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RSS commsA holy trinity of acronyms
Comment The Telecoms Managers Association, which renamed itself the Communications Managers Association (CMA) this week, conducted a poll of over 400 senior comms professionals to garner their opinions of broadband rollout in... [29 Sep 2000]
Intel and Cisco go on mobile comms spending spree
News Intel has splashed out $300m on communications software and services specialist, Trillium Digital Systems. Trillium's offerings are currently used in more than 500 projects by suppliers of wireless, internet, broadband and telephony... [02 Aug 2000]
Tulip's mobile comms strategy begins to flower
News Tulip Computers has completed the acquisition of 2L International - a manufacturer of notebooks and communication products. Tulip is looking to re-launch itself in the mobile communication market and will be adding notebooks to its... [06 Jul 2000]
Commercial landlords to offer comms services to tenants
News Commercial property companies in the UK are setting up a consortium to negotiate better voice and data communications services for their tenants. Agents such as Legal & General, Norwich Union and Prudential, and property developer... [23 May 2000]
Teleworkers to fill call centre labour gap
News The survey of 117 call centre managers - carried out by the Institute for Employment Studies (IES), the Telework, Telecottage and Telecentre Association (TCA) and comms technology company, Mitel - showed that 42 per cent... [05 Oct 1999]
The Bloor Perspective: keynotes, tie-ups and court cases
Comment So far there are a number of problems holding back the development of a united standard for wireless comms worldwide. *From bricks to clicks. Grove repeats ecommerce mantra* Talking to the CBI (Confederation of British... [27 Sep 1999]
Virgin opts for Marconi in rail comms update
News Virgin Trains has chosen Marconi to supply the telecoms and signalling infrastructure for the upgrading of the London to Glasgow line - part of a £4.2bn deal. Marconi is setting up a secure GSM-R (railways only) network for communicating... [06 Sep 1999]
Intel announces Net comms processor range
News Intel has announced details of a processor range specifically aimed at networking hardware manufacturers, which focus on providing Internet infrastructure. The chip giant plans to base the products on its Internet Exchange (IX)... [01 Sep 1999]
Deutsche Telekom announces falling revenues
News The decrease in revenue in the fixed network - around four per cent - was caused by what the company called "massive price cuts", but was mostly offset by increased income in other business areas, such as ISDN, T-Online and mobile... [25 Aug 1999]
Swedish comms outfit commits to Corba
News Swedish communications company, Telenordia, has signed an agreement with application development organisation, Inprise, to deploy a Web-based customer care system. Telenordia will standardise on Inprise's Visibroker Corba technology in... [21 Jul 1999]
Analysis: why the business world won't want the XC
Comment Basically, it's a lightweight PC, based on the x86 Intel architecture, and uses Internet Protocol for Net access and general comms. First there was the PC. Then came the NC. Now we have the XC. Manufacturer Acer is... [10 Jul 1998]
