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February 06, 2008 06 Feb'08
Saint-Gobain industrial group awards O2 mobile comms contract

O2 has won a contract with global industrial group Saint-Gobain to provide voice, Blackberry e-mail and other mobile data services to users in the UK and Ireland.
February 05, 2008 05 Feb'08
Professional services the key for 02 mobility

Customer satisfaction seen as the differentiator in telecoms market
February 05, 2008 05 Feb'08
British Airways' IP network at Terminal 5 ready to go live

British Airways' IP-based communications network at Terminal 5 at Heathrow has been fully tested and will go live next month, when the terminal opens to the public.
February 04, 2008 04 Feb'08
UK broadband prices hit all-time low, study says

UK broadband prices have hit an all-time low, says price comparison website uSwitch.com.

February 04, 2008 04 Feb'08
IP Version 6 switches on

A new range of internet "telephone numbers" will be activated today (2 February) to allow more devices to connect to the internet in the future.
February 01, 2008 01 Feb'08
Deadline key to ubiquitous broadband plan

The only way the UK can ensure access for all to high-speed broadband is to set a deadline, a Japanese minister has advised.
February 01, 2008 01 Feb'08
Cable strike brings down internet link to India

Internet services between India and Europe were disrupted after two undersea internet cables in the Mediterranean were damaged.
January 31, 2008 31 Jan'08
Self-assessment deadline extended

The HMRC self assessment website was down for at least four hours on the day forms had to be completed by and the deadline has been extended.
January 31, 2008 31 Jan'08
Indian internet disruption hits UK businesses

Internet services between India and Europe have been disrupted after a ship accidentally severed two undersea cables in the Mediterranean.
January 30, 2008 30 Jan'08
IT and telecoms could boost UK economy by £35bn

Making the most of IT and telecoms could boost the UK economy by £35bn over the next ten years.

January 30, 2008 30 Jan'08
London's wireless network leaves other cities behind

Despite the benefits of wireless working, some cities are still much less wired than others, says research commissioned by Lexmark.
January 30, 2008 30 Jan'08
Cairn Housing association improves customer service with new network infrastructure

Cairn Housing Association has implemented a network infrastructure to help it connect 45 remote locations and improve customer service.
January 28, 2008 28 Jan'08
Ford's Land Rover divisions trials RFID system

Ford Motor Company's Land Rover division has begun a pilot programme to deploy and active radio...
January 28, 2008 28 Jan'08
Virgin Media to offer 50Mbps broadband to UK homes

Following successful trials in Ashford, Folkstone and Dover, Virgin Media is planning to offer 50Mbps broadband to nine million homes in the UK by the end of the year.
January 28, 2008 28 Jan'08
Sluggish speed is top broadband pain

A quarter of UK broadband customers are unhappy with their service and one-in-eight of them are looking to switch provider in the next three to six months.
January 25, 2008 25 Jan'08
New Forest council improves services with speech recognition

New Forest District Council says it has improved access to services with speech-based automation technology.
January 23, 2008 23 Jan'08
Salisbury NHS Trust expands Wi-Fi network to support bedside care

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust is expanding its Wi-Fi network across its site.
January 21, 2008 21 Jan'08
SMEs get fully unbundled phone and broadband

Tiscali and Gradwell aim to enable SMEs to by merge their analogue telephone line, broadband and a fully featured IP-PBX service into a single product from a single supplier
January 14, 2008 14 Jan'08
Nortel accredited for Gateway Alliance Programme

Nortel is the first telecoms hardware firm to be accredited for the UK government's Gateway Alliance Programme, which aims to improve public sector services through shared online facilities.
January 14, 2008 14 Jan'08
Motorola unveils voice over IP-enabled barcode scanner

Motorola has unveiled a barcode scanner that doubles up as a wireless voice over IP phone.
January 11, 2008 11 Jan'08
Most large firms use IP telephony, study shows

More than half of large UK firms now use IP telephony, but the uptake of IP video is much lower.
January 11, 2008 11 Jan'08
Schoolboy hacker derails Poland's tram network

Polish police yesterday arrested a 14-year-old schoolboy for endangering public safety when he hacked the Lodz tram system and disrupted traffic.
January 08, 2008 08 Jan'08
Virtualisation systems optimise storage performance

New package designed to offer the benefits of a virtualised IT infrastructure with the cost advantages of iSCSI storage networking.
January 08, 2008 08 Jan'08
Netgear unveils new Wi-Fi family for bandwidth intensive apps

Netgear has launched its next-generation Wireless-N family of Wi-Fi products incorporating internal antenna technology that helps increase range and bandwidth.
January 04, 2008 04 Jan'08
Dell unveils smaller, lighter Inspiron laptop for £250

