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April 25, 2008 25 Apr'08
Unified comms projects should focus on business agility, not reducing costs, says Gartner

Company unified communications (UC) projects should focus on increasing business agility, rather than reducing costs, says analyst Gartner.
April 25, 2008 25 Apr'08
SME decision-makers pay too much for mobile communications

Research commissioned by T-Mobile reveals 60% of small business senior decision makers spend a minimum of five hours a week out of the office, but many are paying too much for their mobile communications.
April 24, 2008 24 Apr'08
Faster bank payments ready to roll

From May, businesses will be able to have UK internet, telephone banking and standing order payments cleared in as little as 15 seconds instead of three days.
April 23, 2008 23 Apr'08
Enterprise data warehouses replace data marts

Businesses are replacing departmental databases - known as data marts - with enterprise data warehouses designed to pool information across the company.

April 23, 2008 23 Apr'08
Hosted IP Centrex services continue steady growth

Seats in service will reach 6.5 million in the US and 14.1 million worldwide by 2012
April 23, 2008 23 Apr'08
21CN broadband launches but businesses still face wait for fast broadband

BT launches its 24Mbit broadband service over its 21st century network (21CN) next week, but small businesses will...
April 23, 2008 23 Apr'08
Downturn busting VOIP to herald end of traditional telephony

VoIP to be reap £13.5 billion worth of global revenue by 2010 threatening fixed line services' future
April 21, 2008 21 Apr'08
Nokia to exploit data on mobile internet use

Mobile phone maker Nokia is going live this month with a Teradata datawarehouse that will help it match its phones more closely with the demands of mobile users by analysing how people use the internet while travelling.
April 21, 2008 21 Apr'08
RFID baggage systems could save airline industry £350m a year

The airline industry could save about £350m a year in lost baggage costs if it adopted radio frequency identification (RFID) technology across the board.
April 18, 2008 18 Apr'08
South Yorkshire Police adopts unified comms platform

South Yorkshire Police is deploying a Siemens SIP-based unified communications softswitch system to converge its voice and data network applications.

April 18, 2008 18 Apr'08
EBay CEO admits firm may sell off Skype

EBay will consider selling off its Skype internet phone subsidiary if it fails to find real synergies with its core e-commerce business, reports the Financial Times.
April 18, 2008 18 Apr'08
Nokia sees operating margins slump

Nokia posted a big sales and net profit increase for the first quarter, but saw its operating margins fall.
April 17, 2008 17 Apr'08
Coach firm Chambers deploys mobile tracking for vehicles

Chambers, a Northern Ireland coach and bus operator, has implemented mobile tracking from Masternaut Three X.
April 17, 2008 17 Apr'08
Ofcom pushes for fibre broadband in new-build properties

The communications regulator Ofcom has published proposals to promote next-generation fibre broadband networks for new housing and office developments.
April 16, 2008 16 Apr'08
Socitm should lose 'elitist' tag and broaden membership, says incoming president

Socitm's next president, Richard Steel, wants to see a society that is more open, transparent, and which engages more effectively with its membership.
April 16, 2008 16 Apr'08
NHS trust replaces Cisco network monitoring platform with Castle Rock SNMPc system

Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust is now monitoring its IT network across 150 sites using a system supplied by Teneo, which replaces a CiscoWorks platform.
April 16, 2008 16 Apr'08
Business centre users get improved IP comms

Occupants of United Business Centres (UBC) are to get the latest in IP communications services.
April 16, 2008 16 Apr'08
Juniper Research forecasts 816 million mobile banking users by 2011

Juniper Research predicts 816 million consumers will use mobile devices for banking services by 2011, but there will be problems along the way.
April 15, 2008 15 Apr'08
Federation of Small Businesses launches free VoIP service for 210,000 members

The Federation of Small Businesses is offering its 210,000 members a voice over IP service enabling them to communicate with each other for free.
April 14, 2008 14 Apr'08
Scandinavian Airlines outsources voice services

Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) is to save £1.8m by outsourcing voice services to SITA.
April 11, 2008 11 Apr'08
Gartner identifies seven ‘Grand Challenges for IT’

"Seven grand challenges" facing IT over the next quarter of a century have been identified by analyst Gartner.
April 11, 2008 11 Apr'08
Airbus signs 'largest' RFID manufacturing deal with IBM and Oatsystems

Airbus has chosen IBM and Oatsystems for what it calls "the world's largest RFID-enabledmanufacturing initiative".
April 11, 2008 11 Apr'08
BBC signs Siemens for digital content delivery

The BBC has signed an IT deal worth an estimated £80.2 million with Siemens IT Solutions and Services (SIS) to design and support a system to deliver digital audio and video content.
April 10, 2008 10 Apr'08
BBC makes deal with Nintendo to bring its iPlayer to TV screens via Wii

The BBC has announced a collaboration with Nintendo UK to offer the BBC iPlayer programme on-demand service via the Nintendo Wii games console.
April 10, 2008 10 Apr'08
Volvo Construction to roll out unified communication to 9,000 users

Miguel Ferrer, global infrastructure director at Volvo Construction, is rolling out PC-to-PC voice telephony for 9,000 users in several countries over the next five weeks. By 2009, he plans to issue mobile devices offering voice and e-mail to 3,000 ...
April 09, 2008 09 Apr'08
More than 100 million users of mobile LBS in Europe by 2012

Location, location, location the key in mobile market future
April 09, 2008 09 Apr'08
SMBs taking to unified communications

UC helping small business needs during challenging economic times
April 07, 2008 07 Apr'08
Heathrow's Terminal Five hit by more baggage handling problems

Heathrow's terminal five was hit by a fresh round of technical problems over the weekend after the baggage system failed again.
April 07, 2008 07 Apr'08
Queen Mary college deploys fibre network to widen e-learning

Queen Mary, University of London has hired THUS for the provision of an open fibre network that will improve connectivity and support wider e-learning.
April 07, 2008 07 Apr'08
Barclaycard rolls out more contactless cards

Barclaycard is sending out more than a million contactless payment cards in the UK this year as existing cards are replaced with cards fitted with contactless technology.
April 04, 2008 04 Apr'08
Silverjet airline debuts mobile website for handheld devices

Silverjet is the first UK airline to introduce a website for handheld devices to enable customers to view and amend travel information.
April 02, 2008 02 Apr'08
YO!Sushi aims to cut network costs with MPLS WAN

Restaurant chain YO!Sushi has invested heavily in a multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) wide area network (WAN) which it said will cut infrastructure costs during its expansion programme.
April 01, 2008 01 Apr'08
Worldwide mobile broadband market flying

GSMA predicts that there now exist more than 32 million mobile broadband (HSDPA) connections worldwide compared with just over 3 million at the end of the first quarter of 2007.
April 01, 2008 01 Apr'08
Shell signs record $1.6bn IT deal with AT&T

Oil giant Shell has signed a five-year deal worth $1.6bn with AT&T to manage its worldwide communications infrastructure, which includes mobile telephony....
April 01, 2008 01 Apr'08
Multimedia a growing must-have for mobile devices

Users demanding devices that can be personalised and offer voice, messaging, social networking and multimedia
April 01, 2008 01 Apr'08
Videoconferencing gaining attraction among EU firms

Organisations increasingly using videoconferencing as a tool of communication to reduce costs and travel time, according to Frost & Sullivan.
March 31, 2008 31 Mar'08
How network managers deal with network slowdowns affecting application performance

Over two-thirds of network managers spend at least 25 days per year determining the cause of network slowdowns affecting application performance.
March 28, 2008 28 Mar'08
Motorola to play catch-up on business software after split

Motorola is to split into two companies, with one focusing on its struggling mobile phone business and the other on its more profitable mobile enterprise and broadband operations.
March 27, 2008 27 Mar'08
Architect secures remote access

