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Euro e-health getting the right attention

News C is for Cable & Wireless B is for BT 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.

Tags: telemonitoring, healthcare, e-health

[28 Apr 2008]

BT embraces NetSuite's on-demand software

News C is for Cable & Wireless BT and NetSuite have joined forces to bring web-based on-demand software to the telco's 1.6 million business customers. BT is offering NetSuite's business management applications and will soon provide customer relationship...

Tags: smes, saas, crm, bt

[22 Apr 2008]

Warning: Web will run out of space by 2010

News C is for Cable & Wireless B is for BT The US telecoms giant AT&T has claimed that, without investment, the internet's current network architecture will reach the limits of its capacity by 2010. Speaking at a Westminster eForum on web 2.0 this week...

Tags: web, web 2.0, isps, government

[21 Apr 2008]

Europe embracing speedy fat pipes

News C is for Cable & Wireless B is for BT More than a quarter of a billion Europeans regularly use the internet with around 80 per cent of those people being hooked up to broadband connections. Around three-quarters (77 per cent) of businesses in...

Tags: online, i2010, eu, broadband

[18 Apr 2008]

Ofcom - high-fibre diet ordered for Broadband Britain

News The speed offered by fibre optic cable - up to 100Mb - is much faster than broadband speeds of existing copper networks, and is able to deal with multiple high-definition video streams and near-instant music downloads.

Tags: telco, broadband, fibre

[16 Apr 2008]

Tesco to launch iTunes challenger

News C is for Cable & Wireless B is for BT Tesco is launching an online music service next month with more than three million tracks available to download and more content to follow. Tesco Digital will initially offer all of the tracks in Window Media...

Tags: mp3, online, digital music, itunes

[15 Apr 2008]

3.5G gizmos mushrooming forth

News C is for Cable & Wireless B is for BT The number of 3.5G devices on the market is mushrooming with 150 per cent annual growth in HSDPA gizmos, according to stats from GSM/3G supplier association the Global Mobile Suppliers Association (GSA).

Tags: mobile broadband, 3.5g, hsdpa

[07 Apr 2008]

Come an' Avatalk in Second Life, urges BT

News C is for Cable & Wireless BT is upping its presence in Second Life with a trial of its free 'Avatalk' phone and texting service. B is for BT Users will be able to use their avatars to access the service at red BT phone boxes at five locations or by...

Tags: bt, trial, ip, sms

[20 Mar 2008]

'Unlimited broadband' thing of the past?

News C is for Cable & Wireless B is for BT At conferences where the likes of Tiscali and BT are present, you hear them say these things - 'We must move to a new tariffing scheme' - and that tells me they're working hard on this.

Tags: broadband, iplayer, youtube, isps

[17 Mar 2008]

Berners-Lee bigs up the 'semantic web'

Berners-Lee bigs up the 'semantic web'

News C is for Cable & Wireless B is for BT Sir Tim Berners-Lee, recognised as the founding father of the world wide web, claims the work of companies like Google has made the web a much more powerful tool.

Tags: berners-lee, semantic web, google, internet

[13 Mar 2008]

Five weird ways to bridge the digital divide

News C is for Cable & Wireless This method sees fibre cable - for really high-speed broadband - laid in existing sewage ducts, a cheaper and faster way of hooking people up than digging up streets where legacy copper wiring lives.

Tags: broadband, satellite, wimax, spectrum

[06 Mar 2008]

C&W hooks up with Orange over FMC

News Cable & Wireless (C&W) has picked Orange as its FMC bedfellow. C&W's FMC system will use low-power GSM spectrum for in-building coverage, powered by picocells (the big brother cellular tech of femtocells) - rather than wi-fi, which is used by BT's...

Tags: cable & wireless, fmc, orange, device

[05 Mar 2008]

Local gov't adopts web-savvy interaction

News C is for Cable & Wireless B is for BT Web services are becoming an increasingly important way for citizens to interact with local government and councils are responding with improved websites. The number of visitors to council websites sites...

Tags: socitm, online, web services, local government

[04 Mar 2008]

Fibre connectivity set to change, says EC

News C is for Cable & Wireless B is for BT The European Commission is to issue a recommendation on how member states should go about rolling out fibre connectivity to homes and businesses. The list from A to Z

Tags: fibre, eu, ec, authority

[28 Feb 2008]

Faster speeds on the cards for Broadband Britain?

News C is for Cable & Wireless B is for BT Tiscali CEO, Mary Turner, recently told silicon.com fibre to the cabinet - aka backhaul - needs to be "commercialised" as BT is not currently obliged by Ofcom to resell it.

Tags: broadband, fibre, ofcom, high speed

[22 Feb 2008]

Broadband switching still a tricky business

News C is for Cable & Wireless B is for BT Switching broadband providers is still proving a tricky business despite Ofcom rules introduced a year ago designed to make the process easier. To switch providers, subscribers need to obtain a Migration...

Tags: customers, ofcom, regulations, broadband

[15 Feb 2008]

Ericsson CEO hails mobile broadband 'breakthrough'

News C is for Cable & Wireless B is for BT Ericsson president and CEO Carl-Henric Svanberg has called 2007 a breakthrough year for mobile broadband. The list from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more.

Tags: telstra, mobile broadband, ericsson, society

[11 Feb 2008]

Can Microsoft/Yahoo! deal take on Google?

News C is for Cable & Wireless B is for BT The potential Microsoft takeover of Yahoo! would help both companies fight Google in the online advertising and services market but it also faces some major challenges and obstacles.

Tags: microsoft, merger, google, web

[01 Feb 2008]

Broadband Britain cheaper and faster than ever

News C is for Cable & Wireless When it comes to connection speeds, cable broadband provider Virgin Media's planned 50Mbps rollout - set to be available to some nine million homes by the end of the year - is keeping it at the head of the field (its...

Tags: broadband, speed, fat pipes, connection

[01 Feb 2008]

Vodafone cuts mobile broadband prices

News C is for Cable & Wireless B is for BT Vodafone is hoping to ramp up mobile broadband uptake in the UK by waving the carrot of a £15 per month 3GB price plan in UK consumers' faces. But the 50 per cent price will only run for a limited 'promotional...

Tags: vodafone, roaming, mobile broadband, sign

[01 Feb 2008]

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