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• October 26, 2007 26 Oct'07

  Wimax added to IMT-2000 standard

  The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is to include Wimax technology in the IMT-2000 set of standards.

• October 26, 2007 26 Oct'07

  Glaxo creates template for VoIP and video roll-outs

  Pharmaceuticals company GlaxoSmithKline has developed a service model to make it easier for departments to deploy voice over IP (VoIP) and video services on their networks.

• October 24, 2007 24 Oct'07

  Cisco gives £145m backing to Wimax

  Cisco will purchase mobile Wimax manufacturer Navini Networks for £145m.

• October 24, 2007 24 Oct'07

  The Artois Championships goes for VoIP

  Event communications specialists Max WiFi have been selected to supply voice and data communications to The Artois Championships in 2008, the world-renowned men's tennis tournament.

• October 23, 2007 23 Oct'07

  Wall Street may force Sprint to curtail WiMax plans

  Some investors and analysts are urging Sprint to slow down its plans to roll out a 4G wireless network service, or even sell off the related assets.

• October 22, 2007 22 Oct'07

  Cambridgeshire saves £1.2m on call costs and travel with VoIP

  Cambridgeshire County Council has saved £1.2m over two years after installing voice over IP technology.

• October 21, 2007 21 Oct'07

  VoIP certification credentials

  Many certifications touch on voice over IP topics tangentially, but numerous credentials now focus a fairly substantial portion of their coverage on this subject matter. In this certification survey, we take a look at available certifications, ...

• October 18, 2007 18 Oct'07

  Nokia unveils latest Linux Wi-Fi tablet device

  Nokia has unveiled its latest Wi-Fi-enabled Linux-based internet tablet device.

• October 18, 2007 18 Oct'07

  Ofcom allows mobile calls on planes

  Ofcom has set out proposals to enable airlines to offer mobile communication services on UK-registered aircraft.

• October 10, 2007 10 Oct'07

  Unified communications new priority for HP

  Unified communications is a confusing area with a number of vendors in the mix. HP has launched new services to help ease companies into unified communications and help them determine which integrated tools will best fit their business goals.

• October 10, 2007 10 Oct'07

  Criminals using Skype to communicate

  Criminals are taking advantage of Skype's 256-bit encryption and the internet's unpredictable routing scheme to set up drug deals and other crimes, say Swiss law enforcement officials.

• October 09, 2007 09 Oct'07

  McDonald’s to offer free Wi-Fi in UK restaurants

  McDonald's is rolling out free Wi-Fi at its 1,200 UK restaurants.

• October 08, 2007 08 Oct'07

  British Red Cross deploys wireless messaging to quicken relief response times

  The British Red Cross Society is streamlining its response times to emergency services and local authorities during major incidents using a wireless system from PageOne.

• October 08, 2007 08 Oct'07

  802-11n to overtake wired Ethernet

  Burton Group has released a report comparing 802.11n with Gigabit Ethernet and predicts 802.11n wireless technology will start eroding the wired Ethernet market within the next 24 to 36 months.

• October 07, 2007 07 Oct'07

  IP telephony adoption rising, quality sagging

  IP telephony adoption continues to grow, but service quality is lagging behind, according to a user survey from Psytechnics.

• October 05, 2007 05 Oct'07

  Mills & Reeve consolidates communications on IP network

  Legal firm Mills & Reeve is implementing a converged IP-based network and communications software across it four UK offices to reduce costs and improve service and efficiency.

• October 04, 2007 04 Oct'07

  Use existing technology to go green, says Carbon Trust

  Businesses need to utilise the green IT they already have when it comes to tackling climate change, rather than waiting for new developments, according to the Carbon Trust.

• October 04, 2007 04 Oct'07

  BT and FON aim for largest online Wi-Fi community

  BT and the Wi-Fi community FON are aiming to build the world's largest free Wi-Fi community.

• October 04, 2007 04 Oct'07

  World’s largest Wi-Fi community the aim of BT and FON

  New service will be the world’s largest Wi-Fi community with over 3 million invited to join a global community sharing broadband

• October 03, 2007 03 Oct'07

  Provider push will lead to 435 million mobile SIP users by 2012

  Growing acceptance of SIP by mobile operators and device vendors will result in 435 million SIP-enabled devices by 2012

• October 02, 2007 02 Oct'07

  Storage Decisions: data storage product news

  Suppliers at Storage Decisions are launching new Nas systems and data storage technologies such as heterogeneous snapshots and HBA-based authentication. Find out who's unveiling what in New York.

