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Euro e-health getting the right attention

News O is for Ofcom B is for BT European primary healthcare services are benefiting from broadband, says the European Commission, but there are still wide discrepancies in GPs' use of IT across Europe. An EC e-health survey has found the vast majority...

Tags: telemonitoring, healthcare, e-health

[28 Apr 2008]

BT embraces NetSuite's on-demand software

News O is for Ofcom BT and NetSuite have joined forces to bring web-based on-demand software to the telco's 1.6 million business customers. BT is offering NetSuite's business management applications and will soon provide customer relationship management...

Tags: smes, saas, crm, bt

[22 Apr 2008]

Warning: Web will run out of space by 2010

News O is for Ofcom B is for BT 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...

Tags: web, web 2.0, isps, government

[21 Apr 2008]

Europe embracing speedy fat pipes

News O is for Ofcom B is for BT Around three-quarters (77 per cent) of businesses in Europe are now using high speed broadband, according to the European Commission's latest i2010 progress report. This compares to 62 per cent in 2005.

Tags: online, i2010, eu, broadband

[18 Apr 2008]

Ofcom - high-fibre diet ordered for Broadband Britain

News While BT is fitting the first networks, Ofcom says the new regulatory proposals will encourage widespread investment in fibre networks for the 246,000 homes and businesses built in Britain each year. Telecoms regulator Ofcom has launched a review...

Tags: telco, broadband, fibre

[16 Apr 2008]

Tesco to launch iTunes challenger

News O is for Ofcom B is for BT Tesco Digital will initially offer all of the tracks in Window Media format with around half (1.6 million) also available as MP3s. Broadband from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more.

Tags: mp3, online, digital music, itunes

[15 Apr 2008]

BT CEO Ben Verwaayen to step down

News BT's CEO Ben Verwaayen is to step down as CEO on 31 May 2008 after more than six years at the telco where he championed its push into broadband and helped it dodge regulator Ofcom's axe. Analyst Ovum credits Verwaayen for "sorting out the mess he...

Tags: ofcom, bt, verwaayen

[08 Apr 2008]

BT: EU must harmonise telecoms to save cash

News The European Commission is keen on the idea of creating a "super-regulator" to oversee and potentially veto national telecoms regulators in Europe - an idea that has met with strong resistance from national regulators such as Ofcom.

Tags: eu, ec, telecoms, bt

[08 Apr 2008]

3.5G gizmos mushrooming forth

News O is for Ofcom B is for BT The number of 3.5G devices on the market is mushrooming with 150 per cent annual growth in HSDPA gizmos, according to stats from GSM/3G supplier association the Global Mobile Suppliers Association (GSA).

Tags: mobile broadband, 3.5g, hsdpa

[07 Apr 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 28.03.08

Round-Up The first travel-themed report of the week is news that Ofcom has waved a couple of table tennis racquets in the air and signalled take-off for mobile phones on aircraft. BA has signed up with BT to provide the Openzone service in its 25 UK lounges...

Tags: ofcom, wi-fi, train, plane

[28 Mar 2008]

Come an' Avatalk in Second Life, urges BT

News O is for Ofcom BT is upping its presence in Second Life with a trial of its free 'Avatalk' phone and texting service. B is for BT Users will be able to use their avatars to access the service at red BT phone boxes at five locations or by picking up...

Tags: bt, trial, ip, sms

[20 Mar 2008]

'Unlimited broadband' thing of the past?

News O is for Ofcom B is for BT At conferences where the likes of Tiscali and BT are present, you hear them say these things - 'We must move to a new tariffing scheme' - and that tells me they're working hard on this.

Tags: broadband, iplayer, youtube, isps

[17 Mar 2008]

Berners-Lee bigs up the 'semantic web'

Berners-Lee bigs up the 'semantic web'

News O is for Ofcom B is for BT Speaking at the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce in London, Berners-Lee said: "Initially there was a huge issue [with the web] that you couldn't find anything.

Tags: berners-lee, semantic web, google, internet

[13 Mar 2008]

Tennis federation rallies web presence

Case Study O is for Ofcom B is for BT The International Tennis Federation (ITF) has beefed up its website to improve availability and speed for millions of tennis fans following the scores of Davis Cup matches online.

Tags: tennis, ntt, website, servers

[12 Mar 2008]

Five weird ways to bridge the digital divide

News O is for Ofcom B is for BT Broadband may be as common, and almost as cheap, as chips in Blighty these days but there are plenty of places in the world where bog-standard fat pipes are harder to come by.

Tags: broadband, satellite, wimax, spectrum

[06 Mar 2008]

Cheat Sheet: BBC iPlayer

Cheat Sheet O is for Ofcom Although these fears seem exaggerated at the moment, industry regulator Ofcom has said there is the possibility that the ISP-content provider business model may need to change in the future to fund the huge growth in digital content.

Tags: isp, online, on demand, iplayer

[05 Mar 2008]

Local gov't adopts web-savvy interaction

News O is for Ofcom B is for BT The number of visitors to council websites sites increased by more than 10 per cent in the past 12 months according to the 2008 Better Connected report from local government IT body the Society of Information Technology...

Tags: socitm, online, web services, local government

[04 Mar 2008]

LinkedIn CEO on 'grown up' social networking

Comment O is for Ofcom O is for Ofcom B is for BT B is for BT On the difference between LinkedIn and Facebook Dan Nye: LinkedIn and Facebook are very different services. LinkedIn is the world's leading professional network, Facebook is a social network.

Tags: linkedin, network, online, facebook

[28 Feb 2008]

Fibre connectivity set to change, says EC

News O is for Ofcom An Ofcom spokesperson told silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk that the UK regulator had been "working very closely" with the Commission on its own approach to next-generation access regulation, and claimed that "what we are...

Tags: fibre, eu, ec, authority

[28 Feb 2008]

Kerching! Ofcom flogs more spectrum

News Ofcom has announced the results of its fourth radio spectrum auction, awarding licences to 10 organisations. BT was the fourth largest bidder, splashing out £183,000 on two lots of 32GHz spectrum. Click on the links below to find out more…

Tags: spectrum, ofcom, operator, band

[22 Feb 2008]

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