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Tesco to offer cheap broadband

Tesco is aiming for turnover of £2bn a year from telecoms services after signing a deal with Cable & Wireless. The retailer will offer broadband and...

Inside Chrome OS - Google reveals design objectives of cloud operating system

Google has unveiled the design plans for Chrome OS, its operating system for cloud computing. Chrome OS is an evolution of the Chrome web browser,...

AOL to cut third of workforce before Christmas

AOL is to cut a third of its workforce before Christmas as it seeks to reduce annual costs by $300m. The move forms part of a restructuring...

eBay sells $2bn stake in Skype

eBay has completed its sale of a majority interest in Skype for almost $2bn to an investor group that includes the founders of the internet phone service. The...

Digital Economy Bill supports creative and digital industries

The UK digital economy accounts for nearly 10% of the revenue produced by the whole British economy each year, according to business secretary

First ever iPhone worm Ikee unleashed by Aussie hacker

The first worm targeting Apple's iPhone has been unleashed by an Australian hacker.

iPhone available from Vodafone in 2010

A price war on the iPhone looks likely after Vodafone confirmed today that it will sell the smart phone from early next year.

BT I-Plate ADSL filter boosts broadband by 4Mbps

BT is introducing a broadband booster which it says will improve any ADSL connection, even if the user is not a subscriber to BT's broadband service. The...

Kcom offers managed comms for mid-sized firms

Kcom Group is to offer managed communication services to mid-sized companies following a restructuring exercise. The communication services...

Facebook stock value up 42% to $9.5bn

The price of Facebook stock has jumped as much as 42% in the past four months. Membership is topping 300 million users to take Facebook into profit for the first time.

Congestion charge suffers technical glitch as IBM takes over contract

The London congestion charge system went down yesterday after IBM took over the contract from Capita.

T-Mobile and Orange to merge

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  • Author: Ian Grant
  • Date: 06 November 2009
Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom have signed contracts to set up a 50:50 joint...

Ofcom opens up TV spectrum for rural broadband

Ofcom has cleared the way for spare television spectrum to be used to provide broadband...

Customers flee from poor digital service

Companies are losing customers because of poor technology-based customer service, according to a report by Accenture. Half of UK customers do...

Digital divide can be tackled with next generation broadband, says Ofcom

The Ofcom Consumer Panel has called on policy-makers to tackle the digital...

Avaya victorious after lengthy Nortel auction

Avaya has emerged victorious from the protracted...

How the government taxes UK's broadband future

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  • Author: Ian Grant
  • Date: 04 November 2009
In 2003, Vtesse Networks, a small UK fibre network operator, challenged the Valuation Office Agency's assessment of BT for business rates in British and European courts. It argued that the VOA's assessment amounted to an unfair subsidy to BT.

Dell to launch Android-based Mini 3 smartphone

PC maker Dell has announced that it is to enter the smartphone...

What does 4G mean for the CIO?

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  • Author: Ian Grant
  • Date: 20 February 2009
Judging from what was on show in Barcelona this week at the GSMA Mobile World Congress, the latest mobile technologies offer a lot of new features, including high-definition video and CD-quality sound on mobile phones, to brag about in the boardroom.

iPhone sales boost O2's UK results

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  • Author: Ian Grant
  • Date: 26 February 2009
A million sales of Apple's iPhone helped Telef ó nica's O2 mobile...
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