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BT Retail chief executive
Ian Livingston has confirmed that large corporate
clients will be moved out of his division to
concentrate on building the small and medium-sized
business and consumer markets... |
| Mar |
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Mobile
phone design-ins are vital for the long term
demand for Bluetooth short-range wireless comms
technology, according to leading chipset suppliers........ |
| Feb |
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BT
has launched its latest attack on the broadband
market, giving businesses and consumers quicker
internet connections at no extra cost.......... |
| Feb |
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Nokia
is introducing the Nokia intelligent Gateway
Mobile Location Center (iGMLC) 4.0, a new cost-efficient
platform for location-based services (LBS)
as part of the Nokia mPosition System........ |
| Jan |
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'Quick fix'
for Kwik-Fit Financial Services with rapid
contact centre implementation....... |
| Jan |
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BT
is well and truly back in the mobile phone
network market, following the launch in November
of its BT Mobile service to business users.
And it has come out fighting, marketing itself
as the first operator to provide a truly "converged" service.......... |
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Nov
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Most businesses
have little interest in buying 3G mobile
phones at present, according to senior executives
at Nokia.
Speaking at the mobile phone maker's Mobility conference in Monaco this
week, senior director of product management Mauri Niininen said that
the firms Nokia is speaking to are much keener to deploying devices based
on 802.11b and GPRS. ..............
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Nov
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BT is limbering up
to launch a broadband service that would
be twice as quick as its fastest consumer
service today.
The telco is inviting all existing ADSL broadband customers to sign up
and test a two megabits-per-second product. If the trial is a success
then the service could launch commercially early next year....
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Nov
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But don't judge on
cost alone, warns Datamonitor.......
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Nov
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One potential threat
to the burgeoning voice over IP (VoIP) market
is the imposition of regulations and taxes
similar to those for standard telephone companies.........
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Nov
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We're not as wired
as we may think.........
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Oct |
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New IP Office 3.0 software enhances usability,
simplicity, and cost efficiency
Since the introduction
of its flagship IP telephony product
for small and medium businesses two years
ago, Avaya Inc, a leading global
provider of business communications software,
systems and
services, has sold more than 35,000.............. |
Oct |
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BT recently announced that it is doubling the
speed of connections and offering enhanced levels
of service to its Business Broadband Network
customers, at no extra cost. New customers who
sign up will also have access to this improved
service.... |
Oct |
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Microsoft on Tuesday announced enhancements
to its corporate instant-messaging service that
will weave in features commonly found in the
company's Outlook email software.... |
Oct |
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Avaya’s latest application to deliver
customer service excellence gives mid-sized companies “best
practice” capabilities of large enterprises,
with the flexibility and ROI that medium sized
organisations seek........ |
Oct |
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In an industry addicted to the new, and highly
critical of yesterday's inventions, Bluetooth
has passed the test and in 2004 emerged as an
established technology in the short-range wireless
device market, according to a new report to be
published this month from Context, the technology
research company....... |
Oct |
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PMP Research highlights split in views
between public and private sector companies
over offshore
IT outsourcing.
While offshore outsourcing - where facilities
and services are located overseas - has attracted
a lot of attention recently, the latest survey
on the outsourcing market from PMP Research suggests
that this option appeals primarily to commercial
companies. .... |
Oct |
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Business service extended to 150 UK exchanges
following successful trial
BT Retail has extended the reach of its Symmetric
Digital Subscriber Line (SDSL) business service
to 150 telephone exchanges following a trial
in London and Coventry. |
Oct |
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Decades on, BT is continuing to champion the
cause of flexible working among its workforce
by focusing on creating 'agile' environments
for its employees. Mike Berry finds out how.
There's a new buzzword in town, and this time
it's 'agile workers'. But it's not just another
term invented on a management-school flip-chart;
this one comes from BT - the company that has
been pioneering flexible working since the early
1980s. |
Oct |
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BT is looking at
ways to reduce the cost of some of its broadband
products after being
forced
to increase prices by regulator Ofcom. On Wednesday,
BT upped the cost of some of its wholesale broadband
products by as much as 30 per cent in a bid to
comply with new "margin squeeze" regulations
set by Ofcom...... |
Oct |
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Avaya Inc, global provider of business communications
software, systems and services, has installed
the first stage of the 2006 FIFA World Cup network
hardware. In preparation for the tournament,
Avaya has provided network IP hardware for the
new office of the Organising Committee (OC) for
the FIFA World Cup office in Niederrad, Germany..... |
Oct |
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Avaya has begun selling parts of its fixed-line/mobile
phone architecture in the US. However, no date
has been given for when the complete offering
will be available in the UK.
Two key components of the architecture, which
aims to provide voice over wireless LAN (WLAN),
have been developed with Motorola and Proxim..... |
Oct |
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Avaya is to acquire Spectel, an Irish audio-conferencing
vendor, for an estimated 85.7m euros. Spectel
has been selling its conferencing software suites
to enterprises and service providers through
Avaya for four years. The deal is expected to
close within 60 days of the announcement......... |
Oct |
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Government tells employers to let staff work
from home where possible. A new law coming into
effect in the UK next month could lead to yet
another rise in the number of employees working
from home........ |
