BVG - Berlin's public transport authority - is set to introduce a smartcard system designed to eradicate paper tickets. Travellers will be able to purchase credit units for the smartcards and then swipe them through readers on buses, underground...
London Transport (LT) has awarded a £25m contract for desktop services to UK outsourcing firm ITNet. The company beat out incumbent contractor, ICL, to take over support services for LT's 8,000 PCs and 250 servers.
Microsoft is investigating what may be a serious flaw in Exchange Server 2003, only a month after the software's launch as part of Office System 2003. The bug appears to affect an Exchange component called Outlook Web Access (OWA), which allows...
Martin Flaherty, director of operations at the London Ambulance Service, told the committee: "We have accepted that we have become too reliant on mobile phone technology as a communication tool and it is clear now that it cannot be relied upon in...
Twenty-eight per cent of silicon.com readers named somebody speaking loudly on their mobile phone as their biggest annoyance on public transport. Mobile phone use is the most annoying part of using public transportation, beating out late trains...
Email was the killer app of the internet" but it isn't the only form of communication, Ascher said, pointing to internet phone calls, RSS feeds for fetching blog updates, and text messages on mobile phones.