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Telecommunications Company Employees Improve Service With New Customer Care System

whitepaper Its customer contact centre is the largest of its kind in Croatia, and employees field hundreds of customer enquiries every day. T-Com is a leading provider of Internet, telephony, and IP services to customers throughout Croatia.

Tags: customer support services

[11 May 2008]

KTF Improves Transaction Speed by 1,000% With Integrated Authentication Service System

whitepaper KTF's Service Infrastructure Research Centre, part of its Research & Development Institute, has deployed Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database and Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) 10g to develop a fast, integrated subscriber and service...

Tags: knowledge and data management

[11 May 2008]

Travel site bookings fly when glitch fixed

Case Study Thomson relaunched its thomson.co.uk website about a year ago, with a new search engine capable of navigating customers to the most appropriate holiday packages at the centre of the new design. Usability testing software has helped a holiday...

Tags: testing, ecommerce, travel

[09 May 2008]

Cloud computing: Silver lining…

Comment In the case of a data centre that is at or near capacity, clouds can provide an alternative place to run applications. Since so many people are talking about cloud computing, it really wouldn't hurt to know what it is.

Tags: saas, data centres, cloud computing

[09 May 2008]

Nasa supercomputer gets rocket power

News Working with Intel and supercomputing specialist SGI, the Advanced Supercomputing facility at Nasa's Ames research centre in California will be able to deal with increasingly complex modelling and simulation work.

Tags: petaflop, performance, upgrade, supercomputer

[09 May 2008]

Met Office forecasts blue skies for green IT

News These computational workhorses and their predecessors at the Met Office Hadley Centre crunched through global data to produce evidence for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports, whose predictions of a 0.2C temperature rise per...

Tags: met office, energy, green it

[09 May 2008]

UK blueprint on how tech can beat climate change

News The announcement comes as a study by the centre-right think tank, Policy Exchange, said the government had missed 60 per cent of its green targets set since 1997, including providing five per cent of electricity from renewables by 2003.

Tags: climate change, energy, green it

[08 May 2008]

Editor's Blog: The race to get the Olympic tech ready

Comment The venues I saw are impressive - particular the Water Cube aquatics centre. I had a fascinating if rather rushed 46 hours in Beijing recently, getting a sneak preview of the 2008 Olympic venues - and meeting the IT team tasked with getting the...

Tags: infrastructure, server, t5, olympic

[08 May 2008]

Photos: Beijing Olympics 2008 - tech keeping the games on track

Photo The National Aquatics Centre - otherwise known as the 'Water Cube' will be used for diving, swimming and synchronised swimming. This is the Olympic Green Tennis Centre. The Tennis Centre, as seen close up…

Tags: project, infrastructure, olympic

[07 May 2008]

India edgy about outsourcing newbies?

News More on outsourcing…  Gov't stung by 'rip-off' outsourcing deals  Shell signs $4bn IT outsourcing contract  Cloud computing - the data centre of the future? India's fears that other countries are undercutting its dominance of...

Tags: india, offshoring, outsourcing

[06 May 2008]

A Scalable PKI for a National Grid Service

whitepaper This paper describes work to expand the PKI for the UK National Grid Service (NGS), to integrate it with site authentication and improve usability. This work is complementary to the UK Shibboleth deployment.

Tags: pki

[03 May 2008]

Photos: Tech ensures a smoother course

Photo The control centre below is a concentration of sensory data displays, boat controls and communications equipment. In the centre is a large screen powered by a laptop with plotting information. The BT IMOCA 60 is the fruit of a title sponsorship...

Tags: yacht, ellen mcarthur, bt

[02 May 2008]

O2 woos SMEs with broadband deal

News But what we've added to that is a prioritisation process where calls into our call centre from businesses are prioritised over others. Mobile operator O2 UK has launched a business broadband service and extended the coverage of its home broadband...

Tags: broadband, smes, o2

[01 May 2008]

Photos: India 999

Photo All calls are directed to the EMRI call centre, which employs 4,382 workers directing some 600 ambulances in response to 1.6 million emergencies each year. The average call centre worker earns $200 per month, compared to $125 per month for the...

Tags: satyam, india, ambulance

[01 May 2008]

CIOs are driving the green agenda

News Fahy said the drive for efficiency at Lehman Brothers has meant the company has shifted to charging for internal services based on consumption - by calculating how much resource is required to run individual applications, instead of, say...

Tags: cisco, green, cios

[01 May 2008]

Photos: The Birth of Hi-Tech Britain

Photo The large red 'Scram' button in the centre of the control panel would shut down the reactor in the event of an emergency. The gleaming, primary colours of 1950s sci-fi icon Dan Dare met the vacuum tubes, dials and buttons of post-World War II...

Tags: tech, science, history

[01 May 2008]

IBM tools to curb data centres' power-hungry appetite?

News The world's largest technology services company is offering software that tracks and caps data centre energy consumption, including power for air conditioning to cool server computers. IBM's green data centre initiative has already begun to pay off...

Tags: data centres, ibm, green

[01 May 2008]

India's high-tech cities, web whispers, Babbage's Difference engine and more...

Photo Pictured here is Tata Consultancy Services' campus - the outsourcing company's largest global development centre. The cutting-edge Masternaut Three X telematics system allows a control centre to track 20 gritter lorries that keep a 178km stretch of...

Tags: hyderabad, robots, bangalore

[29 Apr 2008]

National fraud reporting centre to arrive next year

News A national centre to co-ordinate strategy for combating fraud in England and Wales should be in place by next year. The Attorney General's Office for England and Wales (AGO) wants a National Fraud Reporting Centre to collate reports of all types of...

Tags: security, cyber crime, fraud

[28 Apr 2008]

Photos: Discover high-tech India

Photo The centre works on telecommunications, e-governance, biological sciences, ports and shipping. This impressive oval redbrick building is home to Tata Consultancy Services' (TCS) campus, otherwise known as Deccan Park, the company's largest global...

Tags: offshoring, india, outsourcing

[28 Apr 2008]

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