Architect Scott Brownrigg has replaced its IPSEC virtual private network (VPN) with a secure remote access system from AppGate Network Security.
March 27, 2008 27 Mar'08
UK needs regional powers to fast-track broadband roll-outs

Businsses could be offered with high-speed broadband more quickly if the rest of the UK followed Scotland's example of targeting broadband black spots, Scotland's enterprise minister said this week.
March 25, 2008 25 Mar'08
Security being ignored as VoIP deployments increase

Businesses not taking steps to increase security of VoIP networks
March 24, 2008 24 Mar'08
Gartner declares iPhone ready for business

Analyst Gartner says the iPhone is now ready for enterprise deployment. Adam Turner explains why.
March 20, 2008 20 Mar'08
Ofcom forces BT to up compensation for bad service to broadband providers

Regulator Ofcom has brought in new rules to force BT's wholesale division to improve the service it provides to operators, including speedy compensation payments for bad service to customers.
March 18, 2008 18 Mar'08
Femtocells to boost enterprise communications by end of year

Premises-based comms systems could potentially provide enterprises with greatly discounted calling
March 18, 2008 18 Mar'08
Mobile search revenues to reach £2.4bn by 2013

Revenues from internet searches on mobile devices will reach £2.4bn globally by 2013, says Juniper Research.
March 17, 2008 17 Mar'08
Nokia tops new smartphone ranking

Nokia tops analysis programme designed to provide an understanding of smartphones vendors’ innovation and implementation skills.
March 17, 2008 17 Mar'08
HCL implements business continuity payroll system

UK health and social care staff recruitment agency HCL is using call re-routing software to ensure its payroll systems...
March 17, 2008 17 Mar'08
Smartcard technology reaps security benefits

Two and a half years ago, Nikk Gilbert, head of security architecture at a multinational transport and energy firm, had a dream that staff could swipe a smartcard to enter a building, use that same card to pay for coffee in the canteen, then log on ...
March 14, 2008 14 Mar'08
Eden Brown boosts communications with fibre network

Recruitment firm Eden Brown has signed a contract with fibre network company Geo to supply a network to improve its communications and support business growth.
March 13, 2008 13 Mar'08
Nortel and Microsoft unveil four new unified comms systems

Nortel and Microsoft have released four new joint unified communications products.
March 12, 2008 12 Mar'08
Top Talk: Are we there yet?

Only organisations with distributed, remote and mobile workforces seem to be reaping unified communications' advantages, reports Pushkar Taneja.
March 11, 2008 11 Mar'08
Scania rolls out wireless network to reduce carbon footprint

Truck, bus and engine manufacturer Scania has implemented a wireless communication network at its main production facility in Sweden to reduce the company's carbon footprint.
March 11, 2008 11 Mar'08
University of Birmingham overhauls Wi-Fi network to extend coverage to all sites

The University of Birmingham is overhauling and widening its Wi-Fi network coverage to improve data speeds and increase access to students.
March 11, 2008 11 Mar'08
Ultra mobile devices enjoy ‘momentous’ 2007

Major moves by processor manufacturers will continue to enable new ultra mobile PCs and mobile Internet devices
March 10, 2008 10 Mar'08
Network equipment energy efficiency key to competitive edge

Power consumption and other so-called ‘green issues’ are fast becoming the information technology industry's biggest challenge.
March 06, 2008 06 Mar'08
BAA picks barcodes over RFID for Terminal 5

BAA has rejected advanced RFID technology in favour of 2D barcodes to track baggage at Heathrow's new terminal 5 in a move that it say will help it improve its track record on lost bags.
March 06, 2008 06 Mar'08
BT becomes communications partner to London Olympics

BT has become the latest Tier One Partner of the 2012 London Olympics, in a deal worth tens of millions of pounds.
March 06, 2008 06 Mar'08
Marie Stopes links mobile sexual health workers around the world

