You are here: silicon.com > Tags

2746 stories on

bt

Sort by: Date | Relevance


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 woos SMEs with broadband deal

News O2 is buying and rebranding a BT Wholesale product to roll out nationwide coverage for its broadband offering. Mobile operator O2 UK has launched a business broadband service and extended the coverage of its home broadband offering to the whole of...

Tags: broadband, smes, o2

[01 May 2008]

Euro e-health getting the right attention

News 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. An EC e-health survey has found the vast majority (87 per cent) of...

Tags: telemonitoring, healthcare, e-health

[28 Apr 2008]

Scottish Water splashes out on tech

News The contracts have been signed with BT for mobile, data, voice and network services, Fujitsu for service desk and infrastructure support and India's Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) for application management.

Tags: transformation, managed services, fujitsu, water

[28 Apr 2008]

Business still experimenting in Second Life

News Ivan Croxford, head of market development for BT, said: "It's still very experimental early stage work for us. Businesses are unsure about the benefits of using Second Life with many still just experimenting with the virtual world to discover its...

Tags: collaboration, unilever, bt, virtual world

[25 Apr 2008]

FSA warns banks to wise up on security

News The FSA audit is in conflict with another survey conducted by BT and YouGov on staff awareness about what to do when things go wrong. BT Global Services finance industry sector MD Andy Nicholson said in a statement: "With an ever increasing...

Tags: fsa, disclosure, bank

[25 Apr 2008]

BT embraces NetSuite's on-demand software

News 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 management (CRM) software...

Tags: smes, saas, crm, bt

[22 Apr 2008]

Warning: Web will run out of space by 2010

News 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 in London, Jim Cicconi...

Tags: web, web 2.0, isps, government

[21 Apr 2008]

Europe embracing speedy fat pipes

News 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 Europe are now using high speed...

Tags: online, i2010, eu, broadband

[18 Apr 2008]

Ofcom - high-fibre diet ordered for Broadband Britain

News While BT is fitting the first networks, Ofcom says the new regulatory proposals will encourage widespread investment in fibre networks for the 246,000 homes and businesses built in Britain each year. Fibre could be laid through the UK's sewer ducts...

Tags: telco, broadband, fibre

[16 Apr 2008]

Tesco to launch iTunes challenger

News 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 format with around half...

Tags: mp3, online, digital music, itunes

[15 Apr 2008]

Coffee Republic to offer free wi-fi

News Rival coffee chain Caffè Nero launched BT Openzone wi-fi across 330 of its coffee shops across the UK, replacing the Surf and Sip service. Coffee Republic will become the first UK coffee chain to provide free wi-fi to customers when it launches the...

Tags: wi-fi, coffee republic

[14 Apr 2008]

Phorm defends 'traffic-analysis' methods

News Phorm - whose Webwise and Open Internet Exchange (OIX) technologies were used by BT in a trial on its customers - says the Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR) is wrong to say the use of Phorm's technologies constituted unlawful...

Tags: ripa, phorm

[11 Apr 2008]

BT CEO Ben Verwaayen to step down

News BT's CEO Ben Verwaayen is to step down as CEO on 31 May 2008 after more than six years at the telco where he championed its push into broadband and helped it dodge regulator Ofcom's axe. Verwaayen, who will also step down from the BT board on 30...

Tags: ofcom, bt, verwaayen

[08 Apr 2008]

BT: EU must harmonise telecoms to save cash

News BT has released research that claims huge benefits to the European economy if telecoms regulation was harmonised across the continent, allowing more consistent IT contracts and services for multinational companies.

Tags: eu, ec, telecoms, bt

[08 Apr 2008]

3.5G gizmos mushrooming forth

News 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]

Workers, wi-fi and coffee shops: The perfect blend

News The ICM survey was commissioned by BT to mark the launch of BT Openzone wi-fi going live in more than 330 Caffè Nero coffee shops across the UK. BT Openzone replaces the Surf and Sip wi-fi service previously used by Caffè Nero.

Tags: caffè nero, bt openzone, wi-fi

[07 Apr 2008]

Yo!Sushi cuts copper in favour of MPLS

News He said in a statement: "It means we no longer have to deal with BT, an ISP, a router company and so on. Just cancelling the BT lines for internal calls alone has saved us huge amounts of money and we're expecting payback overall of two years.

Tags: bt, mpls, yo!sushi

[07 Apr 2008]

BT Yahoo! Mail suffers email update glitch

News Several thousand BT Yahoo! A BT spokesman told silicon.com: "There has been a Yahoo! BT and Yahoo! joined forces in 2005 to provide BT Broadband customers with Yahoo! Mail customers have been unable to send email from their accounts following a Yahoo!

Tags: yahoo!, update, outage, security

[31 Mar 2008]

BT wins £62m outsourcing deal from KPMG Europe

News KPMG Europe LLP has signed a five-year deal worth £62m which will see BT upgrading its data networks. BT will be responsible for KPMG's wide area network and local area network refresh and management, deployment of Cisco IP telephony, integration...

Tags: bt, offshoring, outsourcing

[31 Mar 2008]

Sort by: Date | Relevance


Site Map    


Quick Sitemap Links: