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Unified comms: What it needs to succeed
Comment Unified comms holds plenty of promise but businesses hoping to use it must first consider why uptake has been so slow, says Jim Mortleman. As a concept, of course, unified comms has a lot going for it. [17 Nov 2009]
Digital Dilemmas: Should your business be on Twitter?
Comment But Twitter is more than just staccato monologue - at its best it's a comms tool that lets strangers converse. As the hype around microblogging builds, should your business join the tweet-fest or keep schtum? [16 Nov 2009]
Photos: Android marches onto even more smartphones
Photo The UI has a zeitgeisty social networking bias - with different forms of comms, from Facebook and Twitter to SMS and email, integrated together. It's two years since Google announced it was building an open mobile OS... [06 Nov 2009]
£39m boost for London Olympics' emergency comms
News The Home Office has announced a £39m deal to help emergency services comms cope during the London 2012 Olympic Games. The contract will also help support public order policing activities involving several thousand... [03 Nov 2009]
How Google Apps helped Jaguar Land Rover keep motoring after Ford sale
News Staff will get access to Google Mail within the next four months and in future Vincent is.interested in rolling out further apps within the Google Apps suite, such as the word-processing software Google Docs and possibly the... [26 Oct 2009]
It's a dog's life for police BlackBerrys
News The Airwave Tetra network was designed for voice comms, and while the radios can be used for sending basic data - such as two-digit codes - complex data tasks such as checks of the Police National Computer can't be done... [20 Oct 2009]
British Airways' London to New York route lets flyers use mobiles
News Despite the OnAir rollout, British Airways CEO Willie Walsh recently said the airline will not extend in-flight mobile comms to any of its aircraft already in service. Air travellers flying between London and New York... [28 Sep 2009]
Digital Britain fibre tax 'to be law before next general election'
News The fibre levy was included in the government's Digital Britain report, unveiled in June by then Comms Minister Lord Stephen Carter. The proposed fibre tax to pay for next-gen broadband in the UK could be law before the... [23 Sep 2009]
Photos: Secret-code machines come to Bletchley
Photo One of the world's largest collections of Enigma cipher machines - famous for being used by the Nazis to protect communications during the Second World War - is to go on display at Bletchley Park. The Enigma electro mechanical rotor... [17 Aug 2009]
One in 78: The chances your comms are being monitored
News Half a million requests to see citizens comms data have been made by the government (Photo credit: charbel.akhras under the following Creative Commons licence) What are the chances the government wants to monitor you? [11 Aug 2009]
£24.4m written off on government IT project
News The £24.4m write-off on the Scope programme - a secure electronic comms network aimed at improving information sharing across 10 government departments and security and intelligence agencies - was approved by the... [17 Jul 2009]
BT lands £99m comms deal with Ministry of Defence
News BT on Thursday announced a five-year, £99m contract with the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to manage voice and data networks across 197 military bases. The deal broadens the Defence Fixed Telecommunications Service (DFTS) agreement, under... [17 Jul 2009]
4,000 Indian jobs go as BT brings call centre work back to UK
News In separate news, BT announced it has been awarded a Ministry of Defence contract worth £99m over five years for managed voice and data networks in more than a quarter of a million MoD assets, including buildings, comms... [16 Jul 2009]
MoD inks £231m deal to boost comms
News The Ministry of Defence has awarded two comms contracts worth a total of £231m to General Dynamics UK. The deals cover upgrading the UK Armed Forces' Bowman digital radios comms system and improving... [03 Jul 2009]
British Airways: No mobiles on old planes
News British Airways CEO Willie Walsh has said the airline will not extend in-flight mobile comms to any of its aircraft already in service. BA CIO Paul Coby predicted "exciting" new developments in in-flight passenger... [01 Jul 2009]
