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Hoax porn site traps Scottish bank manager
News Chalmers left his management position at the Royal Bank of Scotland in July, reports the Daily Record Wednesday. A Scottish bank manager has been placed on the Sex Offenders Register after a court convicted him of downloading more than 100 images...
[September 20, 2000, 10:33]
Microsoft offers taste test of 'Talisker'
News Among other things, Talisker is a type of single-malt Scotch distilled on Scotland's Isle of Skye. Microsoft plans to introduce on Tuesday the first test version of "Talisker", its next-generation operating system aimed at a variety of handheld...
[April 10, 2001, 10:38]
NavMan GPS 3400 Voice review
Reviews Maps are available for the whole of Britain and Ireland, and are broken down into seven zones: Southern England; West, Midlands, Anglia; Northern England; Scotland; Wales; Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland.
[October 7, 2002, 14:05]
Markets stumble over weak tech shares
News The strong performance in the stock market over the past few days has taken me by surprise," said Royal Bank of Scotland technical analyst Brian Kiely. London stock markets showed just how fragile they still are Wednesday by reversing Tuesday's gains.
[May 3, 2000, 10:23]
Scottish Ambulance Service loses encrypted 999 disc
News Details on the disc included a copy of the record of 894,629 calls made to the ambulance service in the West of Scotland since February 2006. The Scottish Ambulance Service has lost a disc containing the encrypted 999 call details of almost one...
[June 24, 2008, 15:07]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog A less than sterling performance was evident from Scotland on Wednesday 7/6/2006 Reports are filtering back from Dell's bash yesterday in Monte Carlo where Colin Barker, our man in the Saville Row suit and the gold
[June 9, 2006, 18:40]
First BT wireless broadband nears
News Northern Ireland was one of four areas to host BT wireless broadband trials, with others in Scotland, Wales and Cornwall -- the latter two are still running and being used to investigate other technologies.
[August 2, 2004, 17:15]
Faster broadband goes nationwide
News Monday's nationwide launch follows customer trials in Scotland earlier this year. Telewest announced on Monday that it is rolling out a one-megabit-per-second (Mbps) consumer broadband product across its UK network.
[June 17, 2002, 13:11]
Report argues case for EU-US data sharing
News Baroness Scotland, the UK attorney general, had observer status with the group to assess the implications for Britain, whose legal system, unlike continental Europe, is based on the common law. Europe should consider sharing vast amounts of...
[August 7, 2008, 16:18]
Net paedophile gets five years
News It's satisfying to see a severe custodial sentence being pronounced upon a net paedophile -- it demonstrates how serious the crime is, as we're talking about protecting children here," said Jim Reynolds, former head of the paedophilia unit at New...
[October 24, 2000, 14:49]
E-learning is over-hyped, say firms
News The Royal Bank of Scotland for instance, which created a bespoke evaluation e-learning management system built in tracking of completion of learning, online assessments and requests for learning materials.
[February 27, 2003, 12:20]
Google steams ahead with 'floating datacentre'
News A British company, Pelamis Wave Power, is operating a prototype in Scotland and intends to install one off Portugal. Google sees the future of computing at sea. The search giant has filed a patent for a 'floating datacentre' that uses wave motion...
[September 9, 2008, 10:08]
BT promises truly universal broadband
Talkback As it happens ADSL is the only means available to rural Scotland. So if I read this correctly, BT is aiming to switch it's systems over to VoIP. Funny how at present they are doing all they can to force customers to stay on their current PSTN in...
[March 12, 2005, 2:41]
Disgruntled employee takes down ex-firm's Web site with spam attack
News However, while he may well have been delighted with the chaos he caused, the adolescent may have been less thrilled when Scotland Yard's computer crime unit came knocking on his door. An aggrieved teenager, sacked from his £120-per-week job, has...
[July 13, 2004, 9:50]
The human factor will always get you
Blog Well an ex-colleague of mine at the Royal Bank of Scotland used to say that “Minority report” should be obligatory viewing for all information security managers. I was reading an excellent article by Jason Holloway posted on the BCS Blogs...
[September 11, 2008, 8:10]
Mesh brings broadband to rural Bucks
News LocustWorld is a small UK firm whose MeshAP system is being deployed worldwide, from Scotland and Yorkshire to the Washington State and the Gulf Coast of Florida, according to the company. Mesh networking is being deployed in Buckinghamshire to...
[April 23, 2004, 18:20]
FTSE 100 losing the search battle
News When you search for big names [in finance] like HSBC, Lloyds TSB, Royal Bank of Scotland -- yes, they'll come up, but when people search for things.like 'insurance', their presence is woeful. Banks and financial institutions are getting left behind...
[February 22, 2005, 15:20]
Political apathy maintained online
News Among its findings were that: percent of internet users visit news and current affairs Web sites, compared with 28 percent who look up their local council, and 21 percent who go online to government departments and agencies; only 5 percent have...
[February 25, 2005, 9:40]
IT security industry 'to be professionalised'
News The institute already has members on board from a number of companies, including BP, Royal Bank of Scotland, HBOS and Vodafone. IT security officers are to get their own professional body in the UK with the launch of the Institute of Information...
[January 16, 2006, 9:15]
Cyber terrorism - A ZDNN Special
News When England needed a centralised police agency, Scotland Yard was born. When England needed a centralised police agency, Scotland Yard was born. What's planned? Who's involved? What's at stake? We examine the issues.
[April 5, 2000, 15:34]
