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Smart Cameras To Watch Over London Tube
News LU has been trialling the technology at Liverpool Street station during the past two months and is now evaluating the results with a network-wide rollout tipped to follow across the Tube's 6,000 CCTV cameras, which cover 95 per cent of stations.
[March 30, 2004, 10:15]
Mobile Phones To Be Tested On Tube
News Plans to extend mobile coverage underground are not new, but previous proposals have been hamstrung by the "unique physical and environmental constraints [of London's tube network] which need to be understood in greater detail", hence the...
[March 15, 2007, 11:58]
Mobile Phones Go Underground
News London Underground is to spend billions of pounds enabling tube travellers to use their mobile phones in underground stations and on tube trains. It will take £350m to wire up London's archaic underground rail system with a high-speed fibre optics...
[November 23, 1999, 14:12]
7/7 Bomb Rescue Efforts Hampered By Communication Failings
News London Underground's "antiquated" radio systems were also criticised after they failed to work on any of the three affected tube trains on 7 July, preventing direct communication from the trains to either the emergency services or TfL's control...
[June 5, 2006, 15:05]
People: Your Network's Weakest Link
News Data encryption will make it harder for dishonest commuters who pick up mobiles on the Tube to retrieve meaningful data. Former hacker Kevin Mitnick had also stressed the need for companies to focus on employees in securing their network.
[October 11, 2005, 9:05]
Tube Lines Group Takes On The Modernization Of London's Transport Icon
White Papers The network was split into several groups of lines, and consortiums of leading construction and maintenance companies were invited to bid for 30-year franchises on Tube operations. As London's Tube has developed over the past 140 years it has...
[December 7, 2005, 23:00]
Mobile Phones Going Underground
News Tube bosses are considering auctioning off licences to provide mobile phone services after the Underground system has been fitted with a new fibre optic communications network in just over a year's time.
[October 17, 2000, 10:34]
Rupert Goodwins' IDF Diary
Blog Half the tube network working properly, if at all: non! I spend far longer loading up the laptop with the really important things in life -- VPN access for the work network, a word processor and getting on for 12 gigs of MP3s.
[February 19, 2003, 16:51]
Handel By Nanotube
Blog A nanotube is a tiny network of carbon atoms rolled up into tube form - and it may be as flexible and useful as its larger brethren. When the radio waves and the mechanical resonant frequency of the nanobristle coincide, lots of energy is coupled...
[November 1, 2007, 17:22]
Smart-card Ticketing Goes Underground
News The cards will ultimately work across London's transportation network, including trams, Docklands Light Railway, buses and the Tube. TranSys, a consortium of companies led by Electronic Data Systems (EDS) and Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS...
[November 20, 2002, 12:57]
Intel, HP, Yahoo Create Cloud-computing Labs
News It's one thing to do a paper study, one thing to do a small test-tube study, [and] another to run on a large infrastructure with real network effects, real network contention and so on. HP, Intel and Yahoo, in conjunction with academic and other...
[July 29, 2008, 17:53]
Stallman Attacks Oyster's 'unethical' Use Of Linux
News He also warned that the RFID chip on the card might be read at other times, allowing information to be gathered besides details of Tube and bus travel. Each Oyster card has a unique ID, which it transmits when it is used," added Stallman, "So, if...
[June 9, 2008, 13:13]
CES: It's The Triumph Of The Nerds
News WebTV pushes a mix of traditional TV, the Internet and the ability to pause live TV as the new replacement for the boob tube, what Microsoft calls "enhanced TV". As high-tech companies invade new parts of the home, the lines between computers and...
[January 6, 2000, 10:07]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It certainly livens up tube journeys, not so much because of the games and MP3 capabilities but through its integrated Bluetooth. The temptation to stand up in a crowded tube and shout "Richard Jones?
[October 24, 2003, 15:15]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The tube station drugs dealer: "Wannany blow, mate? The fact that the digital television network isn't really developed enough to support portable tellies with their token antennas won't help. the merry tramp: "Got any change?
[July 18, 2003, 16:28]
Two UK Intranets Make Global Top 10
News The body that runs London's tube network won its place after making changes that resulting in the number of visits rising from 1,000 a week to 70,000. London Underground and the Department of Transport have won praise for their internal...
[June 25, 2004, 11:35]
Government In Cloud Cuckoo Land Over Broadband
News The government here hasn't subsidised the Tube network or the trains so why should it do so with broadband? The government is living in "cloud cuckoo land" if it thinks it can achieve its broadband targets, says an analyst with research firm...
[April 10, 2001, 13:17]
Thursday
Blog It also merges nicely with the overt Big Brother attitude of Transport for London: now they don't only have you on camera, they can tell who you are from the machines that let you on the bus or tube in the first place.
[November 22, 2002, 17:08]
Which Class Are You?
Talkback Now there is no way of telling if this is due to me being bundled with P2P users and getting throttled or high-bandwidth users cause the whole network to slow on my ISP (all other 49 users watching You Tube videos all night).
[April 18, 2007, 13:02]
Tuesday - Internet Lamp Day
Blog It's taken a standard fluorescent tube and built in an Ethernet controller that can turn the light on and off -- it's a common or garden wired Ethernet port, requiring an RJ-45 connector, running the very uncommon next generation of internet...
[April 11, 2003, 17:02]
