Three UK, the mobile phone network, is using "big data" at the heart of its business to work out where to locate mobile phone masts and to help personalise the "experience" of its subscribers. Speaking at Computing's Big Data Summit in ...
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UK - There can be no better endorsement for a company that a client who returns year after year; each time asking for a more detailed specification, more equipment and greater participation. Alex Leinster, MD of Chaos Visuals Productions UK ...
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Anticipating explosive growth in video communications, Cisco is readying product improvements designed to simplify the management of videoconferencing traffic and to streamline its use for employees. The products, announced Tuesday, ...
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Samsung's new Galaxy S4 IDG News Service - Samsung has taken the wraps off of its new Galaxy S4 smartphone, which will support global LTE roaming and has front- and rear-facing cameras that can be used simultaneously, the company said. ...
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Samsung Electronics is readying a smartphone based on the Tizen operating system to be released in the second half of this year, it said Friday. It has already found a customer: NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest mobile carrier, plans to launch ...
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BlackBerry faces a herculean task marketing the new Z10 smartphone to U.S. consumers. In interviews, analysts and CIOs told Computerworld that employees at companies with bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies have been switching from ...
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A Mclaren Mercedes remote control car - controlled using an app on a mobile device - will zoom to retailers this year. KTTK Europe has acquired an exclusive three-year technology and gadget licence for the Vodafone Mclaren Mercedes F1 ...
BT has created more than 1,000 engineering jobs at the company's infrastructure arm Openreach. The vast majority of the roles will be installing broadband in customers' homes, BT said, with the roles being occupied by a mix of ...
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There has to be a sea change in how mobile operators build their networks and implement new services, and virtualization will make it possible, carriers and equipment vendors say. Executives from established companies on both sides of the ...
Japanese tech firm NEC is to make an agressive play for dominance of western telecommunications and energy storage markets, one of its executives has revealed to Computing. Power rangers: Fujitsu, Docomo and NEC form smartphone chip ...
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Mobile operators are hoping to make it easier for developers to integrate network-based features with their applications using a new platform called OneAPI Exchange. Mobile operators are working on several fronts to become a more integral ...
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Analysts today were skeptical that Mozilla's push into mobile with Firefox OS would meaningfully change the game. "The chances of Mozilla Firefox OS making good in mobile phones are about as good as WebOS making a comeback in ...
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Telecom carriers continue to complain about taxes, regulation and over-the-top competition, but Mozilla's Firefox operating system provides a glimmer of hope to some executives speaking at the opening of Mobile World Congress. Mobile ...
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Has Sony finally nailed it? From our time using the Xperia Z handset, Sony seems to have achieved exactly that. We found the Xperia Z to be a sophisticated phone. Its 5-inch full HD screen is ultra sharp with 441 pixels per inch ...
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VODAFONE could potentially face "tens-of-millions" of dollars in compensation claims from disgruntled customers as part of a class action suit. The law firm has only just launched its bid to formally recruit customers for the class action ...
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