telephone heart in news
Plastic fantastic - the future of credit cards
News What's important about plastic is the payments infrastructure it has created - it doesn't matter if a purchase is made on a mobile phone, over the internet or wirelessly in a shop - your flexible friend is at its heart. [04 Jul 2006]
Broadband rollout hit as unbundling misses targets
News The latest figures from communications regulator Ofcom show that UK telecoms firms are still struggling to get access to the local telephone network, and BT is at the heart of the problem. Peter Black,... [10 Feb 2005]
Motorola picks Linux for HP mobile gear
News This is the first real carrier-grade open-source software implementation in the heart of the call path," King said. The savings can be passed on to the telephone company and, eventually, to its customers. [17 Aug 2004]
VoIP is popular - so let's now regulate and ruin it
News At the heart of the issue is money. As more conversations begin to flow through unregulated VoIP links instead of the heavily taxed public switched telephone network, federal and state governments stand... [02 Dec 2003]
Rural Britain demands equal rights... and broadband
News Here in the heart of Robin Hood country in rural North Nottinghamshire we have solved the issue with a community wide wireless broadband service. He explains: "Broadband must be viewed essentially as the fourth utility... [20 Aug 2003]
Lights go out as power cuts cripple America
News The outage was sending high call volumes through both mobile and landline telephone networks late Thursday. A power outage has struck New York and much of the Eastern Seaboard, shutting down companies, closing airports... [15 Aug 2003]
Microsoft and HP put comms at heart of PC prototype
News Athens, which resembles Apple Computer's Cube desktop and is based on an earlier concept called Agora, is a single console that can handle telephone calls, voice mail, video streams and text messages. [06 May 2003]
Oftel orders competing telcos to 'play fair'
News Carrier pre selection (CPS) is an issue at the heart of competition in the sector and often governs the movement of customers from one service provider to another. In Oftel's own words it "allows users to select... [24 Apr 2003]
Oracle underpins 'apathy-busting' e-voting trial
News Oracle's 9i database is at the heart of two e-democracy trials taking place in St Albans and Crewe & Nantwich which will allow constituents to cast their votes online in the May local elections. They will be able to... [08 Apr 2002]
Broadband Europe: The next generation
News According to UK ecommerce minister Douglas Alexander, the broadband initiative will be at the heart of the European Commission's e-Europe plan over the next year. A report released earlier this month showed fewer than... [21 Feb 2002]
Blair stresses value of NHS performance checks
News Speaking at the NHS 50th anniversary celebrations, Tony Blair talked of the "scandal of Bristol", when 27 children died during heart surgery, as "an unforgivable failure to act on the signs of poor performance". [03 Jul 1998]
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