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 [...]
Posted in Accounts, Brands, Contact Management, Cost Management, Critical Infrastructure, Customer Support, E-commerce, Equipment & Operational Resources, Product Launches, Startups, Technology, Telecommunications, Telecommunications Services, UK | Tagged British businesses, Claire Darley, Head of Small Business Sales at O2, landlines, mobile networks, mobiles, O2, O2 Gurus, O2 Pay Monthly, O2 Retail Stores, On & On, phone handsets, price point, SIM only, small, smartphones, SMB, SMB space, streaming, Telefónica Europe plc, Telefónica UK Limited, tethering, texts |
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 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 Hazel Prive on August 5, 2011
As a small business there is very little money in the budget for PR, marketing and communications, so why not do it yourself?
There are many things that you need to consider when you start a new business, but one of the most important things you need to think about is both your communications and PR. [...]
Posted in Advertising and Marketing Services, Brands, Business Software, Computer Services, Contact Management, Cost Management, Customer Support, Ideas and Innovation, Information Technology, Marketing, Marketing Facilities, Publishing, Reputation, Technology, Telecommunications, Telecommunications Services, UK | Tagged Powwownow.co.uk, social networks |
By John Walker on July 1, 2010
Some interesting results from a survey by Insurantz.com showing Small businesses are still not catching on to social networking.
Just 16% of UK SMEs embrace sites like Facebook or Twitter as essential tools for business
56% of businesses put off by lack of understanding
65% have yet to see any benefit from social networking
Leisure and tourism industry most [...]
Posted in Brands, Critical Infrastructure, Customer Support, Distribution Channels, Equipment & Operational Resources, Fashion, Trends and Memes, Ideas and Innovation, Information Technology, Internet Services, Market Research, Marketing, Marketing Facilities, Product Research and Development, Recruitment, Reputation, Sales, Surveys, Technology, Telecommunications Services, UK |
By John Walker on March 17, 2010
TOKYO, March 16, 2010—Canon Inc. announced today that it will begin the acquisition process for the top-level domain name “.canon,” based on the new generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) registration system.
The non-profit organization ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), which maintains and regulates the Internet’s addressing system, has rigorously evaluated the current gTLD [...]
Posted in Awards and Accreditations, Brands, Critical Infrastructure, Design and Photographic Services, Distribution Channels, Electrical Equipment Manufacturing, Electronic Equipment and Computer Manufacturing, Information Technology, Internet Services, Marketing Facilities, Registries, Technology, Telecommunications, Telecommunications Services, Worldwide | Tagged Canon, Dot Canon, gTLD, ICANN, WHOIS |
By John Walker on November 5, 2009
Google Wave Protocol was demo’d at the 2009 Google IO Conference in May this year.
You can see the long developer’s demo video. But, below is a shorter introduction to this new radical concept that may, one day, become a replacement to ‘traditional’ email.
There is one key aspect of Wave that the video (above) does not [...]
Posted in Business Culture, Business Software, Computer Services, Customer Support, Fashion, Trends and Memes, Ideas and Innovation, Information Technology, Internet Services, Market Research, Product Launches, Skills and Training, Technology, Telecommunications, Telecommunications Services, Television and Radio Broadcasting, Worldwide | Tagged Google IO, Google Wave, Wave Protocol |
By John Walker on September 23, 2009
A New Simple Application Programming Interface (API) for Cloud Application Services Facilitates Development of Cloud Applications That Can Access Services on All Major Cloud Platforms
Zend Technologies, the PHP Company, yesterday (Sept. 22, 2009) launched the Simple API for Cloud Application Services project, a new open source initiative that allows developers to use common application services in [...]
Posted in Business Software, Computer Services, Deals and Agreements, Internet Services, Telecommunications Services, Worldwide | Tagged Amazon, Cloud Computing, GoGrid, IBM, Microsoft, Nirvanix, Open Source, Rackspace, Simple Cloud, Zend, Zend Framework |
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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