NTT DoCoMo,Japan's largest mobile provider,said Friday it will soon launch the world's first femtocells to support both 3G and LTE networks. The company said it will begin using the new femtocells commercially from next month on its ...
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IDG News Service-It already sells phones and tablets,provides a wealth of online services and has been laying high-speed fiber to people's homes.Now Google is apparently considering a wireless network service as well. Google has been in ...
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IDG News Service-AT&T will start offering the first Windows RT tablet with LTE capabilities on Friday with prices beginning at US$499,the U.S.wireless carrier said on Tuesday. AT&T will offer Asus'VivoTab RT tablet,which has a 10.1-inch ...
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Existing 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 ...
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The councils of Wiltshire and South Gloucestershire have awarded BT a multi-million pound contract to roll out superfast broadband. The two local authorities formed a partnership when applying for government funding for the project, which ...
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Virgin Media Business will provide free citywide Wi-Fi to citizens of Leeds and Bradford after winning the first contract to offer the service outside London. The deal means Virgin will provide free mobile internet to 1.2 million people ...
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U.S.President Barack Obama won re-election Tuesday night,topping 270 electoral votes to defeat Republican challenger Mitt Romney just after 11 p.m.yesterday. Romney held a small lead in the battleground state of Virginia,but most election ...
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The government has published its Digital Strategy document this morning,promising to improve online experiences for service users,and move rapidly towards"digital by default"access channels to replace telephone and in-person transactions. ...
Microsoft and Google are in discussions with the UK government and regulatory officials about unused sections of airwaves known as white space. These discussions have led to speculation that the two companies are looking to set up a free ...
BT has been criticised by businesses and residents for breaking its promise to deliver superfast broadband upgrades to parts of Malvern. Businesses within the area and council economic development chiefs have claimed that BT promised to ...
BT has accelerated its fibre broadband rollout,with the company now saying that two-thirds of the UK will be covered by spring 2014. It's the second time that BT has claimed that it is speeding up its plans,which had an original ...
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It has been a long and somewhat slow journey to get here, but this week the UK finally saw the launch of a 4G network by mobile operator EE. Formed from the merger of T-Mobile and Orange, EE has rolled out the faster broadband ...
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BT's sales have fallen across all of its divisions, despite being ahead of schedule with its superfast broadband roll-out. BT recorded revenues of £4.47bn for the second quarter of 2012 – ending 30 September – which is ...
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The head of BT's broadband division has defended itself against claims of favouritism when it comes to the awarding of Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) contracts. Questions arose about BT's dealings with the national scheme, which will see ...
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Softbank, which announced a $20 billion deal to acquire U.S. mobile operator Sprint Nextel earlier this month, said it booked a record operating profit in the first half of its fiscal year. Softbank said its sales in the April-September ...
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