US telecommunications giant AT&T has agreed to acquire Leap Wireless for $15 per share in cash, valuing the prepaid mobile operator at about $1.2bn (£800m). The move comes amid continued consolidation and restructuring in the ...
Tags: 4G, Computer Products
EE, the joint venture between France Telecom's Orange and Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile, is to start offering its business customers data sharing plans across entire fleets of mobile devices. The UK's biggest mobile operator, and currently ...
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European Union politicians at both national and European levels demanded on Monday that the U.S. answer allegations of spying on E.U. embassies, while others called for asylum for NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Speaking on behalf of ...
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Sprint announced Wednesday it will soon sell two Windows Phone 8 smartphones that run over fast LTE, the HTC 8XT and the Samsung ATIV S Neo. The HTC 8XT smartphone will be available from Sprint later this summer. (Photo: HTC) The 8XT ...
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Now that developers have had a few days to delve into the iOS 7 beta, it's becoming clear that the iPhone version of the software could prove beneficial to enterprises. Many members of the 120-person development team at Solstice Mobile in ...
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Apple's mobile development chief Craig Federighi poked fun at Android when he announced AirDrop data sharing technology for iOS on Monday. "AirDrop is the easiest way to share [data] with people around you," Federighi said at the opening ...
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EE has hit back at claims by the Sunday Times that it and market research firm Ipsos MORI have been working on a deal that would feed data on EE's 27 million customers to the research firm, and even, allegedly, to the police. An EE ...
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The issues with sharing confidential patient information needs to be tackled before the NHS attempts to go paperless, according to Dr Jonathan Richardson, clinical director of informatics at the Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation ...
The Data Protection Act 1998 is not a barrier for information sharing but an enabler, according to Dawn Monaghan, group manager of strategic liaison at the Information Commissioner's Office. Speaking today at a Westminster Health Forum ...
Canada-based healthcare provider Responsive Health Management has chosen WoundRounds' wound management and prevention solution. The point-of-care solution will be used by Responsive Health's nurses to automate wound assessments, ...
Microsoft today launched a third wave of 'Scroogled,' its attack ad-based campaign aimed at Google, this time highlighting what it said were privacy flaws in the latter's Android app store. "When you buy an Android app from the Google app ...
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Today's launch of St Helens and Knowsley Informatics Service's medical record digitisation service should prove a welcome development for an NHS suffering space, staff and security problems in its ongoing battle with paper medical record ...
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Dorset County Council has selected enterprise content collaboration platform Huddle as a data sharing platform to help to manage its broadband delivery plans. Tech City’s Huddle secures third round of funding Huddle secures vast ...
AT&T Monday said it will supply LTE wireless services to most General Motors vehicles starting in 2014 in the U.S. and Canada. A multi-year agreement between AT&T and GM subsidiary OnStar calls for vehicles to continue getting OnStar's ...
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Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust has issued an IT services tender worth between £50m and £80m over five years. In a notice on the Official Journal of the European Union, the trust said that it wants to ...
Tags: IT service, ICT infrastructure, North West London NHS Foundation Trust