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Police to trial integrated authentication
News West Midlands Police is to trial an identity authentication system that will allow both physical and digital access to police systems, with the projected replacement of warrant cards with chip-and-pin smart-cards.
[September 25, 2006, 9:35]
WiMax trials reach Stratford-upon-Avon
News Another area of the UK is set to get a taste of WiMax this year - the Midlands will be the next region to trial the long-range wireless broadband technology, it has emerged. The Midlands rollout will create the second WiMax network in England.
[August 25, 2005, 16:35]
Police post 10 most wanted mugshots on Web
News The West Midlands Police force has published on the Internet the names and mugshots of 10 of its "most wanted" suspects, part of Operation Safer Streets a campaign against street crime. Superintendent Paul Diehl, chief inspector of the West...
[September 4, 2000, 12:34]
Funding boost for new technology firms
News Small technology companies and individuals based in the East Midlands could benefit from a new project that aims to help them win financial backing from venture capitalists. InvoRed has been developed by Connect Midlands, whose objective is to...
[June 3, 2003, 14:59]
IPCC probes police memory-stick loss
News The Independent Police Complaints Commission has launched an inquiry into the loss of a memory stick from West Midlands Police. West Midlands Police would not comment on press reports that the stick contained information on terror suspects.
[September 17, 2008, 10:32]
BT extends budget business broadband
News BT is to significantly expand the reach of its SDSL (symmetric digital subscriber line) broadband network in London and the West Midlands beginning in early January, the telco said on Thursday, giving more small businesses a cheaper alternative to...
[December 4, 2003, 14:10]
Massive theft of mobiles and Xboxes sparks hunt
News West Midlands Police said that a Scania lorry containing 7,000 Nokia handsets, and over 1,000 Xboxes, went missing at around 6:30 a.m.on Tuesday after being parked outside a Carphone Warehouse store. The West Midlands Police can be contacted on...
[August 12, 2003, 17:05]
Calculator Looking Number Generator from the Bank
Blog Comment Hi Chris, I understand your concerns, having had my bank card swiped on one occasion and used for a bit of a shopping spree at Asda and B&Q in the Midlands. On that occasion I think it was just before chip and PIN came in, and I was somewhat...
[April 4, 2008, 11:25]
Net paedophile investigation breaks new ground
News Detective inspector Darren Brookes at the West Midlands paedophile unit used covert tactics to investigate a public complaint about an Internet paedophile. The team at West Midlands paedophile unit used inchoate offences (which include criminal...
[January 22, 2002, 10:33]
Courts service gets information-exchange network
News According to HM Court Service's annual report for 2008-09, the Criminal Justice System's Exchange Links deployment programme had been completed in all but three areas — Gloucestershire, Greater Manchester and West Midlands — by the end of March.
[July 23, 2009, 17:07]
Government funds sat-nav integration project
News The funding is coming from the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) and the East Midlands Development Agency (EMDA). The East Midlands has a strong portfolio of organisations closely related to GNSS and telematics," said...
[April 3, 2008, 17:04]
London Midland rail to get mobile ticketing
News He said 20 percent of tickets would be on smartcard technology for the franchise, which runs lines to Birmingham, Liverpool and London throughout the West Midlands, by 2012. It combines the existing Silverlink franchise with some of the Central...
[August 3, 2007, 9:04]
First exchange unbundled ahead of BT
News The local exchange in question is at Dimsdale, in the West Midlands. Easynet has installed its ADSL equipment in the exchange as part of a deal with the Advantage West Midlands development agency, which has subsidised the cost of the upgrade.
[December 8, 2003, 17:20]
Photos: Centre launched to promote open source
News The NOC is seeking further funding, and is currently seeking an award from Advantage West Midlands, a regional development agency. The concept of the NOC was originally touted in October, when the National Computing Centre outlined its plans to...
[February 27, 2007, 12:43]
Survey benchmarks UK earnings for tech workers
News The fourth- and fifth-best regions are the West Midlands (£78,500) and the north-west (£71,600). London is not necessarily the best place to be a CIO who charges by the hour: average contract rates in the capital are £57 per hour, but rates are...
[August 3, 2009, 9:16]
DTI to give SMEs help online
News It will build upon lessons that the OGC and SBS learned from the SME procurement pilots in the West Midlands and Haringey. Chief secretary to the Treasury Paul Boateng said: "I am delighted that the potential advantages identified by the West...
[January 11, 2005, 14:50]
BT reviews security following exchange break-in
News However, a different version of events was issued by West Midlands Police over the weekend. According to a spokesperson for the West Midlands Police, "cables to a BT exchange at the rear of the [post office] premises were cut" and it was still "too...
[October 30, 2006, 13:03]
NHS to email x-rays to doctors
News Accenture with GE (subject to contract) for the East and East Midlands cluster CSC with Kodak and ComMedica for the North West and West Midlands The days of holding an x-ray up to a light may be over, says the NHS IT programme
[May 11, 2004, 11:00]
BT fibre broadband coming to 69 more towns
News East Midlands: Glossop and Hinckley West Midlands: Birmingham, Fallings Park, Great Barr, Leamore West, Nuneaton, Tettenhall, Wednesbury and Walsall BT revealed on Wednesday the towns and cities that will get high-speed fibre broadband in the...
[July 9, 2009, 18:20]
Europe won't back down on Vista
News Innovation from companies such as Microsoft drives job creation in the East Midlands, and so we are keen to track these developments to ensure that users throughout the region can benefit from new IT developments," Heaton-Harris, who represents...
[October 16, 2006, 17:20]
