Muni Wi-Fi - can we build it?
Blog The content delivery firm, which was central to recent trials of municipal Wi-Fi in Exeter, now has £10.5m in equity funding plus a £6.4m loan from an unspecified "major technology partner". One of its main backers is the "defence" firm QinetiQ...
[September 17, 2007, 16:46]
New NPfIT minister announced
News MP for Exeter, Bradshaw joined the DoH in the government's recent reshuffle. Trained as a journalist, Bradshaw worked on the Express & Echo in Exeter before spending three years at BBC Radio Devon. Ben Bradshaw MP's new role as minister of state...
[July 23, 2007, 12:04]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog So what to make of a recent report from a large semiconductor maker that Exeter is the UK's most wirelessly wired city? But Exeter.really! It's the Watford of the South West -- you have to pass through it on the way to anywhere interesting, and...
[November 14, 2003, 15:15]
A Learned Support Operation
White Papers Staying at the cutting edge of information technology is vital for a successful educational institution such as the University of Exeter. With the helpdesk looking after the needs of 17,000 end-users, the time was recently deemed right to take an...
[March 14, 2006, 23:00]
Open source could save NHS
News Exeter-based general practitioner (GP) Adrian Midgley, whose practice uses open source software, says that the most significant benefit of open source software could be adaptability. Ten general practises in Exeter have in recent months moved to...
[October 30, 2000, 13:31]
UK teen escapes jail for nuclear hacking
News A University of Exeter student who hacked into US Department of Energy computers responsible for US energy supplies and for the integrity and safety of US nuclear weapons has been sentenced to 200 hours community service at Southwark Crown Court.
[February 3, 2004, 9:40]
Photos: Met Office powers ahead
News But from its new offices in Exeter, the Met Office confidently predicts that it is ready for most things, including predicting the odd bout of stormy weather. As rain pours down over Britain, you could be forgiven for thinking that the Met Office...
[July 2, 2007, 16:22]
E-learning project hooks school kids up to the stars
News The eScience Telescopes for Astronomical Research (eStar) project is a collaboration between three English universities: University of Exeter, University of Liverpool and John Moores University. Australia is set to play a role in the education of...
[May 17, 2002, 8:54]
Judge fines mobile user £10 for contempt of court
News Linda Osborne, a 37-year-old woman, was waiting for her son to appear in the dock at Exeter magistrates court when her mobile went off in an area dotted with notices warning that mobile phones were not allowed.
[December 21, 2000, 10:30]
Internet date girl still missing
News Police fear the teenager is with 20-year-old Robert Percy, a supermarket worker from Exeter, who she met online last October. Police are increasingly fearful for safety of Net girl Police are continuing their search for a 16-year-old schoolgirl who...
[May 4, 2001, 16:08]
Trojan horse found responsible for child porn
News He then spent a night in a police cell, nine days in Exeter prison and three months in a bail hostel. A man accused of storing child pornography on his computer has been cleared after it emerged that his computer had been infected by a Trojan horse...
[August 1, 2003, 15:40]
Friday
Blog Thanks to the wonder of Webbery -- and the recent electrification projects west of Exeter -- this then got back to the chap in question. Friday 20/09/2002 You may remember that I mentioned Victorian physicist and lost hero of radio Oliver Heaviside...
[September 20, 2002, 17:59]
Byte blasts out Dixons warning with 46 outlets
News The new concessions span the country from Exeter to Glasgow. Byte last Saturday blasted out a warning to Dixons and its PC World superstores by opening 46 concessions formerly occupied by Escom in Office World stores.
[October 9, 1996, 14:29]
Byte gets teeth into old Escom Office World concessions
News The concessions give us presence in many towns and cities such as Exeter that we couldn't consider for the superstores," said Keith Woodford, business development director of Byte. Byte Computer Superstores is taking over 42 franchises in Office...
[July 30, 1996, 16:46]
Met Office supercomputer not as forecast
Blog OK, well, let's try the Met Office down in Exeter. You may have noticed a lot of coverage today in the mainstream media (or MSM, as we post-print pundits say) about the Met Office's brand-new IBM supercomputer.
[May 22, 2009, 11:51]
South West England to power up business broadband
News Surf currently has 20 points of presence in sub-stations, having recently added Exeter, Plymouth, Land's End, Newport, Cardiff and Swansea to Neos' national network. Surf Telecoms, the telecoms division of utility company Western Power Distribution...
[October 31, 2002, 9:40]
BT glitch halts faster broadband
News Eclipse Internet, an Exeter-based ISP that resells BT's ADSL range, is hoping the problem will be resolved in the next few days. Thousands of UK broadband users have been hit by a software problem with BT's back-end systems that prevented them from...
[September 10, 2004, 14:25]
Wardriving sparks wireless treasure hunt
News In other Wi-Fi news, Intel has attracted a certain degree of opprobrium after declaring on Thursday that Exeter is the Wi-Fi capital of the UK. A group of wireless networking enthusiasts are gearing up to hold a Wi-Fi treasure hunt.
[November 14, 2003, 15:30]
Broadband campaign site Eclipses rivals
News Even though the site only officially launched on Thursday, a number of individuals and organisations have already signed up as sponsors, including Exeter City Council. Eclipse Internet has launched an online broadband campaign site that allows...
[January 30, 2003, 16:41]
Local authorities failing on e-accessibility
News Barking & Dagenham, Birmingham City, Brent, Chester City, Devon CC, East Ayrshire, Exeter City, Kensington & Chelsea, Kirklees MBC, Salford City, Shrewsbury & Atcham BC, South Tyneside MBC, Staffordshire Moorlands DC, Stroud DC, Surrey CC, Surrey...
[March 2, 2005, 13:10]
