IT and Telecommunications Services
By John Walker on March 30, 2012
O2, the commercial brand of Telefónica UK Limited, today announced the launch of On & On, its new unlimited tariff created to deliver British small businesses with practical help and value in their day-to-day communications costs.
On & On will be open to existing and new O2 small business customers and lets customers use their phone [...]
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By John Walker on March 16, 2012
Mainstream 4G mobile services could be available in the UK as early as this year, under proposals outlined today by Ofcom.
Everything Everywhere, the mobile phone operator running two of the UK’s most famous brands - T-Mobile (UK) and Orange (UK), has submitted an application to Ofcom to use its existing spectrum to deliver 4G services. [...]
Posted in Computer Services, Critical Infrastructure, Customer Support, E-commerce, Expansion, Ideas and Innovation, Information Technology, Internet Services, Marketing Facilities, Product Research and Development, Regulation, Regulatory Compliance, Requests For Comments (RFQs), Standards, Technology, Telecommunications, Telecommunications Services, Tendering and Procurement Alerts, UK | Tagged 4G, Everything Everywhere, Ofcom, Olaf Swantee, Orange, T-Mobile |
By John Walker on March 12, 2012
Festival : Lovebytes Digital Spring. Festival of Art, Science and Technology
Date: Thursday 22nd-Saturday 24th March 2012
Venue: Across the city of Sheffield
Event Website: www.lovebytes.org.uk
This inspiring programme of events includes interactive art, music, performances, films, talks, workshops and educational projects for all ages. The events are open to everyone and many are free of charge.
I have visited [...]
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By John Walker on March 2, 2012
Shutterfly to provide stalking horse bid in court-supervised auction process
ROCHESTER, N.Y., March 01 —
Eastman Kodak Company has announced that it has entered into an agreement with Shutterfly, a leading Internet-based social expression and personal publishing service, for the proposed sale of certain assets of its KODAK Gallery on-line photo services business for $23.8 million. [...]
Posted in Business Continuity Planning, Chemical and Petroleum Products Manufacturing, Contact Management, Customer Retention, Customer Support, Deals and Agreements, Demergers, Design and Photographic Services, E-commerce, Information Technology, Internet Services, North America, People and Players, Printing and Printing Support Activities, Sales, Mergers & Acquisitions, Technology | Tagged Eastman Kodak Company, Kodak, Pradeep Jotwani, Shutterfly, U.S. Bankruptcy Court |
By John Walker on February 28, 2012
360i parent company Dentsu Network West to invest in Expion to catapult social software company’s growth through integration of earned & paid social media
Digital agency 360i and social software firm Expion today announced a strategic partnership to revolutionize the way brands invest in Facebook. The partnership will result in the development of a powerful integrated [...]
Posted in Advertising, Advertising and Marketing Services, Brands, Business Software, Contact Management, Cost Management, Customer Retention, Customer Support, Deals and Agreements, E-commerce, Fashion, Trends and Memes, Ideas and Innovation, Information Technology, Internet Services, Market Research, Marketing, Marketing Facilities, Recruitment, Reporting, Reputation, Sales, Sales, Mergers & Acquisitions, Technology, Worldwide | Tagged 360i, advertising in 2011, Altimeter Group, Bryan Wiener, Dentsu Network West, Expion, Facebook, Facebook Marketing, Jeremiah Owyang, Peter Heffring |
By John Walker on February 27, 2012
Super-fast broadband is now available in two more Merseyside communities, BT announced today.
More than 9,400 householders and firms in Childwall, Liverpool, and over 2,300 in Rainford, St Helens, are poised to join in high-speed revolution as engineers complete the local upgrades in the coming weeks.
This latest development will take the number of premises in Merseyside [...]
Posted in Business Continuity Planning, Construction, Critical Infrastructure, E-commerce, Electric and Electronic Appliance Retail, Hire and Repair, Electronic Equipment and Computer Manufacturing, Ideas and Innovation, Information Technology, Internet Services, Media and Creative Services, Merseyside, Metal and Metal Products Manufacturing, Product Launches, Real Estate Services, Standards, Technology, Telecommunications, Telecommunications Services, The Work Place | Tagged Allerdale, Birkdale, BT, Childwall, fibre to the cabinet (FTTC), fibre to the premises (FTTP), Formby, Heswall, Lark Lane, Liverpool, Mbps, Mike Blackburn, Openreach, Rainford, St Helens, Stanley, Super-fast broadband |
By John Walker on February 22, 2012
Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) announced, today, that it has acquired Mykonos Software, the leading provider of Intrusion Deception Systems that protect websites and web applications. Under the terms of the agreement, Juniper acquired Mykonos Software for a cash purchase price of approximately $80 million.
Mykonos Software is a private company that was [...]
Posted in Deals and Agreements, E-commerce, IT and Telecommunications Services, Ideas and Innovation, Information Security, Information Technology, Internet Services, North America, People and Players, Product Research and Development, Regulatory Compliance, Sales, Mergers & Acquisitions, Technology | Tagged David Koretz, Juniper Networks, Mykonos Software |
By John Walker on January 18, 2012
QCon, the Software Development Conference will be taking place at The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London from March 7th to March 9th 2012 and would be of interest to enterprise software developers, team leads, architects and those involved in project management.
The organisers list Martin Fowler, one of the industry’s most influential authors, [...]
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By John Walker on December 12, 2011
BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA — Monday, December 12, 2011
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced the dates for its upcoming LibrePlanet 2012 conference as March 24th and 25th, 2012, at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. A call for papers has also been announced. The conference will include talks from the FSF staff and board, GNU project [...]
Posted in Business Software, Charities, Community Interest Companies - CICs, Cost Management, E-commerce, Equipment & Operational Resources, IT and Telecommunications Services, Ideas and Innovation, Information Security, Intellectual Property, North America, Not-For-Profit Sector, Outsourcing, Political and Economic Philosophies, Procurement, Product Research and Development, Technology, Trade Shows, Seminars and Exhibitions | Tagged call for papers, Eben Moglen, Fedora, Free Software Foundation, Freedom Box Foundation, GNOME Foundation, GNU, Jeremy Allison, John Gilmore, Karen Sandler, LibrePlanet, Máirín Duffy, Matt Lee, PostgreSQL, Richard Stallman, Rob Savoye, Samba, Selena Deckelmann, Software Freedom Law Center, University of Massachusetts |
By John Walker on December 1, 2011
UK scientists and businesses will have access to the most sophisticated technology keeping them at the cutting edge of research and development, as details of the Government’s multi-million pound e-infrastructure investment were announced today by David Willetts.
The investment includes £43 million for ARCHER, a new national supercomputer to support advanced research, such as complex chemistry [...]
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Ofcom looks favourably on Orange/T-Mobile application to deliver 4G services
By John Walker on March 16, 2012
Mainstream 4G mobile services could be available in the UK as early as this year, under proposals outlined today by Ofcom.
Everything Everywhere, the mobile phone operator running two of the UK’s most famous brands - T-Mobile (UK) and Orange (UK), has submitted an application to Ofcom to use its existing spectrum to deliver 4G services. [...]
Posted in Computer Services, Critical Infrastructure, Customer Support, E-commerce, Expansion, Ideas and Innovation, Information Technology, Internet Services, Marketing Facilities, Product Research and Development, Regulation, Regulatory Compliance, Requests For Comments (RFQs), Standards, Technology, Telecommunications, Telecommunications Services, Tendering and Procurement Alerts, UK | Tagged 4G, Everything Everywhere, Ofcom, Olaf Swantee, Orange, T-Mobile | Leave a response