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Bletchley Park faces bleak future

Historians have postulated that, without Bletchley Park, code-named Station X to keep its location from the Germans, the Allies may never have won the war. But, despite an impressive contribution to the war effort, the Bletchley Park site, now a museum, ...

From RICHARD THURSTON, ZDNet UK,  13 May 2008
Related Topics: Melinda Gates,  Microsoft Corporation,  Google Inc.

Digging into the underground datacentre

"The Bunker" is touted as one of the most secure datacentres in the country, in terms of both physical and information security. Purpose-built in a nuclear bunker decommissioned by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in the 1990s, the site in Kent is ...

From RICHARD THURSTON, ZDNet UK,  9 May 2008
Related Topics: Google Inc.

Details emerge on Bournemouth fibre scheme

H2O Networks has released more details on its upcoming fibre-to-the-home deployment in Bournemouth, the largest such project currently planned in the UK. The project, detailed by telecoms operator H20 on Wednesday, will bring a massive boost to the ...

From RICHARD THURSTON, ZDNet UK,  9 May 2008

Finding a funder for fibre to the home

As bandwidth demands continue to increase, the requirement for fibre-optic internet connections has risen up the regulatory agenda. Ofcom is now making obvious signals that it wants the issue investigated and the government is tackling the subject ...

From RICHARD THURSTON, ZDNet UK,  6 May 2008
Related Topics: Viviane Reding

HP announces Sustainable IT Ecosystem Lab

Newsagents printing newspapers for customers and laptop screens that require only natural light to make them readable are just two of a range of energy-saving ideas being investigated by HP. HP outlined the concepts being investigated as part of the ...

From RICHARD THURSTON, ZDNet UK,  2 May 2008
Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Cisco Systems, Inc.

Birmingham students get Wi-Fi freedom of speech

With one of the largest campuses in the UK, rolling out a quarter-of-a-million-pound wireless network at the University of Birmingham was always going to be a big challenge. The university's IT department is covering every inch of the ...

From RICHARD THURSTON, ZDNet UK,  14 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Foundry Networks, Inc.,  Cisco Systems, Inc.

Conflicting strategies aired at unified comms show

Communications vendors are now trying to offer more than just voice over a data connection by building in features such as presence and instant messaging, calling this bundle unified communications, or UC for short. Including its former incarnation, ...

From RICHARD THURSTON, ZDNet UK,  11 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Fujitsu

Cisco sees its future in the datacentre

Cisco is expanding its fledgling datacentre strategy by releasing a second switching product family and by buying out the company that developed it. The new products, which will be known collectively as the Cisco Nexus 5000 series, are datacentre ...

From RICHARD THURSTON, ZDNet UK,  9 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Cisco Systems, Inc.,  IBM,  HSBC,  Intel

BT's chief steps down

BT's chief executive Ben Verwaayen is to leave the company at the end of May. He will be replaced by Ian Livingston, currently chief executive of BT Retail, the telco said on Tuesday. Verwaayen [pictured] has been at the helm of BT for six years, ...

From RICHARD THURSTON, ZDNet UK,  8 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Andy Green

Easynet launches managed telepresence service

Easynet is set to become the first UK service provider to offer a fully managed telepresence service. Telepresence is the latest evolution of videoconferencing, offering high-definition, life-sized images of meeting participants within a dedicated ...

From RICHARD THURSTON, ZDNet UK,  4 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Cisco Systems, Inc.,  Polycom, Inc.

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