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Local authorities failing on e-accessibility
News Local authorities may not meet the government's "priority" targets for online services, according to an annual survey issued by the Society of IT Management (Socitm). Socitm's Better Connected 2005 report into local authority Web sites says that...
[March 2, 2005, 13:10]
Local Radio Finder
Downloads Local Radio Finder uses a database of US radio stations and iPhone location services to provide the list of radio stations. Local Radio Finder features Offline access, perfect for a road trip where you are in the middle of nowhere and don't...
[June 27, 2009, 7:13]
Local Government Authority Saves £55,000 Through Efficiencies With Business Management Solution
White Papers Macclesfield Borough Council, a United Kingdom (U.K.based local government authority, had trouble satisfying government targets on the use of Information Technology (IT) while using its legacy mainframe-based financial management system.
[February 9, 2008, 0:17]
Local Authority Improves ICT Services for Schools, Boosting Classroom Innovation
White Papers Warwickshire Local Authority sought to improve its managed ICT service for schools by streamlining application delivery and improving security for remote access to school networks. Now, IT technicians are freed up to focus on delivering better...
[March 1, 2008, 0:02]
Local gov't online services help save planet
News A report for Communities and Local Government shows that online council services can contribute to big cuts in CO2 emissions. People who use the internet to contact their local authority, instead of writing or driving to council offices, could help...
[January 18, 2008, 9:20]
Local Temperature Control in Data Center Cooling: Part III, Application
White Papers Recent work has proposed a control algorithm to optimize local temperature distribution in data centers, based on the information of the correlation matrix between vent group configuration and rack inlet temperature.
[June 7, 2006, 1:00]
Local loop unbundling 'farcical' say MPs
News The damning criticism comes from the Trade and Industry select committee set up last December to investigate local loop unbundling, the process by which other operators install equipment in BT's exchanges in order to roll out high-speed Internet...
[March 21, 2001, 13:34]
Local loop bid set to resurface
News BT will be presented with a firm offer for the local loop part of its fixed network by November, according to reports on Monday. The group, which is backed by several US financial institutions, believes that BT would welcome the chance to escape...
[September 24, 2001, 15:18]
Local govt IT managers urged to take responsibility
News Britain's local government IT specialists have been urged to equip themselves for a bigger corporate role in the years ahead. The call has come from Sir Michael Bichard, who headed the recent inquiry into the information-sharing failures in the...
[October 13, 2004, 14:30]
Local Update-Based Routing Protocol in Wireless Sensor Networks With Mobile Sinks
White Papers This paper proposes a "Local Update-based Routing Protocol (LURP)" to help resolve this problem. When the sink node moves, it only needs to broadcast its location information within a local area rather than among the entire network.
[August 17, 2007, 10:36]
Local authorities slam Action 2000's naming 'n shaming
News While the government refuses to name and shame the 8 major financial institutions falling behind in bug-fix plans, Action 2000 is showing no mercy when it comes to local authorities which fall into its red category -- ie.at severe risk of...
[July 12, 1999, 15:40]
Local elections to pilot mobile and Internet voting
News Thirty local councils will be piloting new voting technology at local and mayoral elections in May. Voters in Liverpool and Sheffield will be the first to trial text message and digital TV voting in this year's local elections.
[February 7, 2002, 15:45]
Local Loop - Oftel disappoints
News Telecoms watchdog Oftel will hold a press conference at 11am this morning to explain its decision not to have British Telecom unbundle the local loop before the July 2001 deadline set following an earlier consultation.
[November 30, 1999, 9:06]
A Year Ago: Local authorities slam Action 2000's naming 'n shaming
News While the government refuses to name and shame the 8 major financial institutions falling behind in bug-fix plans, Action 2000 is showing no mercy when it comes to local authorities which fall into its red category -- ie.at severe risk of...
[July 13, 2000, 8:00]
Local councils hit first e-government deadline
News Nine out of ten English councils have submitted strategies for getting their services online in time for the 31 July deadline, the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions (DTLR) has confirmed.
[August 7, 2001, 8:30]
Local gov't CIOs to shape national IT policy
News Local government chief information officers are being invited to join a UK-wide body that will help shape national IT policy. The Local Government CIO Council met for the first time on 1 April after being set up by local government IT group the...
[April 3, 2008, 8:57]
Local Googlement
Blog Google has launched an interesting marketing exercise aimed directly at local government in the UK. There's nothing wrong with this: Google exists to make a profit, and local government needs to publicise its activities on many occasions, as well...
[August 12, 2009, 16:27]
Local councils fear e-government failure
News Many local councils fear that they will fail to achieve the goal of putting all their public services online by 2005, according to a report to be published on Thursday. Research group Datamonitor has found that 36 percent of local authorities fear...
[July 3, 2003, 7:54]
Local authorities keen on open source
News Cost, security and dissatisfaction with Microsoft will drive almost two-thirds of local authorities to increase their use of open source software over the next three years, according to new research. The survey of 99 local authorities by local...
[May 10, 2005, 15:50]
Local loop unbundling still stumbling along
News BT has failed to meet its previous commitments on local loop unbundling, but is blaming lack of interest from rival operators Allowing other operators access to the "local loop" -- the part of the network between individual houses and the local...
[July 27, 2001, 14:31]
