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The Ministry of Defence has chosen UK engineering firm Marconi as the preferred supplier for the Bowman personal radio. The Bowman, a short-range tactical system for use within small military teams, will be in operation by the end of the year, more than eight years behind schedule. The £18 million contract comes after Archer Communications was sacked last July for project delays.

www.kellysearch.com

Kelly’s new website, which describes itself as “the nationwide search engine for the manufacturing industry”, is a basic-looking affair - no rotating Kelly’s logo, “click here” buttons changing colour when your mouse passes over them. Only the banner on the top of the page moves.

Colour Me Beautiful

Water bill attacked

A government bill aimed at conserving water could increase bills and threaten the security of water supplies, claimed Water UK, the industry’s representative body.

Underground battles

Preferred bidders for the London Underground public-private partnership scheme are expected to be announced within weeks, according to one of the shortlisted firms. But wrangles between the Greater London Authority and the government could delay this.

European Parliament

Commercial Seminars

ASP service warning

Around 85 per cent of application service providers (ASP) will fail to deliver service-level agreements to their customers because their own suppliers lack performance targets, according to IT analysts Gartner.

ISP changes ‘simple’

One-third of small and medium-sized enterprises said that is was simple to change their Internet service provider, claimed telecoms watchdog Oftel in a quarterly survey of 700 SMEs. Half of medium-sized companies have also changed mobile phone companies in an effort to get better coverage, service and support.

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