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RSS portal in newsGreek 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]
Charity Commission saves a bundle with online returns
News It outsourced the project to online specialist Parity to provide a portal that would allow charities to file returns securely online and distribute information to them, based on data in each return. The Charity Commission has revealed an online... [24 Jul 2008]
iPhone 3G: The wait is over
News The App Store is itself an application that can run on the iPhone and iPod Touch, and is a portal for many free and paid-for applications, developed using Apple's software development kit, which can be downloaded to and immediately used on the... [11 Jul 2008]
Microsoft readies online apps for business
News The SharePoint portal offers access to internal company sites and search. Microsoft announced its road map and pricing for web-based software suites built for big companies and growing businesses. Enabling telecommuting, which many employers and... [09 Jul 2008]
Red Hat CEO: We're "tough to do business with"
News RHX was basically a portal to allow Red Hat customers to download applications, in a similar model to Salesforce.com's Application Exchange, but it had failed to gel with customers according to Whitehurst. [20 Jun 2008]
Microsoft plans to go it alone online
News He pointed to AOL's strong position in email and instant messaging and as a portal in the US, as well as its strong messaging position in Germany and Russia. In the wake of Microsoft's decision to pull its Yahoo! [07 May 2008]
Kids flocking to Blyk to bag free calls and texts
News Rival MVNO Tesco Mobile recently announced it is forging ahead with mobile advertising after attracting hundreds of thousands of unique visitors to a WAP advertising portal it was trialling. An ad-funded mobile network that offers free calls and... [25 Apr 2008]
Tesco Mobile users hungry for ads
News The mobile virtual network operator has been trialling a WAP advertising portal since May 2007, which Tesco said has displayed strong month-on-month growth, gaining 300,000 unique visitors in December. [09 Apr 2008]
High speed TGV trains get online
News In addition to internet access, the wi-fi-enabled trains have servers on board to run an entertainment portal for passengers offering regularly updated video content, games, news, city guides, geo-localisation data (the real-time location and... [26 Mar 2008]
Police chief: Cyber crime is everywhere
News In September Soca will begin using an information portal to share intelligence and expertise on e-crime with law enforcers in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and US on top of its regular meetings with its international counterparts and... [19 Mar 2008]
Ads popping up on US mobiles
News In December, Microsoft launched mini banner ads optimised for mobile phone browsers and screen size when people visit mobile MSN portal. Nearly a quarter of all mobile phone users in the US say they have seen an advertisement on their phones in the... [05 Mar 2008]
Leisure company uses web to streamline suppliers
News The system will potentially allow 12,000 employees to browse and order goods ranging from paper clips to flat screen TVs from approved suppliers over a central web portal. Bourne Leisure has kicked off an e-procurement pilot in a shake up of its... [28 Jan 2008]
Manchester Airport uses BI to back baggage rule change
News Martin Bell, a business consultant for the Manchester Airports Group information services team, told silicon.com: "We've taken data from numerous third-party systems and operational systems around the airport and consolidated it on an Oracle... [07 Jan 2008]
AOL pulls plug on Netscape browser
News The Netscape.com portal will still be available, though, and nostalgia buffs can reskin Firefox with a Netscape look. The Netscape web browser has long since been eclipsed by its Firefox offshoot but AOL has announced it's formally pulling the plug... [02 Jan 2008]
British Airways sets up tech innovation unit
News The unit's remit also includes open source and a new portal will go live on the BA staff intranet in January based on free open source software called Liferay. British Airways (BA) has set up a special innovation unit to explore ways the airline... [30 Nov 2007]
