After starting amid the smoldering ruins of AT&T and T-Mobile USA's failed merger,2012 ended as a big year for mobile carrier deals in the U.S.,and possibly a final changing of the guard for a long time. If all the reshuffling that ...
Tags: U.S.mobile, AT&T, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile USA
Communications regulator Ofcom has announced the bidders for the long awaited 4G spectrum auction,which it has dubbed the largest ever sale of mobile airwaves in the UK,and it includes telecoms giant BT. BT had first indicated to ...
Tags: Ofcom, 4G spectrum auction, mobile airwaves, BT
While the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) phenomenon has entered the mainstream with 70 percent of smartphone-owning professionals using their personal devices to access corporate data, almost 80 percent of today’s BYOD activity remains ...
Tags: device, BYOD, enterprise, IT, Ovum
Financial services regulation is an industry in itself with 140,000 pages of regulations published over the last two years, but organisations could streamline the process of meeting regulations by getting IT involved in the process earlier. ...
Tags: Bank IT, Compliance Role, Think Tank, banks
As mobile network and device makers explore many paths to using wireless spectrum more efficiently, one possible solution is still hard to achieve: Sending and receiving data on the same frequency at the same time, in the same space. ...
Tags: mobile network, mobile device, radios, mobile spectrum
Despite distressingly poor sales to date, Windows Phone 8 is set to consolidate its place as the 'third platform' behind Google and Apple in the next five years, analysts Ovum and Gartner have predicted. Ovum predicts that Microsoft's ...
Tags: Apple, Google, Microsoft, mobile, Samsung, smartphone, windows phone 8
Mobile network operator O2 claims it has fixed network problems that left hundreds of thousands of customers without voice and data connections for up to 24 hours. The firm has issued a string of apologies, but has not yet made any ...
Tags: Computer Products, O2, GiffGaff and Tesco Mobile, still having problems
A year-long investigation by a U.S. congressional committee has reportedly concluded that Huawei Technologies and ZTE pose a security threat to the nation, and the committee is advising U.S. firms to buy networking gear from other vendors. ...
Tags: Huawei Technologies, ZTE, security threat, networking gear
Moves to subsume Autonomy into HP have lent an increasing amount of irony to the company’s name, following the departure of founder Mike Lynch and the expansion of its key tools to become add-ons across a much broader range of ...
Global smartphone shipments will reach 1.7 billion in 2017, with emerging markets experiencing particularly strong growth, according to Ovum’s ‘Smartphones in Emerging Markets: Shifting Landscape’ report. The analyst ...
Tags: Apple, device, HTC, iPhone, Ovum, sales, Samsung, shipments, smartphones
December 11, 2012 - Fujitsu Ltd., Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp. (NTT) and NEC Corp. (NEC) commenced joint R&D toward making the world’s top-level, 400Gbps/channel-class digital coherent optical transmissions technology. ...
Tags: Fujitsu Ltd, optical transmissions technology, network connectivity
Telefonica and Vodafone are partnering in the UK to extend network infrastructure to reach 98% of the UK population. The partnership will rival Everything Everywhere, which formed in March 2010 following the merger of Orange and T-Mobile ...
Tags: Telefonica, Vodafone, network infrastructure, UK
Ofcom has released details of its long-awaited spectrum auction, which will enable mobile operators to roll-out 4G services across the UK. The regulator confirmed the process would begin before the end of 2012 and offer the equivalent of ...
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Computerworld-The results of a multinational employee survey published today by public research firm Ovum,shows 46.1%of respondents believe their IT shops ignore the use of personal mobile devices for business purposes. The October survey ...
Tags: employee survey, personal mobile devices, BYOD, IT shop
Mobile phones are expected to play a significant role in the future of cashless payments in remote and on-premise purchases. Payment companies are ramping up their mobile offerings in the scramble for this lucrative market. ...
Tags: mobile phones, cashless payments, remote purchases, on-premise purchases