Marie Stopes International charity workers can now keep in touch from the remotest locations with a new network security system from AppGate.
March 06, 2008 06 Mar'08
HMRC moves to voice over IP phone system to cut costs

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is moving its phone system to a voice over IP platform to cut costs as part of a new £47m telephony contract with Global Crossing.
March 05, 2008 05 Mar'08
German packaging firm rolls out RFID pallet tracking

German packaging manufacturer Heuchemer Verpackung has implemented a UK-developed radio frequency identification (RFID) based plastic pallet tracking system to increase visibility of pallets and products.
March 05, 2008 05 Mar'08
Somerfield sets out stall for WiMAX access to network

The supermarket chain will pilot the WiMAX solution at its Manchester sites as an alternative to a leased line
March 05, 2008 05 Mar'08
Broadband review faces April 2009 deadline for success

The government review into how internet service providers (ISPs) can be encouraged to build super-fast broadband networks will only be worthwhile if policies follow and are put into place as policies before April 2009, according to a report from the...
March 05, 2008 05 Mar'08
WiMAX mobile comms advantage shrinking

Despite WiMAX’s head start on the 4G market, other technologies’ evolution is happening quicker than expected
March 04, 2008 04 Mar'08
Reuters to monitor data speeds

Reuters has rolled out a service to monitor the performance of trading applications at investment companies to help them ensure they receive market data as fast as possible.
March 03, 2008 03 Mar'08
CeBIT to cover Web 2.0, RFID, green IT

The growing relevance of social networks to business, RFID and green IT will be dominant themes at this year's CeBIT event in Hanover, Germany.
February 29, 2008 29 Feb'08
Machines propose love at Victoria Station

There has been a high tech theme to 29 February, the day that lovestruck women propose to their sweethearts.
February 29, 2008 29 Feb'08
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.
February 28, 2008 28 Feb'08
Cisco and Microsoft join forces to optimise branch apps

Cisco and Microsoft will develop joint architectures that combine Windows Server...
February 26, 2008 26 Feb'08
Cambridge Constabulary rolls out remote service portal

Cambridgeshire Constabulary has implemented a remote service portal to make its IT systems accessible to members of neighbourhood policing teams and other staff outside its secure network.
February 26, 2008 26 Feb'08
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.
February 25, 2008 25 Feb'08
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.
February 25, 2008 25 Feb'08
Neterion clears logjams in virtualised datacentres with souped-up 10Gbps Ethernet adapter

Neterion has unveiled a 10Gbps (gigabits per second) Ethernet adapter that helps clear traffic logjams in virtualised datacentres.
February 22, 2008 22 Feb'08
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.
February 22, 2008 22 Feb'08
Government investigates path to next-generation broadband

The government has launched a review into ways it can help the roll-out of super-fast broadband networks across the UK.
February 22, 2008 22 Feb'08
Glasgow school tackles anonymous proxies with new web filtering system

The High School of Glasgow has installed a web filtering solution to combat the threat of anonymous proxies.
February 22, 2008 22 Feb'08
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.
February 21, 2008 21 Feb'08
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.
February 21, 2008 21 Feb'08
Communications Management Association annual conference preview

If the UK goes into recession it could provide IT managers with reasons to offshore network services and re-think applications and connectivity management, delegates at the Communications Management Association's 2008 conference will hear next week.
February 21, 2008 21 Feb'08
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.
February 20, 2008 20 Feb'08
Forum of Private Businesses calls on firms to inspect terms of new BT contract

The Forum of Private Business (FPB) has told small businesses that they should scrutinise the terms of a new service contract with BT.
February 20, 2008 20 Feb'08
Cable & Wireless goes for growth in India with NGN

Cable & Wireless has announced that it has been awarded international long distance and national long distance licences by the Department of Telecommunications, Government of India. These licences enable Cable & Wireless to offer next generation ...
February 20, 2008 20 Feb'08
BT slammed over tactic to cling on to customers by Forum of Private Business

