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February 15, 2010 15 Feb'10
Mobile World Congress: Network operators have big plans for platforms

Last year it was apps; this year platforms dominated the opening days of the 2010 Mobile World Congress.
February 12, 2010 12 Feb'10
CMA calls for new communications act

The next government should set up a single department to oversee telecommunications and broadband, according to the Communication Managers Association (CMA).
February 11, 2010 11 Feb'10
Alcatel-Lucent posts first net profit

Alcatel-Lucent today posted its first quarterly net profit since its inception in 2006, but its full year figures were blighted by the impact of the recession...
February 11, 2010 11 Feb'10
Richard Branson ditches NTL-Telewest brand and unveils Virgin Media Business

British entrepreneur Richard Branson last night buried the NTL-Telewest brand, replacing it with Virgin Media Business to reflect more accurately the division's...

February 10, 2010 10 Feb'10
DWP awards £237m contract extension to BT

The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) has awarded a £237m contract extension to BT.
February 09, 2010 09 Feb'10
Nokia to fight securities fraud suit

The world's largest mobile phone maker Nokia ...
February 09, 2010 09 Feb'10
New features fuel rivalry between Facebook and Google

The rivalry between Google and Facebook is set to intensify with both planning improvements to their messaging services.

Google is expected to announce...
February 08, 2010 08 Feb'10
Winterflood gains space and power with Cisco UCS

City trading firm Winterflood, the first UK company to use Cisco's Unified Computing Solution (UCS), has released details of its configuration and use.
February 08, 2010 08 Feb'10
Network users get great clarity on call pricing

Network users will have greater insight into suppliers' pricing following Ofcom's decision to insist on the publication of prices lists for call termination rates.
February 04, 2010 04 Feb'10
Video: O2 and Huawei show off 4G video streaming and Playstation

Rob Joyce, from O2 Radio Evolution, and David Fowler, chief technology officer of Huawei, have given a demonstration of what UK users can expect from 4G...

February 04, 2010 04 Feb'10
Tories would push fibre to the home to meet 100Mbps target

The Conservative Party ...
February 04, 2010 04 Feb'10
VOA disputes Tories' BT fibre valuation

The government's Valuation Office Agency (VOA) has disputed Conservative Party claims that BT pays trivial business taxes on its fibre network links.
February 04, 2010 04 Feb'10
UK authorities await EC approval to investigate Orange/T-Mobile merger

The UK's Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has asked the European Commission (EC) for the right to review the planned merger of France Telecom
February 04, 2010 04 Feb'10
Cisco results signal economic recovery

Cisco Systems has reported a return to revenue growth after declines in the past four quarters.

The network equipment maker and industry bellwether...
February 03, 2010 03 Feb'10
VOA to meet industry over tax on wireless and fibre networks

The government's Valuation Office Agency is to meet communications industry representatives in the next few weeks to discuss the application of business rates taxes to wireless and fibre networks.
February 03, 2010 03 Feb'10
Winterflood picks Cisco UCS to manage 250 million daily updates

Winterflood Securities has become the first UK firm to implement Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS) to improve data throughput at lower cost.
February 03, 2010 03 Feb'10
UK authorities seek to scrutinise Orange/T-Mobile merger

UK regulators will push to get involved in reviewing the proposed merger...
February 02, 2010 02 Feb'10
PepsiCo refreshes BT deal with Cisco telepresence

US snacks maker PepsiCo is to use Cisco Telepresence to cut travel costs and improve collaboration worldwide in a supplement to an existing managed network contract with BT Global Services.
February 02, 2010 02 Feb'10
Vodafone targets SMEs with new Cheapside store

Vodafone UK has opened the first of a network of retail stores dedicated to small business customers in Cheapside, London.
February 01, 2010 01 Feb'10
Tories promise 100Mbps broadband to two-thirds of UK homes by 2017

The Conservative Party has promised to give most UK homes 100Mbps broadband network access by 2017 as part of a revamp of Britain's communications regulations.
February 01, 2010 01 Feb'10
Virgin Media to offer free landline to mobile calls

Virgin Media plans to offer its customers free home to mobile calls from 1 April.
January 29, 2010 29 Jan'10
BSG mulls support for Vtesse on network rates

The Broadband Stakeholders Group (BSG) will meet next week to discuss whether to support Vtesse Networks' petition...
January 28, 2010 28 Jan'10
Business taxes may give BT an unfair advantage, says judge

The business rating system may give BT a huge cost advantage over its fibre network competitors, which could restrict competition, keep prices high and slow...
January 28, 2010 28 Jan'10
BT switches to agile techniques to create new products

BT is to revamp its product development process following the successful trial of agile...
January 26, 2010 26 Jan'10
Microsoft calls for greater spectrum to support cloud computing

Microsoft has called on European governments to ensure they deliver low-cost broadband networks to support cloud computing.

