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Mayor Claims London's E-commerce Lead Under Threat
News Mayor of London Ken Livingstone has urged the government to act immediately if it doesn't want to see London lose its position as world leader for e-commerce. The report -- authored by the mayor's new e-business adviser Colin Jenkins -- predicts...
[April 10, 2001, 15:33]
Rupert Goodwins' IDF Diary
Blog At length, Vice-Mayor reaches his conclusion, and stops. Our first WiMax dignitary is a vice-mayor of Chengdu in China, who faces the camera with determination. Vice-mayor blinks, slowly. Tuesday 23/08/2005 - Part III
[August 30, 2005, 13:55]
LiMux Project Moving Again
News Munich's mayor has decided to push ahead with the LiMux project -- which will see 14,000 desktops migrate from Windows to Linux -- after it was suspended last week due to legal fears. Munich's mayor, Christian Ude, had frozen the planned call for...
[August 13, 2004, 16:00]
Livingstone And Dobson Slug It Out...virtually
News Anyone bored with watching the main candidates for London mayor discuss issues in an orderly fashion, can now turn to the high tech world for some light relief. It is certainly an irreverent look at the race for London mayor showing Frank Dobson...
[April 28, 2000, 16:47]
London's Livingstone Looks To Linux
News London Mayor Ken Livingstone has ordered a report into the benefits and pitfalls of open-source software, as part of an attempt to close the UK capital's digital divide. As a further means of making the Internet more easily affordable, the Mayor...
[January 30, 2004, 16:20]
London Council Ditches Linux Plans
Talkback From Newham council web site http://apps.newham.gov.uk/democracy/mayor/Myviewoct.htm Newhams mayor visited the US recently.with friends.someone else picked up all expenses. Sounds dodgy. Looks like money changed hands after all.
[January 13, 2004, 13:11]
A Year Ago: Livingstone And Dobson Slug It Out... Virtually
News Anyone bored with watching the main candidates for London mayor discuss issues in an orderly fashion, can now turn to the high tech world for some light relief. It is certainly an irreverent look at the race for London mayor showing Frank Dobson...
[April 28, 2001, 6:09]
Linux Champion Munich Welcomes Patent Delay
News The mayor of German city Munich has welcomed the EU Council's failure to ratify a directive that could allow the widespread patenting of software in Europe, as the city had been concerned that software patents could scupper its plans to migrate to...
[December 22, 2004, 16:10]
Munich Embraces Linux At Last
News The local government in the German city has transferred 100 users in the Lord Mayor's department to a Debian configuration, and it intends to migrate 80 percent of its PCs by mid-2009. Microsoft had fought hard to retain the government's business...
[September 25, 2006, 17:30]
IBM Gets $100,000 Fine For 'Peace, Love And Linux' Campaign
News When affirmed by the city's Board of Supervisors and signed by Mayor Willie Brown, the deal will end a nine-month saga between Big Blue and the Bay Area over the simple stencil of a peace symbol, a heart and a penguin, the official Linux mascot.
[November 28, 2001, 9:25]
Munich Deal Boosts Desktop Linux
News Microsoft had fought hard to retain the business, offering deals and discounts, with chief executive Steve Ballmer interrupting a ski holiday in Switzerland to pay a personal visit to Munich's mayor about the issue, the city said.
[May 29, 2003, 8:14]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback By contrsat, the mayor of New York today is actually a Jewish (Mayor Bloomberg) After all most of the hotel workers are black themselves, plus the mayor of New York himsef was once a black man (mayor Dinkins), something that can never happen in...
[January 31, 2004, 16:03]
Wiring London's Flagship
News Because the new building is none other than City Hall, the office of the Greater London Authority (GLA), the elected body headed by the first elected Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone. The Mayor and assembly had to start work immediately, even...
[November 25, 2002, 11:04]
Munich Linux Migration Delayed By 'PR Stunt'
News Mueller, along with a few others, came up with the idea of the Green Party drafting written questions to the mayor of Munich, to ask about software patents and their impact on the Munich's Linux migration project, known as LiMux.
[March 29, 2006, 11:05]
Hijackers Lay Traps For Errant Emails
News Some people trying to reach the mayor of New York are getting a different reply. Now, half of the 30 email messages that the group, RtMark, receives each day at this and another look-alike Giuliani site are intended for the mayor, says the group's...
[November 9, 1999, 9:13]
A Year Ago: Hijackers Lay Traps For Errant Emails
News In July, a free-spirited group that lampoons companies and public officials picked up one address it says the mayor let go: YesRudy.com. Some people trying to reach the mayor of New York are getting a different reply.
[November 9, 2000, 6:01]
City Turns Away From Office
News That's really what's driving this -- our mayor (Lee P. Brown) is going to be the first mayor on the planet to really bridge the digital divide in a major city," Lewis said. SimDesk offers a package of more than two dozen applications covering basic...
[January 27, 2003, 8:14]
Houston: We Have A Problem With Office
News Our mayor (Lee P. Brown) is going to be the first mayor on the planet to really bridge the digital divide in a major city," Lewis said. For now, though, it is starting with 1000 users. SimDesk offers a package of more than two dozen applications...
[January 24, 2003, 14:50]
Munich's Linux Migration 'on Track'
Blog Munich's much-scrutinised migration to Linux is going well, according to the city's mayor. Christine Strobel told Heise Online that eighty percent of desktops will have moved from Windows to Linux by 2008.
[October 31, 2006, 7:52]
Secretaria Distrital De Planeacion Centralizes Information And Improves Public Policy Planning
White Papers Secretaria Distrital de Planeacion is part of one of the 12 divisions of the Bogota mayor's office. Secretaria Distrital de Planeacion wanted to implement a flexible, scalable IT infrastructure for better long-term public policy planning and...
[May 7, 2008, 0:00]
