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Hospitals offered “real-life” virtual meeting technology to improve remote healthcare

Hospitals and other medical facilities will be able to offer better patient care virtually anywhere with the latest healthcare telepresence systems from Nortel and Polycom.

Bed retailer deploys voice over IP as part of expansion plan

  • News
  • Author: Ian Grant
  • Date: 28 February 2008
Dreams, a bed and bedding retailer, is using 3G mobile technology and voice over IP (VoIP) as part of a rapid expansion programme that will see it open 50 stories at the rate of one a week.

Firms must build tight SLAs into virtual network comms contracts

Companies looking to sign virtual network operator contracts in an attempt to slash their communications costs must write tight service level agreements (SLAs) into their contracts to avoid problems, says a major VNO customer.

Firms adopt VoIP, but struggle with unified comms

IP telephony is still growing among UK firms, but they are struggling when it comes to rolling out unified communications.

Cattles cuts virtual conferencing costs by half with MeetingZone

Cattles, a leading UK financial services company, has successfully deployed MeetingZone's audio conferencing services to cut costs by half.

Welsh bus company deploys on-board Wi-Fi

The Welsh division of public transport company First Group has introduced in-bus mobile broadband internet connectivity and GPS-based vehicle tracking on the route between Swansea and Cardiff.

Network Rail moves mobile-connections contract from Vodafone to O2

Network Rail is moving its mobile connectivity contract from Vodafone to O2 in a move it claims will improve its mobile working productivity and cut costs.

SMEs to be offered cut-price Linux-based unified comms platform

A Linux-based unified communications platform will be launched at next month's CeBIT show in Germany. The software-based beta solution will be available for firms to download from next month.

Swinton Insurance to save £100,000 a year with IP telephony

Swinton Insurance has deployed an IP telephony package across 450 sites to increase the number of sales agents are able to make.

Children’s hospital develops own system to provide free communication services

Sheffield Children's Hospital is testing a self-developed bedside computer system that will provide free TV, internet and secure telephone links for patients as well as clinical applications to staff.
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