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Demon boss survives Paddington rail crash
News Goodall had a miraculous escape from the front carriage of the InterCity 125 travelling from Cheltenham to London Paddington on Tuesday.
[October 7, 1999, 9:39]
Rupert Goodwins' Bacchanalian Diary
Blog Bear fans the world over are not sure what to make of Raddington -- a Paddington-like plush toy for the 21st century. Not that it's anything like Paddington. Monday 17/12/01 Said ursine has given up the marmalade sandwiches and cold stares for...
[December 21, 2001, 15:45]
Guy Kewney's Diary
News Instead of being at Sandown Park by 9.30, I'm actually in Paddington, dreading the journey through South-West London, because Hammersmith Bridge, the obvious route, is closed. In the end, I have a trouble free trip from Paddington, and get to our...
[July 26, 1997, 8:00]
MI5 laptop containing top secret data stolen
News An MI5 agent has admitted losing a laptop notebook containing sensitive government information at Paddington train station earlier this month. Security has been stepped up at MI5 following the theft, which has caused extreme embarrassment for the...
[March 24, 2000, 8:56]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News On a trip to see Cisco, I pass through the eternal building site that once was Paddington Station. Monday, 22/02/1999 In a rare burst of Maoist self-criticism, Steve Ballmer -- Bill Gates' sidekick -- says that Microsoft has got problems.
[February 26, 1999, 16:24]
McAfee gives content filter a hardware boost
News There's no change in functionality, just a change in hardware," said Mick Paddington, senior marketing manager for McAfee. Paddington added that the increasing level of spam was causing customers to demand more powerful appliances: "As you know...
[October 19, 2004, 15:30]
Wi-Fi to arrive at UK's railway stations
News It follows a trial at Paddington station, in which Megabeam worked with Intel to build and test a Wi-Fi hot spot based on 802.11b. The 15 stations involved in the trial are Waterloo, Kings Cross, Euston, Paddington, Victoria, London Bridge...
[July 16, 2002, 10:35]
Another spy loses another classified laptop
News A few days after a MI5 agent admitted losing an agency owned notebook at Paddington station, it has emerged that his counterpart at MI6 had the same misfortune earlier this month. A second British spy has mislaid a laptop computer containing...
[March 28, 2000, 10:56]
Remote waiting
Blog On the way back to London, I had my first taste of Remote Waiting - the 21:46 wasn't, particularly by the time it arrived crawling at 5mph into Paddington station. I took a trip to my old stomping grounds of Bristol, over in the Mild, Mild West...
[July 23, 2008, 14:52]
Lack of 3G access hampers usability
Member Review I've just travelled from Paddington to Oxford and failed to download 4MB-worth of emails despite constantly trying. I received my card by courier on a Saturday morning and phoned Orange to switch me on.
[September 27, 2004, 14:05]
Compaq takes 'Better answers' presentations on the road
News The first roadshows will take place in London on the 17th and 18th of November, at the Stakis Metropole Hotel, near Paddington. The 'Better answers' roadshows will be hosted by the BBC's Chris Serle, with input from Microsoft, Intel, SCO, Oracle...
[November 12, 1998, 5:05]
Wednesday
Blog The event took place, as such things often do, in a Paddington basement that had been hurriedly filled with equipment at the expense of what little décor was visible. Wednesday 27/11/2002 I have discovered, at an age when such discoveries may still...
[November 29, 2002, 16:35]
UK Wi-Fi market is hotting up
News Taking into account the company's existing sites -- at Paddington Station, the Reading Moathouse and the Hammersmith services -- this will give Megabeam 17 UK hot spots. Britain and Ireland will boast almost 90 commercial Wi-Fi hot spots by the end...
[November 18, 2002, 16:52]
'Bluejacking' seen as marketing opportunity
News Rainier PR carried out the survey of 500 mobile phone users in Liverpool Street and Paddington railway stations between 26 November and 2 December, prompted by the newfound popularity of Bluejacking, or sending prank anonymous messages to other...
[December 4, 2003, 15:50]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Cornwall is fifty minutes away, which to someone used to hacking his way down there for five hours on the Paddington-Penzance Scrumpy Special seems nothing short of miraculous. Monday 24/09/2001 A glorious break from the daily nonsense -- HP...
[September 28, 2001, 18:21]
Railways set for Wi-Fi showdown
News Only one is operational so far, at Paddington Station, with Euston, Liverpool Street, Victoria and Waterloo due to follow within the next two months. The UK's two leading Wi-Fi operators are on course for their first territorial clash, and the...
[February 3, 2003, 14:37]
Job losses at BBC Technology
News Its coverage of the Paddington rail crash was deemed best news story broken on the Net and it also won best overall journalism service. More than two hundred jobs will be lost in the next two months in a major shake-up of the BBC's technology arm...
[July 7, 2000, 16:12]
More train stations get wireless
News First Great Western says it carries 22 million passengers a year across rail networks between the south west of England, south Wales and London Paddington. Wireless Internet access will soon be on offer to rail customers at another eighty-five UK...
[May 9, 2005, 16:25]
Microsoft meets EC deadline with a thud
News Codenamed Paddington, it is the seventh and final piece of technical documentation that Microsoft was due to submit. Microsoft has handed over more documentation in an attempt to persuade the European Commission that it has complied with the 2004...
[July 31, 2006, 16:55]
Swisscom to speed up Wi-Fi rollout
News Ten months later, though, only London Paddington is connected. Swisscom Eurospot is planning to accelerate its Wi-Fi hot spot rollout over the next few months. Chris Brown, Swisscom Eurospot's UK managing director, has predicted that the company's...
[June 25, 2003, 16:33]
