The U.N.'s International Telecommunications Union should embrace free and open broadband markets and allow individual countries to reform their telecommunications regulations instead of attempting to centrally regulate the industry, the ...
Tags: U.N., ITU, telecommunications regulations, U.S.delegation
Apple's executive shake-up earlier this week is a sign that design is the "tip of the spear" for the company, but the reorganization won't disrupt the firm's product delivery and may produce some groundbreaking moves, analysts predicted ...
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Windows Phone 8 smartphones, which officially launched Monday and will ship in November on three U.S. carriers, will support 46 of the top 50 most popular smartphone apps with a Data Sense app for more efficient data usage that will first ...
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An IT education programme run by supplier organisation CompTIA is targeting CFOs and other senior business executives to teach them about the business benefits of IT. Trade organisation CompTIA is creating what it calls a "boot camp" to ...
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As it stood late this afternoon, Hosting.com's data center in Newark, Del., was within walking distance of the projected path Hurricane Sandy's center once it makes landfall. This storm has put the staff at Hosting.com on alert. They went ...
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Local authorities could pay double that of central government to fund the broadband roll-out across the UK. The European Commission gave the green light to the Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) scheme, which will see a £530m pot of ...
Tags: Internet infrastructure, Computer Products, Broadband Bill
Almost three quarters (70%) of experience IT pros claim to have considered a move to the NHS, according to a survey by IT healthcare recruiter max20. Questioning 130 IT professionals, that work outside of the NHS, 46% said ‘career ...
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People will spend more than £1,200 to buy their own devices, which questions the need for IT departments to continue purchasing and supporting desktop and laptop PCs. In a recent study by analyst Forrester, 33% of respondents ...
Tags: desktop, laptop PCs, self-service app, smartphones, VPN software
Google has joined US government concerns that the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) could get control of the internet through its coming revision of telecoms rules. The UN agency is updating its International Telecommunication ...
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In an IT industry obsessed with the "next big thing", questions about how IT leaders are changing their strategies to cope with global economic turbulence are common. But if you ask something along those lines to the CIO of oil services ...
Tags: Halliburton, Ken Braud, IT operation, smartphones, global SAP ERP system
Ubuntu 13.04, scheduled for release in April next year, will have some of its key parts developed under wraps with the help of community members who can be trusted not to talk in their sleep, Canonical's founder Mark Shuttleworth wrote in a ...
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A US judge has ordered Apple to disclose details of its patent-sharing deal with HTC to rival Samsung. Earlier this month, Apple and HTC signed a 10-year licence agreement, but did not disclose the details. Samsung, which is involved in ...
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Microsoft's top executives, including CEO Steve Ballmer and the head of Windows, Steven Sinofsky, took the stage in New York today to launch Windows 8 and its sibling, Windows RT. Analysts' impressions were mixed, with some asking, "Is ...
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The one day on offer for mobile operators to submit their bids for Ofcom’s 4G spectrum auction is here – Tuesday 11 December. The providers have had weeks to prepare the tenders, but will only have until 4pm on the 11th to ...
Tags: 4G, Application Day, Computer Products
Increased regulation, reduced profits and changing customer demands are driving banks to replace home-grown software with commercially available alternatives. Simon Paris, head of global banking at SAP, said the strategic change has been ...
Tags: Simon Paris, Commercial Systems, home-grown software, SAP system