck Technology and BusinessWeek Research Services survey on business software based on Linux)(Brief article)
January 9, 2007... IN BRIEF Support for Fedora Linux comes to an end Support for the Fedora Linux distribution is being wound down. In a posting on the Fedora site, the volunteers supporting the software said, "The current model for supporting maintenance...

Oracle revamps pricing for enterprise portfolio.(Technology)(Brief article)
January 9, 2007... Cliff Saran cliff.saran@rbi.co.uk Oracle has introduced new pricing models to simplify the way users pay for its JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, Siebel and Oracle E-Business Suite products. Oracle said the Component Model is "a simple a...

Technology.(International Business Machines Corp. and Intel Corp. partnered)(Brief article)
January 9, 2007... IBM and Intel team up on virtualisation Cliff Saran cliff.saran@rbi.co.uk IBM and Intel are working together to develop tools and guidelines to help IT departments deploy server virtualisation technology. Among the first...

Anti-virus products for Vista released.(by Kaspersky Lab Ltd.)(Windows Vista)(Brief article)
January 9, 2007... Arif Mohamed arif.mohamed@rbi.co.uk Security software supplier Kaspersky Lab has released beta versions of anti-virus products for Microsoft's new Vista operating system. The beta versions are "maintenance updates" to Kaspersky's...

McData tool designed to lower storage costs.(Virtualizer)(Brief article)
January 9, 2007... Cliff Saran cliff.saran@rbi.co.uk McData, a provider of data access products, has begun shipping its Virtualizer tool, the first in a family of products designed to lower capital expenditure in storage administration. Virtualizer...

Tech Data.(Telelogic Modeler introduced by Telelogic AB)(SpectraLink Corp. introduced Netlink 8000 Series cell phones)(Foxlingo from Firefox Inc.)(Brief article)
January 9, 2007... IN BRIEF Telelogic releases free version of UML tool Telelogic, a provider of software development tools, is providing a free version of its Telelogic Modeler, Unified Modeling Language (UML) design environment. The free Telelogic...

Sophos appliance takes a hard line on web security.(WS1000 Web Security Appliance )
January 9, 2007... Arif Mohamed arif.mohamed@rbi.co.uk Sophos has launched its first web security hardware appliance, designed to enable administrators to block staff access to malicious web content and prevent unauthorised browsing at the gateway level....

Don't get a spasm over Spit or spam.(Voip Spam over IP telephony)
January 9, 2007... Voip Spam over IP telephony, or Spit, presents different problems for business than other types of spam due to the challenges encountered in filtering calls in real time Spam, that scourge of the inbox, should by now be pretty much under...

Feast and famine as skills market unravels.(information technology workers skills)
January 9, 2007... The IT skills market has polarised. Rising salaries in inner London and other financial services centres reflect increasing competition for those with the abilities to help the City cement its position as the global centre for developing and...

Career Moves.(British Computer Society introduced a course in information risk management)(Brief article)
January 16, 2007... BCS dedicates course to risk management Tash Shifrin computer.weekly@rbi.co.uk The British Computer Society has launched a qualification in information risk management. The ISEB qualification is aimed at information security...

The public sector crafts career paths for IT pros.(John Suffolk )(information technology)(Interview)
January 16, 2007... Bill Goodwin bill.goodwin@rbi.co.uk The government aims to drive up standards of IT professionalism by deploying a standard framework for assessing the skills of IT staff across all its departments. The Core Skills Framework,...

Anti-malware system goes in goal at Derby after Trojans land in net.(Derby County Football Club)
January 16, 2007... Bill Goodwin bill.goodwin@rbi.co.uk Derby County Football Club has replaced its anti-virus systems with advanced anti-malware technology, following an attempted hacking attack on its networks. The football club stepped up its...

BCS group to boost best practice in datacentre design and management.(British Computer Society)(Brief article)
January 16, 2007... Justin Richards computer.weekly@rbi.co.uk The BCS has formed a specialist group to provide a forum for encouraging best practice in the design, building and management of datacentres. The Data Centre Specialist Group hopes to...

News.(poll on e-mail usage )(Brief article)
January 16, 2007... Has e-mail become more of a hindrance than a help in your business? 88% Yes 12% No The Big Question is an initiative between Computer Weekly and recruitment consultancy PSD. Each week we put the Big Question to top...

Regions take chunk out of London's pay differential.(ReThink Recruitment survey)
January 16, 2007... Will Hadfield will.hadfield@rbi.co.uk IT salaries in the regions are catching up with those for posts in London, according to research by IT recruitment consultancy ReThink Recruitment. Based on figures from sector skills council...

Opinion and Letters.(banking industry and technology)
January 16, 2007... High street banks cross the virtual divide Downtime still doesn't know what to make of the trend towards banking services being offered inside virtual reality worlds. Entropia Universe, an online science fiction game with 500,000...

Opinion and Letters.
January 16, 2007... dpm's diary c p bound Monday Decided to rationalise our informatics subscription services. Currently we use Rantger for future industry trends, Crampus for benchmarking, Olsen Enterprises for news, Vireless for public sector...

Apache is the big chief in the world of web servers.(Product/service evaluation)
January 16, 2007... Hot skills Open source product obvious choice for web skills Nick Langley computer.weekly@rbi.co.uk What is it? The Apache HTTP web server is free to download and is also bundled with many commercial products such as IBM's...

Human rights groups get special search tool.(HuriDocs uses Fast Enterprise Search Platform and HuriSearch)(Brief article)
January 16, 2007... Cliff Saran cliff.saran@rbi.co.uk HuriDocs, a global network of human rights organisations, is using the Fast Enterprise Search Platform to provide an internet search tool tailored for human rights groups. The hosted search...

A remarkable step forward.(Identity and Passport Service)(Brief article)(Column)
January 16, 2007... t last a government agency has had the confidence to admit some of its mistakes on IT-based programmes, publish the wider lessons, and show how it is learning from them. The self-critical report of the Identity and Passport Service is a...

Opinion and Letters.(Letter to the editor)
January 16, 2007... Keep it simple for the ID cards programme Graeme Blundell Regarding the ID cards project, I worked in the public sector for about six months and that was all it took for me to realise how inefficient and costly the public sector makes...

Swansea halts outsourcing extension as savings shrink.(Capgemini UK PLC)
January 16, 2007... Lindsay Clark lindsay.clark@rbi.co.uk Swansea City Council has pulled out of the second phase of an outsourcing programme with Capgemini after revised projections for the first tranche of work suggested it would not make anywhere near...

Ambulance trusts poised for major Airwave roll-out.(Terrestrial Trunked Radio)
January 16, 2007... Arif Mohamed arif.mohamed@rbi.co.uk The police and emergency services are continuing to breathe life into the controversial Tetra Airwave radio system, with the NHS ambulance trusts confirming plans to begin deploying 18,000 Tetra...

News.(Connaught Corp. signed contract with Sirocom)(Brief article)
January 16, 2007... Virtual net deal solves comms poser Lindsay Clark lindsay.clark@rbi.co.uk Housing services firm Connaught has signed a [pounds sterling]5.5m contract with virtual network operator Sirocom to improve how it deploys network services...

News.(Extreme Networks Inc. is selected by Eton College to install a gigabit ethernet )(Brief article)
January 16, 2007... Eton goes to Extreme for Gigabit net Eton College is working with Extreme Networks to install a Gigabit Ethernet data networking infrastructure. The 560-year-old public school said the upgrade was necessary to support 100mbps...