Virgin Media is in discussions with 30 cities across the UK about deploying free fibre-based Wi-Fi networks using small cell technology. Duncan Watts, head of business development for fixed and wireless at Virgin Media Business, revealed ...
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The Ministry of Defence (MoD) will auction off public services spectrum next year to help the government free up the airwaves for commercial purposes. The frequencies, previously used for the likes of emergency services and ...
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Paul Coby faces his second Christmas as IT director at department store chain John Lewis. Since joining the retailer in March 2011, after many years as CIO at British Airways, he has embraced what he calls the "retail revolution" brought ...
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Unilever has agreed a five-year HR BPO contract with Accenture to expand the manufacturer's recruitment activity into social networking. The contract extension will see outcome-based targets as well as the traditional service level ...
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Public cloud updated Sega's courier distribution to testers How a combination of public and private cloud helped Sega Cloud project yielded cost-control benefits for Sega Overcoming interoperability issues in private and public cloud The ...
Supermarket chain Tesco is investing £65m in a state-of-the-art datacentre as it gears up to expand its web operations outside the UK. The retailer has signed a 15-year contract with datacentre operator Sentrum, to host the ...
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Cisco has promoted two of its executives to the title of president, raising more questions about the future of the company's CEO, John Chambers. Gary Moore, who previously led the services division, is now president and chief operating ...
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Jeremy Hunt's promise in 2010 that the UK would lead Europe with its broadband infrastructure within five years raised a few eyebrows. No one was against the sentiment of rolling out broadband to every home in the UK by 2015 – even ...
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Technology is taking an ever more central role in the way we work, live and play. The future for the IT community is bright, and IT professionals have a unique opportunity to lead their organisations to a successful economic recovery. But ...
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Staffordshire County Council claims it has managed to save pound 1.5m by adopting the Cabinet Office framework for a public sector network. Staffordshire County Council was one of the first to embrace the public sector network (PSN) ...
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Outsourcing is becoming an increasingly complex task for CIOs – especially if you want it to be successful. Originally, the idea of handing all or parts of your IT infrastructure to a third party was to exploit economies of scale ...
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Mobile networks have been the focus of a lot of regulation, debate and rumour in the past few years, but this has mainly focused on the strengthening of existing 3G networks or the future of 4G deployments. However, whilst all the ...
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The UK’s major mobile operators will be meeting with the department for media, culture and sport (DCMS), and telecoms regulator Ofcom, today to discuss the future of 4G. A source close to the situation has confirmed to Computer ...
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A team of IT undergraduates from the University of Warwickhave told Computer Weekly about a smart mobile application they developed as part of a competition between IT students at universities in Europe and India. The team of Computer and ...
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This in-depth research from Computer Weekly and TechTarget reveals the IT security spending priorities of businesses in the UK and Europe. Despite the downturn, 40% of organisations plan to increase their security budgets in 2013 in ...
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