Dell has updated its Inspiron laptop range with a £250 model that is 25% smaller than previous machines.
January 03, 2008 03 Jan'08
Privacy watchdog calls for RFID regulations

Consumers who buy RFID-enabled goods should have an automatic veto against their personal details being collected and associated with the device, says the European Data Protection Supervisor.
January 03, 2008 03 Jan'08
Dell to acquire The Networked Storage Company

The Networked Storage Company (TNWSC), a leading IT consultancy, that specialises in transitioning customers to proven, simplified and cost-efficient IT data storage solutions has been bought by PDC giant Dell.
December 20, 2007 20 Dec'07
Ofcom to release more spectrum to support Wimax services

Ofcom has announced the release...
December 20, 2007 20 Dec'07
Carphone Warehouse to build its own fibre network

Carphone Warehouse is building its own optical fibre network to serve its broadband customers, as opposed to relying wholly on BT's network.
December 19, 2007 19 Dec'07
Digital TV subscription rises to more than 21 million

The number of UK households with digital television on their main set has risen to 21.7 million homes, according to research published by comms regulator Ofcom.
December 18, 2007 18 Dec'07
Swedish rail network improves mobile comms

Banverket, the Swedish railway administration, is improving its rail network management system with technology from Nokia Siemens Networks.
December 18, 2007 18 Dec'07
ITU announces first set of IPTV standards to promote technology adoption

The International Telecommunication Union has announced the first set of global standards for Internet Protocol TV (IPTV).
December 18, 2007 18 Dec'07
Milton Keynes gets first commercial Wimax network

From today, council-backed ConnectMK will be providing residents and businesses in the Milton Keynes area with access to Wimax services.
December 18, 2007 18 Dec'07
Mobile messages to pass two trillion mark next year

The number of mobile messages will surpass two trillion in major markets next year, although operators will have to plan for tighter margins as services become commoditised, said analyst Gartner.
December 17, 2007 17 Dec'07
Mobile femtocell market to increase tenfold next year

Worldwide sales of GSM/GPRS and 3G femtocell access points will grow tenfold from 2007 to 2008, with sales reaching more than £315m in 2010, says analyst Infonetics Research.
December 12, 2007 12 Dec'07
Mobile Wimax set to grow

Mobile Wimax 802.16e will amass 80 million mobile subscribers globally by 2013, according to a paper published by Juniper Research.
December 10, 2007 10 Dec'07
Lambeth Council uses Bluetooth to spread anti-gun message to youth

Lambeth Council is promoting its anti-gun message among young people in the area using Bluetooth short-range wireless technology.
December 07, 2007 07 Dec'07
Truphone offers voice over IP for Facebook users

Voice over IP (VoIP) firm Truphone is launching a new service which allows users of social networking site Facebook to call each other for free.
December 06, 2007 06 Dec'07
Broadband satisfaction levels take a nosedive

Customer satisfaction levels among broadband users have taken a nosedive over the last year.
December 06, 2007 06 Dec'07
Telecom provider executives fail on the service quality front

Telecom executives are reacting slowly to the needs of their business users when it comes to service quality.
December 05, 2007 05 Dec'07
Voice over IP sales continue to rise

Carrier voice over IP kit sales were up 5% in the third quarter as voice over IP service deployments continued to spread.
December 04, 2007 04 Dec'07
Wimax sales fuelled by new provider deployments

Wimax equipment market revenue was up 6% in the third quarter, fuelled by new and expanding operator Wimax rollouts of the long-range wireless broadband technology.
December 04, 2007 04 Dec'07
Kilkenny’s Wi-Fi network ghosts through castle walls

Ireland's Office of Public Works (OPW) has rolled out a high-power wireless network at 12th century Kilkenny Castle to provide internet access to staff and visitors.
November 30, 2007 30 Nov'07
Wireless local area network market continues to grow

The enterprise wireless local area network (Lan) market continued its double digit year-over-year growth, expanding to a new quarterly record level of over £195m, said analyst Dell'Oro Group.
November 29, 2007 29 Nov'07
Ford integrates speech technology in new models to improve safety

Ford is integrating speech technology in new car models to control communications and entertainment features.
November 28, 2007 28 Nov'07
UK broadband use rising, but speeds still slow

Seventy five per cent of the UK will connect to the web via broadband by December 2007 but top speeds are low compared to the rest of the world, analysts have said.
November 28, 2007 28 Nov'07
Wimax: commercial deployments rising

Commercial deployments of Wimax networks by operators have overtaken deployments of trial-only networks, according to research consultancy Maravedis.
November 27, 2007 27 Nov'07
Wireless network draws visitors through castle walls

Ireland's Office of Public Works (OPW) has implemented a high-powered wireless network and external link to overcome connectivity challenges at the 12th century Kilkenny Castle and provide high speed internet access to staff and visitors.
November 26, 2007 26 Nov'07
PoE drives record quarter in switch sales

