BT, South Tyneside sign shared-services deal
News BT is placing its UK local-government headquarters in South Shields as part of a £184m deal with South Tyneside Council. A new business organisation, known as BT South Tyneside, a wholly owned BT subsidiary, will be created.
[September 10, 2008, 11:10]
Tyneside College Achieves 'Holy Grail' in Teaching by Personalising Education for Every Student
White Papers Monkseaton Language College wanted new technology to link student records with other IT systems in the school and secure access to its servers from thousands of external users to achieve the following: Integration of all systems and information...
[September 28, 2007, 1:00]
Siemens 'confident' on restructuring...
News Von Pierer said Siemens is still talking to a Chinese firm about the sale of its North Tyneside memory chip plant which shed more than a 1000 jobs when it closed in September. Speaking at the group's annual press conference in Munich earlier today...
[December 3, 1998, 17:41]
Orange call-centre fiasco
Blog According to an ex-employee, an unspecified number of staff at Orange's North Tyneside call-centre have been using the same login details and password! Not a terribly good security practice, I'm sure you'll agree, especially where scads of customer...
[November 23, 2006, 11:50]
Siemens' radical overhaul threatens thousands of jobs worldwide
News The news comes soon after Siemens announced the closure of its DRAM chip factory in North Tyneside with the loss of 1,100 jobs. The radical overhaul, which will cost the company 4m deutsch marks ($2.4bn), was instigated by Siemens chairman Heinrich...
[November 5, 1998, 14:37]
UK school curriculum goes online
News Howard Kemp, head of maths at Marden comprehensive school in Tyneside, believes pupils find it an exciting way of learning. The curriculum is due to go online today as the government announces a new set of digital initiatives for schools.
[April 2, 2001, 9:00]
IT implicated in voting-forms delay
News Areas hit hardest by the delays are Stockport, Bradford, Gateshead and other parts of Tyneside. Never mind e-voting, technology is struggling to cope with the UK's postal ballot programme Data processing and IT failures have caused delays to postal...
[June 1, 2004, 12:25]
Local authorities failing on e-accessibility
News Barking & Dagenham, Birmingham City, Brent, Chester City, Devon CC, East Ayrshire, Exeter City, Kensington & Chelsea, Kirklees MBC, Salford City, Shrewsbury & Atcham BC, South Tyneside MBC, Staffordshire Moorlands DC, Stroud DC, Surrey CC, Surrey...
[March 2, 2005, 13:10]
Councils' online election performance lambasted
News Also, four directly elected mayoral contests are also taking place in Doncaster, North Tyneside, Stoke-on-Trent and Hartlepool. Most of the 34 councils holding a local election on 5 May, 2005 have provided minimal online information about their...
[May 5, 2005, 15:20]
Lacey's Paper Round
News Speaking at the closure of the Siemens plant on Tyneside, the company's Ulrich Schumacher noted that Korean manufacturers had taken 40% of the market and said "The IMF is pumping money into (South) Korea.
[August 3, 1998, 9:12]
Vodafone to launch HSDPA
News The UK service will only be available in Glasgow, Sheffield, Greater Manchester, Tyneside and within the M25, with coverage across the whole 3G network planned by summer 2007. Vodafone looks set to beat its UK rivals by launching the first...
[June 21, 2006, 10:55]
