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Birmingham considers Linux extension
News Birmingham City Council is mulling an extension to its open-source software deployment, which was criticised last year for falling short of expectations. Birmingham is also considering moving to thin client PCs, which would give it another...
[March 5, 2007, 8:37]
Birmingham council hopes to cut costs with VoIP
News Cabinet members at Birmingham City Council are to vote on whether to spend more than £5m renewing the authority's telephone system. If plans are approved at a cabinet meeting on 16 March, 2009, Birmingham will replace its 10-year-old phone system...
[March 10, 2009, 8:00]
Birmingham begins major open source pilot
News Birmingham City Council has started a giant trial of open source software on desktops and servers, intended to determine whether open source really delivers benefits. Birmingham is going further in using a full open source solution, albeit on a...
[May 16, 2005, 17:55]
Birmingham wants affordable broadband for all
News A Birmingham City Council cabinet member has called on broadband providers to help families who struggle to afford the service. In the course of this month Birmingham is providing 2,000 school pupils with laptop computers, and plans to hand out...
[January 24, 2008, 12:46]
Networks show drops telecoms, stays in Birmingham
News However the new organisation works out, network managers can prepare themselves for another trek to Birmingham next year with, no doubt, just as many exciting products as they will have seen this year.
[June 25, 2002, 15:05]
National open source centre comes to Birmingham
News An institute that aims to promote the use of open source software in the UK is being set up in Birmingham. Founding partners of the NOC include the National Computing Centre, Birmingham City Council and the council-led Digital Birmingham initiative...
[October 25, 2006, 16:00]
Microsoft denies role in Birmingham Linux flop
News Microsoft has insisted it did not slash its software prices to encourage Birmingham City Council to abort its Linux project. Birmingham pulled the plug on its open-source desktop project after it found that an upgrade to Windows XP was cheaper.
[November 23, 2006, 10:09]
Criticism mounts over Birmingham's Linux project
News Criticism is mounting over the termination of a large-scale Linux project in Birmingham. As reported earlier this week, Birmingham City Council pulled the plug on its £535,000 open-source pilot after its analysis concluded that it was cheaper to...
[November 17, 2006, 14:59]
Birmingham to fund web access for 1,800 families
News Birmingham City Council is to provide computers and internet connections for 1,800 households in the Aston district. The council's cabinet approved phase three of the Aston Pride IT Project on Monday.
[November 27, 2008, 11:55]
Voice activated car debuts at Birmingham
News At the top end of the toys-for-boys market is the new Jaguar-S TYPE saloon which made its world debut yesterday. The car enables the driver to keep his hands firmly on the wheel, while controlling devices such as the radio, CD-player, phone and air...
[October 21, 1998, 15:25]
Coming Soon: Exhibition and Conference dates
News 13: The 1996 Computacenter Briefing, National Motorcycle Museum, Birmingham, 0800-592480 Conference to Address Unix Office Crisis, Birmingham, 01442-232089 or 01525-385629 PDM'97 (Product Data management seminar), National Exhibition Centre...
[November 11, 1996, 9:26]
Events diary
News Birmingham ICC NEC Birmingham, UK th - 12th - National Project Management Exhibition Compaq Roadshow Belfast Galgorm Manor London Stakis Metropole London Stakis Metropole Edinburgh EICC th - 12th - Independent Exhibitions
[November 9, 1998, 6:36]
Adaptec to show Gigabit Ethernet
News Adaptec will showcase its lightning-fast Gigabit Ethernet networking technology at the Networld+Interop exhibition next week, and in Birmingham at the Networks exhibition in June. Networld+Interop will run May 6-8 in Las Vegas; Networks will run...
[April 30, 1997, 17:03]
Crowds gather at Apple's second UK store
News It may not be Regent's Street, but Birmingham's Bullring shopping centre saw its share of Mac fans camping out for the grand opening of Apple's retail outlet there on Friday. Yan studies in Birmingham and arrived at the Bullring at 0700 with two...
[April 29, 2005, 18:45]
Open-source payroll application launched
News Clockwork Software Systems launched PayThyme, an open-source payroll application, in Birmingham on Thursday. At the company's launch event in Birmingham, Clockwork business manager Jim Welch said it was initially supplying the software pre...
[November 25, 2004, 14:50]
E-prescription boost for 1,800 hospital beds
News The UK's largest rollout of a hospital electronic-prescription system is nearing completion in Birmingham. Niall Poole, electronic prescribing project manager at Birmingham's Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, said in a statement: "E...
[January 20, 2009, 7:20]
Wi-Fi hot spot lands at UK airport
News Birmingham International Airport (BIA) announced on Monday that it has become the first airport in the UK to set up a commercial Wi-Fi hot spot. With the growing demand for wireless connections, we're confident that it will be warmly welcomed by...
[September 17, 2002, 14:10]
Large public-sector Linux project flops
News Birmingham City Council began the project — one of the largest public-sector Linux projects in the UK — in May 2005 to evaluate the potential of open-source software. Timms has now moved jobs to work for Service Birmingham, a joint venture between...
[November 13, 2006, 11:35]
BT reviews security following exchange break-in
News BT is reviewing security at thousands of telephone exchanges across the country after a Birmingham exchange was vandalised at the weekend, causing 35,000 phone lines to be cut. At 1:30 on Sunday morning, it appears that someone broke into the...
[October 30, 2006, 13:03]
Brum residents to have say in Net regulation
News The ITC (Independent Television Commission) is to consult 200 Birmingham residents over its potential role in regulation of Internet content. The commission will use the views of the Birmingham Citizen's Forum to determine whether it should carry...
[September 30, 1999, 10:43]
