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Tomorrow's wireless world: Healthcare to wear

News Outside healthcare, the report points to many future applications of wireless tech in the transport sector, including road-to-vehicle and car-to-car comms technology to alert drivers to traffic jams to help reduce congestion; intelligent transport...

Tags: e-health, ofcom, wireless

[08 May 2008]

Photos: HTC unveils its Diamond touch

Photo Microsoft's senior VP of mobile comms, Andy Lees, explained this is due to "the leapfrog" HTC want to make with the device and IE6 for the mobile not being ready in time. Peter Chou (pictured above), president and CEO of mobile maker HTC, has...

Tags: touchscreen, iphone, htc

[07 May 2008]

Mobile M2M connections on the up

News The number of mobile network connections used for M2M comms will grow from 37.5 million in 2007 to 186 million in 2012, says the analyst. But the analyst predicts vehicle telematics - aka wireless vehicle comms tech - apps will dominate the M2M...

Tags: ecall, telematics, m2m

[06 May 2008]

Photos: Tech ensures a smoother course

Photo Furthest right are handsets for satellite phone and RF comms. The BT IMOCA 60 is the fruit of a title sponsorship deal between Team Ellen - headed up by iconic British yachtswoman Dame Ellen McArthur - and BT inked in September last year.

Tags: yacht, ellen mcarthur, bt

[02 May 2008]

'Green' technology can't save us from ourselves

Comment In other words, better comms technology does not automatically equal reduced corporate travel. Technology can be many things - often frustrating, frequently ingenious, occasionally revolutionary. But it's certainly not rare to see big claims made...

Tags: climate change, technology, videoconferencing

[28 Apr 2008]

Mobile working goes mainstream

News In terms of business benefits, the most commonly cited advantage of wireless is increased staff productivity - cited by 56 per cent of respondents - followed by improved internal comms. Businesses have woken up to the benefits of mobile working and...

Tags: mobility, it department, smart phone, gartner

[25 Mar 2008]

Dear silicon.com... NHS 'savings', e-crime coppers, skills crisis?...

Comment I was doing desktop and comms network support for SMEs and the tight so-and-so so's seemed to think that £70 per hour was far too expensive. Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and views on the...

Tags: vista, skills, nhs, e-crime

[20 Mar 2008]

FDM lands multimillion contract with FiReControl

News FDM will be the prime supplier of training for the FiReControl project, which aims to consolidate emergency fire comms in England into nine regional control centres so firefighters can get to emergencies more quickly.

Tags: firecontrol, training, eads, fire

[18 Mar 2008]

Five weird ways to bridge the digital divide

News Space Data's so-called SkySite Network service has been used by companies in the oil and gas field - and currently its system facilitates low speed, machine-to-machine comms - but it has plans for advanced balloon-bourn wireless services.

Tags: broadband, satellite, wimax, spectrum

[06 Mar 2008]

Taridium: Comms 1.1 - VoIP Provider Platform

whitepaper Taridium's comms provider VoIP platform combines all the advantages of an open standards solution with the reliability of non-stop hardware and 7x24 monitoring. Taridium's comms platform is deployed on high availability servers which offer five...

Tags: voip - ip telephony

[28 Feb 2008]

Satellite comms to bridge digital divide?

News Dr Hamadoun Touré, the International Telecommunications Union's (ITU) secretary-general, said satellite comms technology can play a vital role in connecting remote and isolated communities around the world.

Tags: satellite, digital divide, itu, ensuring

[28 Feb 2008]

Kerching! Ofcom flogs more spectrum

News Mobile comms company Arqiva, which was involved with O2's second mobile TV trial last year, paid a total of £260,500 for two lots of 28GHz spectrum. Wireless from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more…

Tags: spectrum, ofcom, operator, band

[22 Feb 2008]

Faster speeds on the cards for Broadband Britain?

News Business and competitiveness minister, Shriti Vadera, said the UK's comms infrastructure must be able to respond to future technology development. It is also sniffing around fibre. The list from A to Z

Tags: broadband, fibre, ofcom, high speed

[22 Feb 2008]

Mobiles on the moon? Nasa prepares trial for takeoff

News He said: "The robots and astronauts would be spread out from the base to do exploration and some sorts of comms infrastructure would be needed. Wireless from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more…

Tags: moon, space, nasa, message

[19 Feb 2008]

Mobile World Congress 2008 Diary - Wednesday

Comment executive VP, Marco Boerries, who shows off a new product called OneConnect - due to launch this spring - which allows users to aggregate all their social networking comms in one place. The sun is blazing on Congress but there's desperation in the...

Tags: mobile, google, iphone, blackberry

[14 Feb 2008]

Virtual tech will 'kill the office'

News It has also been working with universities and students to learn how they use comms technology - with the aim of understanding how to translate the likes of thriving online social networks such as Facebook into a business environment.

Tags: nortel, second life, wireless, person

[31 Jan 2008]

Government reveals snooping figures

News Local authorities are restricted to acquiring comms data for crime prevention and detection. The commissioner does not, however, give his backing to intercepted comms being used as evidence in court. The government's snooping watchdog has issued...

Tags: snooping, comms, phone-tap, person

[30 Jan 2008]

Grad IT training masterfully fast tracked

News The modular Masters level IT PDP training programme has been designed to do this, and skills covered include technical, business, project management and comms. A new Masters level fast-track training programme has been launched to boost the skills...

Tags: grads, jobs, skills, track

[24 Jan 2008]

Mobiles 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…

Tags: wi-fi, glasgow, arqiva, connectivity

[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.

Tags: broadband, 100mbps, bt, speed

[10 Jan 2008]

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