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West Midlands Police Investigation Finds in Favour of Kyocera Mita
White Papers West Midlands Police is the second largest police force in the country, covering an area of 348 sq miles and serving a population of almost 2.63 million. The printers chosen by West Midlands Police are a mix of FS1800 workgroup A4 16ppm mono...
[October 2, 2004, 0:00]
Adobe Systems Case Study: West Midlands Broadband Consortium
White Papers The West Midlands Broadband Consortium (WMnet) is one of England's ten Regional Broadband Consortia. WMnet looked at a variety of different learning tools and systems on the market and chose Macromedia Breeze 5 to deliver a number of innovative e...
[June 13, 2006, 0:00]
West Midlands Police Take the Route to High-Performance Enterprise-Class Networking
White Papers West Midlands Police is the UK's second largest police force. WMP has faced the need to regularly enhance its network infrastructure to deliver high performance, high capacity, and high reliability-all against the backdrop of keeping costs down.
[July 15, 2004, 0:00]
Police post 10 most wanted mugshots on Web
News The West Midlands Police force has published on the Internet the names and mugshots of 10 of its "most wanted" suspects, part of Operation Safer Streets a campaign against street crime. Superintendent Paul Diehl, chief inspector of the West...
[September 4, 2000, 12:34]
Police to trial integrated authentication
News West Midlands Police is to trial an identity authentication system that will allow both physical and digital access to police systems, with the projected replacement of warrant cards with chip-and-pin smart-cards.
[September 25, 2006, 9:35]
IPCC probes police memory-stick loss
News The Independent Police Complaints Commission has launched an inquiry into the loss of a memory stick from West Midlands Police. West Midlands Police would not comment on press reports that the stick contained information on terror suspects.
[September 17, 2008, 10:32]
BT extends budget business broadband
News BT is to significantly expand the reach of its SDSL (symmetric digital subscriber line) broadband network in London and the West Midlands beginning in early January, the telco said on Thursday, giving more small businesses a cheaper alternative to...
[December 4, 2003, 14:10]
Massive theft of mobiles and Xboxes sparks hunt
News West Midlands Police said that a Scania lorry containing 7,000 Nokia handsets, and over 1,000 Xboxes, went missing at around 6:30 a.m.on Tuesday after being parked outside a Carphone Warehouse store. The West Midlands Police can be contacted on...
[August 12, 2003, 17:05]
Net paedophile investigation breaks new ground
News Detective inspector Darren Brookes at the West Midlands paedophile unit used covert tactics to investigate a public complaint about an Internet paedophile. The team at West Midlands paedophile unit used inchoate offences (which include criminal...
[January 22, 2002, 10:33]
London Midland rail to get mobile ticketing
News He said 20 percent of tickets would be on smartcard technology for the franchise, which runs lines to Birmingham, Liverpool and London throughout the West Midlands, by 2012. It combines the existing Silverlink franchise with some of the Central...
[August 3, 2007, 9:04]
First exchange unbundled ahead of BT
News The local exchange in question is at Dimsdale, in the West Midlands. Easynet has installed its ADSL equipment in the exchange as part of a deal with the Advantage West Midlands development agency, which has subsidised the cost of the upgrade.
[December 8, 2003, 17:20]
Photos: Centre launched to promote open source
News The NOC is seeking further funding, and is currently seeking an award from Advantage West Midlands, a regional development agency. The concept of the NOC was originally touted in October, when the National Computing Centre outlined its plans to...
[February 27, 2007, 12:43]
BT reviews security following exchange break-in
News However, a different version of events was issued by West Midlands Police over the weekend. According to a spokesperson for the West Midlands Police, "cables to a BT exchange at the rear of the [post office] premises were cut" and it was still "too...
[October 30, 2006, 13:03]
DTI to give SMEs help online
News It will build upon lessons that the OGC and SBS learned from the SME procurement pilots in the West Midlands and Haringey. Chief secretary to the Treasury Paul Boateng said: "I am delighted that the potential advantages identified by the West...
[January 11, 2005, 14:50]
NHS to email x-rays to doctors
News CSC with Kodak and ComMedica for the North West and West Midlands Accenture with GE (subject to contract) for the East and East Midlands cluster The days of holding an x-ray up to a light may be over, says the NHS IT programme
[May 11, 2004, 11:00]
Say hello to the UK's 'open source dating agency'
News We have got £4.5m funding from Advantage West Midlands, the Regional Development Agency for the West Midlands area. Basically, we're the open source dating agency for the West Midlands -- we bring together people who provide something in the open...
[December 29, 2004, 11:40]
Wolverhampton Estimates Saving of 40 Working Days With Microsoft New Solution
White Papers Wolverhampton City Council, a progressive metropolitan local authority in the West Midlands, required a new solution for enterprise project management to provide a high level of centralised support for their employees' workstations and laptops.
[August 20, 2004, 0:00]
Bluesocket Case Study: Good Hope Hospital
White Papers Good Hope is a large hospital situated in Sutton Coldfield in the West Midlands, serving a population covering north east Birmingham, areas of Walsall, as well as south east Staffordshire. When the hospital was looking for a flexible and secure...
[February 22, 2009, 0:25]
specifically vs pacificly?
Talkback This is particulary common in the English West Midlands. I pacificly said. Guaranteed to make me mad.
[April 16, 2007, 13:02]
North-south divide mirrored in IT pay
News Techies who earn in excess of £70,001 are a fifth more likely to dwell in the southerly regions of England than in the north-east or west of England, the Midlands or Wales. The UK's north-south divide is mirrored in IT salaries, according to...
[December 12, 2008, 10:50]
