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Tomorrow's wireless world: Healthcare to wear
News Outside healthcare, the report points to many future applications of wireless tech in the transport sector, including road-to-vehicle and car-to-car comms technology to alert drivers to traffic jams to help reduce congestion; intelligent transport... [08 May 2008]
Five weird ways to bridge the digital divide
News Space Data's so-called SkySite Network service has been used by companies in the oil and gas field - and currently its system facilitates low speed, machine-to-machine comms - but it has plans for advanced balloon-bourn wireless services. [06 Mar 2008]
BT drops below half share of fixed-line calls
News Mobile operators all saw their market share remain flat or increase from 2005 to 2006, with the big winners being virtual operators such as Virgin Mobile, which resell other networks' connectivity rather than having their own infrastructure. [24 Aug 2007]
EU to open up mobile spectrum
News It has been estimated that the wireless comms industry could save up to 40 per cent in cumulative capital expenditure over five years if the proposals come to fruition. The European Commission (EC) has proposed the removal of restrictions on the... [27 Jul 2007]
Smart metering set to take off
News The comms channel is also two-way, enabling the utility to send data to the customer as well - such as a higher tariff during peak usage hours to encourage people to reduce their power consumption. He told silicon.com: "Quite clearly [smart... [12 Jul 2007]
Carillion builds on £27m managed services deal
News Construction company Carillion has signed a £26.6m deal with BT to manage a converged IT and comms network over five years, following its merger with Mowlem. He said with the new managed services agreement, BT will be helping to join the two... [11 Jun 2007]
Thales gets claws into £50m Falcon deal
News Falcon will replace a number of military networks currently in use and aims to help field personnel share large amounts of data with the UK headquarters. Thales has picked up a deal worth more than £50m to kit out the army's new IT system. [21 Aug 2006]
Military unveils £200m next-generation comms network
News One of the networks which will eventually be replaced by Falcon is the army's Ptarmigan, a system which consists of trunk switches connected by satellite and multi-channel radio relay links that provides voice, data, telegraph and fax communications. [31 Mar 2006]
Colt wins £1.6m network deal with 3i
News European venture capitalist 3i has signed a £1.6m three-year deal with Colt Telecom as part of a plan to shift its data networks to a single supplier. Under the deal, telco Colt will manage an IP virtual private network which it has already set up... [10 Jan 2006]
Security flaw found in IPsec VPNs
News The UK's National Infrastructure Security Coordination Centre (NISCC) has issued a serious warning over the safety of IPsec virtual private networks (VPNs). The flaw, which NISCC rated as 'high risk', makes it possible for an attacker to intercept... [12 May 2005]
Comms giants team up to fight hackers
News Arbor Networks is helping to spearhead the effort. Members of the Fingerprint Sharing Alliance will automatically send one another data on computer hackers as they observe or experience new attacks. The company, which specialises in network threat... [29 Mar 2005]
SMEs increasingly tech-savvy
News One tech-savvy respondent, when asked what would be on his or her wishlist, replied: "Blade servers for the business service with mirrored sites, SAN [storage area networks], tablet PCs for off-site workers, 3G data comms. [15 Sep 2004]
5 years ago... Cisco and Microsoft focus on multimedia solutions
News However, there is still some debate as to how common video to the desktop, or networks that need to handle voice, traditional data and video together, will be. 21.07.98:Cisco and Microsoft have agreed to work together to deliver multimedia voice... [21 Jul 2003]
Convergence a reality, though security fears persist
News Although wireless LANs and converged comms are enjoying a big love-in with businesses at the moment, security worries are still present among tech buyers, with 71 per cent currently investing in bolstering their IT security. [18 Jul 2003]
Mobile operators told: Forget man, here comes machine
News For mobile operators looking to increase the amount of data carried over their networks, the machine to machine (M2M) telemetry market could well prove a boon. As much as 10 per cent of operators' revenues will come from M2M communications by 2007... [12 Nov 2002]
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