Witnesses in criminal court cases in Lincolnshire can now be sent a text message when they are due to appear in court , reports eGov monitor.
“A new computer system called XHIBIT being introduced at Lincoln Combined court can reduce the time witnesses of crime spend waiting in court to give evidence.
“The technology saves time for witnesses including police officers, meaning they attend court only when they are needed. It could save 80,000 police days every year and mean more policing on the streets.
XHIBIT is now being rolled out across England and Wales, following a successful pilot at a Crown court in London last year.
Witnesses and members of the public can also track court hearings online using the Internet or via public display screens in the court building”.
Comments
@ 16:21
A somewhat flawed approach. SMS’s can be delayed by anything upto a week depending on how busy the SMS server is. A better way would be an automated voice dial out. The online system is great though.
@ 16:21
A somewhat flawed approach. SMS’s can be delayed by anything upto a week depending on how busy the SMS server is. A better way would be an automated voice dial out. The online system is great though.
@ 14:51
Text messaging is a valuable feature of the cell phones that has not been exploited at all. Tecchnology should be developed so that the Servers are no required to send any documents or files to the clients and are programmed to process all the commands, received from clients, themselves.
When this is done the cell phones could send all the data to the servers whenever their owners desire to surf ine internet. this is discussed in my blogs at
http://www.newerawisp.blogspot.com
http://www.hackers10.blogspot.com
http://www.spaces.msn.com/members/wirelessbrowsing
@ 14:52
Text messaging is a valuable feature of the cell phones that has not been exploited at all. Tecchnology should be developed so that the Servers are no required to send any documents or files to the clients and are programmed to process all the commands, received from clients, themselves.
When this is done the cell phones could send all the data to the servers whenever their owners desire to surf ine internet. this is discussed in my blogs at
http://www.newerawisp.blogspot.com
http://www.hackers10.blogspot.com
http://www.spaces.msn.com/members/wirelessbrowsing
@ 09:30
I’ve to comment on the Comments made (twice back to back) regarding SMS servers. This segmentation of servers depending upon the use is causing an exponential rise in the cost of servers required by multinationals.
A few years ago there was an article on Verizon in WSJ. It basically covered an interview by Ph.D educated IT Vice President of the Verizon who said that the Verizon SERVER COSTS were shooting through the roof and Verizon has to use every trick of the trade to reduce the costs like ordering and taking possession of the Servers but not paying for them until they are actually put to use.
This segmention of Servers reminds me of the art of specilizing used in the trade. Yuy have to specialize to do a task so that you can do it the bezt. It works well in professions. I would not want to have my catract removed by a carpenter or by a nurosurgen.
But this creation of Servers to fulfill a certain particular need to the unnecessary exploision in the cost of hardware needed by
the entities that maintain the files on line.
The holders of Ph.D degrees should make an active use of their brains to reconsider the issue of SERVER proliferation.
I’m advocating a different role for the servers. I believe the role of the servers should be to take the commands from the owners of clients and perform all the tasks now performed by the clients. This would save the hardware costs of the multinationals in the form of relieving them of the need to buy $3000 802.11 enable Laptops with processing speeds of 3.2 GHz and hard disk having memory of 100 GB and processor memory of 512GB. All they wuld need is a cellular phone capable of sending text messages.