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RSS fax in news£4.2m flood alert tech raises the alarm
News The FWD system alerts emergency services simultaneously with residents, raising the alarm through telephone, fax, SMS, email or pager. People will be able to sign up for flood alerts online as part of a £4.2m deal to bolster the UK's early warning... [29 May 2008]
TJ Hughes buys into email to slash admin costs
News The system, supplied by Vodat International, replaces a process of updating store managers with sales and merchandising information with a twice-weekly pack delivered by fax and post. Discount department store chain TJ Hughes has managed to save... [14 May 2008]
Airlines defrost planes with Met Office tech
News Airport staff are provided with 98 per cent accurate and detailed forecasts via the web, email, fax and text to allow planes to be treated with anti-icing treatment ahead of cold snaps. A new ice forecasting technology is being used at UK airports... [08 Jan 2008]
Security key concern for VoIP rollouts
News Earlier this month, however, a two-thirds majority of silicon.com's CIO Jury expressed the view that voice over IP is secure enough for business - and instead talked up its business benefits, such as cheaper calls and the fact it offers "a single... [22 Mar 2007]
PC energy waste to cost £8.6m over Christmas
News Other equipment will contribute with all fax machines expected to be left running. The amount of energy wasted by UK office equipment left on standby over the ten-day Christmas period would be enough to roast 4.4 million turkeys, predicts hardware... [14 Dec 2006]
Clueless about print costs? You're not alone
News Kevin Fitzpatrick, CTO of Manpower, called for personal printers to be severely restricted and the implementation of strategies including "fax to email" solutions and consolidating onto multi-function units for printing, copying and faxing to keep... [24 Nov 2006]
Motorola confirms its interest in Sagem
News Motorola seems once again to be on the acquisition trail - an exec has confirmed that the world's number two handset maker has its eye on French phone and fax maker Sagem. Roland Garriques, head of Motorola's mobile devices business, told French... [26 Oct 2006]
Goodbye Goonhilly: Satellite service to be shuttered
News The site currently handles around 10 million telephone calls per week as well as data, fax, videoconferencing and telex communications from the Atlantic and Indian Ocean areas, as well as some television broadcasts. [14 Sep 2006]
Rolls-Royce engineers $20m VoIP deal
News The new voice network will provide voice, fax and email services, and see the introduction of new mobility services. Rolls-Royce is spending $20m to move to a single voice network running VoIP, in a seven-year deal. [11 Jul 2006]
ID and Passport Agency call centre deal up for grabs
News The services offered by the IPS and the call centres will handle enquiries made to the agency by telephone, SMS, internet, email, fax and letter. A contract for outsourced call centre services and customer support at the newly formed Identity and... [04 Jul 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]
Two new WMF flaws emerge
News Such applications include the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. Just days after Microsoft rushed out a patch to fix a critical Windows flaw related to the processing of Windows Meta File (WMF) images, two more problems with the component were flagged. [10 Jan 2006]
Longhorn Server to support Intel's Itanium
News Among the tasks it won't be able to handle are "fax server, Windows Media Services, Windows SharePoint Services, file and print servers, and others", Microsoft said in a bulletin. Microsoft's Longhorn Server version of Windows will support Intel's... [05 Sep 2005]
Phishers turn to fax scams
News Phishers have added a new lure to their tackle boxes: emails that ask people to fax sensitive information to bogus security investigators. The emails direct people to a Microsoft Word document hosted on a website and urges them to download the form... [12 Aug 2005]
UK stops 13 fax marketers - but no spammers
News The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has admitted it fails to take legal steps against UK spammers while "successfully" enforcing regulations against 13 fax marketers. The ICO, the UK's last official port of call to complain about spam, said... [11 Aug 2005]
