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Your ‘umble scribe has today received an email from Kurt James, Neighbourhood Partnership Co-ordinator at Bristol City Council, announcing an event next month in east Bristol. Bristol Libraries is...
View ArticleIntroducing Taddypole
A free, innovative educational app to teach children about the lifecycle and habitats of tadpoles has been developed and launched by computer science students the University of Bristol reports....
View ArticleWales: “digital skills are as important as learning to read or write”
The Welsh Government in Cardiff Bay has announced new plans to improve children’s IT skills, today’s Wales Online reports. All aspects of the curriculum for Welsh schoolchildren will include digital...
View ArticleNew Northampton business fibre broadband offer
Earlier this week the Northampton Chronicle reported that businesses in the town could be line for faster broadband. In the early noughties, Yorkshire-based Kingston Communications (formerly the city...
View ArticleBuilding IoT London: Call for Papers ends in fortnight
German IT news website heise and our old friends The Register are joint sponsors of the Building IoT London event to be held in March 2017. The former reported at the end of last week that software...
View ArticleWe’ve moved!
After 4 very happy years at Windmill Hill City Farm, Bristol Wireless has moved. Our move has taken us from south of the River Avon in Bedminster back to Easton where Bristol Wireless started over 14...
View ArticleSnails set fire to Virgin
The strangest occurrences could affect the running of networks. For instance, part of Bristol Wireless’ own network was once knocked out of action by a squirrel trying to store nuts for the winter...
View ArticleOpen data: French local authorities still lacking in will
A report (PDF) produced by Opendata France and sent to Axelle Lemaire, the Secretary of State for Digital Affairs and the Secretary of State for Local Authorities reveals that the use of open data in...
View ArticlePound falls post Brexit, MS to up prices
Microsoft announced “important changes for customers buying enterprise software and cloud services in British pound [sic]” in a blog post yesterday. However, private individuals buying MS products will...
View ArticleLibreOffice Online now available in Pydio
Today Collabora announced that Pydio 7, the latest release of the popular open source synchronisation & sharing platform, includes LibreOffice Online functionality created by Collabora...
View ArticleFree unlimited wifi at 180 French railway stations
French railway company SNCF has announced that free and unlimited wifi is available at 180 French railway stations and deployment is currently underway at stations in the Ile-de-France region. Wifi...
View ArticleFSFE appoints new Vice President
The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) has announced that Alessandro Rubini has stepped down as Vice-president of the FSFE. Alessandro, an electronic engineer with Ph. D. in a computer science,...
View ArticleFree CiviCRM seminar in London
MTL Group company NfP Services are hosting a free CiviCRM seminar at their offices at 340 Gray’s Inn Road London, WC1X 8BG (map). The seminar will also include refreshments and lunch and will run from...
View ArticleBristol’s CFMS launches new supercomputer
The Centre for Modelling & Simulation (CFMS), a not-for-profit organisation that specialises in high value design capability, which is based at the Bristol & Bath Science Park, launched a new...
View ArticleFree software given priority in Russian bill
Russia’s legislators have drafted a bill (PDF – in Russian) that will boost free software on many levels within the country’s public sector. The draft, approved by the Duma (lower house of parliament)...
View ArticleShropshire to tackle broadband “not-spots”
Broadband “not-spots” across Shropshire will be tackled in a £12 mn. scheme to connect more than 16,000 properties, Saturday’s Shropshire Star reports. Phase 2b of the Connecting Shropshire broadband...
View ArticleSwansea to be pilot location for BT’s new G.fast technology
Yesterday’s Wales Online reports that Swansea will be first cities in Britain where residents will be able to enjoy ultra-fast broadband with download speeds of up to 330Mbps, i.e. up to 10 times the...
View ArticleStoke to provide residents with cheap broadband
Some 15,000 households in Stoke-on-Trent (population: 251,000) don’t have an internet connection at present, but Stoke-on-Trent City Council wants to change that, according to yesterday’s Sentinel, by...
View ArticleFeeling Insecure at the Engine Shed
Bristol Wireless member Nigel Legg writes: The focus of the fourth Bristol & Bath IoT meetup on Monday 21st November was security – making your things secure. There have been some DDoS attacks that...
View ArticleKaspersky launches its own secure OS
Russian security software company Kaspersky has announced the development of a secure operating system. Installed on a network switch, this K-OS has been designed from scratch without borrowing from...
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