• October 02, 2007 02 Oct'07

  Adobe and Business Objects join forces to make BI more intuitive

  Business Objects and Adobe have formed a technology partnership to deliver more intuitive business intelligence systems to users.

• October 01, 2007 01 Oct'07

  HP overhauls Riss

  Fessing up to bugs and an unworkable pricing scheme in previous versions of its data archiving product, HP has relaunched RISS as the Integrated Archive Platform.

• September 27, 2007 27 Sep'07

  Intel, Nokia and Nokia Siemens collaborate on Wimax products

  Intel, Nokia and Nokia Siemens Networks are collaborating on the interoperability of mobile devices, laptops and networks in dealing with Wimax long-range wireless services.

• September 27, 2007 27 Sep'07

  Truphone allows free iPhone VoIP calls

  Truphone has demonstrated the first voice over IP Wi-Fi call using the Apple iPhone.

• September 26, 2007 26 Sep'07

  ONStor releases new range of virtualised storage products

  ONStor, a provider of network attached storage products, has introduced a range of virtualised storage products offering twice the capacity and improved performance over the previous model.

• September 25, 2007 25 Sep'07

  IBM unveils wireless point-of-sale terminal

  IBM has unveiled a wireless self-service point-of-sale kiosk for retail industries to service consumers.

• September 24, 2007 24 Sep'07

  RFU tackles communication breakdown with Roam service

  The Rugby Football Union has ensured that the England management team will be able to access their corporate resources around the clock while in France for the Rugby World Cup 2007.

• September 24, 2007 24 Sep'07

  Get on the path to secure roaming

  There is a lot of talk about the opportunities offered by mobile networks, but finding a secure, cost-effective approach for business can be a challenge

• September 21, 2007 21 Sep'07

  Ofcom to free up more 3G spectrum to boost speeds

  Ofcom plans to open up the the 2G mobile spectrum to 3G mobile operators to help increase coverage and access speeds and reduce operating costs.

• September 20, 2007 20 Sep'07

  Intel announces chipset to support Wimax and Wi-Fi

  Intel has announced an upcoming chipset supporting both Wi-Fi and Wimax networking.

• September 20, 2007 20 Sep'07

  Private Mobile Networks joins construction IT group

  Low-power local area mobile phone network supplier Private Mobile Networks has joined the Construction Opportunities for Mobile IT, a group set up in 2002 to research and trial mobile IT technologies for use in the construction industry.

• September 19, 2007 19 Sep'07

  Firms fail to adopt green datacentres

  Green datacentres are far from a reality for the majority of European companies, with only 36% saying they have plans in place to adopt green datacentre technology.

• September 18, 2007 18 Sep'07

  Darlington FC becomes a WiMax ISP to raise player funds

  Darlington Football Club is the first club to become a wireless broadband ISP using WiMax technology from Balfour Webnet.

• September 16, 2007 16 Sep'07

  Communications-as-a-service taking hold

  Communications-as-a-service is taking hold worldwide as a viable hosted IP telephony system.

• September 16, 2007 16 Sep'07

  BlueArc teams with Texas on storage networks

  BlueArc Corporation, a network storage manufacturer, and Texas Memory Systems have jointly tested and certified product interoperability of BlueArc's Titan 2000 unified storage system family and Texas Memory Systems' RamSan-400.

• September 13, 2007 13 Sep'07

  Private Mobile Networks joins COMIT

  Low-power local area mobile phone network supplier, Private Mobile Networks (PMN), has joined a construction industry grouping aimed at promoting the use of mobile technology.

• September 11, 2007 11 Sep'07

  Skype warns of chat worm infecting users

  Skype has warned its voice over IP users of an instant messaging worm that is infecting users' Windows-based PCs.

• September 11, 2007 11 Sep'07

  PREM hotel group offers free Wi-Fi

  The PREM hotel group is offering guests free Wi-Fi services via the free-hotspot.com platform.

• September 10, 2007 10 Sep'07

  NHS Direct boosts service levels with voice over IP

  NHS Direct has installed a voice over IP-based communications system to improve efficiency and help it meet Department of Health targets for responding to patient calls.

• September 09, 2007 09 Sep'07

  Virtual appliance lets users convert DAS to iSCSI San

  LeftHand Networks has released an edition of its SaniQ iSCSI San software that will convert locally attached disc to networked storage.

