Mapping the North-South gap
Point Topic’s new mapping of broadband geography shows how deep the digital divide is between the North and the South.
“We class 68 cities, towns and districts as having high broadband penetration, but only 3 of these are north and west of a line from the Wash to the Bristol Channel. Of the [...]

Core Facts
All rail users across Britain can now plan their journey whilst on the move using ‘Train Search’ – the new iPhone application that, unlike other national rail travel information apps, is available to download absolutely free.
Launched this week by CrossCountry, Britain’s largest rail franchise, this real time train information application is designed to [...]

Leading hardware encryption solutions provider, the Stonewood Group, has been named for the first time as one of Britain’s most successful technology businesses in the 2009 Sunday Times Tech Track 100. The Tech Track 100 ranks Britain’s fastest-growing private technology companies.
According to the report, the Stonewood Group was the 77 fastest-growing UK technology company, [...]

Broadband is showing a healthier glow than expected in the UK, as in many countries around the world. As a result of good figures for the first half of 2009, Point Topic, the broadband data specialist, has increased its forecasts for broadband connections, both for the year as a whole and forward to 2014.
Britain added [...]

DriveGreen Program Will Improve Environmental Efficiency
GreenRoad, a global pioneer in improving driving behavior, today announced that First UK Bus, Britain’s largest bus operator, has signed a five-year contract to deploy GreenRoad’s service across its fleet of 9,000 buses. First’s DriveGreen initiative, powered by GreenRoad, will improve environmental efficiency and passenger comfort.
GreenRoad is a [...]

New visa requirements put Britain at threat of losing thousands of Hong Kong students to Australia
Agents in Hong Kong are encouraging students to apply for Australian universities over those in Britain, as new visa requirements set by the Home Office make it impossible for Hong Kong student applications to be processed in time for [...]

Paris, 21st July 2009 – AeroGRID imagery of Germany, Britain and Benelux is now available through the ESRI ArcGIS Online data delivery website. The deal has been brokered by i-cubed, AeroGRID’s core partner in the US.
ESRI’s ArcGIS Online Services include the Web application DataDoors for ArcGIS developed by i-cubed. Using DataDoors (http://esri.datadoors.net/datadoorsweb), GIS users can [...]

Major Improvements in Customer Service shortly after Implementation of INSPIRATIONpro and EVOip
Hoesbach/Germany, July 15, 2009 – ASC (www.asctelecom.com), a leading global provider of innovative solutions to record, analyze and evaluate communications, installed its quality monitoring solution INSPIRATIONpro with its VoIP recording software, EVOip, at two locations of BSH Home Appliances in the UK and Ireland. [...]

The Tooway™ satellite consumer broadband service delivers 2Mbps today, 3.6Mbps from July 1 and 10Mbps in 2010
London, UK, 16 June 2009: Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL), Europe’s leading satellite operator, today welcomed the initiatives in the Government’s Digital Britain report and stated that its Universal Service Commitment to deliver a 2Mbps broadband service to all [...]

Cyberhand Technologies (PINKSHEETS: CYHA) announced today its new Raptor Controller and the Company’s second planned stock-dividend and technology spin-off.
The second spinoff of Cyberhand Technologies will consist of the Pocketop keyboard and the upcoming Bluetooth model. The Pocketop keyboard was the best selling folding keyboard in the world in Canada, Britain, Japan and the USA [...]