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Greek island gets wireless mesh network
News Writing on a 12Net portal website, Negroponte makes it clear mesh systems - powered by the many not the few - are his vision for a wired world: "Large wired and wireless telephone companies will be replaced by micro-operators, millions of which... [24 Jul 2008]
Indian outsource giants feeling the pinch
News India's outsourcing giants are suffering sluggish growth in contrast to record-breaking spending on global services in 2008. The country's big three outsourcers Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Wipro experienced slow revenue or income... [18 Jul 2008]
Apple OS gaining ground on Windows
News Loverde said Apple would have to continue growing really fast for some time to move ahead of Toshiba and crack the top five in global sales. IDC analyst Loren Loverde said in a telephone interview: "They've got great products and they are executing... [17 Jul 2008]
Exclusive: Barclays to offshore 1,800 UK tech jobs
News The global infrastructure and service delivery (GISD) roles will be scrapped in the UK and new jobs created in Hungary, India and Singapore over the next two years, with 700 UK posts to be lost by September this year. [14 Jul 2008]
Aviva strikes $1bn BPO deal
News Over the next three months about 6,000 staff will be transferred from offshore arm Aviva Global Services (AGS) to WNS, which will take over five AGS centres in India and Sri Lanka. Insurance giant Aviva is to sell off its offshore operations and... [11 Jul 2008]
Only one in 10 Brits recycle old mobiles
News And while only nine per cent of Brits recycle these old phones, it's not all bad news as just three per cent of dud devices end up in landfill. The majority (48 per cent) are kept at home, unwanted and never used. [09 Jul 2008]
Five ways Microsoft could change after Gates
News Bill Gates has left the building and the question on many people's lips is: will Microsoft change as a result? What influence will Steve Ballmer have and how will the company's strategy alter without Gates? [07 Jul 2008]
LiMo adds Openwave browser to arsenal
News Openwave supplies mobile-client software to 12 of the top 20 global mobile operators, including Orange, Telefonica, T-Mobile, Virgin Mobile, Vodafone, Sprint and Verizon Wireless. Purple Labs, an increasingly prominent mobile Linux firm and a... [07 Jul 2008]
SMS roaming rates: Expect EC to force cuts
News Angela Stainthorpe, research analyst and author of the report Global Mobile Roaming: Operator Strategies and Market Trends, said in a statement: "Considering the impetus behind the voice legislation introduced last year, SMS roaming is without... [02 Jul 2008]
Skype calls on ex-Motorola exec
News Durchslag spent more than five years at Motorola where he was most recently corporate vice president of global product and experience invention for the mobile devices business unit. Skype said that while in that position Durchslag "led product... [02 Jul 2008]
Mobile payments to hit $300bn by 2013
News According to the report - entitled Mobile Payment Markets: Digital & Physical Goods 2008 - 2013 - the ticketing segment will represent more than 40 per cent of the global transaction value by 2013, and will be driven by consumer usage on rail, air... [01 Jul 2008]
Google gets map happy with Tele Atlas
News John Hanke, director of Google Earth and Google Maps added the geospatial data Tele Atlas can supply should significantly boost Google's global search capabilities. Google and mapping company Tele Atlas have tied up a five-year deal to share... [30 Jun 2008]
Yahoo! has a reshuffle at the top
News Decker said in a statement: "The changes we're making today will help deliver superior global products for users and enable faster and better decision-making. under intense pressure, reorganised its upper management yesterday in a plan designed to... [27 Jun 2008]
TCS employs another 350 in UK
News Outsourcer TCS has opened centres at Redhill in Surrey and Stirling in Scotland to develop applications for a large insurer and other customers. The centres will be fully up and running in a couple of months and will boost TCS' 5,000-strong UK... [27 Jun 2008]
Europe embraces outsourcing in 2008
News Global businesses have set up more than 20 captive units worldwide, while organisations such as AOL, Shell and Unilever announced plans to dispose of their offshore captives. EU business accounted for 36 per cent of all contracts signed according... [27 Jun 2008]
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