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Bracknell Forest Borough Council - Procurement Strategy 2005
White Papers It reaffirms the principles that will govern procurement in Bracknell Forest and appends a plan to make them happen. Procurement in the wider sense encompasses the whole process of acquiring external goods and services, from determining and...
[June 17, 2005, 3:00]
Smart phones for public services?
News Paul Bettison, leader of Bracknell Forest Borough Counil, said SIM cards could replace the chips that are used on smart cards. Bracknell Forest has been one of the leaders in developing smart cards for council services, and is the lead authority in...
[April 21, 2005, 16:30]
Council offers citizens digital identities
News Bracknell Forest borough council hit the headlines Wednesday as the first in the UK to offer its citizens secure digital identities. Chief executive of Bracknell Forest Gordon Mitchell believes the launch of the portal will "narrow the gap between...
[January 25, 2001, 8:10]
Email blunder leaves councillor in tight spot
News The emails, in which councillor Phil Grayson described his sexual fantasies, were forwarded to every member of Bracknell Forest Borough Council by the recipient, who had claimed to be a 23-year-old woman looking for an older man, according to the...
[August 8, 2003, 10:40]
BT defines the broadband divide
Talkback And this is not rural Cornwall, but the very expensive hi-tech area between Bracknell and Reading. Exactly. Our exchange has been equipped for over a year, but BT insist we are out of range. I _know_ there is DSL technology on the market that can...
[September 24, 2003, 10:11]
MS UK to move to £60m 'funky' house
News Microsoft Ltd.will shift its staff of roughly 800 to Thames Valley Park between Reading and Bracknell, Berks.in a phased move from its current, unloved premises in Winnersh Triangle. The move is expected to begin in September or October and will...
[July 18, 1997, 10:53]
HP cuts 1,000 UK jobs
News The global computing firm has not revealed which of its seven sites at Bracknell, Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, London, Reading and Warrington will be affected. HP is to cut just under 1,000 jobs in the UK over the next year as part of its global...
[September 13, 2005, 18:30]
Netscape founder brings instant extranets to Europe
News The office, in Bracknell, Berkshire will be headed by former HP executive Paul Donovan. Netscape founder Jim Clarke's new company Neoteris is opening its first European office this week as it seeks to cash in on what it sees as growing...
[October 29, 2002, 14:48]
Socitm calls for increased council IT spend
News Speaking at the launch, leader of Bracknell Forest BC Paul Bettison said: "I believe that IT has answers for many of the ills we will suffer. The Society of IT Management has called for an increase in council spending on IT, despite the prospect of...
[January 26, 2009, 8:27]
Dell admits Indian mistake
Talkback dell make bad computers do not understand british consumer law do not look at fatal exception error messages and denies responsibility for computers only a couple of months old that have developed serious problems because they were built...
[July 14, 2006, 17:46]
Dell admits Indian mistake
Talkback I wrote to Bracknell and the letter was sent to Ireland. I have exactly that problem. As a 19 year old my daughter bought a printer on line from Dell but picked the wrong one in error. She could not get through to the customer desk initially and...
[January 25, 2006, 22:36]
Network Associates UK secures PGP buy
News McAfee, based in Bracknell, Berkshire plans to move up the road into the offices of Windsor-based Network General. Network Associates in the UK expects to fold in the operations of its latest acquisition, encryption firm Pretty Good Privacy (PGP).
[December 3, 1997, 10:07]
McAfee name may live on after merger
News Separately, Rix said that McAfee's 23 UK staff in Bracknell could move into Network General's European headquarters in nearby Windsor where 40 staff are currently employed. Although the firms have said the joint company will call itself Network...
[October 20, 1997, 14:45]
The Luncher
News Word is the firm will set up shop west of London -- beauteous Bracknell area natch In the old days when men were men, these wealthy companies would feud and call each other names until they were of an azure complexion.
[October 29, 1997, 13:12]
SPC plans Active return
News Separately, the firm said it plans to retain its own identity and office space in the Bracknell, Berks.area despite the fact that Allegro also owns Nottingham-based Serif which developed the PagePlus DTP and DrawPlus illustration packages.
[December 2, 1996, 13:51]
Is the UK really short of IT skills?
Talkback Also there is no IT boom, Dell recently announced yet more job losses in Bracknell. My c.v.includes nearly 5 years at Microsoft in a global role and 8 years at FJ in various roles. I am not out of date nor do have I any particular career blemishes...
[November 5, 2005, 8:51]
Q&A: Dell's Newton serves up aces
News In Bracknell, a team of four specialists is on hand and on-site technical support is treated by a different firm. Already established as a top five PC vendor, leading direct seller Dell is chasing Compaq in servers.
[September 6, 1996, 11:49]
Why 802.11N is hard to follow, at last...
Talkback Bracknell UK Thank you, This is the first article which I have seen which discusses the law of physics related issue of "there is no such thing as infinite bandwidth" As a licensed Radio Amateur, I learnt that this is a fundamental.and all I have...
[November 23, 2006, 13:24]
Nokia wins first .me.uk domain name dispute
News As Lady Bracknell might have put it," said Roberts, "to have registered one domain name corresponding to the brand name of a major mobile telecommunications company may be regarded as a misfortune; to register two looks like carelessness.
[June 27, 2002, 15:40]
IT driving government efficiency plans
News The study highlights Bracknell Forest Borough Council as an authority which has made efficiency savings through new technology. Local authorities are relying on IT to make the efficiency savings that the government is demanding from them over the...
[April 28, 2005, 16:30]
