China's latest five-year plan promises to shift the economy from its dependence on exports toward domestic consumption as an engine of growth. The key to achieving this will be for the nation to enhance the ability of its economy to ...
Tags: Innovation, China, Focus Vision, China Culture
Sunpartner Technologies and 3M have announced an agreement to collaborate in product development and technical solutions. The two companies are developing a sustainable wireless transparent micro component that will charge devices while ...
Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical network systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs), and Moscow-based Rostelecom OJSC, the largest ...
Japanese carmaker Nissan has unveiled a new technology for the light commercial vehicles that uses smartphones to offer safety as well as performance data to drivers and fleet managers in real time. The new IT system is claimed to be able ...
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Although cyberattacks caused just 6 percent of significant outages of public electronic communications networks and services in the E.U. last year, they affected more people than hardware failure, a much more common factor in service ...
Tags: Computer Products, webservice
Facebook and six other tech companies have launched a joint project called Internet.org which aims to connect the two-thirds of the global population that is not currently linked to the Internet. The other founding members of the project ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
German telecommunication policy has contributed to the emergence of innovative services and new networks, while supporting the availability of fast internet access. However, at the same time, demand for high-speed connections has developed ...
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The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is to issue tenders for several IT services, at a combined estimated cost of £782m. In a prior information notice on the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) website, the MoJ explains that it ...
Tags: Computer Products, software, ICT Services
West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking an external supplier for its ICT infrastructure improvement programme. The value of the contract is expected to be between £30m and £50m. The supplier chosen will be required ...
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust has issued an IT services tender worth between £50m and £80m over five years. In a notice on the Official Journal of the European Union, the trust said that it wants to ...
Tags: IT service, ICT infrastructure, North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Microsoft is collaborating with the Kenyan government and a local Internet service provider to provide broadband access using TV white spaces and solar-powered base stations, as part of a long-term strategy to spread mobile telephony and ...
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Microsoft has announced that it is collaborating with the Kenyan government and a local Internet service provider to provide broadband access using TV white spaces and solar-powered base stations. The move comes as part of a long-term ...
IDG News Service - Apple, Research in Motion (RIM) and Motorola Mobility are among 15 companies sued in the U.S. over a fundamental 3G and 4G patent on determining when devices should switch cells in a mobile network. The suits were filed ...
Tags: Apple, RIM, US telcos, mobile network
With more than 70 percent of Africa's population living in rural areas, access to broadband service in remote regions was a key issue at the recently concluded Commonwealth Telecommunications Organization (CTO) meeting in Sierra Leone. In ...
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IDG News Service - The launch of the first commercial Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) services took place last week, but most operators are likely to take a cautious approach as they face technical and business challenges. U.S. operator MetroPCS ...
Tags: VoLTE services, cautious approach, MetroPCS, SK Telecom