fusion in news
RSS fusion in newsOrange opens doors to one-stop mobile and web shop
News Orange will be the second provider to launch a converged service: BT beat Orange to the punch, launching its Fusion service back in June 2005. Some 30,000 customers have signed up for Fusion to date.... [31 May 2006]
BT kick-starts wireless cities project
News It claims the wireless networks will support a "wide range of devices", including the forthcoming wi-fi version of its own Fusion handset, and a similar product currently being developed for corporate customers. [18 May 2006]
BT to dish up wi-fi FMC cocktail
News Last year BT launched a similar product for home users called BT Fusion, which supports Bluetooth and GSM. BT is developing a converged mobile product that it claims will allow companies to cut their mobile phone bills. [12 May 2006]
C&W to fight Fusion with single landline-mobile service
News Cable & Wireless is taking on BT's Fusion with the launch of its own fixed-mobile converged (FMC) service. [04 May 2006]
Ellison: Oracle looked at buying Novell
News Because we don't have to - if it ever got good enough we'd just take the intellectual property - just like Apache - embed it in our fusion middleware suite, and we're done. Oracle boss Larry Ellison has revealed that his... [18 Apr 2006]
BT posts higher-than-expected profits
News BT revealed that its Fusion product, a converged fixed and mobile handset, now has 13,000 customers. Earlier this week BT launched a version of Fusion for small businesses. BT surprised the City on... [09 Feb 2006]
After the mega-merger: Siebel staff face post-Oracle cuts
News He said in his report: "We have been hearing that further headcount reductions among PeopleSoft and JD Edwards employees may occur shortly as the company begins to implement its longer-term vision for Fusion. [09 Feb 2006]
Oracle's top brass talk Fusion and more
News Among the tasks Oracle checked off in 2005 were defining the Fusion architecture, certifying numerous products on Fusion middleware, defining new product requirements, enhancing support and building... [19 Jan 2006]
BT Fusion turns to fashion phone
News BT's Fusion service, which gives users landline and mobile access in one handset, has added a second handset to its roster. The converged device comes from Motorola, as did the first. The US mobile company is now selling... [12 Jan 2006]
Big boys to warm to fixed-mobile convergence
News So far, efforts around FMC have been targeting consumer users - such as BT's Fusion, formerly known as Project Bluephone. Over the next five years, fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) will begin to get a foothold in large... [08 Dec 2005]
Landlines heading for extinction?
News European landline operators are expected to try and tackle the issue of fixed-mobile substitution by producing converged products - phones that work as both landline and mobile, such as BT's Fusion, formerly known as... [26 Oct 2005]
Ellison's ambitions for $30bn Oracle
News Oracle is currently undertaking a major effort to integrate PeopleSoft, and later Siebel, software into its open source, standards-based Project Fusion architecture. Oracle's chief executive has revealed his game plan to... [22 Sep 2005]
Oracle mulls support for rival databases
News Oracle may make a decision as early as March on whether to support multiple databases in its "Project Fusion" release, which will combine acquired products with its own applications. Charles Phillips, Oracle's... [20 Sep 2005]
Oracle chief gets 44 per cent pay hike - and $6.5m bonus
News The board also cited Ellison's leadership on the company's Project Fusion project, which is designed to fully merge PeopleSoft and Oracle applications, and cited success with its grid computing efforts to use its... [01 Sep 2005]
Ofcom to flog more spectrum licences
News Such networks could be cheaper than commercial mobile networks and - unlike similar ideas such as BT's Fusion - will work with standard GSM handsets without the need for Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or extra software features. [01 Aug 2005]
