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The Weekly Round-Up: 25.07.08
Round-Up This cautionary tale is symptomatic of our increasing dependence on technology and our ever-decreasing reliance of common sense, map reading and not noticing the English Channel doesn't lie between Turkey and Spain.silicon.com readers are divided... [25 Jul 2008]
An Internal Communication and Management Platform Based on BEA WebLogic Server and WebLogic Portal
White Paper Indra is Spain's number one Information Technology (IT) Company. The company wanted to replace existing communication platform that had become too small and was not entirely stable. At the same time, the prevailing Web development had involved the... [09 Jul 2008]
Leading Mobile Operator Revolutionises Customer Services With IVR
White Paper Orange Spain wanted to increase the quality and convenience of services for customers, while reducing its operating costs. They aimed to achieve this by automating responses to common customer queries and streamlining access to information and... [06 Jul 2008]
Leading Spanish Bank Creates Platform for Financial Transactions Using BEA
White Paper Leading Catalonian bank in Spain needed the flexibility, openness, vendor independence, compatibility, and versatility provided by open systems environment. Bank also needed to tackle the challenges of electronic banking, risk management, and other... [05 Jul 2008]
Spain - Using Mobile Technology to Improve Health Care
White Paper The Vodafone Spain Foundation is using the latest mobile technology to help improve health care for senior citizens and the physically and mentally disabled. The Foundation is a partner in the Healthmate Consortium, a group of companies and... [03 Jul 2008]
IFCA Promotes Collaborative Grid Research with IBM Computing Solution
White Paper Funded by the University of Cantabria and a member of the CSIC (Spanish Highest Center for Scientific Research), the largest non-profit research institution in Spain, the IFCA is a very active center in Grid research. [03 Jul 2008]
Spanish Hotel Chain Boosts Web Sales by 200 Percent With Flexible Online IT Solution
White Paper Sol Melia owns 350 hotels in 30 countries, making it the world's largest chain of resorts and Spain's largest hotel chain. Sol Melia wanted to increase international sales and customer retention by offering a quality and personalised service while... [02 Jul 2008]
¿Dónde está el iPhone 3G?
Comment That's why the chance to see one in Spain proved irresistible for Natasha Lomas. Everyone knows it's hard to get your hands on a 3G iPhone. Last week I was invited on a two-day Telefónica press trip, with an agenda that promised a visit to the... [01 Jul 2008]
Femtocells: Europeans clueless on mobile access tech
News Poland was the most femtocell-friendly nation, according to the survey, with two-thirds (67 per cent) planning to purchase a femtocell service in the next 12 months, followed by Spain (62 per cent) and Italy (61 per cent). [23 Jun 2008]
UK CIOs beaten to boardroom by French
News Bottom of the heap for boardroom promotion is Sweden, where just 26 per cent of CIOs sit at the top table, followed by Germany (42 per cent) and Spain (44 per cent). CIOs in the UK are far less likely to be appointed to the board than their... [19 Jun 2008]
Kiabi Doubles Its Sales Outlets With Oracle E-Business Suite
White Paper Kiabi deployed Oracle E-Business Suite centrally with a single base receiving data from all sales outlets and provided Oracle E-Business Suite connection to the 12 accounting entities located in France, Spain and Italy. [21 May 2008]
Orange cuts voice and data roaming costs
News The offer is currently available in France and Romania and is being extended - albeit with possible local variations - to Belgium, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland and the UK across the summer, with Poland also joining in the autumn, according to Orange. [20 May 2008]
Nato fires up cyber defences
News Seven Nato member states have signed documents for the formal establishment of the Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence: Estonia, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia and Spain. A Nato cyber defence centre of excellence has been... [16 May 2008]
Spain Scores World First With Public Wireless Internet
White Paper Wireless and Satellite Networks (WSN) is a start-up WiFi network operator based in Madrid, Spain, which runs the newly-launched Afitel broadband wireless service. As a small start-up, WSN had around a dozen people at its Madrid headquarters in... [16 May 2008]
China key to Indian IT growth
News New development centres are planned in Eastern Europe, Germany, Mauritius, the Philippines, Portugal, Spain, Vietnam, and a further three in South America. China will be a key part of Indian outsourcing giant Satyam's plans to create 15,000 new... [21 Apr 2008]
