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Brits want ASBOs for rude mobile users

News Music blaring out of mobiles and conversations so loud that everyone in the train carriage is forced to listen are just two of the mobile habits that are getting on the UK's wick. So much ire is being generated by mobile use that some Brits believe...

Tags: texting, in-flight, mobile

[09 May 2008]

What Every Retail CIO Needs to Know About PCI Compliance and Secure Seamless Mobility

whitepaper Fortunately, retailers are not forced into a trade-off between the efficiency of wireless technology and the enhanced security of wired networks. Concerns about security have prevented retailers from realizing the full return on their investments...

Tags: network security

[06 May 2008]

Floral Goods Manufacturer Gains Time-Saving Insight With Business Software

whitepaper This solution was accessible to only a few employees, and Syndicate Sales employees were forced to rely on the IT department for routine reports. Syndicate Sales provides a range of floral hard goods products to wholesalers, supermarkets, and mass...

Tags: customer support services

[05 May 2008]

Males in tech willing to show off their wad

News An even larger proportion of the 1,000 IT workers surveyed, 68 per cent, say senior managers should be forced to tell the workforce their salaries. Male techies are willing to reveal the size of their pay packets if it helps women get a fairer pay...

Tags: men, women, salary, pay

[02 May 2008]

Ballmer on Yahoo!: Price in mind and not "a dime" more

News giving a sense of who might be part of Microsoft's "plan B" should it be forced to go that route. Microsoft chief executive, Steve Ballmer, told employees he has a figure in mind as to what Yahoo! is worth but doesn't plan to pay "a dime above...

Tags: bid, microsoft, yahoo

[02 May 2008]

Windows XP SP3 a go this month?

News Anyone who has not installed the service pack will be forced to do so on 10 June by automatic update, according to the roadmap. The third and final service pack for Windows XP could be available by the end of April, according to a leaked Microsoft...

Tags: vista, microsoft, sp3

[16 Apr 2008]

VoIP a perfect fit for Gieves and Hawkes

Case Study The company was forced to look for an alternative as the link became progressively more expensive and asked BT to upgrade it. But Collins said that as BT was in no great hurry he was forced to choose another supplier, Viatel.

Tags: viatel, bt, voip

[15 Apr 2008]

Microsoft: Vista security feature designed 'to annoy users'

News As UAC flashes up a warning every time such an action is performed, Kaspersky said users would be forced to either blindly ignore the warning and allow the action to be performed or disable the feature to stop themselves going "crazy".

Tags: vista, uac, microsoft

[14 Apr 2008]

IMS Operations Savings and Time to Market Improvements

whitepaper Service providers are often forced to deploy stand-alone, individual service applications (referred to as "Point solutions") to meet revenue pressures; and are faced with the complex and expensive task of integrating these solutions and associated...

Tags: network design, revenue, ims, functions

[10 Apr 2008]

Calling on Enterprise Access for Enhanced Customer Service

whitepaper Engineers in the field were forced to record information on paper, and to later transfer the information into computers when they returned to their offices. T-Mobile has approximately 13 million customers in the UK and is part of one of the largest...

Tags: access technologies, citrix, citrix solutions network, microsoft windows

[10 Apr 2008]

RFID Service Overview

whitepaper Many private and public organisations are being forced to assess the potential benefits, because of market or legislative pressures. This paper provides an overview of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), which is a rapidly emerging technology...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, radio frequency identification, radio, forced

[10 Apr 2008]

Virgin Trains passengers to chatter for longer

News The train operator has joined forced with Vodafone UK to boost mobile coverage within carriages so fewer calls are dropped. Travellers on Virgin Train could soon be chattering for longer. Repeater technology, which retransmits 2G and 3G, will be...

Tags: security, vodafone, business traveller, virgin

[07 Apr 2008]

'Super-3Gs' get connected via the Gobi

News The disparity between HSDPA - part of the HSPA family - and EV-DO networks has led to a situation where, despite data-roaming agreements between companies such as Vodafone (in the UK) and Verizon (in the US), a subscriber to either operator is...

Tags: hp, wireless, lenovo, dell

[07 Apr 2008]

Microsoft deals Yahoo! an ultimatum

News If we are forced to take an offer directly to your shareholders, that action will have an undesirable impact on the value of your company from our perspective which will be reflected in the terms of our proposal.

Tags: microsoft, yahoo

[07 Apr 2008]

Gov't stung by 'rip-off' outsourcing deals

News It claims that providers are forced to "claw back" their losses after being pressured to lower their bid to win the tender. Taxpayers' money is being squandered on public sector outsourcing deals where costs are ballooning up to 75 per cent more...

Tags: compass, outsourcing

[04 Apr 2008]

Whitehall laptop ban hits driving agency performance

News The government ban on the movement of encrypted data triggered a performance slump at the UK's driving safety agency and forced it to temporarily revert from electronic to paper-based processes. The Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (Vosa) saw...

Tags: government, data loss, full disclosure

[04 Apr 2008]

Five Ways to Reduce Costs for Batch Processing

whitepaper IT has largely been forced to use upgrades to ensure they meet batch commitments. While this sometimes delivers timely results, it can also significantly increase costs and further erode the IT cost of ownership position.

Tags: cost control - risk mgmt.

[03 Apr 2008]

Strategic Out-Tasking: Creating "Win-Win" Outsourcing Partnerships

whitepaper Outsourcers, on their end, are forced to price deals to win, resulting in razor-thin margins and aggressive cost reduction curves. IT outsourcing is one of the most prevalent and transformational trends in business today.

Tags: outsourcing

[03 Apr 2008]

Analysis of Server Consolidation in the Data Center: VMware Vs. Virtuozzo

whitepaper The reduction of the physical number of servers in a modern-day IT organization, otherwise known as "server consolidation," is of utmost importance to IT managers, who are forced to look for ways to reduce the time and money associated with...

Tags: data center

[28 Mar 2008]

Three Key Enhancements to Enterprise Messaging

whitepaper As the demands for messaging increase, many organizations are forced to reevaluate their messaging infrastructure. For many organizations the email system is the backbone of communications. And today's email systems are moving from simple email...

Tags: email

[28 Mar 2008]

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