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Steve Ballmer's $44.6bn letter to Yahoo!

News Ben Verwaayen BT These discussions were based on a vision that the online businesses of Microsoft and Yahoo! valuing the company 62 per cent higher than its latest stock value. According to Microsoft, the bid is intended to better position the two...

Tags: microsoft, web, ads, yahoo!

[01 Feb 2008]

Broadband summit: Speed is the key

News Companies including BT - which has invested billions in overhauling its core network to an all-IP network known as the 21CN - and Virgin Media, which has announced plans to roll out an up to 50Mbps broadband service by the end of next year, joined...

Tags: ofcom, broadband, ngn, economy

[27 Nov 2007]

Dear silicon.com... work and play, mobiles on planes, data leaks...

Comment Editor's choice silicon.com news editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.  Q&A: Bruce Schneier, CTO of BT Counterpane   How to survive the first 100 days as CIO &  Photos: Soldiers test battle...

Tags: skills, vista, mobile

[25 Oct 2007]

JP Rangaswami

AS Profile Now, as CIO of BT's global IT services business, Rangaswami sits on the Global Services executive committee, BT's One IT committee and the BT Group IT board, where his energy and vision will be crucial in helping transform the telecoms provider...

[12 Oct 2007]

CIO Jury: Is VoIP secure enough for business?

News BT's 21 Century Network based around IP is already being rolled out to replace their existing ones, so best to get some experience fairly early on and learn about the pitfalls sooner than later, and take the necessary precautions.

Tags: cio jury, voip

[16 Mar 2007]

CEOs: Understand IT better - or else

News BT Global Services CEO Andy Green said: "If CEOs don't understand, someone else will come along and eat their lunch. The research was published in partnership with BT, Deloitte and Serco. Joanna Causon, CMI marketing director, said: "CEOs and CIOs...

Tags: ceos, change management, cio

[05 Mar 2007]

Fat pipes fatter - but not as fat as we think...

News A provider only needs around 1.5 per cent of users to make use of, say, the BT Vision product at the same time to use up all the capacity," he said. Broadband speeds have more than quadrupled since 2003 but many users still aren't receiving the...

Tags: fat pipe, broadband, broadband speeds, uk

[23 Feb 2007]

All eyes: Universal added to BT Vision roster

News BT has struck a deal with Universal Music Group for music videos to be made available on demand via the BT Vision television service. BT Vision was launched last December and currently has around 4,000 customers - which is "in line with...

Tags: bt vision, universal, video on demand, broadband

[15 Feb 2007]

Unbundled lines set to number 1.5 million

News Local loop unbundling (LLU) is a process whereby telecoms operators other than BT provide voice and data services to homes and businesses using BT's infrastructure. Steve Robertson, the chief executive of Openreach - the business unit established...

Tags: openreach, local-loop unbundling, unbundling, llu

[05 Feb 2007]

BT enters quad-play era with IPTV launch

News BT has today pushed play on its long-touted IPTV offering, BT Vision, moving the telco into the quad-play era proper. BT Vision offers BT broadband customers the chance to pick and mix digital TV programming and on-demand pay-per-view premium...

Tags: bt vision, quad-play, iptv

[04 Dec 2006]

Vodafone jumps on broadband bandwagon

News Vodafone announced a couple of months ago it would resell DSL from BT Wholesale under its own brand. Under the scheme, the mobile operator can sell broadband access across the UK without having to invest in local loop unbundling, where companies...

Tags: vodafone, broadband, new year, contract

[10 Nov 2006]

Photos of the month - October 06

Photo Secrets of BT labs revealed: It's been a gadget-tastic month for silicon.com with BT showcasing its latest devices to come from the telco's labs. But don't get your hopes up, the purpose was to get an idea of what kids want from their gadgets...

Tags: salesforce.com, salesforce, hp, hp labs

[31 Oct 2006]

'Kids won't topple the IT department'

News Futurologist and former BT CTO, Peter Cochrane, recently fanned the flames of controversy at the annual silicon.com CIO Forum when he said young people are already a disruptive force in the workplace when it comes to their use of technology.

Tags: techies, it department, youth, kids

[24 Oct 2006]

Telecoms trends

AS Analysis This means Sky is giving away routers to those taking up its broadband products and BT is knocking out similar souped-up devices called Home Hubs to encourage its customers to dabble with new services.

[25 Sep 2006]

Cornwall - the new Seattle?

News More than 99 per cent of homes and businesses are now able to access broadband, according to BT.actnow project director Nigel Ashcroft said the region needs to develop an IT strategy that can allow Cornwall to become the "silicon peninsula" of the...

Tags: cornwall

[14 Sep 2006]

IPTV to convert 48 million by 2010 - Gartner

News Gartner expects subscribers to telly-via-broadband to more than double next year - from 6.4 million in 2006 to 13.3 million - on the back of new service launches from the likes of BT, which is set to debut its Vision IPTV service later this year.

Tags: iptv, gartner

[07 Sep 2006]

BT CIO: "We see Google as our biggest threat"

News Ramji also referred to the challenges that lay ahead in BT's expansion into IP-streamed television (IPTV), with its BT Vision service. Google is becoming BT's biggest competitor. That's the surprise assessment of BT's chief information officer, Al...

Tags: al-noor ramji, google, bt

[09 Jun 2006]

BT scores broadband Premiership rights

News The matches will be made available on a pay-per-view basis for users of BT's Vision service, without viewers needing to take out a subscription. BT Vision, to be launched later this year, is the telco's own IPTV offering.

Tags: vision, iptv, football, bt

[26 May 2006]

In Six Weeks, Cambridge Technology Partners, the Business Strategy Practice of Novell Consulting in the UK, Provided a Strategic Road Map to Help BT Improve Efficiency, Reduce Operating Costs and Make

whitepaper Identity management is at the heart of the company's vision for "One BT," an authoritative view of users, assets, processes and resources. BT is one of the world's leading providers of communications and ICT services and one of the largest private...

Tags: bt, cambridge technology partners, view, road

[26 Apr 2006]

IPTV services will "struggle" for years

News Although this is set to increase fairly rapidly to reach 1.9 million by 2010 with the introduction of services such as BT Vision this autumn, Gartner predicts that the UK will remain a weaker prospect for IPTV.

Tags: iptv

[11 Apr 2006]

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