comms
RSS commsMobiles go underground in Glasgow
News The comms infrastructure is being built by Arqiva, which won the contract from Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT), the owner-operator of the Glasgow subway. Wireless from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more… [14 Jan 2008]
Super-speed broadband heads to Kent
News Steve Robertson, chief executive of Openreach, said the fibre deployment will enable comms providers to gauge how much demand there is for "very high speed broadband" - and develop business models accordingly. [10 Jan 2008]
Demand for tech workers hits six-year high
News There was also a rise in employed workers looking for new jobs - up to 59,000 - according to the latest quarterly IT and comms sector group report from the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC). [08 Jan 2008]
How tech drives the World Rally Championship
Case Study The World Rally Championship (WRC) is one of the most technologically advanced sports events in the world and relies heavily on sophisticated comms to bring the thrills and spills of its sport to a huge worldwide audience. [08 Nov 2007]
MiFID: It's finally right here, right now
News Companies will also have to publish more information on trades than they have done previously, which means new comms infrastructures must be put in place. MiFID, the European investment banking regulation, comes into force today and banks will be... [01 Nov 2007]
Security threats evolve again
News The survey found three-quarters of companies that admitted to poor comms and collaboration between their marketing, privacy and security divisions had suffered from a data breach - whereas fewer than a third of companies that thought they had good... [24 Oct 2007]
Photos: BT blows £250m on wind farms
Photo Goonhilly was the largest satellite Earth station in the world with 61 dishes but BT announced plans to move its satellite comms business away from the site in Cornwall last year. BT is planning to develop wind farms to generate up to 25 per cent... [19 Oct 2007]
Photos: Cool tech behind an Arctic expedition
Photo The control box is fitted with a simple push-button system to change comms settings. A team of polar explorers will travel to and traverse the North Pole next year to survey the Arctic ice. Polar explorer, Pen Hadow (pictured) will travel to the... [17 Oct 2007]
Microsoft dives into unified comms
News Whereas Microsoft sees software as the foundation of its unified communications strategy, Cisco sees the network as the key to making unified comms work. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and Business Division president Jeff Raikes have formally... [17 Oct 2007]
Good and bad year for comms
AS Analysis The striking absence of the heads of some of the biggest organisations in comms continues in 2007. Cisco keeps the internet running," said Carolyn Kimber, a panellist from comms user group CMA. In a similar vein to Charles Dunstone at 42 - though... [12 Oct 2007]
telent wins £25m firefighters' comms contract
News Technology services company telent has won an eight-year, £25m comms contract with EADS Defence & Security to support England's Fire and Rescue Service. Earlier this year, EADS Defence & Security won the original £200m IT contract with the Fire and... [10 Oct 2007]
IBM does SME product range
News That includes allowing the BladeCenter to run outside the comms cabinet and building in a noise attenuator to muffle sound produced by the device. IBM has announced a raft of scaled-down software products for small businesses. [08 Oct 2007]
MoD boosts battlefield comms
News The original contract for the £200m comms network was agreed in 2006 and the network was expanded this summer to provide video cameras, VoIP phones and multiple computers. Falcon works with other MoD comms systems such as Skynet 5 and is compatible... [28 Sep 2007]
Editor's Blog: Burmese days on the internet
Comment When commentators have in the past talked about net censorship in other countries - notably the 'great firewall of China' - the emphasis has been on the control the government can exert and how Western comms equipment-makers appear only too happy... [27 Sep 2007]
Editor's Blog: Nortel's comeback?
Comment You could start a now long list of all the major tech and comms players that have been taken private - and we'll see mixed results from that over coming months and years - but Zafirovski thinks the trend is now mature, a story mainly told. [20 Sep 2007]
