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  • Steve Woods wrote a new post on the site Bristol Wireless 6 years, 1 month ago

    It is with great sadness that we have to pass on the news that Linda Bell, former Chair of Bristol Wireless, passed away in her sleep on 25th January 2018 at the nursing home where she had been since Christmas […]

  • Steve Woods wrote a new post on the site Bristol Wireless 6 years, 1 month ago

    Bristol Wireless is pleased to announce that funding has been secured for 2 years to keep the network running courtesy of the University of the West of England (UWE) and High Tech Bristol & Bath CIC.

    The […]

  • Steve Woods wrote a new post on the site Bristol Wireless 7 years ago

    Cryptography is vital today to protect information online and keep it secure, whether that’s for ordinary folks doing online banking and shopping or for commercial organisations and governments wishing to keep […]

  • Steve Woods wrote a new post on the site Bristol Wireless 7 years ago

    Welsh Assembly member Russell George, who is chair of the Assembly’s Economy, Infrastructure &Skills Committee, is hosting a Broadband Summit to be held Monday 20th March 2017.

    Mr George has been a long-term […]

  • Steve Woods wrote a new post on the site Bristol Wireless 7 years, 1 month ago

    Whenever your correspondent visits Malmesbury in Wiltshire, it has an unhurried air. This is in spite of some past events that happened very quickly but added to its history, such as Eilmer, the local 11th century […]

  • Steve Woods wrote a new post on the site Bristol Wireless 7 years, 1 month ago

    In the spirit of the 18th Century Longitude Prize – a competition that set the task of determining a ship’s exact location at sea – NESTA’s Longitude Explorer Prize focuses on how to solve a contemporary c […]

  • Steve Woods wrote a new post on the site Bristol Wireless 7 years, 1 month ago

    Germany’s Federal Government wants to make administrative data accessible as the “raw material of the future” and has published a draft for an open data law. Unprocessed electronically stored data from federal […]

  • Steve Woods wrote a new post on the site Bristol Wireless 7 years, 3 months ago

    Because the Internet of Things (IoT) has excelled in recent months as a risk not only for users’ own IT, but also as a botnet, Raspbian developers have now responded and given their operating system an update […]

  • Steve Woods wrote a new post on the site Bristol Wireless 7 years, 3 months ago

    Yesterday the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, announced a £7 mn. programme to arm young Londoners with the skills needed to get jobs in the city’s thriving digital, technology and creative sectors.

    Called the […]

  • Steve Woods wrote a new post on the site Bristol Wireless 7 years, 3 months ago

    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 Linux, […]

  • Steve Woods wrote a new post on the site Bristol Wireless 7 years, 3 months ago

    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 used i […]

  • Steve Woods wrote a new post on the site Bristol Wireless 7 years, 3 months ago

    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 offering […]

  • Steve Woods wrote a new post on the site Bristol Wireless 7 years, 3 months ago

    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 UK’s current […]

  • Steve Woods wrote a new post on the site Bristol Wireless 7 years, 4 months ago

    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 programme […]

  • Steve Woods wrote a new post on the site Bristol Wireless 7 years, 4 months ago

    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) in […]

  • Steve Woods wrote a new post on the site Bristol Wireless 7 years, 4 months ago

    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 supercomputer last […]

  • Steve Woods wrote a new post on the site Bristol Wireless 7 years, 4 months ago

    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 10.00 […]

  • Steve Woods wrote a new post on the site Bristol Wireless 7 years, 4 months ago

    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, brought […]

  • Steve Woods wrote a new post on the site Bristol Wireless 7 years, 4 months ago

    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 access […]

  • Steve Woods wrote a new post on the site Bristol Wireless 7 years, 4 months ago

    Today Collabora announced that Pydio 7, the latest release of the popular open source synchronisation & sharing platform, includes LibreOffice Online functionality created by Collabora […]

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