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Turquoise trading platform begins to settle
News Colt Telecom said it has connected 10 large banks and market data customers to the platform. Investment-bank-owned share trading platform Turquoise, which went live last week, is expected to complete the first clearing and settlement of trades in... [19 Aug 2008]
More businesses turning to VoIP?
News One example is session initiation protocol (SIP) trunking interfaces being added to equipment by many PBX manufacturers, which makes it easier for business telephone exchanges to be connected to the public switched telephone network (PSTN) via the... [14 Aug 2008]
BBC reveals iPlayer user habits
News There's also evidence that people are linking up the service to their TV, with five per cent saying they always view iPlayer with their TV connected to their computer. The BBC has lifted the lid on its online on-demand TV service iPlayer to reveal... [06 Aug 2008]
Start-ups try to cut slice of Google pie
News Once social media can get connected to search, even to Google, advertisers can create a display ad campaign in Facebook and MySpace and connect that to a search campaign that converts [into a sale or action]," Kidder said. [30 Jul 2008]
Orange plots Eee PC mobile broadband coup
News The 'connected laptop' packages include a cheaper-than-an-iPhone £25-per-month consumer tariff offering the popular Asus Eee PC 900 mini laptop. The connected laptops offerings will go on sale next month. [23 Jul 2008]
Home servers latest trend to sweep market?
News A home server will even automatically back up and reconcile content stored on any connected device. These computers are increasingly being connected via a home network, the penetration of which has doubled in the same time period from 12 per cent... [21 Jul 2008]
Berners-Lee and friends promote web science study
News The future of concepts such as the linked data or semantic web - in which data in documents is becoming increasingly connected - will also form part of the work. The study of web science is being promoted by a group of top academics to lay the... [14 Jul 2008]
Businesses ignoring social networking potential?
News Out of 4,000 PC and mobile phone users across 18 countries Gartner found that 38 per cent connected to social networks using PCs and less than one per cent using a mobile phone. Businesses need to be more aware of the potential benefits and risks... [10 Jul 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]
'Connected' UK vulnerable in face of cyber attack
News Lord West refused to confirm the nature or origin of these attacks but said cyber security is a "very dangerous area" and that the UK has become "more vulnerable as we become more connected". West was unable to give guarantees of total security for... [16 Jun 2008]
Latest Asus Eees announced
News The latest versions of the Eee PC will become available in the UK on 1 July, Asus announced last week. Both based on Intel's low-power 1.6GHz Atom processor, the Eee 901 and 1000 should have better battery life than their predecessors, especially... [16 Jun 2008]
Free wi-fi arrives in York station
News Steve Soards, station manager for National Express East Coast at York, said one of the major advantages of choosing the train over alternative transport methods such as driving or flying is the ability to stay connected while travelling. [13 Jun 2008]
IBM smashes the supercomputing petaflop
News We connected this to a traditional transactional and database project. Computing giant IBM has built a supercomputer that can operate at one petaflop - 1,000 trillion floating point operations per second - twice as fast as the world's previous... [11 Jun 2008]
Orange to cut 450 jobs
News Further boosting its retail options, Orange will include laptops as part of a "totally connected" product line. Orange plans to cut up to 450 jobs and ditch some of its offshore Indian call centre work as part of a massive shake-up aimed at... [04 Jun 2008]
Wi-fi adds to courtroom drama
News Visitors and people working at most Crown courts in England and Wales can now gain internet access via BT Openzone wi-fi hotspots. Over the past three months, wireless internet has been installed in 67 courts - with the aim of enabling barristers... [28 May 2008]
