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RSS biddingFree muni wi-fi projects a pipe dream?
News Chicago, whose main objective was building a network to provide ubiquitous and affordable broadband access, said earlier it has halted its plans for a citywide wi-fi project after it couldn't come to terms with demands made by AT&T and EarthLink... [03 Sep 2007]
Bidding Protocols for Deploying Mobile Sensors
White Paper This paper designs two bidding protocols to guide the movement of mobile sensors in such sensor networks to increase the coverage to a desirable level. Constructing a sensor network with a mix of mobile and static sensors can achieve a balance... [31 Aug 2007]
Dear silicon.com... ID cards, Auntie's iPlayer, generation web 2.0, robot wars
Comment Any supplier bidding for this business must be aware that when the public wake up to what is going on they risk not only losing money on the ID project but many people will be boycotting their other products and services too. [16 Aug 2007]
ID cards: The bidding war begins
News The UK's controversial national ID card programme has taken a big step closer to reality. The Identity and Passport Service's (IPS) Framework Procurement has been published in the Official Journal of the European Union, inviting potential suppliers... [09 Aug 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 13.07.07
Round-Up Bidding wars have broken out to win programmers. Around this time of year, all over the country, fresh-faced graduates are emerging into the real world after three or more years of academia and looking at the road ahead. [13 Jul 2007]
Web 2.0 whipping up a developer frenzy
News Web developers are now among the most sought-after IT professionals in the UK - average hourly rates stand at £29, up from £23 this time last year - to the point where businesses seeking to secure skilled staff are engaging in bidding wars. [10 Jul 2007]
Editor's Blog: Media merger mania
Comment Murdoch's News Corp bidding for the venerable company that brings us The Wall Street Journal (not to mention a website that is arguably the real prize), Microsoft and Yahoo! The unravelling this week of the merger between Daimler-Benz and Chrysler... [15 May 2007]
The McCue Interview: Rob Fraser, IT director, Boots
Comment More recently the company has been facing fierce competition from the big supermarkets eating into its core toiletries and drugs market but, having bounced back with a £7bn merger with Alliance Unichem last year, the Alliance Boots group is... [25 Apr 2007]
A Winning Bid With the Avaya IP Office Solution
White Paper It works as both the main office telephony system, and helps to ensure that Phone Bidding can operate profitably within its tight margins. Formed in 1999, mediaBEAM GmbH is based in Ahaus/Germany and develops software for Unified Messaging... [25 Apr 2007]
Southampton's outsourcing costs double to £290m
News Managing such a long and complex bidding processes is one of the most important aspects of winning large BPO deals. The cost of Southampton City Council's plans to overhaul its customer and corporate services by outsourcing them to the private... [23 Mar 2007]
Google plans click-fraud blockade
News The move is designed to stop rivals from using so called click fraud to eat through a competitor's advertising budget, and to prevent them from bidding on the ad's keyword for the purpose of using it in their own ads. [01 Mar 2007]
Amnesty: ISPs must safeguard free speech
News that] continue to do the bidding of the Chinese authorities and deny people in China their basic rights to freedom of expression and information - by censoring search results, for example". The human rights group Amnesty International has called on... [20 Feb 2007]
Negative image hinders Russian IT outsourcing
News Russia is bidding for a bigger slice of the lucrative global offshore outsourcing market but is being hindered by the continuing negative international perception of the country. Russia's IT services industry is currently growing at about 10 per... [15 Feb 2007]
SMEs: 'Life-blood of government IT'?
News The government has tried to give smaller companies a better shot at bidding for public sector contracts following the launch of a website last year listing 7,000 new contracts worth less than £100,000. [24 Jan 2007]
Buyers queuing up for BenQ phone unit?
News Two groups are now bidding to take control of BenQ Mobile, the now insolvent former joint venture between BenQ and Siemens. Biometrics tech vendor Sentex has announced it is in talks to buy BenQ Mobile and the BenQ Siemens brand, citing Siemens... [10 Jan 2007]
