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Yorkshire attempts to bridge its digital divide
News North Yorkshire, by area the largest county in the UK, is taking its transactional e-services out to remote rural neighbourhoods as part of the latest phase of its e-government programme. Gordon Gresty, director of business and community services...
[January 4, 2005, 11:35]
Yorkshire hits 100 per cent broadband coverage
News Despite popularised images of a traditional society more used to whippets than Wi-Fi, Yorkshire has hit the coveted milestone of 100 per cent broadband availability. The final exchange to be broadband-enabled in the region was at Ramsgill Dale in...
[January 3, 2006, 16:55]
Yorkshire site defaced by angry local
News The Web site of a North Yorkshire town was defaced this week by a enraged local computer cracker intent on wreaking terrible revenge on the locality. The cracker defaced the front page of the www.ripon.co.uk, a site belonging to the 1400-year-old...
[September 8, 2000, 11:49]
Yorkshire attempts to bridge its digital divide
Talkback North Yorkshire, the biggest county in the UK? I think not. Try Highland Council.
[January 5, 2005, 9:28]
West Yorkshire Police Increase Visibility and Productivity With BlackBerry
White Papers West Yorkshire Police is the fifth largest police force in the UK responsible for the protection of 2.1 million people. West Yorkshire Police wanted to increase the visible police presence on the street by enabling crime reporting and work on...
[February 21, 2006, 23:00]
Government aid brings tech jobs to Yorkshire
News The UK's struggling hi-tech job sector received a boost on Wednesday with the news that financial incentives offered by the Government have persuaded a US software company to open offices in Yorkshire.
[September 5, 2001, 16:53]
North Yorkshire gets broadband boost
News North Yorkshire County Council has signed for a new network with an eye on boosting broadband availability in the area. NYnet, a joint venture between the council and the regional development agency Yorkshire Forward, will provide the wide area...
[February 21, 2008, 9:09]
Yorkshire hits 100 per cent broadband coverage
Talkback Northern Ireland does not have 100% broadband coverage. Whilst all of the exchanges are broadband enabled there are lots of households which cannot get broadband commonly because they are too far from the exchange or because the lines are aluminium.
[January 4, 2006, 11:49]
Yorkshire attempts to bridge its digital divide
Talkback Looks like the launch is less than smooth.the site appears to be down already.
[January 7, 2005, 10:30]
UK man's love match is pensioner corpse-hoarder
News A twenty-eight-year-old Yorkshire man who flew to America to meet his chatroom "love" got more than he bargained for when the woman, who he thought was 30, turned out to be a 68-year-old. Tasker is back home in Selby, North Yorkshire, with his mother.
[February 22, 2001, 12:06]
Police put Linux on trial
News West Yorkshire police has taken delivery of some Linux workstations as part of a trial which, if successful, could lead to the force rolling out the open-source software on 3,500 desktops, shaving £1m off its annual IT spend in the process.
[October 16, 2002, 16:06]
HP ProCurve 9315 Switching Revitalises Ailing College Network
White Papers Yorkshire's Keighley College caters for 1,000 full time and 7,000 part time students and employs up to 400 staff. Access to computers is vital for both students and staff at Yorkshire's Keighley College.
[June 24, 2009, 16:01]
Pioneering Billing System Improves Customer Service and Reduces Development Costs
White Papers A large part of Yorkshire Water's revenue is processed by the billing system. The team wanted to be innovative in its approach to customer service by offering options such as online bill payment and so in 2001, Yorkshire Water decided to re...
[December 2, 2008, 23:00]
BT's free flights offer hits turbulence
Talkback TO RJP NORTH YORKSHIRE. WS WEST YORKSHIRE SINCE MY LAST POSTING,WHERE I HAD BEEN OFFERED A CRUISE IN FEB/05 TO SOUTH AMERICA. I ASKED RISE TRAVEL,HOW THEY COULD OFFER SOMEONE A SINGLE CABIN,WHEN THE CRUISE LINER DID NOT HAVE ANY.
[January 2, 2005, 17:19]
Computer anger: Northerners shout, Southerners lash out
News When computers start playing up, people living in London are likely to resort to violence and hit their computer while people from Yorkshire will probably just shout at it, according to a survey published by security company Symantec.
[October 22, 2003, 13:55]
Fuming on the platform? Railway complaints accepted here.
News Currently accepting complaints for online publication at the site's opening, the Yorkshire-based Internet consultants who founded the site are "not affiliated to or supported by any rail network. The site also points out that it is not intended to...
[November 11, 1998, 15:32]
Police suspects face Viper parade
News After trialling the system for six months last year, West Yorkshire Police saw a decrease in the number of cancelled line ups and a 26 percent fall in the number of snatch thefts and robberies. West Yorkshire chief constable Colin Cramphorn said in...
[March 17, 2003, 10:24]
Ionica collapses as white knight bails out
News The company has 62,000 users scattered across east Anglia, the Midlands and Yorkshire. The illustrious list of backers and investors includes Yorkshire Electricity, SBC Warburg, Morgan Stanley, Northern Electric, Scottish Widows and 3i.
[October 30, 1998, 15:06]
Government funds handheld police computers
News The 27 forces sharing the funds are the Metropolitan Police Service, all eight forces in Scotland, the British Transport Police and the constabularies of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Derbyshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Humberside, Kent...
[May 27, 2008, 13:27]
BT reveals first locations for super-fast broadband
News Two of the exchanges are in rural locations: Taffs Well in Rhondda, South Wales and Calder Valley in West Yorkshire. The east of England and the north-west will get six locations apiece, while Yorkshire and the Humber will get three FTTC exchanges.
[March 24, 2009, 7:24]
