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Microsoft smartens up for enterprise mobility
News They can connect phones to active directory, send out group policies - all these things that IT managers have been asking to do with Windows Mobile phones. Microsoft has announced it is smartening up its enterprise mobility strategy, making it... [02 Apr 2008]
Unilever in $675m HP outsourcing deal
News HP will also manage Unilever's IT systems including its corporate data centres, directory services, disaster recovery and intranet hosting. Food and household goods giant Unilever has signed a $675m outsourced IT services deal with HP for the next... [13 Feb 2008]
BT Tradespace spruces up its search
News Bill Murphy, managing director of BT Business, said greater integration between BT Tradespace and BT's more traditional online and paper-based directory services will occur in the near future. BT Tradespace, the service designed to help small... [31 Oct 2007]
Capgemini wins $40m childrens database deal
News Capgemini UK has been awarded a six-year, £40m contract to build and host an online directory intended to make it easier for public services employees working with children to co-ordinate services. In a policy statement published in May 2007 the... [17 Jul 2007]
NHS adds Vista in Microsoft deal
News CfH has also agreed with comms provider Cable & Wireless to refresh its internal email and directory service, NHSmail, by moving it onto a Microsoft Exchange 2007 server platform. Connecting for Health (CfH), the NHS national IT upgrade programme... [16 Jul 2007]
Watchdog sinks teeth into VoIP
News Among the details VoIP vendors will have to cough up are whether they offer emergency services calls; what number portability they offer; whether they provide services such as directory enquiries; and how much the VoIP system is dependent on the... [29 Mar 2007]
Yahoo! widens its small-screen horizons
News Mobile Content Engine, Mobile Media Directory and Mobile Site Submit. The Mobile Media Directory brings content such as ringtones, wallpaper, video and games to oneSearch. Mobile Publisher Services today, which will offer publishers access to the... [27 Mar 2007]
Microsoft to buy speech-recognition web firm?
News Tellme is best known for its service that lets people get internet information over the telephone but the company also has a variety of services that businesses can use to offer automated data and directory assistance information via the phone. [13 Mar 2007]
Dot-mobi directory coming soon
News In addition, dotMobi will offer several subscription services in conjunction with the directory, including a monthly update service to reveal mobile trends and allow organisations to see where mobile content is having the greatest impact. [14 Feb 2007]
Yahoo! puts the moves on mobile search
News Specifically, it includes a feature called "oneSearch", which makes it easier for consumers to get information through an enhanced directory of local businesses and maps. along with competitors such as Google, is interested in adapting regular web... [09 Jan 2007]
AOL gives IM a spit and polish
News The service, which is free for anyone to use, integrates with Microsoft Outlook's calendar and corporate directory and offers one-click access to WebEx voice and videoconferencing and collaboration services. [19 Jul 2006]
Ex-Microsoft staffers set up open source directory site
News The site, called Ohloh, is not a reviews site but instead a directory of open source software, its co-founders said. It also serves as an open source directory. In addition, the directory offers information such as when the project was started, how... [17 Jul 2006]
Apple plugs 20 OS X holes
News Other flaws fixed in the update include four issues related to the PHP scripted programming language, two problems related to Apple's Directory Services, a problem with mounting of file servers and a bug in FileVault secure storage, which was... [02 Mar 2006]
VeriSign splurges $2.3m on Weblogs.com
News Mark McLaughlin, VeriSign's senior vice president of naming and directory services, said in a statement: "The internet has experienced an explosion in both the number of bloggers and the number of daily RSS feeds from bloggers over the past 12 to... [10 Oct 2005]
Yahoo! hit with speech tech theft lawsuit
News and other internet companies who want to offer voice-activated search and directory services to telephone users. A California court has temporarily barred about a dozen engineers hired by Yahoo! from working on interactive speech technology at the... [30 Sep 2005]
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