Nationwide Insurance talked up its enterprise collaboration systems at last week's SharePoint Conference,offering a glimpse into a best-of-breed strategy that is becoming everbmore popular. Nationwide,which uses IBM's Lotus Notes for ...
Tags: Nationwide Insurance, best-of-breed strategy, technology neutral
Telefónica Digital has bought TokBox as an attempt to move into the video conferencing space. TokBox was founded in 2007 and is based in San Francisco.TokBox has created a cloud-based API for video conferencing,which companies can ...
Tags: Telefónica, sell mobile data, customer's mobile phones, Stephen Shurrock
Hewlett-Packard's Envy X2 tablet-laptop hybrid will cost from $849.99 when it starts shipping in the U.S on Nov. 14, the company revealed on Wednesday. The Envy X2 is one of several products that use Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system ...
Tags: tablet, laptop, operating system, PC, Windows 8
Chinese firm ZTE is planning to grow its UK presence by selling its technology to local government and schools, despite the recent controversy around the security of its products. ZTE is predominantly known as a manufacturer of consumer ...
Tags: ZTE, consumer mobile handsets, switches, video-conferencing tools, CCTV
The use of video-conferencing by consumers and businesses may be increasing, but there is a need for a common standard to enable different services to work together. A Cisco survey found 79% of UK respondents want this standard to come ...
Tags: Video-Conferencing services, Video-Conferencing Standard, Microsoft
Johnston Press has mobilised its field sales team using Salesforce.com running on iPads to reduce the need for staff to come into the office. The regional newspaper company, which publishes across the UK and in the republic of Ireland, is ...
Tags: iPads, office, newspaper company, digital media company
BT has announced a trial with Dolby intended to improve sound quality on its conference tools. BT's MeetMe conferencing service offers a voice-over-IP(VoIP)platform as part of the BT One unified communications portfolio.It provides audio ...
Tags: BT Teams, IP platform, video capabilities, Audio conferencing
The Pirtek Parramatta Eels are proud to announce the re-signing of one of the Club's major apparel sponsors in the University of New England (UNE) on an upgraded deal for the 2013 and 2014 seasons. Eels players and the people of western ...
Tags: apparel deal, apparel sponsors, University of New England
Department of Energy & Climate Change CIO Jennifer Rigby has said that e-procurement and cloud will drive the government's green IT strategy. Rigby is also chair of the government's green ICT delivery unit (GDU), a cross-departmental, ...
Mobile operator Everything Everywhere has-as expected-formally launched the UK's first 4G service,and also made a bad name worse,by rebranding as simply"EE". The operator,the merged infrastructure of T-Mobile and Orange,has also announced ...
Tags: EE, 4G, Mobile operator, UK
The Paralympic Games was the largest live broadcast undertaking for Channel 4, but also gave the IT team an equally complex project that presented a range of new challenges and had to be executed under very tight deadlines. To broadcast ...
Tags: Interview, Channel 4, London 2012 Olympic Games, network, Wi-Fi
IDG News Service-Google may be moving too slowly in building up Google Apps'enterprise social networking(ESN)features,at a time when this type of software has become a key component in workplace collaboration suites. On Wednesday,the ...
Tags: Google, enterprise social networking, Apps, ESN software
Aruba Networks has released the latest version of its WLAN system software,with several changes designed to optimize throughput even as the wireless network is flooded with mobile clients. The company also says the new firmware ...
Tags: Aruba, Wi-Fi software, mobile client, WLAN system software
For its fiscal third-quarter 2012(ending 29 June),Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn,MA,USA(which manufactures linear products,power amplifiers,front-end modules and radio solutions for handset and infrastructure equipment)has reported ...
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