IT managers in businesses and governments are taking steps to ensure that the Summer Olympics do not bust networks or budgets. The opportunity for problems is there. The Olympics will be live streamed, and London's time difference means ...
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Controversial rules that could have seen the United Nations put in charge of the internet have been rejected by the UK and other member states at a conference in Dubai this week. The International Telecoms Union (ITU) – the ...
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BT has revealed it is making its One Voice app globally available, encouraging users to make calls on their smartphones via their corporate virtual private network (VPN). Initially launched in the Asia-Pacific region, the app runs on ...
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EE has published results for its third quarter, blaming European regulations for its fall in revenue. For the three-month period to 30 September 2012, revenues were just shy of £1.5bn, showing no change from the second quarter but a ...
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Despite widespread calls for more spectrum to carry mobile data, there is a wide range of technologies already being used or explored that could help to speed up networks or put off the day when more frequencies need to be cleared. ...
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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 ...
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Ericsson has unveiled a Wi-Fi access point and controller for offloading cellular traffic in densely populated areas such as stadiums. Its goal is to allow users to switch seamlessly from the cellular network to a local Wi-Fi network to ...
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TomTom plans to launch a navigation app for Android smartphones in October, the company said Wednesday at the IFA trade show in Berlin. The app will put the Dutch company into direct competition for the first time with Google Navigation ...
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TrackPoint Systems (TrackPoint), a leading provider in asset management hardware and software solutions, is pleased to announce the release of their new product "The TrackPoint AT". This new unit from TrackPoint Systems is designed for ...
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A new approach to mobile Internet protocols could improve the usability and reliability of mobile applications. At the annual Usenix tech conference last month in Boston, two MIT researchers formally unveiled a new protocol, and a remote ...
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Businesses and consumers can now download Windows 8 Release Preview from the Microsoft site. Microsoft said the February release of Windows 8 Consumer Preview was downloaded more than 1 million times in the first 24 hours. Microsoft ...
Buyers of computers running Windows RT, the Windows 8 version for ARM-based devices, will receive at no additional cost a version of Office that will become available in multiple languages between November and January. The devices, ...
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Mobile operators in the UK are not known for being the best of friends. Be it fighting for the latest exclusive handset or threatening court action over 4G rollouts, the big guns have never been at the top of each other's Christmas lists. ...
Microsoft has released the customer preview of its latest version of Microsoft Office, which will be cloud-based and work best on Windows 8. Steve Ballmer announced the preview, claiming Office 2013 will provide consumers and businesses ...
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Orange has launched an application that gives mobile users free international calls and could prove to be a potential rival to Skype. The voice over IP-based Libon app is designed for the Apple iOS mobile platform, with a Google Android ...
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