Lobbying among countries and various special interests to"take control"of the internet is intensifying in advance of the International Telecommunications Union(ITU)World Conference on International Telecommunications in Dubai next week. ...
Tags: UN, ITU, ITRs, World Conference on International Telecommunications, Dubai
Canada-based The Empire Life Insurance Company(Empire Life)has introduced a new electronic claims(eClaims)service to simplify claims submission process for its group insurance customers. Using the new eClaims service,plan members will be ...
US specialty insurance underwriter Markel has inked a definitive agreement with OneBeacon Insurance Group to acquire Essentia Insurance,in an undisclosed deal. Pending regulatory approval and satisfying customary closing conditions,the ...
Tags: OneBeacon Insurance Group, Essentia Insurance, insurance products
Crawford&Company has appointed James Devall as vice president and managing director of its London-fronted business in the US. In his new role,Devall will be responsible for all business coming from the London insurance market to ...
UK's insurance price comparison websites comparethemarket.com has teamed up with car insurer Debenhams Car Insurance,with a motive to facilitate the aggregator to provide its customers an even wider selection of great car insurance deals. ...
Not waiting until Cyber Monday,online shoppers made Black Friday the biggest online spending day of the year so far. On Black Friday--the marketing term given for the day after Thanksgiving,generally one of the biggest shopping days of ...
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(ISC)2 is inviting applications for scholarships worth a total exceeding 90,000 pound to promote information security studies for women,undergraduate,graduate and post-graduate students. The scholarship scheme,run by the (ISC)2 ...
Tags: (ISC)2;, scholarships, Information Security Scholarships
Rail Settlement Plan(RSP),the company that provides IT and retail services to UK rail operators,is upgrading its systems with AWS cloud to provide a next-generation ticket issuing systems as a growing number of commuters adopt the"click and ...
Tags: UK, RSP, AWS, Smart421, rail operators, cloud-based service
Opening on Friday, November 30 at the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar is Flora lucid, a beautiful exhibition of glass sculptures by Mayo artist Emma Bourke. Emma is a visual artist working mainly in the medium of glass. Her artistic ...
Tags: Glass Exhibition, Glass, Construction
Fluke,has introduced the Fluke CNX Wireless System,the first set of test tools that wirelessly connects multiple measurement modules and sends simultaneous readings to a master device up to 20 metres away,allowing users to troubleshoot ...
Tags: Fluke, CNX Wireless System, multiple measurement modules
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission may seek to make carriers reveal how well their networks withstood major natural disasters so that consumers can compare rival providers. That will be one topic on the agenda at a series of ...
Tags: FCC, networks, natural disasters, Hurricane Sandy, commercial mobile
The BBC is partnering with University College London(UCL)in a four-year research and development(R&D)programme to investigate the future of digital content. Over the next four years,the partnership between the BBC and UCL will focus on a ...
Tags: digital future, BBC and UCL, digital services, networking technology
Enterprises can now run Windows Server 2012 on the Amazon Web Services cloud,and take advantage of improved management features and new versions of IIS and the.Net framework. AWS isn't the only provider whose cloud can run Microsoft's new ...
Tags: Windows Server 2012, Amazon Web Services cloud, server operating system
The dream of being able to link the entire development phase in the fashion business digitally has been with us for a long time. IT specialists in the fashion world have been working on these kinds of system for a good ten years. ...
Tags: fashion, apparel, Computers, software, Apparel Sector Software
DeCare Dental Insurance, Claremorris-based dental benefit management company, has introduced its dental insurance service in Northern Ireland, in a bid to continue expansion in the country. Northern Ireland is a new region, but high level ...
Tags: Service, DeCare Dental Insurance, subsidiary of WellPoint