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Met Office unveils weather web widgets
News The UK's Met Office has launched a range of web widgets allowing people to get the latest weather forecasts and storm warnings on their desktop. The mini-applications are free to download from the Met Office website and include localised weather...
[November 23, 2007, 10:44]
Met Office hails supercomputing success
News On a global basis, the Met Office has achieved a 6 percent reduction in the error rate. The supercomputer provided a six-fold increase in processing capacity compared with the old model, and enabled the Met Office to use models with a finer...
[April 27, 2005, 17:40]
Met Office buys IBM petaflop supercomputer
News The Met Office is buying a supercomputer from IBM which is expected to operate at close to a petaflop by 2011. By 2011, the Met Office supercomputer is expected to operate at speeds approaching one quadrillion floating point operations per second...
[August 5, 2008, 12:19]
Photos: Met Office powers ahead
News As rain pours down over Britain, you could be forgiven for thinking that the Met Office has no idea what is going to fall on us next. But from its new offices in Exeter, the Met Office confidently predicts that it is ready for most things...
[July 2, 2007, 16:22]
Met Office: Home working will help save the planet
News Both the Met Office and the Department for the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs have advised businesses to encourage home working, saying this brings ecological as well as economic benefits. Speaking at the Workwise UK Conference in London on...
[May 23, 2008, 10:45]
Met Office supercomputer not as forecast
Blog 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. We certainly did, and got slightly grumpy about it: we had had no press releases, no...
[May 22, 2009, 11:51]
Met Office tests £27.5m supercomputer upgrade
News The Met Office has completed a £27.5m project that aims to improve the accuracy of severe weather warning forecasts by doubling the power of its supercomputers. The new supercomputer has the performance of around 8,000 home PCs, with a theoretical...
[April 13, 2005, 16:35]
Met Office forecasts SOA pay-off
News Whether it is hail, thunder, rain or fine weather, tracking it and reporting on it are the meat and drink of staff at the Met Office. Q: How is the Met Office set up? The board also has representatives from stakeholders who have an interest, such...
[July 17, 2007, 17:58]
The Met Office Expands Its Horizons With the BMC Remedy IT Service Management Suite
White Papers The Met Office recognized the need to move to a consolidated incident management system and turned to BMC Software for ITIL-compatible solutions for IT service management. At the onset, Met Office was only looking to implement new help desk and...
[January 19, 2007, 0:00]
Met Office hails supercomputing success
Talkback This story is meaningless without telling us what the error rate actually is. Sorry to rain on your parade.
[April 27, 2005, 18:26]
Met Office supercomputer not as forecast
Blog Comment What a nice Saturday morning read Rupert. Hailing from North Somerset as I do, I can confirm that novelty vegetables and baby animals do feature heavily on the Western spiral arm of the country's new agenda.
[May 23, 2009, 8:58]
Widget/plugin required for insertion on SwanseaCanalSociety.com
Talkback Hi, I've used the Met Office site for some time now. And am aware of the 'browser based' widgets gadgets however, I'm serarching for a Met Office Website plugin/Widget so to show the local weather directly on our www.SwanseaCanalSociety.com...
[July 15, 2009, 11:37]
Widget/plugin required for insertion on SwanseaCanalSociety.com
Talkback Hi, I've used the Met Office site for some time now. And am aware of the 'browser based' widgets gadgets however, I'm serarching for a Met Office Website plugin/Widget so to show the local weather directly on our www.SwanseaCanalSociety.com...
[July 15, 2009, 14:03]
Floating computers fight climate change
News The Met Office is taking part in a global programme to monitor the world's oceans to improve understanding of how they influence climate change. The Met Office manages the UK part of the programme and has deployed around 230 Argo floats to date.
[November 23, 2007, 14:29]
Linux protestors fail to win rebate of 'Microsoft tax'
News Those hoping to get money back for their unused operating systems during Windows Refund Day were met with locked elevators at the office of Microsoft in Foster City, California. Twenty people looking for a refund -- along with nearly 100 supporters...
[February 16, 1999, 8:34]
Rape victim's father demands paedophile crackdown
News Home secretary Jack Straw and Home Office ministers Clarke and Lord Bassam had met Wednesday morning to discuss a paper submitted to the Home Office by Childnet International in which it recommended criminalising online grooming.
[March 1, 2001, 13:05]
Government claims paedophile laws do not need updating
News The Home Office claims the 40-year-old Indecency with Children Act -- made law in 1960 -- is sufficient to deal with paedophiles operating on the Internet. Nigel Williams, director of children's charity Childnet International, is unconvinced by the...
[November 1, 2000, 6:06]
EBay's PayPal bid under scrutiny
News The latest subpoenas regarding online gambling were issued at the request of the US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Missouri, PayPal said in its quarterly report, filed on Tuesday. PayPal "intends to cooperate fully with the United...
[August 9, 2002, 14:49]
E-love, how about it?
News One in ten office workers has used a fax to ask someone out on a date, and a cowardly two percent have even dumped a former partner via fax. E-mail remains the medium of choice for many office workers intent on finding romance.
[February 12, 1999, 15:56]
MPs take McKinnon fight to US ambassador
News The Home Office added that previous home secretary Jacqui Smith had sought and received assurances from the US that McKinnon's health and welfare needs would be met if he were imprisoned there. On Thursday, the Home Office maintained that it would...
[September 10, 2009, 16:16]
