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News The European telecoms regulatory lobby group ECTA (European Competitive Telecommunications Association) has urged the European Commission information society and media commissioner Viviane Reding to force mobile operators to cut mobile termination... [26 Jun 2008]
Bonds platform takes algorithmic step
News European electronic bonds trading platform EuroMTS has struck a deal with Fixnetix which will see the telecoms company deliver fixed-income data direct to its customers. The trading platform deals in Eurobenchmark bonds from governments, including... [16 Jul 2007]
In brief: Top wi-fi, zombie attack, paradise lost, malware costs
News London is the world's top wi-fi city, eclipsing New York, according to research from RSA. In the past year wi-fi hotspots in the capital grew by 160 per cent to 7,130, overtaking New York's 6,371. The FBI is to contact more than one million PC... [15 Jun 2007]
Cash still king - but contactless cards challenge
News Cash remains the most popular way of making small payments, with 96 per cent of all spending under £5 done with notes and coins. Sandra Quinn, director of communications at payments industry body Apacs, which carried out the research, said despite... [13 Mar 2007]
Beating fraud - can business intelligence help?
Comment Fraud, data theft, e-crime. These may not be the first terms that come to mind when thinking of business intelligence software but, says Will Sturgeon, sophisticated analysis of data can indeed help companies beat nefarious activity. [17 Oct 2006]
Intel hit with energy-efficiency patent suit
News Transmeta, the chip designer that once tried to take on Intel in the laptop market, is suing Intel for patent infringement. It alleges Intel violated 10 of its patents and that the intellectual property behind these patents is embodied in $100bn... [12 Oct 2006]
Mobile data busts $100bn milestone
News While it might not be the bloated cash cow that the operators were once hoping for, mobile data is still, it seems, raking in not insignificant amounts of cash. Researcher Informa Telecoms & Media has found that during the course of 2005 global... [27 Jul 2006]
Ker-ching! Europeans to spend €100bn online
News Europeans are spending ever more money online with research out today suggesting the total spent online during 2006 is likely to hit €100bn. That works out at an impressive average of €1,000 per person for a staggering 100 million internet shoppers... [10 Jul 2006]
Analysis: Can CRM help you make money?
Comment Clear business planning is key to making sure you get back what you spend on customer relationship management projects, says Ron Condon. Two years ago, a survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit of 370 businesses of all sizes revealed that only 15... [25 May 2006]
Google to join S&P 500
News Google's blue-chip status is now secured, as Standard & Poor's has announced it will include the company on its S&P 500 stock index at the end of March. The search company shoots into the index's top 20, an impressive feat considering it was... [24 Mar 2006]
Nearly two-thirds of Brits bank online
News Almost 60 per cent of Britons rely on the internet to do their banking, research commissioned by Alliance and Leicester suggests. One-third (29 per cent) of the 2,395 people surveyed use internet banking between once and twice per week, and one in... [02 Mar 2006]
Branch closures hit small customers hardest
News Bank branch closures, resulting from the rise of internet and phone banking, are hitting small businesses and poor customers hardest, according to researchers. The use of new distribution channels, and services available at Post Offices, have led... [27 Feb 2006]
$100bn outsourcing bonanza could see Indian breakthrough
News Almost $100bn in outsourcing contracts will be up for grabs in the next two years - and big players including Accenture, EDS and IBM could feel their grip on the market weakened by more competition from offshore companies. [12 Jan 2006]
Banks face legacy IT skills gap crisis
News Lorries still cart magnetic tape around the city after a hard day's banking. Even in this age of high speed networks, some institutions still insist on getting their data in this way. Chris Dunn, business development manager at payments company... [08 Nov 2005]
Banks "race" to spend €100bn on updates
News Banks are spending €100bn in a "race to renew their IT platforms" by 2010. According to a report from analyst Forrester, 69 per cent of European banks either have plans to update applications or are already doing so to dump outdated systems and... [13 Oct 2005]