In a speech...
January 25, 2010 25 Jan'10
BT delivers 40Mbps business fibre broadband for £45

Businesses will be able to access 40Mbps fibre broadband for £45 per month under a service launched by BT.

BT said the service gives business traffic...
January 25, 2010 25 Jan'10
Multinational companies waste billions sourcing telecoms

The world biggest companies are throwing away billions of pounds because they are not very good at sourcing and managing their telecoms services.
January 22, 2010 22 Jan'10
BT undercuts competitors with superfast broadband

BT has launched a "superfast" 40Mbps optical fibre broadband service for £20 a month, £8 cheaper than a similar service from rival Virgin Media.
January 20, 2010 20 Jan'10
Broadband growth prompts Carphone Warehouse to consider its own fibre network

Carphone Warehouse, the UK's second largest broadband supplier, may build its optical fibre network capacity following a possible re-regulation of BT's communications infrastructure
January 15, 2010 15 Jan'10
TSF sends comms equipment and support teams to Haiti

Telecoms San Frontieres (TSF) has sent an emergency team...
January 14, 2010 14 Jan'10
ITU sends $1m tech boost to Haiti

The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) is joining the fight to help those affected by the earthquake in Haiti with $1m worth of technology equipment.
January 14, 2010 14 Jan'10
Panasonic to put 300,000 users in IBM's cloud

Consumer electronics manufacturer Panasonic has become the largest user of cloud computing services.
January 14, 2010 14 Jan'10
York to get £13m dark fibre network from H2O

The City of York has signed a £13.7m, eight-year renewable contract for a city-wide managed fibre network with Pinacl Solutions and H2O Networks.
January 13, 2010 13 Jan'10
UK hogs middle of broadband superhighway

The UK's position in the middle of the information superhighway has been highlighted by the latest stateoftheinternet report from web content delivery firm Akamai.
January 12, 2010 12 Jan'10
BT to work with Green Touch to cut ICT energy use

BT, the UK's biggest telecommunications operator, is to take part in and support the Green Touch initiative launched by Bell Labs to cut the energy use of the IT sector to one-thousandth of its present consumption.
January 12, 2010 12 Jan'10
Google extends Apps with shared enterprise storage

Google has extended its Apps Premier Edition cloud-based office productivity suite, with tools and services to aid online collaboration.
January 11, 2010 11 Jan'10
Green Touch consortium aims to slash internet's carbon footprint

The internet could be running on 1,000 times less energy that it presently uses within five years, say members of a consortium of IT and communications equipment and services suppliers.
January 11, 2010 11 Jan'10
China’s Huawei to invest $500m in Indian operations

Chinese telecoms equipment maker Huawei Technologies is to invest $500m in its research and development operations in the southern Indian city of Bangalore by 2015.
January 07, 2010 07 Jan'10
Optical fibre inventors get more government money

Southampton University, which has invented some of the key optical fibre technologies that now enable the internet, is one of three research and development centres to receive new government money to further its work.
January 07, 2010 07 Jan'10
Government asks how it should spend 50p phone levy

The government has launched a consultation on how best to spend part of the £1bn it hopes to raise from the 50p levy on fixed-line phones to extend high-speed broadband access across the UK.
January 07, 2010 07 Jan'10
Networks & telecoms trends to watch in 2010

The single most important event in the UK telecommunications market in 2010 is likely to be the passing of the Digital Economy Bill.
January 07, 2010 07 Jan'10
O2 and 3 call for UK ruling on Orange and T-Mobile merger

Mobile operators are calling for the planned merger between Orange and T-Mobile to be reviewed by UK regulators instead of their European-based counterparts.
January 05, 2010 05 Jan'10
Vodafone and Orange ready for iPhone data deluge

Orange and Vodafone claim their networks will cope with the extra data traffic that plagued O2 when it launched the iPhone.
January 05, 2010 05 Jan'10
Google could launch Android phone today

Google is expected to launch its own-brand Android mobile phone later today, ahead of the opening...
January 04, 2010 04 Jan'10
Conservative manifesto would revamp NHS IT

The Conservative Party has published a draft manifesto for the NHS, which could have a material impact on the NHS National Programme for IT.
January 04, 2010 04 Jan'10
UK broadband gains speed

Average broadband speeds grew 22% during 2009, research by analysts at internet comparison site broadband.co.uk ...
December 22, 2009 22 Dec'09
Millions to text their season's greetings

Mobile phones will unite millions of people this Christmas and New Year, with hundreds of millions of messages expected to be sent on Orange's network alone.
December 22, 2009 22 Dec'09
Vodafone iPhone available 14 January 2010

