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UK E-science Centre Pushes Grid Computing
News The UK government on Thursday officially opened the National e-Science Centre (NeSC), devoting £5.5m over the next three years to boosting the UK's role in grid computing. The centre, based at the University of Edinburgh and jointly run with the...
[April 26, 2002, 7:31]
E-Bros Adds Personal Touch To Call Centre Operations With 3Com NBX System
White Papers e-Bros is one of Finland's most innovative software development houses.e-Bros wanted to develop an advanced call centre solution that would streamline and improve the efficiency of call centre operations, which would enable representatives to give...
[May 4, 2004, 0:00]
An Analysis Of A Shared Services Centre In E-Government
White Papers A shared services centre might provide common services to local government organizations without affecting the autonomy of organizations and providing the flexibility to enhance and include additional functionality.
[December 28, 2004, 2:00]
Call Centre Guidelines - Part 1 Of The E-Government Strategy
White Papers There are many possible definitions of Call Centres, that are focused on a technical definition, a service delivery definition, or a number of agents definition. For the purposes of this document the definition is: A facility specifically set up to...
[August 23, 2003, 8:01]
New Advanced Technical Centre At Stourbridge College Is The Leader In E-Learning
White Papers Stourbridge College committed £1.6 million to create an innovative IT infrastructure, enabling staff, students and associates to gain secure access to college learning resources anytime, anywhere. The ATC desired a network environment that would...
[March 14, 2004, 23:00]
UK E-government To Shift North
News Officials working on UK e-government policy are being relocated to Birchwood in the northwest of England to be closer to public sector IT workers. The government said the relocation of the e-Government Unit (eGU) will establish a shared service...
[November 21, 2005, 8:55]
UK Citizens Shun E-government Services
News Awareness and use of e-government services through the network of 6,000 UK Online centres is low, according to a survey published by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES). The DfES report is based on feedback from UK Online managers and an...
[April 5, 2005, 15:55]
UK Retailers Facing E-commerce Divide
News The government has said that it welcomes the news that some UK companies are leading the way by putting e-commerce at the centre of their commercial thinking, but has admitted that much still needs to be done.
[July 29, 2002, 10:36]
UK's E-government Schemes 'lack Depth'
News The UK has slipped down a rung in e-government league tables compiled by Accenture, which blames the slide on the lack of depth in the public services currently online. This year the UK stands at joint tenth in the annual rankings, down one place...
[April 6, 2005, 17:25]
E-learning Spurned By UK Staff
News Cultural and technological barriers are hindering the wider use of e-learning among UK organisations. A survey of 998 managers by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and Centre for Applied Human Resource Research found only 54 percent have...
[December 7, 2007, 8:20]
UK E-commerce Czar Expected Today
News The event, at St John's Innovation Centre in Cambridge will also see PM Tony Blair unveil a new strategy for UK ecommerce as the Performance and Innovation Unit report on ecommerce is launched. Alex Allan, a senior civil servant is widely touted...
[September 13, 1999, 8:00]
E-Learning Centres Planned For Nurses
News The University of Ulster has been selected as one of three UK universities to deliver an e-learning centre for qualified nurses, enabling them to further their qualifications online. The e-nursing centre will complement the existing online...
[April 25, 2001, 7:08]
Government Backs Grid Computing With £1m
News The DTI has put £1m into IECnet, a program to help UK public and private sector organisations better understand the benefits of using grid technology. IECnet - the Inter-Enterprise Computing Knowledge Transfer Network - is a collaborative project...
[August 10, 2005, 15:35]
Met Criticises Local Police E-crime Response
News Senior police officers have criticised local police responses to reports of e-crime, and have welcomed plans for a national police centre to co-ordinate cybercrime-fighting efforts. It's the problem of lack of [local] police awareness of e-crime...
[October 13, 2006, 16:25]
UK Scientists Complete Grid Foundations
News The project was carried out by scientists from the UK's E-Science Centres and was co-funded by IBM and Oracle, rival powers in the database market, which contributed both funding and the efforts of their own researchers.
[July 22, 2002, 12:45]
UK 'leads G7' For Broadband Availability
News The UK has overtaken the other G7 nations in terms of the availability of broadband infrastructure, a report claimed on Monday. According to research from analyst Ovum, the UK became the most "extensive broadband market" in the G7 group in the last...
[February 21, 2005, 16:30]
Grid Computing 'vital To Europe's Future'
News Meanwhile, the UK National Grid Service (NGS), the UK's e-Science Grid, gained two new members in the shape of Cardiff and Bristol universities. Cardiff's Welsh e-Science Centre hooked up its Silicon Graphics Irix cluster to the network, while the...
[June 1, 2005, 12:55]
RFID: BT Says 'yes', Survey Says 'no'
News But despite increased momentum, research this week claims RFID is failing to catch on in UK companies. As ZDNet UK reported exclusively last week, BT has created a special business unit to focus on RFID implementations -- BT Auto-ID Services.
[February 3, 2004, 10:10]
Events Diary
News E3 '99: LA Convention Centre, LA, USA. Internet Commerce Expo :World Trade Centre, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. April) Support Services Conference and Expo: Washington Convention Centre, Washington, USA
[March 22, 1999, 16:43]
MPs To Scrutinise Tech Industry
News Following BT's move to open a 2,200 person call centre in India, three of the UK's main unions, Amicus, CWU and Unifi, launched a campaign in June to lobby against the trend for moving operations offshore as a danger to "jobs and the economy".
[August 19, 2003, 11:00]
