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Wi-Fi: Preston To Become The Paris Of The North?
News Preston in Lancashire is to create a city-wide Wi-Fi network that will allow its 200,000 residents to experience the benefits of high-speed wireless Internet connections via PCs and PDAs. The Preston scheme, which will blanket most of the city in...
[August 10, 2004, 12:40]
Win A Slice Of The Moon Online
News If you're thinking of planning any exotic holidays in the future, you could do worse than entering BBC Lancashire's moon competition, featured on its Web site. To enter the BBC's competition, go to www.bbc.co.uk/lancashire/competition/index.shtml.
[April 4, 2001, 15:20]
Time Computers Back In Business
News According to the Lancashire Evening Telegraph, the new company, which is backed by two of the original founders of Time Computers, Dr Tariq Mohammed and Tahir Mohsan, plans to produce PCs and large screen televisions in what was the Time...
[January 23, 2006, 16:05]
North-south Divide Comes To Cyberspace
News For example in Lancashire, Northern Ireland and the Midlands, that figure drops to 35 percent. Figures for Yorkshire and Lancashire for example, showed home Net access to be as low as 6 percent. Research this week suggests the north is still in the...
[August 20, 1999, 9:37]
RIM And Airwave Vie To Cut Police Paperwork
News Police in Lancashire are already using voice-recording technology to replace the use of carbon paper in stop and account procedures, and Flanagan is keen for this approach to become more widespread. The technology provider in Lancashire is Airwave...
[February 20, 2008, 10:27]
UK College Maintains Leading Position As Centre Of Educational Excellence With Dell Client Hardware And Services Implementation
White Papers Runshaw College in Lancashire needed to implement reliable new hardware to support its updated systems infrastructure so that it could continue to attract new staff and students. The new products needed to be deployed across the college's three...
[October 6, 2005, 0:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Sunday's silliness is obviously still in the air, as BBC Lancashire is offering an acre of the moon's surface in some sort of competition frippery. Wednesday 04/04/2001 Flyyyy me to the moooon-ah.oh, 'scuse me.
[April 8, 2001, 22:20]
Broadband Supremo Calls For Grass-roots Revolution
Talkback We live in a small rural village in Lancashire, that was missed by the various cable companies (although all of the surrounding areas are 'cabled'! I would just like to respond to Keith Todd's comments.with a BIG agreement!
[August 4, 2003, 15:46]
Argos Implements 'Track-and-Trace' Supply Chain Solution
White Papers The system uses a combination of RFID and barcode technologies to identify assets within the Argos supply chain between its distribution centers in the UK counties of Yorkshire and Lancashire, and the retail stores that they serve.
[May 10, 2006, 0:00]
MP Demands Inquiry Into Time Computers Collapse
News A Lancashire Conservative MP has called for a Government inquiry into the collapse of Granville Technology Group, the owners of Time and Tiny Computers. Nigel Evans, MP for the Ribble Valley, urged the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to...
[August 4, 2005, 13:05]
North Promised Broadband Cable Network
Talkback I read through the story about cable services in the north, I can say that NTL does provide cable services in Blackburn (lancashire) which is the north west,but preston,blackpool and parts of manchester comes under Telewest.
[July 27, 2003, 22:11]
Thong-wearing Squash Player Scores On Google
News The number of search requests for the player -- known as the "Lancashire hot bot" -- soared in the week of 2 July compared to the week before. Google has been inundated by users who want to learn more about Vicky Botwright, the UK squash player...
[July 9, 2001, 16:28]
Digital Emergency Radio Network Raises Health Fears
News The"Airwave" system -- which will be rolled out by BT -- is due to go live in 2005 and is already being tested by the Lancashire Police Constabulary. Government officials are reported to be concerned that a new radio network for Britain's...
[July 13, 2001, 12:10]
Copycat Phisher Arrested For Smile Attacks
News Officers from the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit arrested the man, from Lytham St Anne's in Lancashire, after Smile, the Internet bank operated by The Co-operative Bank, reported the scam to the NTHCU in March.
[April 29, 2004, 12:30]
Time To Start Selling Computers Again
News All the products sold on the site will be assembled at the original site of Time Computers, the Time Technology Park at Simonstone near Burnley in Lancashire, by a new company, Time UK Factory. TimeUK.com, a company that has taken over the business...
[February 28, 2006, 14:20]
Medics Lash Out At NHS IT
News Across Cumbria and Lancashire the number was 288, while in Essex doctors made 374 bookings through the system, according to the BMA. The British Medical Association (BMA) has thrown the spotlight on the latest low take-up figures for the Choose and...
[February 17, 2006, 15:20]
The Bobby Goes Digital
News A pilot scheme of the service has begun with the Lancashire Police force. The government on Wednesday announced the launch of a £2.5bn national digital radio service for the British bobby. The Public Safety Radio Communications Project -- to be...
[March 8, 2000, 15:09]
Time Collapse Support Site Forced Offline
Talkback He decided to see if there was a market for selling PCs by mail order, advertising one for sale in the Lancashire Evening Telegraph. Now let me guesss. However Lord Ashdown is no longer a Director of the company
[August 2, 2005, 10:24]
Tiny PC Owners Hit By Warranty Row
News Julian Edward, senior fair trading officer at the Lancashire Trading Standards office, would like the credit card firms to work together to find a company -- possibly another PC manufacturer like Dell -- prepared to take on the warranties.
[March 27, 2002, 15:02]
Friday: A Sticky Wicket
Blog Riven by guilt, the aforementioned reporter and would-be Boycott (well, he's from Lancashire. Friday 4/7/2003The ZDNet UK office is mad about sport. Man, woman, manager: the lot of 'em. Except me. With the solitary exception of croquet, there's...
[July 4, 2003, 17:33]
