industry competition in news
European satellite services are green for launch
News According to Reding, "the ball is in the camp of the industry". On Thursday, the Commission launched a competition for service providers that want to address the whole European market. I expect intense competition among operators offering satellite... [11 Aug 2008]
BT's Ribbit buy to take on Android?
News The communications industry is entering a new phase," he said. The BT spokesperson said in an email the Ribbit acquisition would help BT "leapfrog competition and gain a strategic advantage in the Silicon Valley 'telco 2.0' platform race, which... [30 Jul 2008]
SMS roaming cuts 'could stifle competition'
News The Commission's proposals to single out yet another aspect of the mobile industry and apply retail price regulation, threatens to choke growth and stifle competition. Mobile operator industry body, the GSMA, has poured cold water on plans by... [16 Jul 2008]
EC to outline slash in roaming rate
News Mobile-phone industry officials said the price of roamed data and texts was falling fast, while the voice-roaming regulation introduced last year "has given consumers little benefit and stifled market growth". [15 Jul 2008]
Bill Gates' legacy hailed by IT chiefs
News Bill Gates formally steps down from his day-to-day role at Microsoft on Friday 27 June to pursue his philanthropic efforts through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and IT chiefs have hailed his legacy to the industry. [26 Jun 2008]
Mobile internet use 'rocketing in Europe'
News Earlier this year, the European Commission's information society and media commissioner, Viviane Reding, called for "a credible but also doable price reduction by the whole industry on a voluntary basis before 1 July" - or threatened to introduce... [11 Jun 2008]
Exclusive: silicon.com reveals the world's Tech Hotspots
News Silicon.com editor Steve Ranger said: "The silicon.com Tech Hotspots list shows that technology innovation is really a global industry. While Silicon Valley still claims top spot, competition from India and China will increasingly give it a run for... [03 Jun 2008]
UK plc 'needs more skilled migrants'
News Earlier this year, research from IT industry skills body e-skills UK, claimed 140,000 IT & telecoms workers are likely to be needed each year to keep up with industry demand for staff. Competition for knowledge workers - especially in IT, science... [02 Jun 2008]
Qwerty vs touch, WFH, iPhone 2.0, Segway madness
News From an organisational perspective, in its level of customisation and lack of true industry standards, this is cowboy technology," the Naked CIO writes. This month the BlackBerry vs iPhone war reached near boiling point as RIM's co-CEO dismissed... [30 May 2008]
IT education organisation takes Microsoft grumbles to EC
News He said: "Ideally, we prefer to address interoperability issues by working in close partnership with the wider industry. Lucey added, however, that Becta would prefer not to have to go to the competition authorities on the matter. [14 May 2008]
Vodafone CEO warns of Apple, Google threat
News Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin has warned the industry to get creative about mobile services or risk becoming marginalised by the arrival of new kids on the block such as Apple and Google. In his keynote speech at the Mobile World Congress trade show in... [12 Feb 2008]
European software industry gets big thumbs up
News The European software industry is booming at the moment, according to IT trade association Intellect. Jean-Pierre Brulard, VP of Syntec Informatique, a French IT industry body present at the ceremony, said: "With €22bn in revenues, up 6.6 per cent... [22 Nov 2007]
Microsoft does bundling U-turn on hypervisor
News Microsoft's primary competition in the virtualisation world is industry leader VMware. Microsoft has said it will sell its new virtualisation technology separately from its Windows Server OS, in addition to as a bundle - a reversal of its earlier... [13 Nov 2007]
More jobs to go at Alcatel-Lucent
News Although Russo praised the work done by the company in the first nine months of its existence, she added that: "In spite of the promise of this industry and the long-term benefits of the merger, we recognise that market conditions remain difficult... [01 Nov 2007]
Microsoft rolls over for EU antitrust ruling
News Microsoft has agreed to comply with a 2004 EU court ruling on anti-competition, bringing changes that will "profoundly affect the software industry", according to Neelie Kroes, European commissioner for competition policy. [23 Oct 2007]
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