Broadband is no toy for early adopters.More citizens in the UK have access to the internet than ever before and those in the industry have had to move at a rate of knots to keep up with demand for better coverage,faster speeds and necessary ...
Tags: Broadband, UK, Virgin Media, BT, EU
Cornwall County Council has voted in support of an IT outsourcing and telehealth partnership with BT after rejecting a controversial plan to privatise a much broader range of council services. After councillors threw out their executive's ...
Tags: Cornwall County Council, IT outsourcing, telehealth partnership, BT
Councillors in Barnet will continue to scrutinise a 1bn outsourcing programme, despite the council leader surviving a confidence vote over the issue. The council's leader, Conservative Richard Cornelius, had the support of 32 councillors, ...
Tags: confidence vote, outsourcing programme, Barnet, network
CSC has stemmed losses in its 10-year outsourcing deal with Royal Mail through a combination of job cuts, tax breaks and relief payments, according to an analysis of eight years of published accounts for the venture. The supplier signed ...
Tags: CSC, job cuts, tax breaks, relief payments
Councillors from Cornwall Council have become concerned that backers of a controversial BT outsourcing deal have been using "undemocratic" tactics to influence councillors ahead of a December vote that will decide its fate once and for all. ...
Tags: BT outsourcing, Cornwall Council, IT industry, IT
Capita looks set to win part of Barnet’s controversial One Barnet outsourcing plan, after it is revealed to be the preferred bidder for a back-office services contract. The contract, worth GBP 32m a year, will see IT and back-office ...
Tags: Capita, Barnet outsourcing plan, back office service, IT industry
UK - A challenging gig at Wells Cathedral turned out to be the most successful yet for Port Isaac's Fisherman's Friends - with a little help from the Roland M-480 Live Digital Mixing Console! The Fisherman's Friends are shanty singers ...
Tags: fisherman, Wells Cathedral, Port Isaac
China Sunergy Co., a specialized solar cell and module manufacturer, today announced that it has completed the transactions to procure its first two solar park projects in Cornwall. The two solar parks with a size of about 5 MW each are ...
Tags: Solar Installation News, solar Industry News, solar cell and module
Barnet Council will cut 70%of staff from the back-office functions it is outsourcing to Capita in a controversial deal to automate council services. The London borough's Cabinet is expected to approve the deal in a vote this evening,that ...
Tags: Capita, Cut Staff, Barnet Council, Outsourcing Deal
Cornwall-based OMC has announced a range of multi-angle LED light tubes which can be used to replace traditional light sources. The 24V fixtures consume 2.9W per 30cm of tube and are dimmable using the firm's range of controllers. ...
UK - XL Video, commissioned by Limited Edition Events, recently supplied 300 tiles of their bright and vibrant Pixled F-12 LED for the Royal Premiere of the new James Bond film, Skyfall. The star-studded red carpet event, held at ...
Tags: video, LED, LED display, red carpet
BT has started trialling a groundbreaking 10Gbit/s broadband network at Cornwall-based engineering firm Arcol UK. The proof-of-concept trial uses fibre technology called XGPON (Tens of Gigabits on a Passive Optical Network) that was ...
BT's sales have fallen across all of its divisions, despite being ahead of schedule with its superfast broadband roll-out. BT recorded revenues of £4.47bn for the second quarter of 2012 – ending 30 September – which is ...
Tags: BT, superfast broadband, broadband, fibre broadband network
A number of large public sector contracts buoyed IT services company Atos Origin in the third quarter, with the outsourcer reporting double-digit growth. Atos Origin grew its UK market 10% to €426m, compared with the same quarter the ...
Tags: public sector, IT services, Atos Origin, revenues increased
Cornwall council has frozen plans to outsource services after almost every councillor voted in favour of a motion to suspend the authority's outsourcing programme. A total of 93 members of the council voted in favour of the motion to ...
Tags: Cornwall Council, outsourcing move on hold after landslide vote