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BT wins £62m outsourcing deal from KPMG Europe

News BT will be responsible for KPMG's wide area network and local area network refresh and management, deployment of Cisco IP telephony, integration with an existing Microsoft Office Communications Server platform, video and audio conferencing.

Tags: bt, offshoring, outsourcing

[31 Mar 2008]

Intel CEO: Personal devices to bring innovation to web

News Otellini said: "Packaging several important functions - such as computing, graphics and audio-video processing - into a single chip will help devices do more while taking up less space and energy. The ability to connect practically all electronic...

Tags: intel, ces, chips, electronics

[08 Jan 2008]

Fuzzy logic tech project to help the elderly

News The tech avoids the use of cameras so as not to intrude on people's everyday lives, relying on silhouette images and audio information. Leicester's De Montfort University (DMU) and the University of Missouri are linking up in a £45,000 six-month...

Tags: intelligence, care, research, computers

[03 Jan 2008]

Spammers switching on to YouTube?

News Email security company MessageLabs has warned that spammers are already modifying their tactics when it comes to the emerging trend of using audio rather than text attachments in unsolicited mail. MessageLabs has claimed that following the first...

Tags: spam, messagelabs, spammers, youtube

[30 Oct 2007]

Pump-and-dump MP3 email spam warning

News The MP3 attachments, which range from around 85KB to 147KB in size, feature a poor sound quality audio blast with a barely audible synthetic female voice promoting a specific stock. An outbreak of pump-and-dump email spam this week is using...

Tags: bandwidth, spam, mp3

[19 Oct 2007]

Award win: silicon.com nabs Editorial Team of the Year gong

News They also picked up on silicon.com's original reporting and special reports from more than 20 countries over the past year, exclusives, campaigns and the use of the latest technology to deliver reports whether in text or - increasingly - audio or...

Tags: aop, team, champagne, award

[04 Oct 2007]

Apple: Meet the new iPods...

News The battery in each can handle 22 hours of audio playback or five hours of video, according to CEO Steve Jobs. It is thinner than the regular iPod and has better battery life, enough to handle 40 hours of audio.

Tags: nano, apple, ipod, iphone

[06 Sep 2007]

Small firms snub videoconferencing

News He told silicon.com's sister site ZDNet UK: "When we talk to customers, if they've got an audio conference, whiteboards and shared applications, then the addition of video over and above that doesn't add tremendous amounts to their experience.

Tags: sme, videoconferencing

[05 Sep 2007]

BT pulls plug on mobile TV service

News BT Movio was based on the rival Digital Audio Broadcasting - IP (DAB-IP) standard, which reused digital radio spectrum to deliver a handful of TV channels and a range of digital radio stations. BT is to abandon its fledgling mobile broadcast TV...

Tags: virgin, mobile, television, bt

[27 Jul 2007]

iPhone 'data-stealing' hack claimed

News By using other API functions, the researchers claimed the exploit could have "dialled phone numbers, sent text messages or recorded audio as a bugging device, and transmitted it over the network for later collection by a malicious party".

Tags: exploit, hack, apple, iphone

[24 Jul 2007]

iPhone 'wins hearts of Brits'

News In related news, Apple has released more details about the iPhone, claiming its battery life is longer than that of any other smart phone - at up to eight hours of talk-time, six hours of internet use, seven hours of video playback or 24 hours of...

Tags: iphone

[19 Jun 2007]

Inmarsat readies for mobile push

News Sukawaty said data will remain "the bulk of the business in the future" and Inmarsat is focusing on delivering "more and higher speed data" to push IPTV and other audio or radio services in five years' time.

Tags: handset, ceo, mobile, broadband

[07 Jun 2007]

Apple to lecture iPod lovers

News Universities from the US, including Berkeley and Stanford, have contributed to the 'iTunes U' service, which provides audio and video content including lectures, lab demonstrations, sports highlights and campus tours.iTunes U is based on the...

Tags: apple

[31 May 2007]

Remote and mobile working tech "essential"

News Responding to silicon.com by email - while on on the train from Paddington to Bath - Kevin Fitzpatrick, CIO at Sodexho UK, said: "One of the crucial items is a culture that understands and accepts the concept of virtual teams, audio, video and web...

Tags: mobile working, remote working, cio jury

[18 May 2007]

Microsoft patches hasty patch

News Originally the company listed only the Realtek HD Audio Control Panel as software that would not function and cause error messages to appear. Microsoft knew about conflicts with Realtek's audio software before releasing the fix and published a...

Tags: microsoft, flaw, patch, cursor

[10 Apr 2007]

Microsoft in a fix over cursor patch

News But the fix is not compatible with software that runs audio and networking components from Realtek Semiconductor, some Windows users have found. We lost all Ethernet and audio functions. Microsoft is aware of problems with Realtek's audio software.

Tags: microsoft, cursor, patch

[05 Apr 2007]

Microsoft lucks out in latest patent case

News A federal jury ordered the Windows maker to pay $1.5bn to Alcatel-Lucent for violating two patents related to MP3 audio technology. The dispute dates back to 2002, when Lucent (now Alcatel-Lucent) sued PC makers Dell and Gateway over their use of...

Tags: alcatel-lucent, microsoft, patent

[05 Mar 2007]

Shock: Microsoft hit with $1.5bn patent ruling

News A federal jury in San Diego has ordered Microsoft to pay $1.5bn to Alcatel-Lucent in a patent dispute over MP3 audio technology used in Windows. Fraunhofer, which helped develop the MP3 compression technology along with Lucent's Bell Labs, has...

Tags: alcatel-lucent, patent, mp3, microsoft

[23 Feb 2007]

Cisco taps into social-networking trend

News Using this tool, companies will be able to add communities so users can share audio, video and photos, as well as post blogs, podcasts and profiles. Cisco Systems is making its first move toward courting big media companies with the acquisition of...

Tags: social-networking, cisco

[09 Feb 2007]

'No stopping the online video boom'

News Alex Laats, CEO of audio and video search company Podzinger said online content needs to be searchable and categorised into channels. More accessible technology and maturing business models are opening the floodgates for web video from both...

Tags: video

[08 Feb 2007]

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