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5 March, 2011 by Staff

MPs: Met Office needs more powerful supercomputer

...MPs are calling for the Met Office to get a dramatically more powerful supercomputer, so it can offer... Read more

21 February, 2012 by Jack Clark

Met Office, Land Registry join BIS

...step towards the establishment of a Public Data Corporation. Ordnance Survey, the Met Office and Land Registry all became the responsibility of BIS on Monday... Read more

19 July, 2011 by Mark Say

Met Office gets NOAA space weather upgrade

...The Met Office will get better warnings of potentially disruptive solar activity thanks to... Read more

21 October, 2011 by Jack Clark

Digital services research gets £7m boost

...partners including BBC Research & Development, BT and the University of Strathclyde. The Met Office- and IBM-led Open Platform initiative has received money to help... Read more

22 February, 2011 by Tom Espiner
<endeca_term>Met Office</endeca_term> Weather Application 1.0.9

Met Office Weather Application 1.0.9

As the UKs national meteorological service, the Met Office provides the most accurate and reliable weather forecasts on TV and... Read more

6 February, 2012
<endeca_term>Met Office</endeca_term> Weather application 2.0

Met Office Weather application 2.0

As the UKs national meteorological service, the Met Office provides the most accurate and reliable weather forecasts on TV and... Read more

25 January, 2012

Microsoft and IBM push OData standardisation

...facilitate interoperability across implementations." OData is indeed widely used. The UK's Met Office uses it to share weather information with the public, and SAP... Read more

25 May, 2012

Open data to get public-sector gatekeepers

...with the Public Data Group, which consists of government trading funds the Met Office, Ordnance Survey, Land Registry and Companies House, with the aim of... Read more

21 March, 2012 by Gill Hitchcock
LEO computer marks 60th anniversary

LEO computer marks 60th anniversary

...became a model for outsourcing, being used by Ford UK and the Met Office for computing jobs. In November 1954 Lyons formed Leo Computers Ltd... Read more

16 November, 2011 by Tom Espiner

iPads, 3G and yak-friendly kit: What you need to conquer Everest

Himalayan Experience founder Russell Brice on making IT work on the world's highest mountain... Read more

18 August, 2011 by Tim Ferguson

UK Space Agency gets to work

...Strategy Board, the Research Councils, the International Space Innovation Centre and the Met Office, and overseas agencies including the European Space Agency and Nasa," the... Read more

4 April, 2011
Your life in IT's hands

Your life in IT's hands

...Pictured is the IBM Power-6 based supercomputer employed by the UK Met Office to run standard weather forecasts, climate prediction and global wind modelling... Read more

12 November, 2010 by Jack Clark
Armchair Archaeologist 1.0.2

Armchair Archaeologist 1.0.2

...about Great Britain we also bring you a weather report from the Met Office.Features 160 Sites with description and drop pins on the iPad... Read more

10 April, 2012
WeatherSA 1.2

WeatherSA 1.2

...SA, by South Africans, and is the only app supported by SAWS (Met Office). There really should be no reason for you to use any... Read more

7 March, 2012

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