The Forum of Private Business (FPB) is warning small businesses that time is running out to avoid being locked into a new contract with BT.
February 20, 2008 20 Feb'08
Scottish council provides high speed residential broadband to public

Scotland's Renfrewshire Council has implemented a wide area wireless network as part of its digital inclusion project to provide citizens with residential high speed broadband.
February 20, 2008 20 Feb'08
SpinVox enters UC market

Voice to mail services designed to ensure business productivity at call centre
February 20, 2008 20 Feb'08
Telepo teams with Sun to boost UC offering

Collaboration to drive faster time to market of new services and applications in what could be an essential business tool for organisations
February 19, 2008 19 Feb'08
Average UK broadband speed under 3mbps, report shows

Broadband users all over the UK have been testing their speeds and as a result of the 18,558 tests carried out in January on broadband comparison site Broadband-Expert.co.uk, the average speed in the UK is 2.95mbps.
February 19, 2008 19 Feb'08
North-east councils deploy shared CRM system to cut costs

Castle Morpeth and Alnwick councils in the north-east have begun using a shared customer relationship management system to cut costs.
February 15, 2008 15 Feb'08
UK broadband market to be de-regulated

The European Comission has approved the proposal of the UK telecoms regulator Ofcom to de-regulate the wholesale broadband market in some parts of the UK, covering around 65% of all UK homes and businesses.
February 15, 2008 15 Feb'08
Enterprises given chance to inspect service reliability of their carrier’s IP network hardware

The carrier backed MultiService Forum (MSF) will soon announce a range of network telecom products that have been certified to fully support next generation IP networks.
February 15, 2008 15 Feb'08
Gieves and Hawkes cuts comms costs with single hosted service

Men's tailor Gieves and Hawkes has reduced data and voice communication costs by consolidating its voice and data infrastructure into a single hosted service.
February 15, 2008 15 Feb'08
Virtual call centre pays off for Scottish Power

Scottish Power has gained 10 times the call centre capacity and reduced technology support and maintenance costs by 41% through virtualisation.
February 14, 2008 14 Feb'08
Will RFID technology truly reduce lost luggage at airports?

The British Airport Authority is testing Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology at Heathrow Airport to see if baggage tags can be read with fewer mistakes than ones with barcodes.
February 14, 2008 14 Feb'08
IT managers urge new broadband minister to push for equal access across UK

IT managers have called on the government's new broadband minister to ensure all regions in the UK have equal access to fast connections.
February 14, 2008 14 Feb'08
Murdoch may block Gates’ takeover of Yahoo!

The Times newspaper has reported that its parent company News Corporation is in buyout talks with Yahoo! to rebuff Microsoft's £23bn hostile takeover offer.
February 14, 2008 14 Feb'08
Heathrow Terminal 3 begins six month RFID trial

BAA and Emirates Airline have launched the largest Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) baggage trial which could reduce the number of misread bags at Heathrow airport.
February 13, 2008 13 Feb'08
ISPs will struggle to police government crackdown on illegal file-sharing

ISPs will struggle to comply with government demands to crack down on illegal file sharing among their customers.
February 13, 2008 13 Feb'08
Leeds ISP brings support back to UK

Leeds-based internet service provider 186K has switched its customer support from India back to the UK to improve its response times and service levels.
February 13, 2008 13 Feb'08
Janet Aurora fibre network launched

Janet, the private government-funded computer network dedicated to education and research, has launched Aurora - a fibre network that will provide a platform for photonics and optical systems research.
February 13, 2008 13 Feb'08
Scotland trials HealthPresence advanced telemedicine system

Scotland is conducting the first UK trial of an advanced telemedicine system that could enable health services to reach island and remote communities around the country.
February 13, 2008 13 Feb'08
Cock Tavern boosts trade with web-based quiz

The Cock Tavern pub in Hackney, east London, is using technology to help recover from losses caused by the smoking ban - it is boosting revenue by 40% twice a week with online interactive quiz nights.