Energie Wasser Bern and Swisscom have successfully concluded intensive negotiations on construction of the Berne fibre-optic network. Together the two companies will drive forward extension of the network to households, which will require investments of around CHF 140 million. The

Tom Young, , Friday 18 December 2009 at 11:42:00Proposals must be put on hold until concerns are cleared upThe UK's to gather information electronically on all travellers entering orleaving the UK will be illegal on intra-EU routes under the EU

Tom Young, , Friday 18 December 2009 at 11:40:00New Steria pension deal will broadly reflect terms of previous arrangementIT services supplier Steria has signed a new deal with unions on pensions forits employees.From April 2010 Steria will close the defined

Tom Young, , Friday 18 December 2009 at 11:38:00Public sector correspondent Tom Young gives his view on the last 12 monthsIt's not been a good year for public sector IT: yet more delays to highprofile projects have come to light

Dave Bailey, , Thursday 17 December 2009 at 15:17:00Computing's reviews editor, Dave Bailey, gives his highlights of 2009With Barack Obama installed in the White House, the global economy melting,and the banks reeling after near collapse in 3Q 2008, 2009 got

Tom Young, , Thursday 17 December 2009 at 11:49:00Trust marks first of a swathe of new deployments in the South by BTSurrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust went live with RiOelectronic patient record systems yesterday.It is the first of

Nicola Brittain, , Thursday 17 December 2009 at 10:28:00Report orders Defra to scrap and replace flawed IT systemFollowing a damning report from the National Audit Office which was releasedin October, the government has ordered The Department for the Environment andRural

Martin Courtney, , Thursday 17 December 2009 at 13:51:00Three IT chiefs at UK organisations reveal the problems of getting seniormanagement interested in disaster recoveryComputing: How do you justify the concept of business continuitymanagement to senior executive and other departments? Roger

This project comes at a time when libraries are looking for new ways toaddress the complexities of managing disparate collections, maintaining multipleworkflows and supporting increasingly complex IT environments.

Last event before Xmas at Liverpool's Hope University, on Tuesday 15th December, went well. Over 100 secondary youngsters undertook the self righting buoy/electric car/robots. The robot one was a new one, where the youngsters had to build a robot to