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"rejected demands by the Indian government that it help decrypt suspicious text messages [RIM] says its technology does not allow any third party - even the company itself - to read information sent over its network."
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"Details of a £50m scheme to provide police forces with 10,000 hand-held computers have been unveiled." 27 of 51 forces get funding for a mixture of pda (BlackBerry/WinMob/Airwave) and in car solutions.
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"The Government is to spend £50 million equipping police forces with hand-held computers to 'cut paperwork', despite frontline officers saying they are ineffective." we'd disagree with the criticism, but we would say that wouldn't we.
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Tom quotes someone channelling Alistair Cockburn: "Scrum doesn't do anything. Nor does Lean. People do things."
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EU legislated?
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Background to recent NPIA-led mobile 50m fund. "realisation dawned that the PM had a short deadline in mind [...] 12 months from the pronouncement. [...] instances of cultural resistance and deliberate abuse of technology have already been encountered wit
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"East Midlands [Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire and Nottinghamshire] secured £8.3m for [4,000] devices, training, infrastructure and other costs [incl BlackBerrys, PDAs and MDTs in cars]"
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"Scottish forces will receive £2.5 million for the project" - all 8 Scottish forces bid together.
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"Durham Constabulary had their application rejected while Northumbria Police did not apply for the Home Office funding, instead opting for its own initiative"
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Commentary on 50mm/10k mobiles plan from NPIA. Cost and security are indeed concerns, but the criticisms here are shrill (eg: the costs are for devices, training, data plans, infrastructure, etc, not just the devices.)
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Some devices (and programmes) reviewed briefly.
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"Police in Hertfordshire will soon be using palm held computers thanks to a successful £1.9 million bid to the Home Office for funding [...] the additional funding will enable the provision of a further thousand, along with 300 car-borne devices."
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Map of England and Northern Ireland police forces/authorities. See http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/10/3192658/26594 for the eight Scottish forces.
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"Explaining can't be done by looking at the past. The past is dead, filthy causist. If you try, the past retroactively becomes a series of events that were occurring towards a goal which, at the time, they are not."