All Legislation and Regulation News - January 2008

New UK broadband minister faces challenge of intervention

The new minister for overseeing broadband development in the UK will face a challenge in deciding how the government should intervene to improve broadband access.

Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors deploys content managment system

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) ...

Courts Inspectorate loses trial details on disks

Four CDs containing details from court cases have gone missing in the post.

Government pledges to press ahead with ID card scheme

  • News
  • Author: Ian Grant
  • Date: 23 January 2008
The government has said it will continue its increasingly controversial plan to make British citizens acquire identity cards despite documents coming to light that postpone the deadline to 2012.

Airlines get new disaster recovery system for Beijing Olympics

China's air transport technology supplier Travelsky Technology has hired SITA to carry out major improvements to its disaster recovery facilities in time for this year's Beijing Olympics.

Swale council improves administrative management to handle public enquiries

Swale Borough Council is improving the way it deals with public enquiries by bringing in Northgate Information Solutions to integrate its administrative management systems.

ScottishPower goes online with GIS

ScottishPower has awarded a £1.7m contract to ESRI (UK) to web-enable its geographic information system (GIS).

Microsoft applies for user-monitoring system patent

  • News
  • Author: Ian Grant
  • Date: 17 January 2008
Microsoft has applied for a patent that will enable personal computers to monitor user behaviour.

Glasgow to host first subway mobile phone network

Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT), Scotland's biggest regional transport partnership has signed a contract with Arqiva's Wireless Solutions division to develop the UK's first subway mobile phone network.

Google fights search patent claim

Google is fighting a patent battle after a university claimed the search giant is using its technology to power its search engine platform.
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