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BT Has Signed a Multi-Million Pound Contract with Oracle
Oct 25, 2013BT 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 ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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Giant Visa Europe Has Had Its Communications Network Upgraded by Telecoms Giant BT
Sep 24, 2013Payments 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 ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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BT Group's Chief Executive Ian Livingston Is to Leave The Telecoms Giant
Jun 19, 2013BT Group's chief executive Ian Livingston is to leave the telecoms giant to take up a role in government as minister of state for trade and investment. Livingston had been BT's chief for the past five years and will be replaced by BT's ...
Tags: BT, Ian Livingston
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BT Reported a Two Per Cent Rise in Its Full-Year Profits to £2.5bn
May 13, 2013Telecoms giant BT reported a two per cent rise in its full-year profits to £2.5bn for the year to 31 March, but revenues for the year slipped five per cent to £18bn. BT beat analysts' expectations of a five per cent drop in ...
Tags: Computer Products, BT
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Organisations Need to Check Their Bills Closely and Look out for Hidden Charges
May 6, 2013Organisations need to check their bills closely and look out for hidden charges when deploying their applications in the cloud - and to check, especially, whether their cloud services include or exclude network services before they sign up. ...
Tags: Cloud, Computer Products
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Canadian Government Handed Spanish Telecoms Giant Telefónica a US$257m Loan
Apr 9, 2013The Canadian government has handed Spanish telecoms giant Telefónica a US$257m (£170m) loan to assist in buying BlackBerry products and services. The decision was taken after BlackBerry financials, revealed last week, showed ...
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Etisalat Signed a Partnership Agreement with Pacific Controls in Dubai
Jan 30, 2013Etisalat today signed a partnership agreement with Pacific Controls in Dubai to mark the beginning of a collaboration which will see them tackle connectivity challenges in the developing world. Etisalat and Pacific Controls, both local ...
Tags: Etisalat, Pacific Controls, M2M solutions
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Giant Ericsson Has Sold a Portfolio of Patents and Patent Applications
Jan 15, 2013Swedish telecoms giant Ericsson has sold a portfolio of patents and patent applications to intellectual property company Unwired Planet. The company, which claims to be the "inventor of the mobile internet", was known as Openwave back in ...
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Giant Ericsson Had Sold a Portfolio of Patents and Patent Applications
Jan 15, 2013Swedish telecoms giant Ericsson has sold a portfolio of patents and patent applications to intellectual property company Unwired Planet. The company, which claims to be the "inventor of the mobile internet", was known as Openwave back ...
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NITP and BT Will Create 550 IT Apprenticeships in 2013
Jan 8, 2013A new partnership between the National Skills Academy for IT, training provider NITP and telecoms giant BT will create 550 IT apprenticeships in 2013. Some 100 apprentice jobs in small to medium-sized enterprises are already up for grabs, ...
Tags: National Skills Academy, IT, NITP, Computer
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Vodafone Announces a New CEO for C&WW Following Its Acquisition of Global Telecoms Giant
Dec 26, 2012Vodafone today announced a new CEO for Cable & Wireless Worldwide (C&WW) following its acquisition of the global telecoms giant. Nick Jeffrey, who began his career back in 1991 at C&WW, will take on the role with immediate effect, leaving ...
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Former CTO of BT Has Responded to The Government
Dec 24, 2012Former CTO of BT, Peter Cochrane, has responded to the government and BT who had hit back at his claims that UK's broadband plans were "visionless", by sarcastically encouraging the government to show off its plans to fast-growing economies ...
Tags: Peter Cochrane, BT, UK's broadband, broadband rollout
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Shares Rose as Concern Grew Over Fate of US Negotiations on Fiscal Cliff
Dec 20, 2012LOCAL shares rose for the third straight day today, hitting a fresh 17-month high as investors sought defensive and higher-yielding stocks as concern grew over the fate of US negotiations on the so-called fiscal cliff. The benchmark ...
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Ofcom Has Announced The Bidders for The Long Awaited 4G Spectrum Auction
Dec 20, 2012Communications 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 ...
Tags: Ofcom, 4G spectrum auction, mobile airwaves, BT
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BT Has Affected Broadband Users Across The Country
Dec 3, 2012BT has confirmed a nationwide network problem that has affected broadband users across the country. On social networking site Twitter,the telecoms giant said:"Sorry if you were unable to use the internet this morning,we've got a network ...
Tags: Broadband down, busiest e-shopping day, BT, nationwide network problem