• September 09, 2007 09 Sep'07

  ICANN Boss: CIOs must plan IPv6 move now

  The CEO of ICANN, Dr Paul Twomey, has urged CIOs to start planning IPv6 migration sooner rather than later.

• September 05, 2007 05 Sep'07

  New Verizon in unified communications

  Service provides customers with hub to access voice mail, control incoming and outgoing calls, manage their online presence, send text messages, and synchronise contacts and calendars

• September 05, 2007 05 Sep'07

  Secure wireless mobility for fixed fee

  The new managed service designed to enable business customers to have inclusive voice mobile network access with internet on a fixed cost, per seat basis.

• September 05, 2007 05 Sep'07

  Thames Valley deploys wireless network with Alcatel Lucent

  Alcatel-Lucent will secure and centrally manage wireless local area networks (WLANs) at all three of Thames Valley University's campuses to provide students and staff with public internet access from anywhere on the sites.

• September 04, 2007 04 Sep'07

  Businesses fail to secure new technologies, reveals survey

  Businesses are focusing too much on external IT security threats and are neglecting the internal threats posed by technologies such as Wi-Fi networks, voice over internet technologies, such as voice over IP (VoIP), and USB memory sticks, a survey ...

• September 03, 2007 03 Sep'07

  Demand for mobile broadband rising, says Ofcom

  The number of wireless networks in the UK has increased by more than 10% in a year because of rising demand for mobile broadband, according to the Ofcom 2007 communications market report.

• September 03, 2007 03 Sep'07

  Storage news weekly: Cisco still creeping up on Brocade

  The latest quarterly report from Dell'Oro shows Cisco continuing to gain market share on Brocade in certain areas.

• August 31, 2007 31 Aug'07

  Security fears prevent firms adopting wireless networks

  Perceived security weaknesses in wireless networks is preventing 43% of firms adopting them, says a survey.

• August 31, 2007 31 Aug'07

  IP extends its reach in data storage

  It is 15 years since internet pioneer Vint Cerf tore off his shirt to reveal a T-shirt bearing the slogan "IP on everything" at a meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force. But while Internet Protocol has become a de facto standard for voice ...

• August 31, 2007 31 Aug'07

  Suncorp reveals five-year VoIP plan

  Financial services group Suncorp explains its plans to IP-enable its operations to Adam Turner.

• August 30, 2007 30 Aug'07

  Microsoft to acquire chat provider Parlano

  Microsoft is acquiring group chat and enterprise instant messaging provider Parlano to bolster its forthcoming Office Communications Server 2007 unified messaging platform.

• August 26, 2007 26 Aug'07

  IBM back in iSCSI SAN fray

  IBM is looking to take on HP's MSA and EMC's AX150, as well as EqualLogic and LeftHand, with a new iSCSI SAN product OEMed from LSI.

• August 24, 2007 24 Aug'07

  Online banking usage grows 174%

  The use of internet banking has grown 174% in the past five years in the UK, according to Apacs in its latest telephone and internet banking figures.

• August 24, 2007 24 Aug'07

  IBM joins forces with Siemens to offer unified comms platform

  IBM is launching a new family of enterprise unified communications products with the help of Siemens.

• August 24, 2007 24 Aug'07

  Egg customers suffer network access cracks

  Customers of online bank Egg were hit with site access problems from the evening of Wednesday 22 August after Egg's network provider Cable & Wireless suffered an outage.

• August 23, 2007 23 Aug'07

  Enterasys offers enterprise VoIP security platform

  Enterasys Networks has launched a suite of products to help secure voice over IP (VoIP) systems from leading IP telephony suppliers.

• August 23, 2007 23 Aug'07

  Nokia Intellisync boosts device management

  Nokia Intellisync has released updates to its Mobile Suite to enhance remote device support, loss and theft protection, and management capabilities.

• August 22, 2007 22 Aug'07

  LGC Wireless joins Wimax Forum

  LGC Wireless, which supplies wireless carriers such as Vodafone, has joined the Wimax Forum, an industry-led non-profit organisation that promotes and certifies interoperable Wimax products.

• August 21, 2007 21 Aug'07

  Black & Decker migrates to Avaya IP comms platform

  Black & Decker has selected the Avaya Intelligent Communications platform to power a new IP-based global telephony network across 200 locations.

