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Premise IP-PBX Checklist

whitepaper This checklist organizes all of the basic information about your current situation that you'll need to effectively negotiate with a premise-based PBX provider--like the number of locations you have that need VoIP services, your current broadband...

Tags: voip - ip telephony, provider, locations, pbx

[10 May 2008]

Carphone Warehouse plans broadband boost

News Mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse is to sell 50 per cent of its retail business to US retail giant Best Buy for £1.1bn - and plans to use the cash to grow its broadband business. Carphone Warehouse, which operates the 'free' broadband brand...

Tags: talktalk, broadband, carphone warehouse

[09 May 2008]

BT adds smart phone to home broadband package

News BT is talking convergence again - the telco has added a smart phone option to its consumer broadband package. The new service - BT Total Broadband Anywhere - furnishes customers with one of a choice of two HTC smart phones, along with 50 any...

Tags: broadband, smart phone, bt

[08 May 2008]

O2 hits 3G target at last

News O2 has finally met the 3G coverage obligation that was part of the licence it acquired in 2000 for providing mobile broadband. Broadband from A-Z Click here for all there is on broadband, from fibre to zombies.

Tags: 3g, o2, ofcom

[06 May 2008]

Credit crunch failing to hold tech back

News Photos: Australian broadband goes for a deep-sea dive Photos: Introducing - the world's lightest mobile phone Confidence seems to be high in the UK tech industry that it can avoid the pitfalls of the credit crunch during 2008.

Tags: growth, globalisation, intellect, credit crunch

[02 May 2008]

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

News Photos: Australian broadband goes for a deep-sea dive Photos: Introducing - the world's lightest mobile phone Microsoft chief executive, Steve Ballmer, told employees he has a figure in mind as to what Yahoo!

Tags: bid, microsoft, yahoo

[02 May 2008]

O2 woos SMEs with broadband deal

News Mobile operator O2 UK has launched a business broadband service and extended the coverage of its home broadband offering to the whole of the UK from today. The Business Broadband offering is targeted at SMEs and, as with O2's Home Broadband service...

Tags: broadband, smes, o2

[01 May 2008]

Dear silicon.com... XP lives, the femtocell 'truth', BlackBerry bashing…

Comment Here's how I understand it: I install the femtocell and use my broadband connection to improve my provider's 3G/HSDPA coverage, and they want me to pay them for it. Windows XP was getting a lot of attention this week, with silicon.com readers...

Tags: iphone, blackberry, femtocell, vista

[01 May 2008]

Facebook top of Vodafone's mobile web

News The social networking craze is helping to drive mobile broadband, says Vodafone UK. Facebook is also the most visited site for Vodafone mobile broadband users, followed by Google and the BBC. Vodafone said it has seen growth in consumers' appetite...

Tags: mobile internet, social networking, vodafone, facebook

[01 May 2008]

Microsoft board meets over Yahoo! - but no decisions

News Photos: Australian broadband goes for a deep-sea dive Photos: Introducing - the world's lightest mobile phone Microsoft's board met yesterday to discuss its stand-off with Yahoo! over its takeover bid but failed to reach a decision on what to do...

Tags: bid, microsoft, yahoo

[01 May 2008]

AMD chips into business market

News Broadband from A-Z… Dash - the Desktop and Mobile Architecture for System Hardware - is a web services-based industry standard for system inventory, diagnostics and control. AMD has released a series of chips which it claims has the stability and...

Tags: chips, intel, amd

[29 Apr 2008]

Google: Yahoo! tie-up not anti-competitive

News Photos: Australian broadband goes for a deep-sea dive Photos: Introducing - the world's lightest mobile phone Google believes regulators would not bar a potential business deal with Yahoo! because it would be "non-exclusive" and falls short of an...

Tags: microsoft, google, yahoo

[29 Apr 2008]

Harrods makes a tech-savvy exhibition of itself

News Broadband from A-Z… Harrods is using cutting-edge mobile technology to promote a new exhibition at its famous department store in Knightsbridge. The system uses so-called 'QR' barcodes printed on posters which, when photographed using mobile phone...

Tags: barcode, camera, qr, mobile

[25 Apr 2008]

Mobile market ripe for femtocell loving

News Infonetics says market conditions are looking up for the backhaul tech which piggybacks on a broadband connection to boost mobile coverage indoors. This is due to three main factors: global growth in the number of mobile subscribers - predicted to...

Tags: mobile broadband, 3.5g, femtocell

[23 Apr 2008]

Fifa World Cup to get high-tech makeover

News Photos: Australian broadband goes for a deep-sea dive Photos: Introducing - the world's lightest mobile phone Indian IT company Satyam is promising to "transform" the way fans watch football on the back of its World Cup deal with the game's...

Tags: outsourcing, fifa, satyam

[23 Apr 2008]

Facebook under attack: The spam and phishing threat

News Photos: Australian broadband goes for a deep-sea dive Photos: Introducing - the world's lightest mobile phone Asked about a privacy and security flaw that had been identified in Facebook's mobile variant last year - in which the user's contacts had...

Tags: phishing, spam, facebook

[23 Apr 2008]

Open source: 'World's largest software company'

News Photos: Australian broadband goes for a deep-sea dive Photos: Introducing - the world's lightest mobile phone Open source software is successfully displacing proprietary applications in many large companies and eating into the annual revenues of...

Tags: software, ibm, open source

[22 Apr 2008]

Samsung chief steps down after tax indictment

News Photos: Australian broadband goes for a deep-sea dive Photos: Introducing - the world's lightest mobile phone The group's products range from computer chips and mobile phones to supertankers. South Korea's most powerful businessman said yesterday...

Tags: ceo, samsung, tax

[22 Apr 2008]

Microsoft Office 2007 fails to conform with OOXML

News Photos: Australian broadband goes for a deep-sea dive Photos: Introducing - the world's lightest mobile phone Word documents generated by today's version of Microsoft Office 2007 do not conform to the Office Open XML standard under development by...

Tags: microsoft, office, word, ooxml

[21 Apr 2008]

Red Hat: Linux consumer desktop not on the cards

News Photos: Australian broadband goes for a deep-sea dive Photos: Introducing - the world's lightest mobile phone Red Hat has quashed speculation that it was planning a consumer desktop version of Linux to compete with Windows, saying it is focused on...

Tags: linux, red hat, microsoft, eye

[21 Apr 2008]

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