Gigabit Ethernet PoE port sales increased almost 80% when compared to the same quarter last year.
November 26, 2007 26 Nov'07
Nominet to manage voice-internet hook-ups

The differences between the telephone system and the internet blurred more today as Nominet, the .uk domain name registry, was awarded the contract to run the top tier registry for UK ENUM, a standard that will unify the telephone numbering system ...
November 21, 2007 21 Nov'07
Timms opens RFID technology centre in Halifax

Minister for competitiveness Stephen Timms has opened a radio frequency identification (RFID) technology centre in Halifax to demonstrate the benefits of RFID for retailers and others.
November 20, 2007 20 Nov'07
Cisco introduces 20Gbps switch

Cisco has launched a gateway switch that boosts the performance of applications that run on InfiniBand-clustered servers and network-attached storage and Fibre Channel based storage devices.
November 19, 2007 19 Nov'07
SMEs offered hosted VoIP service from Timico

UK-based Timico is working with Nortel to provide SMEs with a hosted voice over IP service.
November 19, 2007 19 Nov'07
Telecommuting - good for business

Telecommuting does more good than harm to businesses, according to a group of psychologists that examined 20 years' worth of studies recently.
November 15, 2007 15 Nov'07
Nortel and IBM team on new SOA standard

Nortel and IBM today announced plans to offer a new software standard that easily brings together their business applications and processes with the latest unified communications and collaboration tools.
November 14, 2007 14 Nov'07
Over 50s embracing new technology

Theories of the grey haired population being a bunch of Luddites were put to rest last week as research showed that the over 50s are taking up the latest technology in their droves.
November 14, 2007 14 Nov'07
Top Talk: The internet brings changes and benefits

Cisco's managing director Les Williamson considers the effects the latest wave of web technologies is having on business at Cisco.
November 13, 2007 13 Nov'07
Sprint-Nextel scraps Wimax plans with Clearwire

Mobile operator Sprint Nextel will scrap its agreement with Clearwire to jointly build a nationwide high-speed wireless network based on Wimax technology. The two companies could not resolve complexities associated with their July co-signed ...
November 09, 2007 09 Nov'07
Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust upgrades network to improve patient care

The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust is upgrading its existing networks and implementing high-performance wireless networks to deliver better bedside care.
November 07, 2007 07 Nov'07
Dell buys iSCSI storage firm EqualLogic for £700m

Dell is acquiring iSCSI storage virtualisation firm EqualLogic for £700m.
November 06, 2007 06 Nov'07
Users leaving Fibre Channel for iSCSI Sans find pros, cons

Users who recently updated aging Fibre Channel equipment with new iSCSI San products have found ease of use can be a double-edged sword.
November 06, 2007 06 Nov'07
Adaptec reports losses

Adaptec's revenue was down year over year, as well as sequentially; DataDirect says the InfiniBand business is booming.
November 06, 2007 06 Nov'07
Super 3G phones to take lion’s share of market

Super 3G mobile handsets will take the lion's share of the market by 2012.
November 01, 2007 01 Nov'07
IBM refreshes storage arrays, adds file virtualisation

IBM bolsters DS8000 high-end systems and Nas management application, but it leaves out Maid, data deduplication, thin provisioning and 1Tbyte Sata drives.
November 01, 2007 01 Nov'07
ISCSI storage gets performance makeover

Suppliers, including Ibrix, Mellanox, Alacritech and EqualLogic, are offering juiced-up new iSCSI configurations, while 3PAR, CipherMax and NeoScale boost data security products.
November 01, 2007 01 Nov'07
Clustered storage supplier Isilon hot-swaps CEOs

Beset by disappointing sales since it went public last December, Isilon turns to founder Sujal Patel as its CEO.
November 01, 2007 01 Nov'07
Sustainability a business opportunity, says BT

The threat of global warming is a major opportunity that UK PLC is wasting, says a BT sponsored report by the Economist Intelligence Unit.
October 30, 2007 30 Oct'07
EMC's Tucci vows to keep up with new features

EMC CEO says storage giant is widening its technology net to match innovations of smaller competitors.
October 30, 2007 30 Oct'07
Puma rolls out voice over IP from SwyxWare

Sportswear manufacturer Puma has implemented VoIP across all its UK sites, using SwyxWare, a software-based IP telephony product from Swyx.
October 29, 2007 29 Oct'07
Unified communications platform gets SMB twist

While unified communications has eluded the SMB market, Siemens has released an all-in-one UC appliance specifically for the SMB.
October 29, 2007 29 Oct'07
RWE npower trials smart metering system

Electricity supplier RWE npower has begun a six-month trial of a smart metering service that enables pre-pay customers to top up credit and check balances using mobile phones or the internet.
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