Vodafone has become the latest mobile operator to offer the iPhone, with the announcement of availability from 14 January.
December 22, 2009 22 Dec'09
Twitter bags a profit with Google and Microsoft search deals

Twitter is said to be profitable after this year's high-profile search deals with Google and Microsoft.
December 22, 2009 22 Dec'09
Digital Britain in action: plans well underway, says government

The government says it is a quarter of the way through implementing the plans set out in the Digital Britain report.
December 21, 2009 21 Dec'09
Top 10 stories in telecoms and networks 2009

The Digital Britain report, broadband speeds, taxes and privacy have dominated the world of networks and telecoms this year…
December 18, 2009 18 Dec'09
Tesco builds 'world's first' visual search app for iPhone

Tesco claims it has built the world's first visual search application for the iPhone with its new wine app.
December 18, 2009 18 Dec'09
Blackberry e-mail fails again

Blackberry users were unable to access mobile e-mail from their smartphones yesterday.
December 17, 2009 17 Dec'09
Vtesse to test government's 2mbps broadband promise

Vtesse Networks is to test the economic viability of providing superfast fixed wireless broadband to the UK's broadband "not-spots" by installing a network in rural Wiltshire. It will use the results to press its case for government money to roll ...
December 17, 2009 17 Dec'09
Wi-Fi operator may quit UK over wireless tax

Valuation Office plans to tax Wi-Fi and Wi-Max networks could lead to at least one Wi-Fi network operator closing down and leaving the country.
December 17, 2009 17 Dec'09
Orange map shows broadband hotspots

Mobile network operator Orange has produced an online interactive map, based on its research findings.
December 16, 2009 16 Dec'09
Worthy groups awarded free web access

More than 40 UK communities will receive free Wi-Fi for at least three years regardless of the current connectivity in the area, following a competition to find worthy users.
December 15, 2009 15 Dec'09
Survey: Blackberry obsession set to cause Christmas strife

The majority of smartphone users will have their Christmas breaks interrupted by work-related messages, a survey claims.

Some 77% of smartphone owners...
December 15, 2009 15 Dec'09
Novartis develops app to keep malaria in check

Pharmaceutical company Novatatis has worked with IBM and Vodafone to develop an application to maintain supplies of anti-malarial drugs in Tanzania.

Over...
December 14, 2009 14 Dec'09
UK super-fast broadband network is a no-brainer, says OECD

The UK government could justify building a national point-to-point, fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network if it saved just 0.5% of costs in each of the electricity,...
December 10, 2009 10 Dec'09
Broadband tax for everyone with a landline

A tax of 50p per month will be forced on every home that has a fixed landline as the government looks at ways to get broadband services
December 09, 2009 09 Dec'09
Nokia uses joint venture to launch Ovi in China

Nokia has formed a joint venture with New Alliance, part of Shanghai Alliance Investment (SAIL), to develop and sell mobile and internet-based services to the Chinese market.
December 08, 2009 08 Dec'09
10gbps network speeds up Manchester's media dream

BT Business beat off competition from 17 other network suppliers to win a contract said to be worth close to £10m to install a 10gbps network in
December 08, 2009 08 Dec'09
One in four 'too rural' for fast broadband, says study

Up to a quarter of the British population will not have access to broadband at faster than 2Mbps, according to a national study of existing optical fibre...
December 04, 2009 04 Dec'09
Which? picks Avaya for call centre upgrade

Consumer champion Which? is to revamp the technology that supports its customer services operations...
December 04, 2009 04 Dec'09
Cisco will buy Tandberg despite falling short on shares

Cisco says it will go ahead with the purchase of Tandberg despite receiving preliminary acceptances of its cash offer for only 89% of the Norwegian video...
December 04, 2009 04 Dec'09
Twitter improves website for mobiles

Twitter has upgraded its mobile website to make it look and work more like the desktop version, the social networking site said in a blog post.
December 02, 2009 02 Dec'09
Government picks centralised network for £10bn smart meter project

The government has opted for a centralised communications network to control information flows to and from 47 million smart meters that will replace the...
December 02, 2009 02 Dec'09
BP outsources comms and supplier management to T-Systems

BP has outsourced its voice and data communications infrastructure to T-Systems in a deal that will also see the supplier manage the oil company's voice and data suppliers.
December 01, 2009 01 Dec'09
TfL offers IT contracts worth £150m

Transport for London has issued tenders for two contracts with a potential combined value of £150m.

