Scottish Power is trialling 5,000 smart electricity meters in homes as part of a test that will simulate the national smart meter roll-out by covering both heavily populated and rural areas. The 18-month trial will see smart meters ...
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Spurred by new technology and architectures, very small aperture terminal (VSAT) applications are evolving from enterprise connectivity and video to competitive wireless broadband alternative, notes the Strategy Analytics Advanced ...
Power management company Eaton today announced that the Texas Rangers have installed its advanced light-emitting diode (LED) system at Globe Life Park in Arlington, Texas. The system features industry-leading control functions that will ...
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Philips, the global leader in lighting and Cisco, the worldwide leader in IT, today announce a global strategic alliance that will create new value in energy savings, building efficiency and employee productivity, made possible by the ...
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S3 Group of Dublin, Ireland (an independent supplier of RF and mixed-signal IP and tailored silicon solutions to service operators, OEMs and semiconductor vendors) has made available what is claimed to be the first fully integrated, ...
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In partnership with digital communications company Telefónica UK, Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical network systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic ...
China's top economic planner singled out on Wednesday seven areas for public-private partnerships to fuel the country's economic growth. The National Development and Reform Commission said the plan will be implemented as soon as possible. ...
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Photo: Xinhua/eyevine/Redux As smart meter installations wane in the United States, China has become the new leader in smart grid spending. China spent US $4.3 billion on smart grid investments in 2013 as the U.S. market contracted 33 ...
Tags: Grid Spending, digital smart meter, GTM, BNEF
The UK High Court has held BT liable for infringing patents of ASSIA, a solutions provider to broadband service vendors. The High Court of Justice in London ruled that BT infringes one of ASSIA's patents on DSL management in its Next ...
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Computer scientists are constantly searching for ways to squeeze ever more bandwidth from communications networks. Now a new approach to understanding a basic concept in graph theory, known as "vertex connectivity," could ultimately lead ...
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The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) and the oil companies in the Diskos group have awarded contracts for software and operation of the Diskos databases to CGG. The contracts apply for the period 2015 to 2020. The contract award is ...
BT has signed a multi-million pound contract with Oracle, for the technology giant's human capital management (HCM) software suite. The exact financial terms were not disclosed. Further reading Rural broadband rollout slammed for ...
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Payments giant Visa Europe has had its communications network upgraded by telecoms giant BT, in a move that BT claims has enabled the firm to process about €2m of payments every minute. The network provides connectivity for Visa ...
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Telstra and its subcontractor Motorola, have been chosen to design, build, operate and maintain a new Queensland government wireless network (GWN) in a deal worth $457.3 million covering a 15-year period. Telstra beat other candidates in ...
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Tim Berners-Lee, the engineer who invented HTML, has warned that the internet must be safeguarded against attempts to control it by governments and major organisations. Berners-Lee was speaking as he and five other internet engineers were ...
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