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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Samsung Electronics' semiconductor arm has begun volume production of 128GB embedded memory modules for next-generation smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices, the company said on Tuesday. An upgrade to 128GB would double or ...
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The National Audit Office (NAO) today ruled that Vodafone’s settlement of its UK tax bill was "reasonable", despite being almost GBP 5bn less than it was originally thought to have owed. The mobile operator came under scrutiny ...
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StorIT has announced a strategic new distributor partnership agreement with Mellanox Technologies, a supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data centre servers and storage systems. The new alliance positions ...
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Research In Motion will launch BlackBerry 10 and the two first smartphones based on the operating system on Jan. 30, the company said yesterday. The event will happen simultaneously in multiple countries around the world, according to ...
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Iraqi mobile telecoms company, Asiacell has teamed up with Ericsson on a three year contract which will see the telecoms operator utilising Ericsson’s Charging & Billing in One system. Under the agreement, Ericsson will do systems ...
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Marston's has chosen Ruckus Wireless to bring connectivity through Wi-Fi to its pubs,hoping to entertain customers and offer more innovation in its business model. The chain has over 2,000 pubs across the UK and operates five ...
Well-known American inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil is joining Google. The 64-year-old, whose work includes computer and machine intelligence, neuroscience and virtual reality, revealed the move on his blog on Friday. Kurzweil said ...
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IDG News Service - Facebook has launched a new version of its app for Android smartphones that promises users speedier access to their messages, timeline and news. The app marks a rewrite of several major parts of the Facebook software to ...
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IDG News Service - A federal jury in Delaware has found Apple's iPhone infringes on three patents held by MobileMedia Ideas, a patent-holding company formed by Sony, Nokia and MPEG LA. The jury's verdict in the U.S. District Court for the ...
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IBM is opening its first research center in Africa, capping several years of international marketing by the Kenyan government and visits by IBM officials. The center will be at Catholic University of Eastern Africa in Nairobi and will be ...
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CIOs will increasingly have to share their control of IT budgets with marketing departments as customer relationship management (CRM) software is becoming critical to customer retention. Mac Scott, associate director in KPMG’s CIO ...
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Jeremy Hunt's promise in 2010 that the UK would lead Europe with its broadband infrastructure within five years raised a few eyebrows. No one was against the sentiment of rolling out broadband to every home in the UK by 2015 – even ...
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The UK’s major mobile operators will be meeting with the department for media, culture and sport (DCMS), and telecoms regulator Ofcom, today to discuss the future of 4G. A source close to the situation has confirmed to Computer ...
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Chinese telecoms company Huawei has promised to spend pound 1.2bn in investment and procurement in the UK over the next five years. In a meeting with Prime Minister David Cameron, Ren Zhengfei, founder and CEO of Huawei, said the company ...
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