• August 20, 2007 20 Aug'07

  Brewin Dolphin outsources datacentre to Atos Origin

  Brewin Dolphin, one of the UK's largest independent private client portfolio managers, has signed a datacentre hosting deal with Atos Origin.

• August 20, 2007 20 Aug'07

  Skype failing on security, says Network Box

  Businesses using the Skypevoice over IP (VoIP) system are being warned of the security implications.

• August 20, 2007 20 Aug'07

  UK behind US and Europe in VoIP and data network use

  The UK is lagging behind most other European countries and the US in its adoption of IP telephony and the use of single, integrated data and IP telephony networks, according to new research by Datamonitor.

• August 17, 2007 17 Aug'07

  Sprint-Nextel invests £1.25bn in Wimax service

  US mobile phone company Sprint Nextel expects to invest approximately £1.25bn in capital for Wimax through year-end 2008. Its Wimax service will be marketed under the Xohm brand and a trial network is expected to go live in the US by the end of 2007.

• August 17, 2007 17 Aug'07

  Brantano finds broadband replacement after BT dumps ISDN

  Brantano, the UK's largest out-of-town shoe chain, has implemented a new company-wide network from Transaction Network Services (TNS) after the withdrawal of BTISDN services among consumers and businesses.

• August 16, 2007 16 Aug'07

  DFA Law switches from tape to online backup and recovery

  UK legal firm DFA Law has switched from tape to online backup and recovery to increase data security and reduce annual costs by 2%.

• August 16, 2007 16 Aug'07

  DSL broadband market buoyant

  The DSL broadband market grew strongly in the second quarter crossing the 25 million DSL port mark for the first time, according to research firm Ovum RHK.

• August 09, 2007 09 Aug'07

  NAS appliance purchase considerations

  NAS appliances are frequently touted for bringing convenience and simplicity to network storage. Appliances include their own dedicated disks for storage and RAID, and most NAS appliances can be upgraded with more or larger disks for additional ...

• August 09, 2007 09 Aug'07

  VoIP vulnerability threatens data

  VoIP vulnerabilities have now reached a level of sophistication that allows hackers to steal, view or delete data.

• August 09, 2007 09 Aug'07

  Mobile broadband users to pass billion barrier in five years

  Nearly 1 in 3 mobile subscribers will use a mobile broadband connection by 2012, representing over one billion users

• August 08, 2007 08 Aug'07

  Wi-Fi simplicity edging out Wi-Fi security

  Experts say the standards are available to lock down Wi-Fi, but many network and security managers are taking an easier approach.

• August 08, 2007 08 Aug'07

  NAS appliance specifications

  NAS appliances are noted for their convenience, offering dedicated internal storage that is relatively straightforward to identify and manage. The biggest issue for NAS appliances is avoiding network bottlenecks and supporting expansion without ...

• August 08, 2007 08 Aug'07

  Expro drills down into the satellite communications market

  Satellite communication is often the only option for workers in remote regions, but UK-based oilfield service company Expro says not all suppliers offer the same business value.

• August 07, 2007 07 Aug'07

  Application-aware storage promises intelligence and automation

  Storage professionals overbuy both performance and capacity in an effort to forestall potential storage problems. Tiered storage was one way to address this problem -- matching storage resources and costs with the value of data. Today, storage is ...

• August 07, 2007 07 Aug'07

  Paten Hotels provides free internet with Hotel Broadband

  The Paten Hotels Group has chosen Bristol-based Hotel Broadband and ZyXEL equipment to enable the group to provide free internet access in all it hotels.

• August 06, 2007 06 Aug'07

  BT launches geographic numbers for voice over IP users

  BT has launched a range of local geographic numbers that will be available for voice over IP users.

• August 06, 2007 06 Aug'07

  Storage news weekly:Sun storage revs eclipsed

  Data storage continues to be a struggle for Sun, according to the company's quarterly earnings report. One bright spot is Thumper, and Sun is working on more products like it.

• August 03, 2007 03 Aug'07

  Researchers demonstrate webmail, social networking flaws

  Users of popular social networking Web sites and Webmail such as Google's Gmail, are at risk of having their sessions hijacked by an attacker, researchers at Errata Security warn.

• August 03, 2007 03 Aug'07

  VMware tweaks virtualisation backup option

  VMware quietly made a dot release this week to VMware Consolidated Backup that now includes support for iSCSI storage.

