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Skills slump eroding UK's top tech talent

News It predicted growth in the technology industry at one to three per cent above UK GDP saying that a slowdown was expected in consumer electronics and telecoms but there was a more positive outlook in the electronics sector.

Tags: intellect, technology, skills

[14 May 2008]

Brits want ASBOs for rude mobile users

News UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has also given its approval to the tech. Music blaring out of mobiles and conversations so loud that everyone in the train carriage is forced to listen are just two of the mobile habits that are getting on the UK's wick.

Tags: texting, in-flight, mobile

[09 May 2008]

Carphone Warehouse plans broadband boost

News Carphone Warehouse, which operates the 'free' broadband brand TalkTalk in the UK, will keep a half-stake in the retail business, which will see Best Buy-branded stores arriving in Europe, but plans to hold onto all of its UK fixed-line telecoms...

Tags: talktalk, broadband, carphone warehouse

[09 May 2008]

IBM tools to curb data centres' power-hungry appetite?

News Many of the countries added to the certificate programme are in emerging markets in Asia and the Middle East, where IBM has been generating double-digit percentage revenue growth from building technology infrastructure in telecoms, transportation...

Tags: data centres, ibm, green

[01 May 2008]

Croydon inks £83m deal with Capgemini

News The new deal runs until 2013 and covers all the council's IT and telecoms infrastructure and networks, 4,000 desktop PCs and key business applications, including finance, procurement and customer service.

Tags: outsourcing, capgemini, croydon

[23 Apr 2008]

Warning: Web will run out of space by 2010

News The US telecoms giant AT&T has claimed that, without investment, the internet's current network architecture will reach the limits of its capacity by 2010. Speaking at a Westminster eForum on web 2.0 this week in London, Jim Cicconi, vice president...

Tags: web, web 2.0, isps, government

[21 Apr 2008]

RIM-India: To meet again over security

News A telecoms ministry spokeswoman told Reuters: "The next meeting is on 21 April. The Indian government will hold its next meeting with BlackBerry-maker RIM next week, a government official has said, as the two sides look for a way to meet India's...

Tags: email, blackberry, rim

[17 Apr 2008]

Ofcom - high-fibre diet ordered for Broadband Britain

News Telecoms regulator Ofcom has launched a review into the most financially viable ways of replacing the existing copper networks. The regulations aim to do this by ensuring equal competition between communication providers and standardising telecoms...

Tags: telco, broadband, fibre

[16 Apr 2008]

Wanted: Women must save IT industry

News Women hold the key to plugging a critical skills shortfall that is affecting the entire UK tech industry, says the IT & Telecoms Insights 2008 report by e-skills UK based on Gartner research. The future of the UK's IT industry hangs on its ability...

Tags: skills gap, women, skills

[15 Apr 2008]

In-flight mobiles to take off over Europe

News UK telecoms regulator Ofcom, also gave its approval to in-flight mobile technology last month. In-flight mobile calls have been given the green light by the European Commission (EC) which has moved to pave the way for the take off of pan-European...

Tags: airlines, reding, in-flight

[08 Apr 2008]

BT CEO Ben Verwaayen to step down

News Verwaayen was also instrumental in achieving a settlement with telecoms regulator Ofcom which saw the telco's Wholesale and Retail arms avoid the pain of schism, while giving birth to its access services division Openreach.

Tags: ofcom, bt, verwaayen

[08 Apr 2008]

BT: EU must harmonise telecoms to save cash

News BT has released research that claims huge benefits to the European economy if telecoms regulation was harmonised across the continent, allowing more consistent IT contracts and services for multinational companies.

Tags: eu, ec, telecoms, bt

[08 Apr 2008]

Who's on the wrong side of the UK digital divide?

News But the latest statistics from telecoms regulator Ofcom paint a picture of a growing digital divide based on the much less idealistic lines of income and ethnicity. It's several years since former Prime Minister Tony Blair pledged to have achieved...

Tags: ofcom, digital divide, internet

[07 Apr 2008]

Sepa fraud risk warning for businesses

News But UK organisations in the utilities, telecoms and insurance sectors are not anticipating any change in processes or systems to introduce fraud countermeasures following the introduction of Sepa.silicon.com Financial Services

Tags: fraud, faster payments, sepa

[03 Apr 2008]

In-flight mobile gets Ofcom thumbs up

News In-flight mobile phone calls may soon be a reality for travellers on UK airlines after UK telecoms regulator Ofcom gave its approval to the technology. Wireless from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more…

Tags: calls, mobile, ofcom, planes

[26 Mar 2008]

IBM's latest Lotus targets mobile mash-ups

News IBM's Expeditor news came at the same time as the announcement by US telecoms provider Sprint that it is providing a beta version of a software platform named Titan, based on IBM Lotus Expeditor software.

Tags: ibm, mobile, mash-up, lotus

[26 Mar 2008]

Warning over migrant tech skills shortage

News A report by consultancy the Centre for Economics and Business Research for recruitment company Harvey Nash into the impact of skilled migrant workers has predicted the IT, telecoms and transport sector will need an extra 19,000 skilled migrants...

Tags: skills, it workers, migrants, education

[25 Mar 2008]

EC: Let's raise our broadband game

News The European Commission wants to raise broadband internet penetration in the EU to 30 per cent by 2010, from 20 per cent today, in an effort to drive economic growth, its top telecoms regulator has said.

Tags: broadband, ec, eu, telecoms

[20 Mar 2008]

EC lays down standard for mobile TV

News European Telecoms Commissioner, Viviane Reding, said in a statement: "For mobile TV to take off in Europe, there must first be certainty about the technology. The European Commission moved to simplify the nascent mobile phone TV sector by adopting...

Tags: mobile tv, eu, ec, association

[18 Mar 2008]

Women told: Tech isn't 'boring'

News Women are especially under-represented at senior decision-making level in IT - EC analysis conducted in October last year of 150 European companies in the telecoms sector found the average percentage of women on boards of directors was just six...

Tags: skills, geek, women, decision making

[07 Mar 2008]

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