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Crashing out at Glastonbury Festival
Talkback i spent every minute on two phones and online from the moment tickets went on sale until i heard the voice message saying sold out,i took shifts through the night with a friend, i rang from my mobile in the cab on my way home from work,all my...
[April 4, 2004, 15:08]
Computing's un-natural language
Blog I live and work in London, but would never say on (although I do work on, not in, GMT) - and people run in marathons but on the road. In it, founder Mark Liberman mused on the peculiar business that software can live in or on a system, with no...
[December 17, 2007, 13:05]
OSDL boss hints at Microsoft collaboration
News Cohen was speaking to the Commonwealth Technology Forum (CTF) in West London, via a live video link to his office in Portland, Oregon. Cohen decided not to appear at the conference in person because of concerns about security following the...
[July 11, 2005, 18:15]
News Roundup: Infosec 2001 unfolds
News Thu, 19 Apr A live hacking competition that begins tomorrow in London is intended to publicise the UK's lackadaisical attitude to security Infosec 2001 began in London this week and showed that, despite many technology companies exhibiting all the...
[April 25, 2001, 15:15]
Wi-Fi checks into Holiday Inn
News Wi-Fi specialist Megabeam has signed a deal with BDL Hotels, the hospitality franchise company, which will see it install hot spots at various hotels including Holiday Inn London Heathrow, the Express at London Luton Airport, Holiday Inn Docklands...
[December 3, 2002, 16:16]
£74m sportswear startup hits cyberspace
News Boo plans to market hip gear to markets where it has been scarce -- for example, selling London brands to New York customers. The site was founded by Swedish twentysomethings Ernst Malmsten and Kajsa Leander (though it is headquartered in London...
[November 4, 1999, 12:16]
'Murder' email lands lawyers in trouble
News A bogus email from a London law firm announcing the murder of a company secretary has resulted in four employees facing disciplinary action. A group of three other Herbert Smith trainees based in London could also face disciplinary action for...
[March 23, 2001, 13:49]
Adobe stands by Creative Suite 3 pricing
News If you look at Adobe Live [Adobe's annual customer event being held this week in London], we want to provide a two-day event free of charge around the world. He pointed to the customer support centres in London, Dublin and Edinburgh.
[June 7, 2007, 9:06]
techMARK puts spotlight on high-tech companies
News The London Stock Exchange Thursday launched techMARK , a new market for technology companies. Participants aren't limited to online companies, however, originating from such sectors as biotechnology and semiconductors as well as software, Internet...
[November 4, 1999, 12:39]
IPTV may help telcos fight mobile-broadband threat
News Speaking at the Informa Mobile, Broadband & TV Industry Outlook conference in London on Thursday, Julian Herbert, principal analyst at Informa, said: "Telcos probably are beginning to think they can't live without [IPTV] in the current circumstances.
[November 28, 2008, 10:16]
NHS IT problems cost hospital over £7m
News In a statement to GC News, the north London trust said that there have been a number of technical problems with the Cerner Millennium care-records system, and some have been "worse than anticipated". According to the trust, a programme has now been...
[November 11, 2008, 6:30]
Google turns Heathrow into testing lab
News Google has taken its first foray into the physical world with the launch of an Internet cafe-style computing booth in London's Heathrow Samsung laptops in the public lounge of Terminal One at London's main airport.
[November 24, 2005, 13:00]
Capital beats Virgin to digital licence
News Virgin has lost London's first digital radio multiplex licence to CE Digital, a joint venture between Capital Radio and Emap Radio. I expect to see one in five households having digital radio by 2005 and this decision by the Radio Authority...
[September 9, 1999, 10:13]
BBC HD Freeview encryption confusion
Blog Comment Some speak of how bad US TV is well ok that may be so, but our other independent channels certainly don't fit that category, oh and one more thing if you live within the five zones of the borough's of London don't even start because the London...
[September 18, 2009, 21:32]
Software Freedom Day 2008 - a damp squib in England?
Blog And London? Now, call me a notorious moaner, but is that all London has to offer? Devon and Cornwall look like coming up trumps with a demonstration (I assume, as in "exhibition" rather than as in "protest") and a live link to Cameroon - which...
[September 19, 2008, 12:35]
Lords a-leaping at internet security
News Margaret Hodge MP, minister of state for industry, will be speaking at London's QE2 conference centre, as well Richard Granger, director general for NHS IT. The mobile industry will also be gathering in London to debate the future of convergence...
[January 22, 2007, 16:07]
Redbus boss begs customers to stay
News Redbus' London One location in Harbour Exchange -- where the failure occurred -- is a "first-generation" site built during the "land grabbing" phase of Internet hosting, explained Tobin. London One has had three failures in the last year (the first...
[March 7, 2005, 15:20]
Microsoft unveils 'Bing' search engine
News Microsoft UK said in a press release that the UK version of Bing would be launching as a beta product, with new features being developed over the next six to 12 months at the company's Search Technology Centre in London.
[May 28, 2009, 18:20]
FileMaker simplifies databases with Pro 9
News Paul de Halle, development director at Linear Blue, a FileMaker developer in London, said: "The new functionalities in FileMaker 9 will allow us to integrate the database software with live data from other technology such as MySQL, Oracle and SQL...
[July 12, 2007, 11:12]
Vodafone launches 3G handsets
News Chief executive Arun Sarin, speaking at the launch in London, said that "10 million young, fun, active customers will sign up to 3G before March 2006. With nearly £6bn spent on a 3G licence and one-third of capital expenditure slated for 3G...
[November 10, 2004, 13:43]
