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SDSL Reaches Glasgow
News Scotland On Line announced on Thursday that it is launching a 2Mb SDSL (symmetrical digital subscriber line) service in Glasgow, based on a wholesale SDSL product supplied by Fibernet. The launch of this new SDSL service has the potential to...
[September 26, 2002, 17:00]
IBM Moving Out Of Desktop Manufacturing
News At the same time, Sanmina-SCI has agreed to acquire IBM's NetVista desktop manufacturing operations in the United States and Scotland, including some 980 employees, for an undisclosed sum. San Jose-California-based Sanmina-SCI, IBM said, plans to...
[January 9, 2002, 11:31]
Tiny Ray Of Hope For UK's High-tech Sector
News The company announced on Tuesday that it has decided to stop making PCs in China, and will build them in Scotland instead. Politicians in both Scotland and Westminster welcomed the news. UK workers have not been immune to the slowdown in the...
[August 14, 2001, 13:35]
DTI Launches New Anti-fraud Web Site
News The Consumer Direct website is available across the UK, but at the moment, the telephone advice line is only available in Scotland, Wales, Yorkshire and the Humber and the south-west. It is an extension of the Consumer Direct telephone advice line...
[October 18, 2004, 16:15]
Scotland To Resolve Broadband Reach
News Scotland currently has over 99 percent broadband availability. As many individuals and businesses in Scotland as possible should have broadband access," said enterprise minister Jim Mather. By extending the availability of affordable broadband, we...
[October 8, 2007, 8:27]
Policing The Unacceptable - Bringing Paedophiles To Justice
News Detective Seargent Steve Quick of the Paedophilia Unit at Scotland Yard believes the cyber paedophile is very different from the old cliché of a dirty old man hanging around a school yard in a grubby macintosh.
[March 22, 1999, 12:25]
Scotland To Get Blanket Broadband Coverage
News It's about getting a foot on the broadband ladder," said a BT spokesman, who described the upgrading of the 387 exchanges as "the final piece of the jigsaw" for Scotland. Once this is achieved, the telco plans to work on boosting broadband take-up...
[April 25, 2005, 17:25]
The Monarchy And Technology Through The Ages: Part Two
News When she died, the succession went to James VI of Scotland who promptly networked England and Scotland in the Act of Union. Scotland had not been backward in monarchical IT -- Robert the Bruce had once searched a web sight for the answer to his...
[June 4, 2002, 7:31]
Subsidy Boost For Business Broadband
News Politicians in Scotland, Wales and Ireland though have taken the view that direct action is needed if their regions are not to suffer. Now, firms will also be able to claim back the cost of a fixed-line or wireless link.
[March 24, 2004, 16:25]
Home Office Commits Gaffe Over Entrapment
News The FBI passed his details on to the paedophile unit at New Scotland Yard, who arrested him after Lockley paid undercover officers £200 for sex with a child. Child agencies have argued that the law needs updating to bring it in line with modern...
[February 6, 2001, 14:05]
Highland Boost For Broadband Coverage
Talkback there are still many such lines in Scotland, some of them within a few miles of major urban centres, such as Aberdeen. Yet, when such users enquire about BT broadband access, they can be told that it is 'impossible to have broadband on a shared line'.
[August 18, 2005, 20:58]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog What I didn't say last Friday was that on finishing the diary, I was heading off to Scotland by train. Not just any train neither, but the GNER Wi-Fi Special: a satellite-connected marvel that trundles on a regular basis between London and Scotland.
[January 30, 2004, 15:10]
Green Is The Colour Of Money
Leader The gales last winter followed Scotland's wettest summer on record. Damage caused by severe weather to the company's infrastructure hit the bottom line. Most IT companies don't have the weather exposure of BT -- software doesn't care if it's...
[June 16, 2005, 14:30]
Scottish Broadband Sparks Complaint
News For years, BT has been criticised for not rolling out broadband fast enough, but for the first time, it could be in trouble for providing DSL services to rural Scotland. According to the Financial Times, Scottish & Southern is not happy that BT is...
[November 7, 2003, 13:05]
Quotes Of The Week, August 12-16
News Elonex's Michael Spiro on the end of system manufacturing in Scotland. I'm currently connected to a 56Kbit line. Synet founder Dirhen Rana on Microsoft's alleged hijacking of the Internet Explorer name.
[August 16, 1996, 12:09]
IBM To Outsource Server Manufacturing
News The contract will go to Sanmina-SCI, which also took over the manufacturing of IBM's NetVista desktop and purchased IBM facilities in the United States and Scotland last year, sources said on Tuesday.
[January 7, 2003, 14:57]
Sun Plans 'computer Free' HQ
News I can pull up my desktop, it can be in Scotland, it can be in Fleet [Sun UK HQ], and instead of going through a local server it just goes through the switch room. We have an experimental line in here at the moment for something we call the Wan Ray...
[January 23, 2004, 11:50]
BT To Launch Satellite Broadband Service
News The service, due to go live in Scotland and Northern Ireland in October or November, is a partnership with US satellite company Gilat. BT already offers ADSL, which gives users high speed Internet access down their phone line.
[July 31, 2001, 12:54]
Smile Lets Users Cash In On The Net
News Smile customers will be able to withdraw money from the LINK cash machine network, whilst cash and cheques can be paid into English post offices and, from early 2000, those in Scotland and Northern Ireland too.
[October 1, 1999, 17:29]
Bulldog Fixes Broadband Problems
Talkback They are also said to be in BIG trouble again with Ofcom, i myself sumbitted a report to OFCOM and the ISP trade association with audio cassettes(in Scotland you can record people you call and not have to tell them ONLY IF it's done onto...
[March 10, 2006, 1:40]
