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Submission + - Council dumps Microsoft Windows XP for Google Chromebooks, saves £400,000 (v3.co.uk)

Submitted by girlmad on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @09:53AM

girlmad writes: Google has scored a major win on the back of Microsoft’s Windows XP support cut-off. The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham has begun moving all its employees over to Samsung Chromebooks and Chromeboxes ahead of the 8 April deadline. The council was previously running 3,500 Windows XP desktops and 800 XP laptops, and is currently in the process of retiring these in favour of around 2,000 Chromebooks and 300 Chromeboxes. It estimates the savings at around £400,000, no small change.

Submission + - HullCoin launched as 'local digital currency' (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by Big Hairy Ian on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @08:27AM

Big Hairy Ian writes: A virtual currency designed to be a "local digital currency", has been launched by Hull City Council.
In the form of digital "tokens", HullCoins can be used to pay council tax and for goods and services from firms signed up to the scheme. Hull City Council said it hoped the scheme would eventually be extended to the major supermarket chains. David Shepherdson, from the City Council, said HullCoins would have "a social purpose".

Submission + - UK's "Internet of Things" Will Use UHF (ofcom.org.uk)

Submitted by product_bucket on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @08:07AM

product_bucket writes: Ofcom, the UK's communications watchdog, has decided to permit/encourage the use of the Short Range Device allocations 870-876 MHz and 915-921 MHz for a proposed up and coming Internet of Things. It intends to see the bands used by smart meters, car to car data links and machine to machine communication, among other potential applications.

Comment Surprising (Score 1) 246

by product_bucket on Friday January 17, 2014 @10:24PM (#45994945) Attached to: Microsoft Quietly Fixes Windows XP Resource Hog Problem

Whilst I'm pleased to see this fix I'm surprised they didn't just leave it. What business sense is there in fixing soon-to-be-obsolete products, especially when takeup of the new ones is lower than expected?

Submission + - "Internet of Things" is a viable spam delivery platform

Submitted by product_bucket on Friday January 17, 2014 @09:32PM

product_bucket writes: Security consultancy Proofpoint has provided an insight [proofpoint.com] into the real world capabilities of net connected domestic goods, and how they could be subverted. The problems identified with the current implementation techniques of some internet connected appliances could (maybe should?) force a paradigm shift in the way many people treat common internet capable devices.

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