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Antitrust Approved Microsoft's $7bn Acquisition of Nokia's Mobile Phone Business
Dec 4, 2013Antitrust regulators in the US have approved Microsoft's $7bn (£4.6bn) acquisition of Nokia's mobile phone business. The deal, announced in September, sees Microsoft take ownership of Nokia's Devices and Services business, which ...
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Microsoft "Will Be Dead and Gone" in Just a Few Years
Oct 28, 2013Ex-BT CTO and futurist Peter Cochrane believes Microsoft's acquisition of Nokia could be "like bolting two sinking ships together" as he urged the company to rethink its "gaudy and horrible" branding strategies. Following up his Computing ...
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Former CTO of BT Has Responded to The Government
Dec 24, 2012Former CTO of BT, Peter Cochrane, has responded to the government and BT who had hit back at his claims that UK's broadband plans were "visionless", by sarcastically encouraging the government to show off its plans to fast-growing economies ...
Tags: Peter Cochrane, BT, UK's broadband, broadband rollout
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The UK Is to Have The Fastest Broadband Network of All Major European Countries
Dec 17, 2012The UK is to have the fastest broadband network of all major European countries by 2015,culture secretary Jeremy Hunt has claimed. Speaking at the Google Campus in Tech City,Hunt defended the government after criticism from a Lords ...
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BT Has Affected Broadband Users Across The Country
Dec 3, 2012BT has confirmed a nationwide network problem that has affected broadband users across the country. On social networking site Twitter,the telecoms giant said:"Sorry if you were unable to use the internet this morning,we've got a network ...
Tags: Broadband down, busiest e-shopping day, BT, nationwide network problem
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UI Has Slammed Microsoft's New Windows 8 Operating System
Nov 21, 2012Usability guru Jakob Nielsen has slammed Microsoft's new Windows 8 operating system, accusing the company of hiding everyday features, imposing a tablet paradigm on desktop users, as well as a single-window user interface instead of ...
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Westminster Council CIO Ben Goward Has Told Computing
Nov 13, 2012Existing enterprise mobile device management [MDM] solutions come with "really serious constraints," Westminster Council CIO Ben Goward has told Computing. Speaking at Aditi Technologies' GoCloud 8 conference in London today, Goward said ...
Tags: Ben Goward, MDM, BYOD, Outlook intregration
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Microsoft Would Enforce Compliance with Software Licence Policies
Nov 12, 2012Microsoft has filed a patent which appears to describe camera-based monitoring of digital content users to enforce compliance with software licence policies. In other words,Microsoft seems to be patenting technology that allows the ...
Tags: files patent, camera, digital content users, patent application
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Microsoft Will"Die and Disappear"Within The Next Few Years
Nov 5, 2012Microsoft will"die and disappear"within the next few years,futurist and ex-CTO of BT,Peter Cochrane,has told Computing. "Microsoft will die and disappear in the next few years.There is no convergence in IT–what we see is ...
Tags: Microsoft, Ex-BT, Computing, IT industry, cloud, Cohrane
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The Telegraph Has a Leaked Report From a Whitehall Consultant
Oct 2, 2012A BT spokesperson has labelled today's allegations that the company has marked up the cost of rural superfast broadband installations by as much as 80 per cent as"quite frankly,untrue,"condemning the Daily Telegraph's apparently leaked ...
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Government Plans to Install Super-Fast Broadband Throughout The Whole of The UK
Sep 24, 2012Government plans to install super-fast broadband throughout the whole of the UK by 2015 are unlikely to be achieved. That's according to a report from the Country Land & Business Association (CLA), which comes days after the government ...
Tags: super-fast broadband, CLA, Broadband, Maria Miller
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Government Would Help Provide Them with High-Speed Broadband
Sep 20, 2012The government has announced 114m in investment across 10 cities to help provide them with high-speed broadband. The funds represent a 14m increase on the initially planned 100m, with the 100Mbit/s broadband for homes and businesses ...
Tags: government, UK, receive super-fast broadband funds, 10 cities
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Programme Manager Had Superfast Broadband Available to 90 Per Cent of The UK
Sep 14, 2012An ex BT programme manager has branded the government's plans–and BT's part in them–to have superfast broadband available to 90 per cent of the UK by 2015 a"Westminster myth",accusing those in charge of trying to base"internet ...
Tags: final third superfast broadband solution, Westminster myth
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Programme Manager Has Branded The Government's Plans to Have Superfast Broadband
Sep 14, 2012An ex BT programme manager has branded the government's plans–and BT's part in them–to have superfast broadband available to 90 per cent of the UK by 2015 a"Westminster myth",accusing those in charge of trying to base"internet ...
Tags: Westminster myth, Final Third, BT, Goudhurst
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Maria Miller Looked to Make Her Mark as Culture Secretary
Sep 7, 2012Maria Miller has already looked to make her mark as Culture Secretary as the government promises to remove the need for local councils'approval to install broadband cabinets. Miller,who replaced Jeremy Hunt as part of the ministerial ...