The first seeks suppliers to "ensure successful...
November 30, 2009 30 Nov'09
BT expresses sympathy as villagers slam chairman's broadband

Villagers in Hambledon, near Henley-on-Thames, are outraged because a local resident who happens to be the chairman of BT is the only person in the village with broadband.
November 26, 2009 26 Nov'09
The IT Blog Awards 2009 winners

Did Stephen Fry win Twitter user of the year? Who’s the 2009 blogger of the year? All these questions have been answered.
November 24, 2009 24 Nov'09
Oyster payment systems expanded across London

Train companies in London will have to invest in IT systems to support Oyster smartcard payments as London goes through "Oysterisation", according to London mayor Boris Johnson.
November 23, 2009 23 Nov'09
CBI: Eight things you didn’t know about digital communications

Interesting facts from the CBI report, The shape of business – the next 10 years
November 23, 2009 23 Nov'09
Will Microsoft pay News Corp to remove its content from Google?

Rumours are growing around the possibility of Microsoft paying News Corporation to remove its content from Google. Rupert Murdoch, the CEO of...
November 23, 2009 23 Nov'09
Ikee.B virus gives control of iPhones to cybercriminals

A new virus is attacking iPhones and giving control of the devices to a botnet in Lithuania.
November 23, 2009 23 Nov'09
AOL to cut one third of its workforce

AOL is to cut a third of its workforce as it seeks to reduce annual costs by $300m.

The move forms part of a restructuring exercise following...
November 20, 2009 20 Nov'09
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...
November 20, 2009 20 Nov'09
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
November 20, 2009 20 Nov'09
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...
November 19, 2009 19 Nov'09
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,...
November 19, 2009 19 Nov'09
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.
November 19, 2009 19 Nov'09
Delivering on the promise of easy-to-use, secure, and inexpensive video conferencing

Internet Protocol (IP) Video Conferencing can provide companies substantial operational efficiencies and cost savings. Although IP video conferencing is desirable from a cost perspective challenges to implementation exist including NAT traversal, ...
November 18, 2009 18 Nov'09
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...
November 18, 2009 18 Nov'09
O2 to build 1,500 more network sites

O2 will build 1,500 network sites across the UK next year, with 200 sites planned for London alone.
November 17, 2009 17 Nov'09
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...
November 17, 2009 17 Nov'09
Dell to launch Android-based Mini 3 smartphone

PC maker Dell has announced that it is to enter the smartphone market in late November with the launch of its first device in China.
November 17, 2009 17 Nov'09
Cisco ups bid for Tandberg to $3.4bn

Cisco has increased its offer for Norwegian teleconferencing company Tandberg after a majority of shareholders rejected the initial offer of $3bn.
November 13, 2009 13 Nov'09
Google to acquire Gizmo5 to boost Google Voice

Google is to acquire internet-based calling software firm Gizmo5 to boost its Google Voice service.
November 12, 2009 12 Nov'09
Research raises questions about telco performance claims

Most businesses lose the equivalent of an hour a week as the result of poor network performance, putting customer relationships at threat, research has...
November 11, 2009 11 Nov'09
Blackberry launches tools for easier development

Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) has announced new software tools to make it easier to develop applications and graphical user interfaces for its mobile handsets.
November 11, 2009 11 Nov'09
UK mobile web surfers top 10m

UK mobile web surfers now top 10m, research has revealed.
November 09, 2009 09 Nov'09
Cisco gets social with new hosted e-mail and video apps

Cisco has launched a raft of new and enhanced products aimed at helping companies collaborate better using video, e-mail, instant messaging, telephony...
November 09, 2009 09 Nov'09
First ever iPhone worm Ikee unleashed by Aussie hacker

The first worm targeting Apple's iPhone has been unleashed by an Australian hacker.
November 06, 2009 06 Nov'09
Tories promise to review broadband tax

The Conservative Party will prioritise a review of the business rates tax on fibre networks if it comes to power.
November 06, 2009 06 Nov'09
EU weakens net neutrality to pass telecoms reform package

A net neutrality revision has allowed European legislators to implement long-awaited reforms that will introduce a single competitive market in telecoms...
November 06, 2009 06 Nov'09
T-Mobile and Orange to merge

Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom have signed contracts to set up a 50:50 joint venture that combines their UK operations, T-Mobile and Orange.
November 06, 2009 06 Nov'09
IT vital to Red Cross aid efforts in Indonesia

Isolated villages cut off by the earthquake in Indonesia have received food and aid thanks to innovative use of satellite technology.
November 06, 2009 06 Nov'09
Suppliers optimistic about 2010 outlook

IT suppliers are cautiously optimistic about growth returning in 2010.

Cisco CEO John Chambers is upbeat, despite sales sliding 13% and...
November 05, 2009 05 Nov'09
Ethernet switch for WAN could cut telecom bill by 30%

Most firms could save 30% of their telecommunications bill by optimising their wide area networks and switching to Ethernet, according to research.

The...