Government Data Unleashed

Posted 21/01/2010 – 11:54 in: Data, Development, Industry

Sir Tim Berners-Lee has unveiled the goverments latest foray into the data sharing arena. A new site has been launched that links to hundreds of different data sets covering all areas of public data. Although it seems a little limited in that it links to different datasets in a variety of formats, it is great [...]

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Keeping the momentum

Posted 29/07/2009 – 22:09 in: Industry, Internet

I was recently shown the new Westminster Council website which has been given a complete makeover. They’ve gone a Google look and feel, as well as execution. As you can see from the screen shots it mimics the Google style almost in its entirety. For a council website this is quite a break from the [...]

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Oracle buys Sun Microsystems

Posted 20/04/2009 – 12:30 in: Hardware, Industry

Oracle has stepped up and bought Sun Microsystems after IBM walked away last week. Although the $7.4bn price seems quite cheap for Sun. But I guess they’re not what they used to be.
The move has been pitched as the first company to provide a full application to disk integrated system. Oracle in a box basically. [...]

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