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Glasgow Trust Migrates To Healthy New Infrastructure
White Papers Thanks to a piecemeal IT implementation strategy, The Greater Glasgow Primary Healthcare Trust was running a mixture of operating systems and solutions. Basic applications, such as email, were unreliable, and prevented the Trust from getting the...
[December 7, 2003, 23:00]
Glasgow And Serco Agree Outsourcing Deal
News Glasgow City Council is teaming up with Serco in a £265m joint venture outsourcing deal to transform IT and property services in the city. George Black, chief executive of the city council, said in a statement: "The partnership will bring real...
[February 20, 2008, 8:39]
Glasgow Enables Mobile Phones On Subway
News Passengers on Glasgow's subway will soon be able to use make phone calls and surf the internet while underground, thanks to a new combined Wi-Fi and cellular network. The communications infrastructure is being built by Arqiva, which won the...
[January 15, 2008, 11:06]
JP Morgan Boosts Glasgow IT Opportunities
News Investment bank JP Morgan is creating 200 new IT jobs at its European software development centre in Glasgow. The Glasgow centre develops complex financial software and technology systems to support JP Morgan's financial services operations around...
[December 1, 2006, 15:00]
Illegal-software Crackdown Targets Glasgow
News A crackdown will be targeted at companies in Glasgow after the city was pinpointed as being a hotspot for illegal software. Glasgow was targeted after the BSA received more reports of counterfeit software within businesses there than any other city...
[February 8, 2008, 8:23]
Glasgow Libraries Ban Internet Access
News Internet access has been banned from all Glasgow libraries after it was discovered that primary school children had been using the computers to download porn. The local council has blocked Internet access from all of its 33 libraries after it was...
[March 5, 2001, 7:26]
SDSL Reaches Glasgow
News Businesses based in Glasgow are being offered the chance to sign up for a broadband service that provides two-way high-speed connectivity. Scotland On Line announced on Thursday that it is launching a 2Mb SDSL (symmetrical digital subscriber line...
[September 26, 2002, 17:00]
Robot Frogs Land Glasgow Man In Court
News A Glasgow man has been fined £150 for disturbing his neighbours with an army of ferocious robot frogs he uses to defend his home. Andrew Cromar, a 39 year-old electrician told The Times that neighbours were upset by his frogs' croakings even though...
[February 9, 2000, 13:56]
New Tool To Protect Children From Net Exploitation
News A new Internet tool developed to aid the fight against child exploitation on the Internet has been unveiled on Thursday by Glasgow University, The Internet platform Net-Enforce, developed by the Centre for Europe's Children at the University of...
[March 22, 2001, 15:47]
Cisco Ditches Scottish Factory Merger
News Cisco has denied claims that its decision not to merge two Glasgow factories into one operation will cost thousands of high-tech jobs, at a time when Scotland's IT sector is still recovering from last year's bloodbath of redundancies.
[January 28, 2002, 17:42]
Unmetered Offering Hits The Scots
News An ISP aimed at the 'wired Scot' is due to launch Wednesday in Glasgow. is Scotland's free ISP based in Glasgow. Jings.com is part of the iomart group, the Scottish telecoms and Internet company behind ISP madasafish.
[October 18, 2000, 8:44]
Near-namesake Web Sites Queried By Scottish Court
News Glasgow businessman Alan Brooks had used the domain name menu.co.uk in a Web-based guide - "One man's Steak is another man's Burger" - to restaurants in Scotland and northern England. Brooks won an injunction from the Glasgow Sheriff Court...
[February 16, 1998, 9:49]
3G Network Operator Announces Jobs Boost
News Six hundred new jobs are to be created in Scotland by Hutchison 3G, which is planning to base a customer care centre in Glasgow. Staff at the Glasgow offices will offer support to users who sign up for the company's third-generation mobile service.
[November 14, 2001, 16:23]
EBusiness Club Takes E-commerce Training To The Streets
News The government's drive to encourage small and medium-sized enterprises to fully embrace the power of the Internet took a step forward on Tuesday with the opening of the UK's first eBusiness Club in Glasgow.
[February 12, 2002, 14:49]
Future Of Notebook Batteries: Lithium Polymer?
News Notebook makers are "likely" to soon choose to incorporate lithium polymer batteries over the current commonly used type, lithium ion batteries, Sony Electronics president Stan Glasgow said during a meeting with reporters on Wednesday.
[December 8, 2006, 8:15]
BT's Free Flights Offer Hits Turbulence
Talkback free flighs yeah pigs might fly just got a voucher for free flights to new york and 2 nights accomodation through a reputable insurace company i took insurance out with.got a call today from rise travel to discuss arangements.i was told that...
[June 6, 2005, 18:34]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog However, Goodwins Minor celebrated his first Scottish Hogmanay by contracting some devilish disorder, and got booked into Glasgow Southern General for a week or so. But as we sat there, contemplating mortality and the cost of Glasgow taxis, the...
[January 14, 2005, 12:30]
Dell To Ramp Up Scottish Operations
News In May 2005, "we started moving some people to Glasgow," Claman told ZDNet UK. We moved a lot of technical support into Glasgow for our commercial business, and we moved a lot of salespeople into Glasgow and hired a lot in Glasgow.
[June 19, 2006, 14:25]
Must Read: ZDNet Readers On BT
News Told it was not available from my Glasgow exchange, despite Glasgow being one of the cities included in the initial service area. When BT finally started rolling out ADSL this autumn we asked our readers to send in their comments.
[November 24, 2000, 7:00]
Charity Funds IT Training For Disadvantaged Groups
News McCrorie became involved in the Switched On Communities scheme after being introduced to Momentum, a local disability charity, by a member of the Glasgow Disability Alliance. One person that has already gained from the initiative is Marlene...
[February 29, 2008, 13:29]
