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Welsh Schools Adopt Open Source Email
News A Welsh county council has brokered a deal to provide open source email to up to 40,000 pupils and teachers. We're having conversations with the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly at the moment.
[September 4, 2006, 14:35]
Welsh Desktop Linux Project Is Making Slow Progress
News A project that started in 2003 to translate a Linux desktop environment into Welsh is expected to take another two years to complete, according to project co-ordinator Kevin Donnelly. The translation project, known as Kywaith Kyfieithu, aims to...
[January 9, 2006, 15:50]
Welsh Broadband Kicks England Into Touch
News The rest of the UK has a lot to learn from Wales when it comes to making a success of broadband, according to Andrew Davies, Welsh Assembly minister for economic development and ICT. By March 2003, 47 percent of Welsh schools will have a broadband...
[December 3, 2002, 11:05]
Welsh Hackers Could Face Extradition
News It is uncertain whether the Welsh teenagers arrested this weekend for hacking into e-commerce Web sites and stealing Bill Gates' credit card data will be tried in their home country, or face extradition to the US.
[March 27, 2000, 10:18]
Welsh Assembly Blocks School Emails
News The Welsh Assembly has halted its pledge to provide every school pupil in Wales with a personal email address because of security fears. After liaison with the DfES, we decided to review our pledge," confirmed the Welsh Assembly spokeswoman.
[September 3, 2001, 16:29]
The Welsh To Conjure Up New Tricks For Merlin
News The Welsh Assembly is considering new initiatives for its ICT transformation programme The document covers the previous efforts of the Welsh Assembly in providing an ICT infrastructure for the country, emphasising the role of Merlin, a 10 year...
[October 25, 2004, 13:25]
Office 2003 And Windows XP Available In Welsh For Free, Thanks To The Board & Microsoft
White Papers The Welsh Language Board and Microsoft are proud to announce that Welsh Language Interface Packs for Microsoft Office 2003 and Microsoft Windows XP are now available - from this website, and it's all free!
[August 11, 2005, 0:00]
PMMS Appointed As The Training And Development Partner For Welsh Public Sector Procurement
White Papers Following an extensive competitive tender exercise, the Welsh Procurement Initiative has announced the appointment of PMMS Consulting Group (PMMS) as the Training and Development Partner for the development of Procurement skills across the Welsh...
[June 21, 2005, 0:00]
Welsh Spurn Windows To Create Own Linux
News Wales-based programmer Kevin Donnelly is taking advantage of the fact that anyone is allowed to modify and redistribute Linux to do the work of localisation himself, with the help of any interested Welsh speakers.
[June 24, 2003, 16:04]
Lucky Goldstar Shuns Welsh RFU Sponsorship
News Lucky Goldstar (LG) has pulled out of an undisclosed, multi-million pound deal to sponsor the Welsh Rugby Union national team because it could not agree the size of the LG logo on the shirt, with kit maker Reebok.
[September 19, 1997, 15:33]
News Burst: EU Accolade For Welsh High-tech Plan
News Some 50 separate projects involving 1000 organisations, pioneered under the Welsh Development Agency's (WDA) regional technology plan, have been piloted since 1996. One of the successful projects, Welsh Business Angels, seeks to pair up companies...
[October 21, 1998, 16:07]
Apple Axes Welsh Manufacturer
News Apple Computer has ceased production of iMacs at the LG Electronics plant in Newport, South Wales, according to a report in the Welsh national daily newspaper, the Western Mail. It's not known where European iMac production will relocated.
[March 13, 2000, 16:22]
Welsh Hacker Pleads Guilty To Credit Card Crime
News A Welsh computer hacker at the centre of a multi-million pound FBI fraud investigation has pleaded guilty to breaking into Internet sites for money, just days before going on trial. In a hearing at Swansea Crown Court, Raphael Gray, a 19-year-old...
[March 30, 2001, 14:32]
Hackers Attack Welsh Local Government Web Sites
News The Welsh Local Government Association has received three unsuccessful hack attempts to its Web site in the last three months, and is now warning public organisations to improve Web site security or suffer more sabotage.
[July 27, 2001, 15:08]
Welsh Virus Writer Gets Two Years
News A Welsh virus writer has been sentenced to two years in prison for creating malware which infected thousands of computers around the world. Simon Vallor, 22, wrote the 'Gokar' and 'Redesi' mass-mailing viruses, which are believed to have infected...
[January 22, 2003, 9:44]
Intranet Strategy Development For Welsh Development Agency
White Papers The Welsh Development Agency exists to expand and evolve economic development and investment in Wales. The Agency required an Intranet presence, which was perceived, by the users, as a value added business tool.
[October 29, 2007, 23:00]
Welsh Schools Adopt Open Source Email
Talkback Squirrel isn't really an email client, its a webmail server. SquirrelMail is a standards-based webmail package written in PHP4" .the client is a web browser - will they be using an open source browser ?
[September 5, 2006, 10:56]
Welsh Schools Adopt Open Source Email
Talkback This is not new. Cardiff switched entirely to Open Source servicing 20 Secondaries and 134 Primaries + Specials 2 years ago.ie 52,300 accounts but these included e-learning accounts not just email.
[September 5, 2006, 13:09]
Welsh Council Reduces Back-Office Costs With Standardised Operating Environment
White Papers Torfaen County Borough Council in Wales wanted to transform its IT infrastructure to boost efficiencies and customer services. Founded in 1996, the council inherited several disparate systems, including Novell technologies, from the previous local...
[October 31, 2006, 23:00]
IT-procurement Deal To Save Wales £6m
News The Welsh Assembly Government announced a new IT framework agreement on Wednesday that will enable public-sector organisations across Wales to join forces and buy common items, such as PCs, laptops and printers.
[August 10, 2007, 9:30]
