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CloudStore fixes up ambulance service with Office 365

...West Midlands Ambulance Service has begun the process of migrating its 4,000... Read more

25 April, 2012 by Jo Best

Birmingham launches gunfire location tech

...many firearms have been discharged before officers arrive at a crime scene. West Midlands Police said it will enable them to maximise the safety of... Read more

10 December, 2010 by Kable

BT creates hundreds of jobs in West Midlands

BT will create more than 300 new customer service jobs in the West Midlands, the telecoms giant has promised. The company said on Friday that... Read more

21 November, 2011
Network <endeca_term>West Midlands</endeca_term> 1.0

Network West Midlands 1.0

This App is the officially Approved Network West Midlands Departures App which helps users whilst they are "on the move... Read more

29 January, 2012

Hacker jailed over BPAS abortion service attack

A 27-year-old West Midlands man has been imprisoned for hacking into the systems of the... Read more

16 April, 2012

'Anonymous' abortion service hacker pleads guilty

A West Midlands man who hacked into and defaced the website of the UK... Read more

12 March, 2012

Man arrested over hacking of abortion provider site

A man has been arrested in the West Midlands on suspicion of hacking an abortion provider's website and obtaining... Read more

9 March, 2012

Seventeen-year-old arrested over TeamPoison attacks

...the Anti-Terrorist Hotline in April. Two teenagers were arrested in the West Midlands in April after a denial-of-service attack on the MI6... Read more

10 May, 2012 by Tom Espiner

BT names 156 towns for next fibre rollout phase

...Humber South Yorkshire BASFORD East Midlands Nottinghamshire BEDLINGTON North East Northumberland BEDWORTH West Midlands Warwickshire BEWDLEY West Midlands Hereford & Worcester BIDDULPH West Midlands Staffordshire BIGGLESWADE... Read more

7 April, 2011 by Ben Woods

Teenagers arrested over anti-terrorist hotline jam

...A 16-year-old and 17-year-old were arrested at a West Midlands address on Thursday evening and were each charged under the Malicious... Read more

13 April, 2012

Dawn raids net 14 suspects in £1m phishing theft

...women were detained on Thursday morning in raids in London and the West Midlands. More arrests may follow in the coming days, according to Metropolitan... Read more

15 March, 2012 by Tom Espiner

MPs: Rioting should not lead to Twitter blocks

...have to put a policing operation in very quick time in place," West Midlands Police assistant chief constable Sharon Rowe told the committee on 15... Read more

20 December, 2011 by Tom Espiner

BT adds 178 exchanges to superfast broadband club

...BARGOED Wales BARNWOOD South West BASSETT South East BEDMINSTER South West BILSTON West Midlands BISHOPSWORTH South West BLYTH; NORTHUMBERLAND North East BOLDON Yorkshire and The... Read more

12 December, 2011 by Natasha Lomas

Privacy group highlights police data breaches

...staff having their employment terminated were: Kent, which logged 10; Merseyside and West Midlands with seven each; Northumbria with six; and Derbyshire and Humberside with... Read more

8 July, 2011 by Sade Laja

T-Mobile data thieves fined over £70,000

...the data as part of his job as sales manager for the West Midlands region, a T-Mobile spokesperson told ZDNet UK on Friday. T... Read more

10 June, 2011

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knapper

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I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

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Burn-IT

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DarkDown

yeah! all we want free software

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Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

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itsajob

2. Bad idea. Making up patch cables loses you your commission from the cable supplier. 3. If you tidy up, other people can understand where the...

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Is this classic FUD? One thing I would definitely have notice is a Mozilla threat to stop supporting GNU/Linux.

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UnderINK

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Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe

Nice to see that Turing's idea of a general purpose computer doing once-hardware-powered tasks in software is now universal ;-) Mary

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Jason Burchell

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apexwm

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