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Edinburgh Leads the Way With Its RFID Bus Priority System to Help Reduce Congestion and Speed Up Traffic
White Papers Edinburgh is in the forefront of technology that automatically gives buses the green light, reduces traffic congestion and encourages use of public transport. TIRIS Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) technology from Texas Instruments is being...
[October 29, 2007, 23:00]
Edinburgh Council inks multimillion deal with BT
News The City of Edinburgh Council has signed a three-year, £3.2m deal with BT for a fixed-rate telephone network. In a statement, City of Edinburgh Council convenor of finance councillor Gordon Mackenzie said: "This deal will deliver immediate savings...
[August 28, 2008, 9:16]
Travelto Edinburgh
Downloads Travelto Edinburgh gives general information about history, geography, climate, demographics, subdivision, transportation, infrastructure, culture, economy, business, international events, sports, and emergency services.
[August 25, 2009, 13:30]
Communication Aids for Language and Learning Centre, University of Edinburgh
White Papers As a department within the University of Edinburgh, the Communication Aids for Language and Learning Centre (CALL) provides specialist expertise in technology for children who have speech, communication, and/or writing difficulties.
[May 31, 2009, 22:10]
Green supercomputer unveiled in Edinburgh
News A supercomputer 10 times more energy efficient and up to 300 times faster than its traditional equivalents has been unveiled in Edinburgh. Called Maxwell, the computer has been built at the University of Edinburgh and uses field programmable gate...
[March 21, 2007, 9:22]
Mobile phones let Scottish drivers pay and display
News Drivers wanting to park at one of central Edinburgh's pay-and-display (P&D) car parks can now use their mobile phones to pay the fee. Edinburgh City Council expects the mPARK phone pay system to reduce the number of people that do not buy tickets...
[November 18, 2003, 11:40]
Thursday
Blog One of the casualties of the Great Fire of Edinburgh last weekend was the Edinburgh University School of Informatics, which has a well-deserved reputation as being one of the hotbeds -- sorry -- of artificial intelligence research.
[December 13, 2002, 16:39]
Parallel computing and serial stupidity
Blog Just back from the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC), where I had a most interesting conversation with some of the people behind the Maxwell experimental high performance computer. Meanwhile, the trip back from Edinburgh to London via GNER...
[May 1, 2007, 1:59]
Free Wi-Fi goes beyond the Fringe
News People visiting the Edinburgh Fringe festival this year to sample the latest theatrical, musical and comedy performances are being offered an added bonus -- free wireless Internet access. Semiconductor maker Intel has set up a stand at Princes...
[August 13, 2003, 13:15]
University Uses Hosted Filtering Solution to Reduce Spam by 85 Percent
White Papers Edinburgh Napier University wanted to improve its system of filtering e-mail messages. So Edinburgh Napier signed up to filter e-mail messages through Microsoft Forefront Online Security for Exchange.
[July 27, 2009, 1:20]
IT revamp saves council £5m
News The City of Edinburgh Council has reported savings of £5m in direct IT costs and expects to save £6.4m over five years from a major transformation project The project has involved BT replacing Edinburgh's dated infrastructure with Microsoft-based...
[September 3, 2007, 13:44]
News Burst: Email cheating row hots up
News The email-cheating row, in which 117 undergraduates on the Computer Science course at Edinburgh University were accused of cheating by "collaborating" on course work, hotted up Tuesday when the Edinburgh Student Union Association (ESUA) blamed...
[August 24, 1999, 15:49]
Exam system slammed in email cheat row
News The email cheating row in which 117 undergraduates on Edinburgh University's Computer Science course were accused of cheating in their exams hotted up Tuesday, with the Edinburgh Student Union Association (ESUA) blaming course organisers for the...
[August 25, 1999, 11:12]
UK's fastest supercomputer unveiled
News The largest and most advanced supercomputer in the UK has been unveiled in Edinburgh. The supercomputer is based at the University of Edinburgh's Advanced Computer Facility and will cost £113m over six years.
[January 15, 2008, 8:40]
Data Backup Solution for Web Analytics Specialist
White Papers They wanted to be able to keep their existing infrastructure in Edinburgh and be able to back up to a backup site, where the data would be easy to recover in the event of data loss/corruption. The solution has been secured, using The Bunker's...
[November 4, 2008, 0:01]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog After much fruitless enjoyment in various Edinburgh bookshops, we ended up in Waterstone's -- you're ahead of me now. Certainly not in Edinburgh Waterstone's, which celebrated 2005 by sacking the man -- Joe Gordon -- for blogging vaguely...
[January 14, 2005, 12:30]
Citrix: Business IT must innovate to survive
News Speaking at the Citrix iForum in Edinburgh, Templeton said companies must be prepared to meet the challenges of consolidation, disruption, globalisation, regulation and the arrival in the workplace of the next generation of tech-savvy youngsters...
[June 6, 2007, 8:51]
Creative Focus: Festival's creative guru talks art
News The Edinburgh Festival would play host to the work. ZDNet UK News: Hannah, what exactly are you doing at the Edinburgh Festival? Hannah's animated piece - Angels in motion - is on show at the Edinburgh Festival (9th-31st August) or you could try...
[August 12, 1998, 17:12]
Blogger axed by Waterstone's
News Gordon's blog, which covers everything from the city of Edinburgh to UN scientists in Iraq, also mentions his work in one of the chain's Edinburgh branches. An employee of book chain Waterstone's has been fired for material he included in his blog.
[January 11, 2005, 11:55]
Scotland suffers St Andrew's day hacks
News The seven sites targeted include the historical and cultural destinations www.dunbar-scotland.com and www.edinburgh-tattoo.co.uk as well as a string of commercial sites. A spokesman for one of the defaced sites, www.edinburgh-tattoo.co.uk, which is...
[December 1, 2000, 14:25]
