Wiltshire's GWR FM Radio
Downloads Listen to Wiltshire's GWR FM from your desktop. It works as long as you have Windows Media Player on your computer (but doesn't need the player to be opened). This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
[July 12, 2007, 8:06]
Public-private Partnership Boosts Rural ADSL
News Over 60,000 more households and 6,000 extra small businesses in Wiltshire will be able to access ADSL broadband by the end of this year due to a £7m partnership between BT and the public sector. The telco announced on Monday that it plans to...
[July 28, 2003, 17:41]
ID Cards: Aviation Workers Being 'used Politically'
News We do feel we're being used politically," Roger Wiltshire, secretary general of Bata told ZDNet.co.uk on Friday. Wiltshire's comments follow a Bata letter of protest sent to the home secretary, Jacqui Smith, this week, signed by the chief...
[July 4, 2008, 16:59]
ID Cards To Be Compulsory For Air Workers
News It's clear we've been picked on as guinea pigs for the scheme," said Roger Wiltshire, secretary general of Bata. Wiltshire said airside workers "would not get the benefit of the voluntary approach" espoused for other citizens by the Home Office.
[November 6, 2008, 16:37]
Gov't Announces Airport ID-card Trials
News Up until now we have not seen any process that will deliver a benefit, just extra processes and costs," said Roger Wiltshire, Bata secretary general. Wiltshire added there was a question as to whether the scheme would "see the light of day" after...
[November 5, 2008, 17:17]
E-policing Move Reduces Bureaucracy
News Police officers in Wiltshire, who spend around 25 percent of their time on paperwork, will have some of this burden reduced by an effort to integrate databases so information needs to be entered only once.
[June 20, 2002, 9:53]
UK's Broadband Capital Revealed
News Healthy coverage and furious competition between BT and cable company ntl:Telewest has led to the Wiltshire town having 51.1 percent household broadband uptake — the highest level in the UK, according to research firm Point Topic.
[August 2, 2006, 11:15]
Three More Local Exchanges To Get ADSL
News Bradford-on-Avon in Wiltshire, Tottington near Manchester and Danbury in Essex will all be upgraded to offer ADSL after ISPs confirmed to BT that there is sufficient demand in each area. BT said on Monday that three more local exchanges will join...
[November 11, 2002, 16:10]
PoizonBOx Hackers Leave E-envoy Red-faced
News The sites, including the e-envoy's site for intergovernmental policy, www.govtalk.gov.uk, Scottish archive site www.nas.gov.uk, and local government sites www.wiltshire.gov.uk and www.havant.gov.uk, were defaced late on Tuesday and early Wednesday...
[March 21, 2001, 10:50]
Rural Broadband Pilot To Be Extended
News Edinburgh, Glasgow, Strathclyde and Dundee in Scotland; Cardiff in Wales; and Wiltshire, Swindon, Devon, Hastings and West Sussex in England are all on the list. A pilot project to bring broadband to rural parts of Cornwall could be repeated in...
[June 27, 2002, 14:58]
Confusion At BT Over Broadband Rollout
News Speaking at the Broad Horizons Broadband Symposium in Wiltshire this week, Iain Duffin, a BT Retail regional manager, said it is unlikely to be economical for BT to upgrade enough exchanges to cover more than 80 percent of the UK population.
[July 4, 2002, 16:19]
No Broadband Means No Online Xbox Gaming
News Wilson told the Broad Horizons Broadband Symposium in Wiltshire this week that the Xbox Live project was a fusion of the Xbox console and broadband. Xbox owners who don't have access to broadband will be unable to sign up for Microsoft's...
[July 5, 2002, 12:21]
HP To Promote .Net For Enterprise
News There is already strong activity in .Net, said Parsons: "There are real business users of .Net such as General Mills and the Wiltshire Constabulary. Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday announced an initiative to promote Microsoft's .Net Web services...
[September 24, 2002, 9:52]
No-brainer Is The Answer!
Talkback Mike P (in rural Wiltshire) Let's put it this way: if NGA is provided at a reasonable (to the consumer) cost with high performance at all times and zero or very, very low contention ratios then we ALL want it in the UK.
[October 1, 2007, 12:46]
Cautious Reception For '£80m Wireless Broadband Project'
News According to e-Government Bulletin, the six councils -- Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire -- are keen to get an £80m grant from the European Investment Bank to fund the project.
[April 15, 2003, 13:49]
Health Trust Ditches NHS E-record Scheme
News The RUH provides acute treatment and care for a catchment population of around 500,000 people in Bath, and the surrounding towns and villages in north-east Somerset and western Wiltshire. A health trust serving more than 500,000 people said it has...
[July 23, 2008, 9:09]
Tony Blair Promises IT Upgrade For Justice System
News There are several schemes under way, such as the Metropolitan Police's plan to move to an electronic warrant card and Wiltshire Police's plan to integrate its databases to reduce paperwork, but these must all consider the implications for other...
[June 18, 2002, 16:46]
Joy As Microsoft Reinstates MVP Program!
News Peter Boulding of Peter Boulding Associates, a Wiltshire-based company, who had yesterday expressed his concerns in an open letter to Lindstrom, copied to ZDNet News UK, welcomed the overturned decision as a milestone in online history:
[October 26, 1999, 8:22]
Councils' Online Election Performance Lambasted
News Only four councils are rated as "very good" by Socitm: Cumbria, Wiltshire, Norfolk and Lincolnshire. Most of the 34 councils holding a local election on 5 May, 2005 have provided minimal online information about their polls, finds a survey issued...
[May 5, 2005, 15:20]
