connect in news
RSS connect in newsFacebook Connects with other sites
News Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, has officially rolled out Facebook Connect, a way for apps not on the Facebook Platform to leverage the Facebook social network. Facebook Connect allows other websites and apps to have their users log in, or... [24 Jul 2008]
Orange plots Eee PC mobile broadband coup
News He said in a statement: "Over time we will be looking to expand our offering even further with more suppliers who are at the forefront of laptop technology, making it even easier for our customers to connect to the internet seamlessly, whether it... [23 Jul 2008]
Kent signs £32m outsourcing deal
News The Kent Public Service Network will initially connect about 1,100 sites and provide extra bandwidth to Kent County Council, Kent schools, Canterbury City Council and Thanet District Council. Schools, libraries and council offices in Kent are to be... [22 Jul 2008]
Sat-navs driving motorists to distraction
News Yet various companies are developing high tech in-car systems to embed far more driver-assistance technology into vehicles, with plans to wirelessly connect cars to the internet and each other in future, bringing far greater scope for driver... [22 Jul 2008]
C&W inks £8m deal to hook up Réunion Island
News Jean-Michel Hégésippe, head director of Outremer Telecom, said in a statement: "Cable & Wireless' bandwidth connect solution will allow us to significantly reduce our costs and to plan our future expansion in Réunion Island. [14 Jul 2008]
Artificial Intelligence - alive and kicking
News You use people's innate intelligence and ability, you connect them up on planetary scale and you've got a new kind of assisted intelligence. Artificial intelligence technology (AI) is being used all around us but don't expect any philosophical... [10 Jul 2008]
Virtualisation key to staff-owned devices
News Gammage said: "Most of the organisations permitting people to connect to networks with their own stuff were working on a 'don't ask, don't tell policy', and that doesn't sound particularly robust to us. [30 Jun 2008]
Newsagent Martin McColl signs £4m VPN contract
News The network will connect the retailer's 1,300-store estate and a number of third party suppliers, which provide services such as mobile phone top-ups, gift cards and its merchant acquirer.silicon.com Retail & Leisure [25 Jun 2008]
Femtocells: Europeans clueless on mobile access tech
News The company said this does away with the need for a wi-fi-enabled device, enabling the 3G handset to connect directly to a home network and be used for apps such as streaming video from a home media server to the phone. [23 Jun 2008]
Microsoft takes embedded OS in new direction
News According to Microsoft, NavReady should help developers and manufacturers "quickly bring to market smart, connected, service-oriented portable navigation devices that easily connect to online services, Bluetooth-capable mobile phones, Windows... [17 Jun 2008]
IBM smashes the supercomputing petaflop
News Simulations in real time can connect businesses, and will change the way we do business. You can connect that to people, and combine with business processes. Computing giant IBM has built a supercomputer that can operate at one petaflop - 1,000... [11 Jun 2008]
Stock Exchange offers low latency feeds
News Savvis' service will connect investors to the exchange's Infolect and TradElect electronic trading platforms via the supplier's London Docklands data centre.silicon.com Financial Services In a statement, LSE head of real-time data Wendy Morgan said... [10 Jun 2008]
Cyber crime: The global battle
News Scott O'Neal, computer intrusion head FBI cyber division, said: "To get an operational oversight and to have situational awareness the information must be centralised to connect the dots. Police forces worldwide are mobilising to tackle the... [05 Jun 2008]
Tesco spends £100m on network overhaul
News C&W will connect 1,800 Tesco sites and about 400,000 staff in more than 14 countries with a single network running at up to 10Mbps - about 40 times the speed of existing connections. Tesco is about to embark on a five-year £100m overhaul of its... [28 May 2008]
BT pay industrial action suspended - for now
News Last week, on the day BT issued its financial results, the Connect union announced its members had voted by a margin of more than four to one to take "widespread industrial action across the UK in protest against BT's unacceptable pay offer". [23 May 2008]
