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Euro e-health getting the right attention

News O is for Ofcom C is for Cable & Wireless 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.

Tags: telemonitoring, healthcare, e-health

[28 Apr 2008]

BT embraces NetSuite's on-demand software

News O is for Ofcom C is for Cable & Wireless 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...

Tags: smes, saas, crm, bt

[22 Apr 2008]

Warning: Web will run out of space by 2010

News O is for Ofcom C is for Cable & Wireless 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...

Tags: web, web 2.0, isps, government

[21 Apr 2008]

Europe embracing speedy fat pipes

News O is for Ofcom C is for Cable & Wireless 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.

Tags: online, i2010, eu, broadband

[18 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. Fibre networks are being fitted at three estates in the UK and Ofcom is hoping to encourage further growth by laying out...

Tags: telco, broadband, fibre

[16 Apr 2008]

Tesco to launch iTunes challenger

News O is for Ofcom C is for Cable & Wireless 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]

3.5G gizmos mushrooming forth

News O is for Ofcom C is for Cable & Wireless 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]

Come an' Avatalk in Second Life, urges BT

News O is for Ofcom C is for Cable & Wireless BT is upping its presence in Second Life with a trial of its free 'Avatalk' phone and texting service. The one month virtual world pilot will start on 26 March allowing users to make 10 free calls (of up to...

Tags: bt, trial, ip, sms

[20 Mar 2008]

'Unlimited broadband' thing of the past?

News O is for Ofcom C is for Cable & Wireless Time is running out for so-called "unlimited broadband" packages, according to analysts and ISPs. For some time, many ISPs have been offering users what they call unlimited broadband, although it almost...

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 C is for Cable & Wireless 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 C is for Cable & Wireless 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 C is for Cable & Wireless This method sees fibre cable - for really high-speed broadband - laid in existing sewage ducts, a cheaper and faster way of hooking people up than digging up streets where legacy copper wiring lives.

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 C is for Cable & Wireless 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...

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 C is for Cable & Wireless C is for Cable & Wireless During 2007, LinkedIn doubled in size in all of its major regions including Europe and signed up its millionth UK member in October, making Blighty the largest market...

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]

Faster speeds on the cards for Broadband Britain?

News O is for Ofcom And we are having those discussions with Ofcom on a regular basis because we have to because the discussion has moved on to fibre to the curb. Areas the review will consider include whether the public sector has a role to play to...

Tags: broadband, fibre, ofcom, high speed

[22 Feb 2008]

How fans can grab a slice of the music pie

Comment O is for Ofcom O is for Ofcom C is for Cable & Wireless C is for Cable & Wireless How Slicethepie works Courtier-Dutton: Essentially we turn every user on the website into a fully fledged record label.

Tags: music, web 2.0, industry, web

[18 Feb 2008]

Broadband switching still a tricky business

News Switching broadband providers is still proving a tricky business despite Ofcom rules introduced a year ago designed to make the process easier. He added that Ofcom needs to address the problem "as a matter of urgency" and punish providers who are...

Tags: customers, ofcom, regulations, broadband

[15 Feb 2008]

Ericsson CEO hails mobile broadband 'breakthrough'

News O is for Ofcom C is for Cable & Wireless Ericsson president and CEO Carl-Henric Svanberg has called 2007 a breakthrough year for mobile broadband. The list from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more.

Tags: telstra, mobile broadband, ericsson, society

[11 Feb 2008]

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