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RSS power linesO2 considers high fibre rollout
News P is for Power lines O2 is considering investing in its own fibre-to-the-home network but wants to wait until Ofcom changes telecommunications regulation before it makes an investment. Following BT's Tuesday announcement that it was to plough... [17 Jul 2008]
BT plans £1.5bn fat pipe upgrade
News P is for Power lines BT is planning to spend £1.5bn on significantly upgrading its broadband network to support next generation super-fast internet. The plans aim to give 10 million UK homes fibre access by 2012 with bandwidth of up to 100Mbps... [15 Jul 2008]
Law firm gets SaaSy with email security
Case Study P is for Power lines International law firm Ashurst LLP has turned to web-based email management to help drastically reduce spam and free up time for its tech team. Ashurst has been using technology from email management specialist Mimecast to... [15 Jul 2008]
Brits still dissatisfied with broadband speeds
News P is for Power lines Moreover, some seven million consumers - or nearly half of all broadband customers in the UK - are technically incapable of getting the standard headline speed of 8Mbps as only around half (42 per cent) of non-cable broadband... [14 Jul 2008]
And the designer of the next great gadget is? - You
News So-called "prosumers", a marriage of consumers and producers, will use website forums and email to pipe their ideas straight onto company production lines says the report. Mark Power, chief executive of digital marketing company Concep, said in a... [11 Jul 2008]
Taylor Woodrow heads for the cloud
Case Study P is for Power lines Taylor Woodrow has moved its 1,800 staff onto Google Apps for email and other services, estimating it will save £1m per year in the process. The construction division of Taylor Wimpey has embraced software as a service by... [10 Jul 2008]
UK business lacking high fibre diet
News P is for Power lines The UK's business efficiency is being threatened by relatively slow broadband speeds, according to a report by the Communications Management Association. The Communications Management Association's (CMA's) Next Generation... [07 Jul 2008]
Ofcom: Mobile broadband driving interest in fibre
News P is for Power lines The rapid take-up of mobile broadband could help spur the arrival of super-fast fibre broadband networks in the UK, says telecoms regulator Ofcom, which has set out plans for a pro-investment regulatory framework that will... [04 Jul 2008]
Tadpole-Cartesia Case Study: PowerSystems (ScottishPower)
White Paper Scottish Power use Conic GPS functionality to assist in the task of helicopter inspection of power lines. Tadpole-Cartesia, in partnership with Logica, has developed an asset inspection system (AIS) for PowerSystems part of the Scottish Power group. [03 Jul 2008]
Skype touts biz credentials
News P is for Power lines Skype is touting its voice over IP (VoIP) technology for small businesses keen to work globally and keep costs down. According to Skype research, 30 per cent of its 309 million users use it for work and the company is trying to... [02 Jul 2008]
ISPs face fresh threat from file-sharing laws
News P is for Power lines But the Internet Service Providers' Association (ISPA) has hit back, warning the government that legislation could result "in cumbersome regulation". Malcolm Wicks, business, enterprise and regulatory reform minister, told... [18 Jun 2008]
Thin clients switch on digitally excluded
Case Study P is for Power lines A project to tackle digital exclusion in socially deprived regions of Merseyside has brought free plug-and-play internet access to hundreds of homes with children of school age. The project is aiming to give digitally excluded... [17 Jun 2008]
Stolen music still big with MP3 generation
News P is for Power lines Record industry artist and publisher group, British Music Rights (BMR), claims the average 14- to 24-year-old now has almost 900 illegal tracks each on their MP3 players. Broadband from A to Z [16 Jun 2008]
BT to cut CO2 emissions by 80 per cent
News During the next year BT will also conduct a trial of electric vehicles in two of its lines of business and will pilot the use of bio-diesel in vehicles. BT will rely on wind farms to produce a quarter of its UK power by 2016 as part of a major... [03 Jun 2008]
Live From Redmond: Migrating Your Visual Basic 6 Investments to .NET
White Paper Visual Basic (VB) 6 was used by millions of developers world-wide to build applications ranging from thousands to millions of lines of code representing significant organizational investments. The attendee will learn the framework and tools to... [30 May 2008]
