Cambridgeshire Constabulary has implemented a remote service portal to make its IT systems accessible to members of neighbourhood policing teams and other staff outside its secure network.
Scotland's Renfrewshire Council has implemented a wide area wireless network as part of its digital inclusion project to provide citizens with residential high speed broadband.
Yahoo, Google, Amazon, all of these websites have changed a lot over the last decade but is web 2.0 an internet revolution or is it more of an internet evolution.
Your CEO is sitting in the cafe before your next meeting using instant messenger to talk to his vice-president of marketing while sending an e-mail to the financial director asking about next month's results. The guy in the corner sipping his coffee and staring intently at his laptop is not reading the news, he is reading your CEO's conversation. And when he is finished, he is going to install a trojan program on his laptop. How? And what should IT managers do to stop things like this happening?
Much has been said about network optimisation recently. The expected onslaught of new wave applications - so called at least - such as VoIP, IPTV and the rest, means that we do have to optimise and re-architect our networks if this stuff is actually going to be deliverable at acceptable quality levels, says Steve Broadhead, director of Broadband-Testing Labs.
The British Airport Authority is testing Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology at Heathrow Airport to see if baggage tags can be read with fewer mistakes than ones with barcodes.
BAA and Emirates Airline have launched the largest Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) baggage trial which could reduce the number of misread bags at Heathrow airport.
Pictures of the RFID trial at Heathrow's Terminal 3. Terminal 3 will spend £150,000 trialling Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) for six months to see if it reduces the number of misread bags over existing barcode methods.