Transport for London (TfL) is considering bids from IBM and Capita to run London's congestion charging scheme. IBM holds the current contract, which it won in December 2007 and expires on 31 October 2015. Further reading TfL minds the ...
Tags: IBM, software, Transportation
O2 has outsourced four northern UK regions of its customer contact centres to Capita, in a deal worth £1.2bn. Included regions are Leeds, Glasgow, Preston Brook and Bury. Further reading Transport for London installs O2 and ...
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Aon, the UK's largest insurance broker and provider of risk management services, has selected Azzurri Communications to help manage its telecommunications services. The firm will use Azzurri's Intelligent Telecoms Expense Management ...
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Transport for London (TfL) has obtained a grant of GBP5m to buy new vehicles from Department for Transport's (DfT) Green Bus Fund in the UK. Major share of the amount will be used to buy 90 hybrid buses, which will expand the current ...
Tags: Transport for London, Hybrid Buses
Transport for London (TfL) has chosen O2 and software developer Cognito to replace its current mobile workforce management solution, in a project that will see it adopt a brand new back-end system. Cognito will design and integrate the ...
Tags: Mobile, Computer Products
Returning to Railtex, Rowe Hankins, the rail systems engineering company, will highlight their research and development services and showcase workshop skills for rebuilding critical systems and components. The company will demonstrate how ...
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Microsoft has sponsored 225 London taxis with free Wi-Fi as part of a wider roll-out to the public. Taxi advertising specialist Ubiquitous and technology supplier Track4Services have launched the CabConnect platform via Vodafone’s ...
IT leaders at Computing's Big Data Summit 2013 yesterday agreed that social media analysis could benefit them internally as well as externally, and could be the next step for them in order to get the most out of their big data tools. Tony ...
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Companies are rebranding what they have offered for many years as "big data solutions", Financial Times CIO Christina Scott warned delegates at Computing's Big Data Summit today. Speaking at Computing's flagship event on the topic ...
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The Greater London Authority (GLA) has issued prior notice of its plan to select a supplier or suppliers to help with its Super Connected Cities Plan (SCCP) initiative. The government's broadband delivery team, BDUK, awarded GLA an ...
Tags: Greater London Authority, SCCP, network
Members of the Kent team were over the moon last night as MD,Ann O'Brien gratefully picked up 2 of these prestigious awards.The awards which were hosted by The Irish Exporters Association took place at University College Dublin where,Shane ...
Tags: Manufacturing, Exporter, Stainless
Near field communications (NFC) technology has brought a new wave of techniques to the retail industry, enabling bricks and mortar stores to attract and interact with customers in innovative ways. Analysts see these tools as a money maker ...
Tags: NFC, UK, payments, mobile technologies
Transport for London (TfL) has finally released live bus data, several months after it delivered the information via its Countdown Live Bus Arrivals website. Launched in October 2011, Countdown Live Bus Arrivals was procured prior to the ...
Tags: TfL, live bus data, London
Half of UK Visa payments will be made through mobile devices by 2020 as mobile infrastructures pave the way for mass adoption of mobile wallets. According to Visa Europe, 2013 will see the acceleration of the use of mobile payments ...
Tags: UK, Visa, mobile, payments, mobile wallets
A Wi-Fi network running across the financial centre of the City of London has been made free to the public. The Square Mile first became Wi-Fi enabled back in 2007, after the City of London Corporation signed a deal with The Cloud to ...