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IT Services Supplier Boosts Service to GPs With Streamlined Operations Management

whitepaper Employees at INPS, which provides IT services to General Practitioners (GPs), used a disparate and complex IT infrastructure. It needed a management solution that: better monitored service performance, lowered the total cost of ownership, helped...

Tags: monitoring systems

[11 May 2008]

Galileo phones home

News Galileo is a joint project between the EU and European Space Agency (ESA) to provide a comprehensive European sat-nav system, which will eventually replace the US military GPS network. The satellite is transmitting a combined GPS and Galileo signal...

Tags: gps, signal, europe, sat nav

[09 May 2008]

Nationwide WiMax in next two years?

News G is for GPS There will be WiMax coverage across the UK within the next two years, the managing director of Intel Capital EMEA has claimed. Speaking at a roundtable discussion yesterday, Ashish Patel said the long-range wireless technology would...

Tags: 3g, wimax

[09 May 2008]

Tomorrow's wireless world: Healthcare to wear

News G is for GPS Tomorrow's wireless world could be a better place to be ill, according to Ofcom which has published a report highlighting technologies that could make it outside the research lab over the next 10 to 20 years.

Tags: e-health, ofcom, wireless

[08 May 2008]

Photos: Robot warriors engage in battle

Photo Here, Ant Scientific R&D director, Rob Mullins, is demonstrating how the PC can be used to input commands on the right or show a GPS-enabled map of the area. The challenge is to create a system with a high degree of autonomy that can detect...

Tags: military, sensor, robot

[06 May 2008]

Mobile M2M connections on the up

News G is for GPS Cellular machine-to-machine (M2M) connections are set to rise by more than a third in the next four years, analyst Berg Insight predicts, driven by rollouts of vehicle telematics. Wireless from A to Z

Tags: ecall, telematics, m2m

[06 May 2008]

Multiple network access becoming mobile norm

News The analyst points to an impressive array of radio access techs already in play - from cellular in its various forms, to 3G and HSPA data networks, to video broadcast techs such as DVB-H, to short-range connectivity techs such as Bluetooth, along...

Tags: networks, mobile, wi-fi

[02 May 2008]

Photos: Galileo's phase two goes into orbit

Photo It represents the next phase in the development of the satellite network the EU hopes will become the region's equivalent of GPS. The second trial satellite (Giove-B) in the European Galileo satellite programme was launched in Kazakhstan at the...

Tags: trial, europe, sat nav, satellite

[29 Apr 2008]

EU healthcare reaps benefits of broadband

European primary healthcare services are benefiting from broadband, says the European Commission, but there are still wide discrepancies in GPs' use of IT across Europe. The report — entitled Benchmarking ICT use among General Practitioners in...

[29 Apr 2008]

Euro e-health getting the right attention

News European primary healthcare services are benefiting from broadband, says the European Commission, but there are still wide discrepancies in GPs' use of IT across Europe. The report - entitled Benchmarking ICT use among General Practitioners in...

Tags: telemonitoring, healthcare, e-health

[28 Apr 2008]

Surf's up with ferry wi-fi

News The Moovera Networks ruggedised wi-fi access points link to T-Mobile's broadband network and will also feature built in GPS for real-time positioning. Wi-fi is to take to the waves as a cross-channel ferry company offers wireless internet access.

Tags: wireless, broadband, wi-fi

[15 Apr 2008]

Coffee Republic to offer free wi-fi

News G is for GPS Latte lovers who like to surf and work from the comfort of a coffee shop will be able to get free wi-fi internet access at Coffee Republic cafes from May. Coffee Republic will become the first UK coffee chain to provide free wi-fi to...

Tags: wi-fi, coffee republic

[14 Apr 2008]

WiMax to pip LTE 3G at the post?

News G is for GPS Teresa Kellett, director of global development for telco Sprint Nextel, said during a panel discussion at this week's WiMax Forum Asia 2008 that WiMax's first-mover advantage over the long-term evolution of 3G (LTE) may eventually help...

Tags: 4g, 3g, wimax

[11 Apr 2008]

Delphi Wireless Application Protocol Browser

whitepaper Vehicle-specific information such as GPS location or set-trouble codes can be used to locate the specific information of interest without intervention from the driver. The Delphi's enhanced Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) Browser enables...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, wireless application protocol, connection, enhanced

[10 Apr 2008]

Success Story - Wireless Monitoring and Integrated Registration System

whitepaper The buses are also tracked via GPS, to allow finding the location of a bus in times of duress or emergency. A Texas Corporation approached AVIDWireless to develop their integrated school bus application called PVTS-1.

Tags: bluetooth, school, accounting, students

[10 Apr 2008]

3.5G gizmos mushrooming forth

News The GSA survey highlights another growing mobile trend: GPS. Seventy HSPA devices now incorporate GPS/positioning functionality, compared to 20 just six months ago. The list from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more.

Tags: mobile broadband, 3.5g, hsdpa

[07 Apr 2008]

'Super-3Gs' get connected via the Gobi

News G is for GPS Dell, HP and Lenovo are to incorporate Qualcomm's Gobi chipset into their laptops later this year. Gobi, which Qualcomm released in October 2007, is a chipset that allows travellers to connect to both High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA...

Tags: hp, wireless, lenovo, dell

[07 Apr 2008]

Photos: Nokia gives web tablet a WiMax-flavour

Photo It also comes with built-in GPS meaning it can be effectively used as a fully featured personal navigation device, said Nokia. Nokia has added to its internet tablet series with a WiMax-flavoured version of the pocket-sized web browsing gizmo.

Tags: tablet, wimax, nokia

[04 Apr 2008]

Yahoo! to 'revolutionise' mobile search with OneSearch

News G is for GPS Yahoo! announced upgrades to its Yahoo! OneSearch product at the CTIA trade show in Las Vegas yesterday, which it says make mobile search smarter, more relevant and easier to use with voice-activation technology.

Tags: web, mobile, search, yahoo

[03 Apr 2008]

Facebook for BlackBerry racks up a million hits

News It expects GPS tech - increasingly finding its way into phones - to give a further boost to the mobile apps market. BlackBerry users have racked up more than one million downloads of a Facebook app in the five months since it launched.

Tags: facebook, blackberry, rim

[02 Apr 2008]

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