• August 03, 2007 03 Aug'07

  VoIP security reaches tipping point

  VoIP security is as bad as ever, experts say. But PGP creator Phil Zimmermann thinks his new Zfone software will help turn the tide.

• July 31, 2007 31 Jul'07

  Storage news weekly :Symantec profits down, EMC stocks slip

  Symantec's profit for the quarter was down 5.3%, blamed on restructuring costs; EMC reported record revenues, but its stock still fell on outlook for the rest of the year.

• July 30, 2007 30 Jul'07

  Secure hosted instant messaging system unveiled

  Firms are being offered an on-demand secure instant messaging system to help them take advantage of the increasing use of instant messaging in business.

• July 30, 2007 30 Jul'07

  WLans and IP projects up demand for network skills

  Demand for networking skills is set to rise, as IT spending increases to support wireless local area networks and IP-based systems, according to Forrester Research.

• July 26, 2007 26 Jul'07

  Municipal Wi-Fi spending to grow 48% a year, says analyst

  Municipal Wi-Fi expenditure in the US and UK will grow 48% a year, from £450m in 2007 to £3.2bn in 2012, said analyst Datamonitor.

• July 26, 2007 26 Jul'07

  Ofcom wants 999 access from VoIP providers

  Communications regulator Ofcom wants voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service providers to let their customers dial 999 in emergencies.

• July 26, 2007 26 Jul'07

  VoIP solution centre answers users' questions

  A new VoIP performance management solution centre helps IT professionals to answer VoIP network questions

• July 26, 2007 26 Jul'07

  Mobile enterprise market targeted by comms operators

  Enterprises targeted with indoor base stations, cellular radio enhancements and IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)

• July 26, 2007 26 Jul'07

  Convenience beats QoS and cost as most valued comms asset

  Phone users willing to sacrifice cost and quality of service in favour of convenience

• July 25, 2007 25 Jul'07

  Mobile phone masts pose no risk, says study

  Mobile phone masts for next-generation mobile networks pose no risk to the public, research from the University of Essex has concluded.

• July 25, 2007 25 Jul'07

  EMC reports Clariion surge, data archiving slump

  EMC's revenues are up this quarter, attributed in part to a big boost in Clariion sales, but CEO Joe Tucci is critical of the company's execution in data archiving.

• July 25, 2007 25 Jul'07

  Cisco issues warning for wireless LAN controller flaws

  Cisco Systems is warning customers of flaws in its wireless LAN controllers that initially crippled a wireless network at Duke University.

• July 24, 2007 24 Jul'07

  Sita adds car rental with passenger management platform

  Sita, which provides IT business solutions and communication services for the air-transport industry, is integrating the CarTrawler car rental distribution platform within its Sita Horizon portfolio of passenger management systems to help boost ...

• July 23, 2007 23 Jul'07

  LeftHand refreshes iSCSI SAN software

  Version 7.0 of LeftHand's iSCSI SAN software contains dozens of new features, including support for four-way replication and brushed-up thin provisioning.

• July 23, 2007 23 Jul'07

  New mobile broadband technologies to transform market

  Next-generation mobile broadband technologies will transform the market, said analyst Frost & Sullivan.

• July 22, 2007 22 Jul'07

  Black Hat Las Vegas 2007: Special news coverage

  SearchSecurity.com covers all the controversy at this year's show with news, features, podcasts, interviews, exploits and more direct from Las Vegas.

• July 19, 2007 19 Jul'07

  EMC and HDS kick off storage provisioning cage match

  EMC, trailing HDS with thin provisioning, is sniping at HDS's offering. Meanwhile, users increasingly tune out the soap opera and look to emerging vendors for new features.

• July 18, 2007 18 Jul'07

  European Commission backs power-line broadband standard

  The European Commission is supporting the development of a standard to support broadband communications over power lines.

• July 18, 2007 18 Jul'07

  VoIP security vulnerabilities tackled by researchers

  VoIP vulnerabilities can present a serious security threat, but one company makes its living by doing research and alerting manufacturers, vendors and users to potential problems.

• July 16, 2007 16 Jul'07

  Packet Vision, Juniper provide internet TV services

  Packet Vision has joined with Juniper Networks to offer targeted, addressable and interactive advertising as part of a bundle of services aimed at the IPTV industry.

• July 13, 2007 13 Jul'07

  The benefits of RFID will soon be realised

  IT needs to be aware of the requirements of RFID